Here’s what I like about Ann Romney. She’s not a victim. She doesn’t act like a victim. Never asks for anyone’s pity. Rarely mentions that she has a serious neurological disease at all. She’s not a cause. Or a platform. A crusade. Or a cheerleader. She’s just Ann. A woman …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Banning “War on Terrorism” Democrats in control of the House Armed Services Committee have banished the use of the term “global war on terrorism” from the text of the 2008 defense authorization bill. A memo from the committee’s staff director bans the …

WASHINGTON – U.S soldiers encountered no resistance and found few weapons during recent patrols through the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City — all signs indicating that the powerful al-Mahdi militia originating there, at least for now, is on an indefinite vacation. But while the cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s militia may appear …

You may still be having nightmares about assembling toys into the wee hours of Christmas morning a couple of months ago, but banish them from your mind and get ready for the next holiday season. The toy industry already has. The annual blitzkrieg of new offerings known as Toy Fair …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Unconventional Wisdom A member of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says he and many other scientists do not see global warming as a developing catastrophe and there is no smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for …

Our solar system is hurtling through space while angled nearly perpendicular to the plane of the Milky Way, new computer models suggest. “It’s almost like we’re sailing through the galaxy sideways,” said study team leader Merav Opher, an astrophysicist at George Mason University in Virginia. The findings, detailed in the …

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Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Nuclear Situation The folks at The Washington Quarterly — a foreign policy journal from the Center for Strategic and International Studies — were trying to promote a forthcoming article on the North Korea nuclear situation by former Clinton administration State Department official …

I’ve reported on hundreds of terror stories over the years. It’s nice to report an “anti”-terror story for a change. A Pakistan-born British man and his two sons have done what a lot of people have long been demanding: They are Muslims declaring that those who use terror in the …

Nothing shakes you to your foundation, like losing your foundation. Your roof. Your home. Your things. Gone, in an instant. I heard the story this morning of one Hurricane Dean survivor who said he wanted to pinch himself to see if he was still standing. He was. His house wasn’t. …