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Paul McCartney Mccartney’s Unexpected Stage Hit The first of Paul McCartney’s four shows at Madison Square Garden turned out to be an unexpected hit, and one of the best solo shows of his career. It was unexpected because, thanks to McCartney’s publicist, it was a hard show to get into. …

The newly engaged Katie Holmes still has some explaining to do to her friends and family. There were 16 days in April during which no one seems to know where she was. Holmes made a public appearance on April 4 at the premiere of “Steel Magnolias” on Broadway. She came …

Ironically, the “Talking Points Memo” this evening is about debating anti-war guy Phil Donahue (search). Because of that plane situation in L.A. last night, we had to go to our news desk and did not run my debate with Phil Donahue on the early edition of “The Factor.” It did …

Want Greta’s blog delivered directly to your e-mail box? Click here to sign up! Today’s blog is short… I am up very early because I have to drive 60 plus miles and through two rush hour traffics to attend to a family event. I will be back in D.C. in …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Reasons for Ratings? A new CBS poll (search) shows the president’s job approval rating has hit an all time low of 35 percent and 68 percent of respondents tell CBS that the country is on the wrong track. CBS cites the Iraq …

The battle lines are drawn over how to deal with captured terrorists. That is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” In this corner, “The Factor” and the nation’s largest newspaper, “The Wall Street Journal.” Across the ring, the leading secular progressive new operations, “The New York Times” and …

SAMORIN, Slovakia – “Oh my gosh,” I said to producer Kim and cameraman Barnaby as we rolled into Samorin, Slovakia. “This doesn’t look like “New Europe”…this looks like Stalag 17!” We were on the last leg of our trans-European Odyssey, trying to find out what were the continental feelings about …

WASHINGTON – Not only has China (search) become an exporting giant, dumping cheap goods and creating enormous trade deficits all over the globe, but it continues to reach out to historically oppressive regimes for trade, economic partnerships and greater influence on the world political stage, policy watchers say. A number …

Christmas in the media, that’s the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” Only one newspaper in the USA has been sympathetic to our reporting on the national trend away from acknowledging Christmas. One. That paper is The Ventura County Star in California. Every other newspaper has either ignored the …

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education (search) wants universities to provide personal information about every student in the country in order, they say, to produce more accurate and useful information about the school system. But critics are already lining up to prevent any proposal from going forward. “While we …