Jeff Bernstein, the agent for Indian pitching prospects Rinku and Dinesh, reports that the controversy with the Topps representative has been cleared up. He is not a very, very bad man after all. On Tuesday, Rinku and Dinesh reported on their blog that they had been fleeced by a Topps baseball card ...

so here's the thing. a lot of people percieve whats going on in palestine as this complex totally incomprehensible 'conflict'. and then when you start discussing the 'conflict' there are calls for a 'solution'. let me be clear on a few things. 1. there is nothing complicated about palestine. colonia...

As the economic vise tightens around all of us, but around newspapers more tightly than most, readers may become more suspicious about the influences bearing down on what was once a free and vibrant press. Suspicions like being unduly influenced by commercial pressures. Anyone who has ever worked in...

Now if the "flurry" of correspondence in the Independent that I mentioned earlier follows the usual pattern then on Monday there'll be some ludicrous apologetic from the Zionist Federation in the paper on Monday but hopefully today's letters will be the last word on the zionist propaganda exercise k...

Jamaica's Prime Minister Bruce Golding says he will never allow homosexuality to be legalized, despite new pressure from foreign governments like the island's former owners, the British. "We are not going to yield to the pressure, whether that pressure comes from individual organisations, individual...

Reporting on the California Supreme Court hearing yesterday, NPR reporter Karen Grigsby Bates decided to focus on the people really hurt by Proposition 8, which in her view, means Prop. 8 supporters. She talks with Dave Leatherby, "a devout Roman Catholic father of 10" who runs an ice crea...

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A group of scholars from the American Political Science Association have signed on to a boycott of the group's 2012 convention in New Orleans because Louisiana denies marriage equality to LGBT residents. A 2004 amendment to the Louisiana Constitution denies marriage and “the legal incidents thereo...

Back in the 1950's communism truly was a threat to America, Europe and the whole concept of freedom, liberty and democracy. The leaders of monolithic communism made no bones about their intention of burying America. This legitimate fear resulted in such things as McCarthyism , the House Committee on...