Dick Cheney

The struggling Jersey Shore casino has booked the former president on July 23 as part of its speaker series , but plenty of seats are still available. Why would Clinton even want to appear there? And do people think he'll say that he hasn't said already?

Of all the effects of 2008's economic meltdown, the most significant might be the growing belief that the country is now on the road to socialism. Within days of the government's 2008 bailout of Sallie Mae (SLM) and Freddie Mac (FRE), the media began to resound with complaints about the country's...

Thanks to a powerful promotional push and a serendipitous bit of booking, more than 17 million viewers tuned in last night to observe Jay Leno's prime time debut. If critics' reactions are any guide, quite a few of those 10 million went to bed underwhelmed. The Jay Leno Show represents a new...

Robert Novak, the conservative columnist whose role in the Valerie Plame affair made him a focus of late-life controversy, has died of brain cancer at age 78. Novak, known with backhanded affection to political buffs as "the Prince of Darkness," wrote a syndicated column, "Inside Report," that ran...

Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, is a living testament to the American Dream. Her parents moved from Puerto Rico to the South Bronx. After her father died when she was eight, she was raised by her mother, a nurse. Eventually, she went to Princeton and Yale Law...

On Monday, former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review his 2006 conviction for securities fraud. Citing prior complaints about pretrial publicity and the unfair application of the "honest services" fraud statute, Skilling's lawyer, Daniel Petrocelli, argued that...