It looks like it happened near the park and unrelated to the game itself. We have had our share of violence in the U.S. too.

You just keep driving the winnable Hispanic vote to the Democrats with your anti-immigrant hyperbole. It may play well in states the GOP would win anyway, but do you have any idea how many swing states have a large Hispanic vote? It is one thing to make a sober discussion; it is quite another to scapegoat people with scare talk and exaggeration.

I don't disagree there's a long way to go, but I don't see how Gingrich does anything to make himself more popular to the typical GOP voter. Many are less than enthusiastic about Romney, but equally many if not more think Gingrich is just too flawed to make the White House. It is too bad that it was Gingrich who emerged as the conservative rival to Romney. Another of the group of candidates, or among those who didn't run, could have given Romney a better race. As it is, I think it's all over, and the focus might be on getting Romney to pick a strong conservative running mate.

The main difference between PP and La Cosa Nostra is that the former has one of the two major political parties in its hip pocket.

Yes and no. Presumably they are saying in public what they do want Iran to overhear and saying in private what they don't.

Lead in "the polls"? Are you kidding? This is an online poll by a group that never did online polls before and is way of line with other polls. A responsible journalist would ask whether this poll is to be believed or not.

Actually the national anthem of Spain has no words. It is strictly instrumental.

I personally despise the Mexico bashing that often passes for commentary on this blog, but I think the particular assignment is misguided. Nothing wrong with learning about the words of the flag salute and anthem to build vocabulary and compare cultures, but actually performing them seems a little over the top as a class exercise. The anthem, by the way, is one of the most militaristic anywhere, so I'd think liberals would object to it on those grounds alone.

Looks like a Republican candidate treating him like the Al Sharpton of the right, a race baiter who you can't quite ignore because he has a fire breathing constituency that has to be appeased.

Maybe the court thought that governments should not intervene in what people can do with their private property. Used to be a conservative principle, until this warped hatred for Hispanics took over.