WASHINGTON – A western swing district known for its independence and ability to turn recent congressional elections into eagerly awaited events will not disappoint political junkies this year, say analysts who call the 7th Congressional District race in Colorado one for Democrats to lose. “Essentially, if the Democrats don’t win …
Read More »Behind the Scenes of Sen. McCain's Office
Want Greta’s blog delivered directly to your e-mail box? Click here to sign up! Add viewerservices @foxnews.com to your Address Book to ensure that you receive the GretaWire in your Inbox. Click here if you are unable to see images in the e-mail. On Thursday we interviewed Sen. McCain in …
Read More »Critics Concerned Over Proposed National Guard Changes
WASHINGTON – After years of depending on the National Guard to round out deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, pending Pentagon plans to adjust troop levels and combat brigades just don’t make sense, says the general representing all of the state Guard leaders. Maj. Gen. Roger P. Lempke, president of the …
Read More »Memo: Iran Moves Limit Nuclear Monitoring
WASHINGTON – Iran’s recent actions to cut off access of the International Atomic Energy Agency “will greatly reduce our capabilities to detect unreported nuclear material and activities,” top nuclear inspectors acknowledged Wednesday in a memo from the nuclear watchdog agency obtained by FOX News. On Sunday, Iran declared that it …
Read More »Nobody Wins in Durham
Nobody knows how to work the room like Donald Rumsfeld. Regardless of whether you think he should stay or go — you’ve got to give him credit for sticking to his guns — so to speak. Here is an e-mail I received that is like many others: “I served 30 …
Read More »Grrr! Alternative Entertainment
If “American Idol” isn’t your thing, there’s plenty of alternative entertainment to choose from these days. Besides the hundreds of specialty channels on cable and satellite, there’s also theater, books and the Internet. Books? Imagine that. Now, it’s been a long time since theater was anything worth doing other than …
Read More »Will the Real Bill Frist Please Stand Up?
Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Views on Immigrants A majority of Americans now think immigrants are a burden on society, but they’re also viewed more positively than ever before. A new Pew poll shows that 80 percent of Americans think immigrants from Latin America work very hard …
Read More »George Clooney Gets a Big-Time Hollywood Divorce
George Clooney | Affleck and Astor George Clooney’s Breakup Two nice guys have broken up in the last couple of days, and no, I am not talking about Lance Bass. George Clooney is one half of this couple, and director Steven Soderbergh is the other half. They’ve announced that their …
Read More »Al Qaeda Threatens Pope
Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Double Standard? An Al Qaeda-linked extremist group is threatening the pope and the non-Muslim world with the very thing the pope is in trouble for criticizing last week: conversion by force. The Mujahedeen Shura Council — which includes Al Qaeda in Iraq …
Read More »Tony Snow says Democrats Have an Anger Management Problem
Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Not Evil, Just Sick? New York Congressman Charlie Rangel is calling Vice President Cheney a “son of a bitch” and says he should go to “rehab” for “whatever personality deficit he may have suffered.” Rangel talked to The New York Post after …
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