The latest from the Political Grapevine: Slight BounceApart from the slight bounce forJohn Kerry (search)we noted earlier, the new FOX News poll contains some bad news for President Bush on other questions … The number of Americans who say Kerry is a stronger leader than President Bush has substantially increased …

WASHINGTON – The fall political winds may be strong enough to blowDemocrats back into control of the Senate on Election Day, say election watchers, but don’t bet on it. The odds of such success aren’t that good. “I think right now it looks like a slim chance, but it could …

The revenge of the homosexual lobby: that is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” A Federal Appeals Court has ruled 2-1 that colleges can ban military recruiting on campus and still demand federal aid. That decision negates the Solomon amendment (search) passed in 1996 that allows the government …

Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. Truth or dare, shedding the propaganda makers, that is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” The presidential campaign promises to be vicious and unfair. And both parties will probably do unsavory things. Right now, however, it is the left …

Chandra Levy, Laci Peterson, Dru Sjodin and Audrey Seiler: All young women whose cases have gripped the nation, starting with their mysterious disappearances and — except for Seiler — continuing with the discovery that they’d been murdered. Their faces and those of other women who vanished — more recently,Juilliard (search)student …

When I was a kid my father was forever reminding me how tough he had it when “he” was a kid. He’d talk about the Depression, barely having enough food and walking uphill to school — both ways. That kind of stuff. And every time I complained about anything, he …

WASHINGTON – President Bush may have been the first sitting president to visit Flagstaff,and on Arizona Rep.Rick Renzi’s (search)behalf no less, but that doesn’t meanthe lawmaker is going to givehim a rubber stamp on immigration policy. Like other lawmakers from border districts in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas, the …

Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. Martha Stewart, guilty, that is the subject of this evening’s “Talking PointsMemo.” As we predicted, Ms. Stewart will pay a price for her attempts to pull off a stock trade that she had to know was wrong. People who didn’t have …

And now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine: Wes: Don’t Worry Democratic presidential candidate and retired General Wesley Clark now says that if he becomes president, Americans won’t have to worry about another terrorist attack on U.S. soil. In an interview with the Concord, New Hampshire Monitor, Clark said …

Mr. Bush unofficially kicks off his re-election campaign Tuesday evening and his challenger could be anyone. “Talking Points” believesHoward Dean (search)is finished. And indeed, here’s what I said last November. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) O’REILLY: “Talking Points” believes Dean can raise all of the money he wants, have all of the …