Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Hate Speech? The Supreme Court has been asked to reverse rulings that found the terms “marriage,” “natural family,” and “union of a man and woman” can be punished as hate speech in government workplaces. The Washington Times reports the phrases were in …

The open border people strike back. That is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” Homeland Security has launched raids in Los Angeles and the New York City area arresting more than 1,000 people who are living in the USA illegally. These raids are extremely controversial and the open …

I want to talk about crabs. Right now, a Dutch museum is having trouble getting crab lice for its collection and fears these little insects are dying out. The museum is asking for a donor, whose anonymity is guaranteed. Why have crab lice died out? Well, they are neither attractive …

Maggie Gyllenhaal | Diane Keaton Sexy ’70s ‘Fear of Flying’ Here at Last? “Fear of Flying,” Erica Jong’s sexy novel that blew people’s minds in the early 1970s, may finally be coming to the big screen. The word is that Diane English, best known for “Murphy Brown,” will write and …

WASHINGTON – Hillary Rodham Clinton aspires to become the United States’ first female president, Barack Obama the first African-American to win the office, and one has only to throw a cyber-stick to find the latest ruminations on whether we Americans are truly “ready” for such a revolutionary moment. Yet for …

Here are some of your responses to Mike’s last column. Phyllis S. writes: A big Grrrrrrrrrrr on this one. I am continually dumbfounded by the fascination people seem to have with celebs. Many are obviously profoundly disturbed individuals. But these are the ones who get so much of the in-your-face …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Tearing Up Saddam Hussein nearly began to cry when the FBI agent who had been interrogating him in prison for nearly a year said goodbye. A book by journalist Ronald Kessler called “The Terrorist Watch” reveals that special agent George Piro built …

Slushy water geysers on Saturn’s moon Enceladus might be powered by the grinding of ice sheets against one another and the periodic widening of rifts on the satellite’s surface. Results from two new studies, detailed in the May 17 issue of the journal Nature, support the idea that a process …

WASHINGTON – Red states, blue states, a smattering of purple in between — none of the color boundaries seem to matter these days to the leading Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. Tailoring message and strategy matters a great deal in terms of how individual campaigns and parties approach different regions …

Sharon Stone has been known for eccentricities and bizarre antics before, but she might have outdone herself this week at an auction in Berlin when she tried to entice participants to bid by calling them “naughty little Germans.” All decked out in a formal evening gown, Stone, 48, was acting …