By Selwyn Duke
The Church of Scientology is threatening legal action against Andrew Morton, author of Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography, a work that paints the cult in a negative light.

To use a play on Winston Churchill’s cynical words, the best argument
against democracy is a five-minute perusal of election coverage. Another way to put it – at risk of sounding trite – is if it weren’t
for nonsense, it wouldn’t make any sense at all. Yet, if being trite
were a sin, most presidential aspirants would languish in political
purgatory.
New Jersey Governor John Corzine has just signed a bill that would deliver his state’s electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote in presidential elections, even if the majority of the Garden State’s voters choose another candidate. This makes NJ the second state to adopt such a measure; Maryland was the first.