My critics are right. I have something in common with Howard Beale: (BEGIN ‘NETWORK’ VIDEO CLIP) PETER FINCH AS HOWARD BEALE: I want you to get up now. I want you to get out of your chairs and go to the window. Right now. I want you to go to …

So a couple nights ago I was on the couch, screaming at the TV. But then, when I turned it on, I got even angrier. David Letterman had just started a joke involving President Obama. And suddenly, I thought: “Wow! Letterman is actually going to tell a joke about Obama! …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Help Wanted Seven months into President Obama’s term, The New York Times reports the White House has filled less than half of more than 500 senior policymaking decisions requiring Senate confirmation. Political expert Larry Sabato says that with health care reform and …

The last time Rachel Veitch bought a car, gas cost 39 cents per gallon, Lyndon B. Johnson was in the White House and “The Little Old Lady From Pasadena” was a hit song on the radio. Nearly 600,000 miles later, the 90-year-old Florida woman still drives her 1964 Mercury Comet …

A federal grand jury has indicted a group of Somali-Americans on terror-related charges after more than 20 young men from the Minneapolis area were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia, according to two law enforcement sources. The indictments have yet to be unsealed, but an announcement is …

Case: Safford v. Redding Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Issue: Can school administrators who believe a student is in possession of illicit drugs conduct a strip search without violating the child’s Fourth Amendment rights? Background: School officials in Safford, AZ were frustrated over the emergence of drugs into its middle …

The coordinator behind a children’s coloring book that was pulled from FEMA’s Web site last week is standing by her work — despite its controversial cover, which shows a child’s drawing of New York’s Twin Towers on fire with a plane flying toward them. “A Scary Thing Happened,” a downloadable …

Since the two dance genres on last night’s “Dancing With the Stars” were the dramatic paso doble and Viennese waltz, it was perhaps inevitable that actor Gilles Marini would come out on top again, earning a near-perfect score of 29. That left the “Sex and the City” star three points …

Women have a host of products that help them correct mistakes made the night prior (kind of like the reset button on a Nintendo). What do guys have to reset from the drunken mistakes of a night gone mad? This hangover recovery kit is a surefire way to reboot the …

Many people think the federal government is just too powerful today. But how did we get here? The Constitution lists 17 distinct congressional powers, including the power to collect taxes and regulate interstate commerce. But there was a sizable gray area where the state and federal governments now have fought …