The who's who of DC gathered at the Kennedy Center tonight to wish Senator Ted Kennedy a happy 77th birthday. Bill Cosby hosted the event, and Lauren Bacall, Bernadette Peters, and James Taylor performed for the audience. Cosby wasn't the only person to make a joke. Teddy's niece Caroline, who saw her dreams of being a lawmaker fail this year, quipped: "I never thought I'd be in a room with so Read more

As most of you hoped, George Clooney will be returning to ER for one more episode. He is filming with his love interest Julianna Margulies today and tomorrow in LA, and it is expected to air in February. — Life & Style Barack Obama retook his oath of office last night with Chief Justice John Roberts in "an abundance of caution," since the words were messed up at the inauguration. — Read more

Most voters in New York don't want Caroline Kennedy to represent them in the US Senate. A new poll shows only 24 percent of voters back Caroline's bid, compared to 31 percent who want her rival, State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, to get Hillary's spot. Lucky for Caroline, unlike most wannabe senators, she doesn't have to court the voters. She only has one person to convince — Gov. Read more

Sarah sat down with conservative filmmaker John Ziegler this week and dished big time on the media, viewers, Tina Fey, and Caroline Kennedy. She said she thinks the media and women like Katie Couric and Tina Fey have been “capitalizing on” and “exploiting” her. I did see that Tina Fey was named entertainer of the year and Katie Couric’s ratings have risen. And I know that a lot of Read more

If NY Gov. Paterson appoints Caroline Kennedy to the US Senate, not only will she avoid an election (for now), but she will also dodge a requirement to file a 10-part, public report filled with details about her financial assets, credit card debt, mortgages, book deals, and any source of payments over $5,000 in the last three years. Theoretically, Caroline could disclose the usual information in Read more

Politics: Caroline Kennedy is no Sarah Palin? Conservative Kathleen Parker seizes up Caroline Kennedy in comparison to Sarah Palin, concluding that you need less experience to be a senator than VP. — Huffington Post Inauguration: Is Rick Warren the least of progressives' problems? Find out why some people are going to be even more furious when they find out the full day's schedule. — Read more

When word broke that Joe Biden's chief of staff would replace the senator from Delaware when he becomes VP, nobody paid much attention, but that's not the case when it comes to seats recently warmed by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Today, news broke that Caroline Kennedy indeed wants the soon-to-be-free seat once filled by her uncle Bobby, and now occupied by Hillary. After wrestling with a Read more

While I'm dying to know who's your favorite woman in power of 2008, a well-known female might soon jump from prominent to powerful. Rumor has it that New York Governor David Paterson has talked to Caroline Kennedy about filling Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. Caroline wouldn't be the first Kennedy to fill that seat — her uncle Robert F. Kennedy served as the senator from New York. Until Read more