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Here’s the latest edition of Some Stories You Won’t Find on any other Sunday show: Measuring Confidence Each year Gallup (search) does a survey to find out how much confidence the American people have in key institutions. Here are some highlights: The U.S. military tops the list with a 74 …

Can President Bush make a comeback? That is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo”. The poll numbers after Katrina show the president’s job approval slipping below 40 percent, which is in Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon territory. If Mr. Bush continues to fall, he will be handcuffed for …

He doesn’t have much money. He never did and suspects he never will. He doesn’t care. He comes from good family, not rich family. But rich in the things that count: being close, being there. Those things mean a lot when you’re a soldier and you’ve served in Iraq and …

NEW YORK – More than a year after an Alabama justice lost his job over a Ten Commandments (search) display, the U.S. Supreme Court (search) on Wednesday revisited the politically thorny issue for the first time in more than two decades. The court, which in 1980 ruled that religious displays …

I’m a bit of a pack rat and this past weekend I stumbled upon one of the many newspapers I save. It was fairly recent — just two weeks old — but it’s amazing all that’s happened since. There was a story on how the Senate Finance Committee was likely …

WASHINGTON – Despite seemingly rapid-fire confirmations for White House officials these days, one so far is noticeably missing — that of the new director of national intelligence (search). Congress approved the position of a director of national intelligence as part of the Intelligence Reform and Prevention Act (search) signed into …

The Seinfeld Curse | Puppy Love | Stupid Lit’l Dreamer | Your Grrrs It’s a Shame, But Jason Alexander Fizzled Out Again. Jason Alexander’s second sitcom since the uber-successful “Seinfeld” has gone off the air. “Listen Up” was cancelled by CBS last week, just as Alexander’s new children’s book “Dad, …

I remember years ago being at this uppity Wall Street function I had to cover for a prior job. The speaker was an investment strategist with a premier brokerage firm. He was beyond condescending. In hearing my Italian sounding name, I think he thought I was there to clean his …

Halloween and doomsayers seem to go hand in hand. The only difference is thatafter Halloween, the ghosts and goblins go. On Wall Street, the doomsayers stay. People wear masks on Halloween. Doomsayers wear frowns every day. Our kids love to scare us on Halloween. Doomsayers love to scare us every …

To watch “The Talking Points Memo” click here. Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. Moyers versus O’Reilly, round two. That’s the subject of this evening’s Talking Points Memo. As you may know, we have asked Bill Moyers to come on The Factor gazillions of times, but he …