Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Something’s Brewing Those anti-tax Tea Parties that are sprouting up from coast-to-coast have created their own stimulus. Retailers have sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in Tea Party-inspired merchandise. Marc Cowlin — an official at the online retailer CafePress.com — says, “We …

By now you’ve probably heard about the passing of Jack Kemp this past weekend. Here’s what you did not hear: He was just a fun guy to be around. Not a big deal, I guess. But in Washington, a rare deal, I know. Jack smiled a lot, laughed a lot, …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Justice Denied? A lawsuit brought by the Bush administration against three members of the New Black Panther Party has been dropped by the Obama Justice Department. The move comes despite an eyewitness account and a YouTube video of the men seemingly attempting …

Last Thursday, the Treasury Department tried to prevent Fox News from interviewing executive pay czar Kenneth Feinberg. But a funny thing happened on the way to the boycott. ABC, CBS, CNN and even NBC all refused to talk to Feinberg unless Fox was included. And so we were. Incredibly, the …

As a 17-year-old Eagle Scout continues to wait out a one-month suspension from his upstate New York high school for having a 2-inch pocketknife locked in a survival kit in his car, the U.S. Military Academy says the missed school days could pose a big problem when it reviews his …

A quick trip around Hannity’s America… Show Me the Bill! We told you Tuesday about Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’ refusal to post the Democrats’ health care bill online, saying that it will be “too difficult.” Well, a new poll shows that Chairman Baucus’ decision won’t go over too …

A U.N. spokeswoman on Wednesday denied a report that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and three U.N. officials met last month to discuss critical news coverage by FOX News, the Wall Street Journal and Inner City Press. The report by Inner City Press’ Matthew Lee said that Under Secretary-General Angela Kane met …

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NASA’s bogged-down Mars rover Spirit hit another snag in its attempt to free itself from a sand trap when one of its wheels stalled as it tried to move forward, NASA reports. Spirit’s wheel stalled during the second step of its third drive attempt since the effort to free it …

I don’t know if you heard, but we just let a major bank go belly-up. We just said “see ya” to CIT. A major lender Washington deemed apparently an even bigger loser and not worth bailing out. So we didn’t. We let CIT file for bankruptcy — that after giving …