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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 …

Dear Viewers, Beginning Friday, “On The Record” starts a long week! We head to Boston on Friday morning so that we can do our live show Friday night from Boston. Of course you all know why we are in Boston — the Democratic Convention (likewise we head to N.Y. in …

The latest from the Political Grapevine: Explosive Development? A group of terrorists in Iraq has not only located those missing explosives, but it has actually taken possession of them, at least that’s what the group claims in a new video. The group — calling itself theAl-Karar Brigade of Al-Islam’s Army …

She may not be a natural-born blonde, but “Blonde Ambition” babe Jessica Simpson swears her bountiful bust isn’t bogus. “Maybe after having kids, if my boobs dropped down to my bellybutton, I would get them lifted,” Simpson told her fashion designer friend Michael Kors for the August edition of Harper’s …

Here are some of your responses to Mike’s last column… Ryan C. in Austin, Texas, writes: A Grrr column without a single Grrr? Instead, we get ANOTHER story about an idiot (Paris Hilton) whom no one really cares about. I kept reading, waiting for the real column to begin, but …

Steve Jobs said something unusual Thursday: Sorry. After an Internet tidal wave of criticism from iPhone owners followed Wednesday’s surprise price cut of this summer’s must-have gadget, the Apple CEO posted a letter on the company Web site announcing a $100 credit for every customer who felt cheated. “We want …

The “Talking Points Memo” this evening is about another piece of history, the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. By a vote of 58-42, the Senate confirmed Judge Alito this morning, but there was deep-seated anger in the secular progressive precincts. That’s because with Alito and Judge Roberts …

Michael Jackson Jacko Kicked Out, Cut Off by Arab Prince Today will be the seventh week in a row that employees at Michael Jackson‘s Neverland Ranch have not received paychecks. And now I have really bad news for them: Jackson has been cut off and kicked out by Prince Abdullah, …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Harsh Words The powerful Lebanese militia leader Walid Jumblatt (search) once accused the United States of “wreaking corruption in the Arab land of Iraq and in Palestine,” and has likened U.S. military officials to viruses that should be destroyed. But Jumblatt now …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean (search) doesn’t think much of Republicans, but says they have accomplished one thing: putting Democrats on the defensive, insisting, “What the propagandists on the right have done is make people afraid to say they are Democrats.” …