BAGHDAD, Iraq – It doesn’t make the headlines the way Ramadi or Sadr City do, but Northern Babilprovince is one of the baddest places in all Iraq. Richard Armitage knows it. In a speech last month, the deputy secretary of state listed the areas that needed to be cleaned up: …

Merry Christmas everybody. And if that offends you, click off my column. I’m not saying that you don’t have a right to be offended. You do. And if you think a blessing of good tidings for one of the most celebrated holidays in the entire world is worth a Grrr!, …

It didn’t take the left long to start dumping onRonald Reagan (search). They couldn’t even wait for him to be buried. Actor Danny Glover said Reagan would be remembered most for theIran-Contra scandal (search). Maybe we could ask the Nicaraguans about that since the freedom fighters we supported threw out …

You’ve might have heard me mentionmy bookonce or twice onair, hoping people love it and concerned when some, like this next lady, do not. Trisha L. e-mails me: “As anMS (search)sufferer myself, I’m very disappointed in your book. You gloss over the illness we share and essentially tell all those …

Dear Viewers, We are “on the road” this week working on a special for Fox News Channel that may or may not air during the 10 p.m. ET slot sometime (that decision is “above my pay grade.”) In the meantime, we will of course do our live show and tonight …

WASHINGTON – Evenwith bipartisan support on Capitol Hill and the endorsement of over 80 newspapers across the country, supporters ofclass-action lawsuit reform (search)are waiting before they pop any champagne corks to celebratevictory. The reform measure, which has been kicking around Capitol Hill in various forms for the past six years,has …

A lot of reaction to my letting foreign critics of this country have it on my weekend show. My point wasn’t to bash them, but to help them see them… themselves. Let me be clear: Germany, you get your own economy going before you judge ours. France, don’t even talk …

Dear Viewers, This falls under the category: damned if you do, damned if you don’t. I just walked into my office from the road trip to Chicago and had one voice mail message: from Mark Geragos. This is the second time I have heard from him in many, many months. …

Penn vs. Who? |Jared Harris |Britney’s Woes |RIP, Regis’ Cat Best Actor? Sean Penn vs. Everyone Else This year’s Academy Award for Best Actor? As ballots are arriving in Academy members’ mailboxes, it’s Sean Penn‘s award to lose. The question is: Will he? Penn did fine work in two films …

Fear and loathing on the Left — that’s the subject of tonight’s “Talking Points Memo.” The writer Hunter Thompson’s book, “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail” is a classic and there’s certainly big-time loathing in play after the president’s re-election. In Chicago and a few other places, far-Left demonstrators …