A massive baseball fight broke out at a Cuban baseball game recently, and video has surfaced on YouTube. According to the video's description, the brawl took place in Sancti Spiritus, a city in central Cuba. The unusual fight features the batter -- armed with a baseball bat -- chasing the pitcher, who later returns the favor. WATCH (via The Score via De […]

Ben Roethlisberger has admitted to having "sexual contact" with the woman who accuses him of sexual assault, according to KDKA in Pittsburgh. The Steelers quarterback denies having sexual intercourse with the accuser. According to the report, Roethlisberger claims the woman fell and hurt her head following their sexual contact. She immediately visi […]

This season on American Idol, the judges have insisted the women are where it's at. But the men are certainly more consistent. While half the... […]

With Democratic Congressional leaders and the White House struggling on Wednesday to finalize the details of major health care legislation, House Democrats were desperately trying to prevent another of President Obama's top legislative priorities - an ambitious overhaul of student loan programs - from becoming a casualty of the health care battle. But D […]

According to the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, U.S. and Allied forces have killed and injured more civilians than have the insurgents during Operation Moshtarak. More on Afghanistan […]

In 2008, Australia had 161 boat people arrive. In 2008, Australia had 4750 applications for asylum submitted. In 2008, France, the UK and Italy combined had 96,870 applications for asylum submitted. In 2008, 51 industrialised countries participating in the UNHCR statistics program had 382,670 applications for asylum submitted. In 2008, there were approximate […]

This week’s Essential Report comes in with the primaries running 43 (up 1)/ 40 (steady) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 54/46 the same way – a one point gain to Labor since last week. The Greens and the broad “Others” are steady on 9 a piece. This comes from a [...] […]

This is an expanded version of something I wrote for the Crikey daily mail last week. Does increasing consumer confidence boost the government vote? Orthodox wisdom would have us “yes” – good consumers are good government voters. If people are happy with their economic lot, if they’re happy with their economic expectations about the future, then [...] […]

Continuing on from Part 1 where we had a look at the vote estimates and win expectations, we now move on to the additional questions that were asked on greater federal government involvement in the hospital system and a question on which party is best to handle a number of issues. The hospital question and its [...] […]

Today’s Nielsen via the Fairfax press has the Coalition up 1 on the primaries and Labor steady to come in at 42/42, washing out into a two party preferred of 53/47 to Labor – a one point gain to the Coalition since last month. The Greens are on 9 (down 1) while the broad “Others” [...] […]

Another Friday, another sweep around the betting markets to see where the money is running for the federal election contest. Among the 5 agencies we watch, this week saw changes in the ALP price run in both directions, while changes in the Coalition price were all one way when they happened. Sportsbet pulled the ALP [...] […]