Barack Obama was something of a whirling dervish following his election to the presidency.  His energy was palpable; his desire to “hit the ground running” once he actually became president was abundantly apparent.               Now, with barely two weeks under his belt in the nation’s highest office, his ambition is no less evident.  […]

            While President Obama devoted the first days of his presidency to the economic crisis he inherited from his predecessor, the rest of the world was waiting impatiently for his attention.  At the conference of the Association of American Law Schools earlier this month, Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, Dean of Sacramento’s McGeorge School of Law and […]

            The story of last week’s “miracle on the Hudson” is almost unbelievable.  The sudden loss of all power in both jet engines within minutes of takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport left pilot Chelsey Sullenberger III (Sully) with few options, none of them particularly promising.  His Airbus A320 was loaded with 150 passengers, three […]

            As presidential transitions go, this one has lasted about as long (11 weeks) as most.  It just seems like it has lasted forever, kind of the way the last two months of school used to drag on before summer vacation finally arrived.  (And why did that vacation period then always fly by like some […]