OPINION

Kris Humphries just cannot stay out of the headlines. The free agent forward has followed up his high profile marriage and divorce with a career year, being bestowed with the ignominious honor as the 'Most Disliked Player In The NBA' and on Monday, he has emerged as the final obstruction to the blockbuster trade of the year.

The Wall Street Journal (Nasdaq: NWSA) and AOL Inc.'s (NYSE:AOL) Huffington Post spar over the facts surrounding recent allegations that Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) employees have denied sale of iPads to Farsi speakers.

Cutting federal spending in 2012 could tip the U.S. economy back into a recession, just as it almost did in 1937. On the contrary, if the federal government spent more on infrastructure and public works projects now and in the immediate quarters ahead, it would create millions of jobs.

Consider BlackBerry developer Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM): is it in a ?death spiral? or a tarnished diamond that with better management can be revived for a bright future?

Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Crawford has been a target of criticism since he signed a $142 million contract with the team, but last night a fan added to the usual overrated, overpaid repertoire of insults.

Many high school graduates want to forego university altogether.

He asserted that a number of major leaguers who have been elected into the Hall of Fame in recent years also did not deserve enshrinement.

There are, in fact, tens of millions of Muslims around the world who are ?white? -- and no one would bother to call them ?white Muslims.?

Is Pakistan an enemy of the United States? For the past two years, the Obama administration has doggedly maintained that the South Asian nation remains a vital American ally, even as it has grappled with what it itself admits is a ?complicated? relationship.

Connery grew up a hard-drinking, womanizing, football-loving brawler who sported tattoos and was employed at a number of dead-end jobs as a laborer.

What Cooper did in public should definitely not be called a coming out. It was a dragging out of a perfectly secure gay man -- a throwing of a Christian to the media lions.

To some extent, monetary easing has been accommodated because of stable-to-lower inflationary pressures.

Independence Day gives us 24 hours to reconnect with these ?truths self-evident.? But it is these same truths that we increasingly take for granted.

If talk radio had existed in 1776, the Declaration would have been the script.

Our teachers need your help, especially when this economy is so uncertain.

We commemorate our independence from tyranny, and we remember the blood that was shed and the lives that were lost in the formation of this exceptional country.

The Magic are reportedly open to trade talks with the Nets.

The first minutes of The Newsroom pilot episode are a harbinger of the appalling gender representations to come. While giving a talk at a university, the show's protagonist, newscaster Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels), explodes after a perky blonde college sophomore asks a (stupid) question about why America is the greatest country in the world, referring to the dumbfounded student as a sorority girl who may or may not accidentally wander into a voting booth one day.

The Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes break up looks like it will be the divorce of the century. With rumors swirling that Tom's career and Scientology were the root of their problems, something more serious might be at work -- unlucky number 33.

It?s not because the exchange rate is different.

The Republican benign-neglect approach to health care reform during the past decade was an unwitting contributor to the situation we find ourselves in today.

Violent crime rates in the Bronx have been dropping for the past two decades -- as they have in New York City as a whole and many other U.S. big cities.

Where will Howard play the 2012-13 NBA Season?

One hundred years after former President Teddy Roosevelt first proposed it, the United States -- the richest nation on earth -- has finally joined the world?s other, major, industrialized economies in having a universal health insurance plan.

Now that we?ve passed through the first half of 2012, it?s time to reflect on some technology events and anticipate what might be ahead. Maybe we can make a few predictions.

Tom Cruise is getting divorced.

The Supreme Court has spoken, the president has spoken, and Congress has spoken. Now it is time for the American people to speak.

The country had become hopelessly divided along a bitter partisan divide. While all political factions recognized the urgent need for reform, no party could command a sufficient majority to pass meaningful legislation.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said what?s called for in the war on terrorism is better communication. Oh, yes, he did.