Blatter is critical of the MLS. To wit: But don’t forget that soccer — as they call football there — is the most popular game in the youth. It’s not American football or baseball; it is soccer. But there is no very strong professional league....
Author: Dave Brockington
Born in San Jose, grew up in Seattle, received a Ph.D. in poli sci from University of Washington in 2000. I worked for three years at Universiteit Twente in Enschede, Netherlands, and have worked at the University of Plymouth for 16 academic years now in Plymouth, United Kingdom. I also currently serve as joint campaign coordinator for the Plymouth Sutton & Devonport Constituency Labour Party.
"when Adam Lanza started shooting his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday, he’d been confronted by qualified armed security?" asked Wayne LaPierre earlier today? We don't know, to.
According to most measures, the United Kingdom is a considerably [*] more violent society than the United States. 2.8% of the British experience assault compared with 1.2% of Americans. Rape, 0.9%.
It took less than 24 hours, but the NRA-sponsored argument to "arm the teachers!" is being field-tested, as noted by Erik, and as illustrated in a charming graphic, circulating on facebook, extolling the virtues of a "staff heavily armed and trained . . . any...
I was somewhat surprised that a majority of the handful of comments responding to my post debunking the "six year itch" were far more interested in the general prospects for.
Not too soon, the campaign season will commence again, with a focus on the Congressional elections of 2014. In the smattering of stories that I've read in the past two.
Looking through my 1976 copy of The Changing American Voter today, what should I find inside? This vintage 1976 clipping of a George Will column, warning us sternly about the dangers of allowing voter registration by . . . mail. Because it would mean a...
303-235. Figure Obama's PV around 50.5%. I expect him to have slightly over a 2% win in the PV. No clue nor care about his margin in MA. Obama loses.
The Labor Department released its final pre-election jobs report a little over an hour ago. This was never going to have more than a marginal effect on the election this.
In filling out my ballot yesterday and posting it off to Oregon, one of the decisions I had to make was for Clackamas County Sheriff. This decision was nearly as easy as President, seeing as how the incumbent sheriff is running unopposed. On November 15th,...
First, let's discuss the new Pew release, and attempt to do so without freaking out. It presents grim reading for at least two reasons: the four point Romney lead, and.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiCqxKLIVDY Given the report by the Center for American Progress about Romney's 27 myths in 38 minutes, this is timely. I use this clip in a lecture on charting campaigning.