Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: NBC White House correspondent David Gregory is calling his temper tantrum during a White House briefing last week “a mistake.” Gregory accused spokesman Scott McClellan of avoiding his questions on Vice President Dick Cheney’s hunting accident, and called him a jerk. Gregory …

Your Grrrs … don’t forget to play Spot the Oblivion. Richard Taylor writes: You shouldn’t be allowed into any building, room or cubicle where serious journalism is taking place, with or without credentials. I wonder how seriously you would take this had the incident involved a representative of Latin decent. …

Da Vinci Code | Billy Preston | Kurt Vonnegut | Weekend Notes ‘Da Vinci Code’ Cryptex Revealed The one piece of movie merchandise everyone will want soon cannot be bought. It’s the Cryptex decoding puzzle from “The Da Vinci Code.” All over the Internet, enterprising inventors are selling their versions …

Spielberg | Vanity Fair Party | Felicity Huffman and Dame Judi Dench Spielberg Will Take a Year Off “Munich” director Steven Spielberg will take a year off from moviemaking, he told me last night at the Academy Governor’s Ball. He deserves it: between November 2004 and October 2005 he produced …

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two-part series on the increased interest in hybrid vehicles. If 2001 was, as Time magazine called it, the summer of the shark, 2006 could be christened the summer of the hybrid. Hybrids don’t star in the Al Gore-narrated global-warming documentary “An Inconvenient …

Here are some of your responses to Mike’s last column compiled by FOX News intern Lasette Canady… Adam adds to Grrr! Going Down?: Here’s the best part of those elevators (we’ve had them here for a couple years now) … as each person hits the floor they want — the …

The recent outbreak of E. Coli has proven deadly for possibly three Americans, and has wreaked havoc on the spinach farming industry. Nevertheless, some regional businesses–whose produce is not linked to the California farm region at the source of the outbreak–have found the scourge beneficial to their bottom lines. Time …

I don’t know about you, but I’m already sick of hearing about perverted former Congressman Mark Foley and his (alleged — yeah right) e-mail scandal. As if there weren’t already so much twisted garbage filling our eyes and ears, every day there’s another revelation in Foleygate. Couple that with the …

You know, we may have our red states and our blue states, but I’ll tell you what. Most of us recognize we’re states first. We disagree. Sometimes we can get disagreeable. But as yet, we rarely get physical. Something to think about when you watch the scene in Mexico yesterday. …

WASHINGTON – Rep. Chris Chocola of Indiana acknowledges that the anti-Republican sentiment prevalent throughout the country “hasn’t helped” him in his race for a third House term. “Elections are about who votes and we’ve got a get-out-the-vote effort going since May,” Chocola said. “We have a strong database of voters …