UPDATE: Oops, and oops. I quite clearly suck. Again, the convenient overview can be found here. I've been able to watch a lot more of the second round of matches than I had the first, and that has allowed me to mentally adjust, ever so...
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Montana Cowgirl at Daily Kos narrates the political dismemberment of state legislator and quintessential tea bagger Bob Wagner by Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, Genius. In a nutshell: So Wagner ended up.
Enigmatic? No: He yearned, he sometimes said, to be other than what he was. “I wish I could be more like normal people — like these people here,” he told.
A convenient overview of the state of play of the European Championships can be found here. My typically ill-conceived predictions can be found here. I watched three of the matches, and listened to a further two on BBC Radio 5. The results from the first...
The NYT has a nuanced article that discusses a new study released by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU. Basically, contra conventional wisdom, the Roberts Court finds in favor of.
Romney has critiqued Obama for being '"a “job killer” who is “in over his head”'; and one quote (which I can not source at the moment) has him claiming.
A lot of you might have seen this already, but John Sides (of GWU and the Monkey Cage) has a nice piece at 538 that combines data from both Silver and a book by Redlawsk, Tolbert, and Donovan (which Sides blogs a bit about here)...
it turns out he's somewhat opposed, if we can interpret "social programs led to the collapse of the British Empire" and "the British National Healthcare system is a devastating program.
Slate has a solid article on "why you should be drinking cheap wine". While I know my way around a bottle a bit better than the average person, I strongly.
There's a lot that makes sense here. Some of the high points: It’s true that foreigners now hold large claims on the United States, including a fair amount of government debt. But every dollar’s worth of foreign claims on America is matched by 89 cents’...
or so desires Robert Reich. I have several quibbles with this, from an empirical perspective. First, the strong implication is that Obama-Clinton would gain more votes than Obama-Biden, or specifically,.
The blog over at the LSE, British Politics and Policy at LSE, has an interesting post on the relationship between teacher pay and educational attainment outcomes. A fuller summary of the.