The Obama stimulus bill is now law, and some Republicans are elated.               The House Republican leadership, John Boehner and Eric Cantor, in particular, are gloating as if they just won a multi-million dollar lottery.  In fact, they lost a legislative battle, but let’s not concern ourselves with the small stuff right now. […]

            In his first nationally televised press conference as the nation’s president, Barack Obama spoke in full sentences that were extended to well-structured paragraphs that combined to make for mini-essays on the subjects he was asked to address.  Some of his answers lasted for as long as seven minutes; none were off the point of […]

            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 […]