Taxes are going up. Stocks have been going down. I don’t think it’s just a coincidence. I’m not saying mortgage pressures don’t hurt, but taxes going up hurts more. And trust me, taxes “are” going up. Don’t you find it odd that since talk of hiking hedge fund taxes got …

Unlike the heart or the lungs, the gallbladder is one of those organs about which people know next to nothing. And no wonder, the gallbladder is little more than a storage sack. What it stores is bile, which is produced by the liver. So what’s bile? Bile is a substance …

An unusually thick veil of gas discovered around the remains of two stellar corpses suggests some stars might have short fuses that allow them to explode much sooner than their peers. Such “prompt” supernovas could provide scientists with a new way of studying events in the early history of the …

Making An Entrance, Qaddafi Style | The ‘But I’m Just a Poet’ Get-Out-of-Jail Free Card | Are Russian Spies Forcing Mi5 To Divert Resources Against Terrorism? Making An Entrance, Qaddafi Style After receiving his first invite to a Western country in 34 years, Libyan leader Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi was clearly …

Michael Yon is an independent journalist and former Green Beret who was embedded in Iraq for nine months in 2005. He has returned to Iraq for 2007 to continue reporting on the war. Here is a portion of his latest dispatch exclusively for FOXNews.com. A couple weeks ago, Lt. Col. …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Surveillance Deadline Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller Tuesday accused Attorney General Alberto Gonzales of perjury over Gonzales’ testimony about a White House meeting in March of 2004 — in which a group of congressional leaders was briefed on the impending deadline to reauthorize …

On August 4, three young college students were murdered in New Jersey by a gang of thugs, which included two criminal illegal immigrants. Now, the young woman was nearly killed, her face slashed in that attack. Reports say Peruvian Jose Carranza, who was out on bail after being charged with …

High noon in Vermont: that is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Point’s Memo”. Tomorrow, Judge Edward Cashman gets a final chance to right an incredible wrong. As you may know, Cashman sentenced a guy, who raped a 6- year-old girl over a four-year period, to 60 days because the …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: In Monday’s hearings, Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy expressed concern over an “academic study,” which he said showed that Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito ruled against individual rights in 84 percent of his dissents — arguing that “average Americans have had a hard …

It took only two words for rapper Jerome Cosey to spark a musical evolution. The 26-year-old artist known as Fifth Ward Weebie specializes in a New Orleans style of hip-hop called bounce. He tweaked one of his songs on a hot Houston night last October to reflect the then-recent hurricane, …