Foul! Study says hoop refs try to even the score

They don't all need glasses. But if you always suspected basketball referees are biased — well, you're right, according to a couple of professors who've studied the matter.

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2 teens arrested in racially charged NY beating

Two teenagers have been arrested on a hate crime charge in the racially charged beating of an Ecuadorean immigrant on New York's Long Island.

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Police: NY man beaten in racially charged robbery

A Hispanic man told investigators he was beaten and robbed in a racially charged attack in a Long Island community where another Hispanic was killed in an alleged hate crime last fall, police said.

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Possible SupCo nominee shows no extra caution

Supreme Court prospect Diane P. Wood asked the most questions and showed no extra measure of caution Wednesday as judges on Chicago's federal appeals court plunged into a dispute over alleged housing discrimination.

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$300K settlement in Paterson discrimination suit

New York Gov. David Paterson says a racial discrimination suit filed by a photographer who was fired from a state job is being settled for $300,000.

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NYC man pleads guilty to election night hate crime

A man accused of leading an election night rampage that put one victim in a coma told a judge Monday he organized the attacks because he was drunk and angry about Barack Obama's victory.

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Feds charge 3 NY men in election bias attacks

Three men, riled by Barack Obama's victory, spent election night hunting down black people to beat up and yelling insults about the president-elect, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

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Princeton's record on Asian admissions examined

The U.S. Education Department has broadened a review into whether Princeton University discriminates against applicants of Asian descent.

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Man Pleads Guilty After Verdict Tossed

A man who was on death row for nearly 20 years until the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his verdict because of racial discrimination has pleaded guilty to the 1985 slaying for which he was originally sentenced to die.

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Mass. Jury's Racial Attitudes Questioned

One juror, a white woman, was trying to convince the others that the murder victim had been bruised during a struggle, not during consensual sex with the defendant. Bruises like those, the juror supposedly said, can happen "when a big black guy beats up on a small woman."

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ABT Sued for Age Bias

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit claiming that the American Ballet Theatre fired a musician because of his age.

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Stern Critical of Study on Racial Bias

NBA commissioner David Stern criticized a study regarding racial bias among league officials and the New York Times for printing it, saying racism "doesn't exist in the NBA."

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Study Says HSAs More Costly for Women

High-deductible health insurance plans favored by many employers often wind up being an unfair burden to women, a new study says, largely because women need many routine medical exams that quickly add up.

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Research funded by beverage industry is biased

Confused by conflicting advice on nutrition and health? Then try ignoring any conclusions backed by the beverage industry. Corporate funding of research into non-alcoholic drinks biases findings in favour of manufacturers’ products, a new study has found.

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Of one hundred thirty-seven authors in the most recent Norton Anthology of American Literature, less than one-third are women-and this in a publication which we imagine strives for diversity.

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[Manila, Philippines] Giant television network ABS-CBN, which claims to be an impartial station, even packaging itself as a network that is credible and airs all sides of issues, proved its political bias and partiality when the network's officials rejected one version of info …

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A person commits aggravated homosexuality when the victim is a person with disability or below the age of 18, or when the offender is HIV-positive.

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Right-Wing Local Talk-Radio Host in N.H. Loses Show Over Blatantly Anti-Gay Slur

Laconia Radio Station Fires Host Doug Lambert for Hurling the Six-Letter F-Bomb at Chairman of Granite State's Democratic Party -- Who is Gay -- and Denouncing Him as a 'Reprobate;' Conservative Also Loses His Newspaper Column

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So how could Fox have both the most balanced and the most anti-Obama coverage? Simple. It's because the other networks were all so pro-Obama.

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I think there may be more GOOD Journalists leaving CNN and other mainllined media MSNBC as the biased and Risk Management info continues. Article in part and link to Video "New York (CNN) -- CNN's Lou Dobbs stepped down from his controversial role as an advocacy anchor at the n …

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File a Complaint With the FCC Regarding Fox's (Hannity's) Latest Lie!

It's easy and fast and important. For more information about the transgression in question, see Killfile's seed. I filed my complaint already, inspired by this comment on another article on another site.

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A new study reveals that even savvy media consumers are affected by biased coverage.

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In addition to being the greatest jazz musician of the 20th century, Louis Armstrong was also the most beloved. "I never met anybody that didn't love him that ever saw him work or ever has encountered him, had any connection or any business with him," said Bing Crosby.

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Schlafly has a new project: rewriting the Bible to free it from liberal bias. The new translation will be free of "emasculated" and "dumbed-down" language as well as "liberal wordiness." So-called "later-inserted liberal passages" will be deleted entirely.

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Good example of the double standard regarding bias in journalism

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Roughly a quarter of a century ago, when the manager hired me to a much coveted job in the lowest echelons of management in a reputable corporation, I believed it was on the merits of my resume and real time presentation.

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Throughout the health care debate, the majority of Americans have expressed their opposition and frustration with the president and his Democratic Congress' radical proposals.

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In 2003 it drafted its "Resolution Affirming the Individual and Collective Palestinian Right of Return," followed in 2004 by its "Resolution to Divest, in Principle and Practice, from Israel." In 2005 it promulgated an "Emergency Resolution Condemning Zionism as a Form of Racism …

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There seems to be general agreement that the Obama White House's campaign against FOX News is actually directed at other news organizations -- to "get other journalists to think twice before following [FOX's] stories in their own coverage," according to an article in the Politico.

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It seems that Fox News is actually unfair and completely unbalanced.

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The big question of course is why should the world be forced to remember? Simply because the Holocaust is not a Jewish affair. It touched all of mankind.

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised a lengthy diplomatic battle to "delegitimise" United Nations charges that Israel committed war crimes in the Gaza Strip, an official said on Saturday.

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10/09/2009 by Peter Hart

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10/13/2009 by Steve Rendall

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What's The Connection Between the Washington State Human Rights Commission (WSHRC), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) and the city of Seattle's Office of Civil Rights?

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission WSHRC has a long-standing partnership with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

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LOS ANGELES -- An apologetic David Letterman trotted out before the cameras Monday night with a quip that raised questions and fetched laughs: "There's a possibility," he said, "that I'll be the first talk-show host impeached."

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"Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." That famous line, attributed to Jesus in Luke 23:34, could well apply to the folks at Conservapedia -- the "conservative version" of Wikipedia -- who have embarked on a project to rewrite the Bible.

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On Page 118 of Barack Obama's memoir, Dreams from My Father, he tells of his arrival in New York to attend Columbia University and of the events that took place during that summer...the summer of 1981. But wait a minute.

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Who's Despicable? President Obama Orders WWII Pensions Cut... And The Blogs That Mislead Us About It

The blogosphere is awash today in outrage over the president's seemingly inexplicable snubbing of a group of 26 World War II veterans. Conservative bloggers have seized the subject with some of the most robust announcements of "gotcha!" I've seen in a while.

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