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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. …

I feel safer now: Martha Stewart (search) has to keep her ankle bracelet on another few weeks. That’ll show her! I guess we’re all better off knowing that bracelet isn’t coming off so soon. But not a word about all those sex offenders out there whose whereabouts none of us …

Legendary actor Robert De Niro was none too pleased after a New York regional paper painted him as a legal angel to cop-killer suspect actor Lillo Brancato Jr. last week. “Mr. De Niro’s sympathy lies exclusively with Officer Enchautegui’s family and fellow officers,” his representative, Thomas Harvey, wrote in a …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: A Matter of Form Four months after he promised to release all his military records by signing what’s known as “Form 180,” Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (search) now says, “I have signed it.” But when asked by journalists when he …

And now the most fascinating two minutes in television, the latest from the political grapevine: Missed The Grapevine? Watch it! Did Party Officials Mislead the Voters?While Democrats in New Jersey are fighting in court to get Sen. Robert Torricelli’s name removed from the ballot, they are taking the exact opposite …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico’s government announced Friday that it will lay off more than 16,000 public workers in the U.S. Caribbean territory, adding to an unemployment rate higher than that of any U.S state. The government hopes the layoffs will help close a $3.2 billion deficit. The …

ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — bills itself as the nation’s largest grassroots community organization of low- and moderate-income people, with more than 400,000 member families organized within 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 110 cities across the U.S. Among other priorities, the organization strives for improved …

NEW YORK – The selfless spirit that helped mend a stricken nation eight years ago was renewed. Volunteers marked 9/11 Friday by tilling gardens, writing letters to soldiers, setting out flags — and, at ground zero, by joining the somber ritual of reading the names of the lost. President Obama, …

GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemalan officials warn that thousands of families in the Central American country are dangerously short on food due to uncooperative weather, poor soil and the troubled global economy. Guatemalan presidential spokesman Ronaldo Robles says the government estimates that 400,000 families are “at risk of food insecurity.” Robles …