Babies can now say things like “milk,” “more” and “all done” — and that’s before they’ve even learned to talk. Baby sign language (search), a trend popularized by the baby in “Meet the Fockers” (search) and “Will & Grace” star Debra Messing (search), is becoming increasingly common in homes, child …

Is General Motors playing “Scrooge” — announcing all these extra layoffs just ahead of the Christmas season? A lot of people are saying yes. I don’t know. The way I see it, there’s no good time to lose a job. So why prolong the agony? Yes, around the holidays is …

This whole “Merry Christmas” debate isn’t about Christmas. And it isn’t about being merry. It is about our past and how we’re forgetting it. It’s about religion and how we’re burying it. And it’s about life and how we’re trivializing it. We’re eager to talk up “gifts,” afraid to talk …

Readers respond to the Grrr! Guy: Jennifer in St. Louis: I grew up in Citrus County, Fla. Lived there for 17 years, never thought we’d make national news and I am deeply saddened that it was at the cost of an innocent child’s life that we did. I cannot even …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Saddam’s Swiss Connection At least two Swiss companies have admitted to paying illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s regime in exchange for the right to buy Iraqi oil. Documents show that one Geneva-based firm paid a $60,000 surcharge to the Iraqi oil ministry …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Bush = Big Brother? Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy blasted the president last week for authorizing wiretaps on U.S. citizens without a court order, but said that’s not all the Bush administration is doing to restrict American freedoms. In a Boston Globe op-ed, …

WASHINGTON – Security has become so bad in Iraq that many reconstruction, assistance and growth efforts are falling by the wayside. As recently as Tuesday, officials said oil exports to neighboring Turkey have been suspended. Exports are lower now than when former dictator Saddam Hussein (search) was in power and …

To watch “The Memo” click here. Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. Government corruption at the highest level. That is the subject of this evening’s Talking Points Memo. The capitulation of Senator Robert Torricelli is the result of the folks, pure and simple. If it were …

Lord of The Rings |Gangs|George Clooney |Sam Rockwell |Jack Nicholson|Golden Globes Hobbits Hobble Box Office as Rings Sings Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers took in $61 million over the weekend and went over the magic $100 million mark in five days. The Peter Jackson sequel to Fellowship of …

NEW YORK – Computer-generated aliens of Men in Black II dazzlewith their inhuman feats. Spider-Man‘s digital doubleswings among skyscrapers at breakneck speed. And the CGI Yoda in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones stages a fight the original puppet nevercould have managed. MIB II, which opens July 3, is just …