NEW ORLEANS – Viking River Cruises, a major European river cruise company, is coming to New Orleans and the Mississippi River. Gov. Bobby Jindal and Viking officials announced Tuesday that New Orleans will be the first North American home port for the cruise line. Jindal says the move means hundreds …

America’s struggle versus your self-interests. That’s the subject of today’s Talking Points memo. Like it or not, we live in a country where many people care only about themselves. Did you know that more people watched the Super Bowl last January than tuned into the coverage of the terrorism? I …

Five billion dollars for a newspaper. I know Dow Jones is a heck of a lot more than a newspaper. It’s the Wall Street Journal. And Barron’s. And MarketWatch. And so much more. But it’s largely known for that newspaper — for that Wall Street Journal. A bible, but to …

Dallas cops are trying to sort through a Texas-sized mystery: Why was a registered sex offender caught speeding in a fake police cruiser that was reportedly used by a repo company to conduct its business? Malcolm “Frank” Hawkinson, a 39-year-old registered sex offender, was pulled over on Interstate 20 Wednesday, …

You’re allowed to burn it, mock it — you name it. When it comes to the American flag, you can do it. “Because” of the American flag, you can have at it. Its very image fosters pride, but for others anger. I remember when I was on my last book …

Diddy | Meat Loaf | Lenny Bruce | Judi Dench Diddy Smells More Money Sean “Diddy” Combs launched a fragrance last night with the usual fanfare that accompanies his projects. The perfume is called “Unforgivable,” but there were just enough well-intentioned jokes that it could have been dubbed “Unindictable” or …

Like a lot of folks, I had a lot of jobs growing up. But the one I think I learned the most from was when I was a waiter in grad school. It was a humbling experience. I’ll never forget the night I spilled a bowl of soup on an …

Here’s the latest edition of Some Stories You Won’t Find on any other Sunday show: Celebrating Independence Reports out of Indonesia say that to celebrate 60 years of independence the government plans to give amnesty next week to more than 50,000 jailed criminals. Scheduled to be released, a cleric named …

First there was road rage, then air rage, then sports rage, and now — gas rage. As gas prices soar to a record high of more than $3.00 per gallon, so too do incidents of violence and theft at the pumps. In the most extreme and tragic example so far, …

Guilty Pleasures, 2005 | ‘Kong,’ ‘Brokeback’ Struggle | Hidden Gems on CD Guilty Pleasures, 2005 And so it’s here. We’ve reached the penultimate day of 2005. No more movies will be released. Oscar and Golden Globe voters have their ballots in hand. Some of them have special DVD players from …