"Unfortunately, this has not happened here." Lawprof Jack Balkin nixes comments. Though his co-bloggers can still turn comments on for their individual posts, he's had it with trolls and name-calling: There is very rarely any serious analysis; mostly there is point scoring and vitriol. Many regular ...

Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....

Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....

He asked: Will Warren be invited to the solemn ceremony of inauguration without being asked to repudiate what he has directly said to deny salvation to Jews? Will he be giving a national invocation without disowning what his mentor said about civil rights and what his leading supporter says about Mo...

how many times have we read news stories about bush "backing down," "softening up," taking a "conciliatory stance," "signaling a willingness to 'cooperate'"...? huh...?? how many times...? and how many times was it nothing but a goddam smoke screen*, a deliberate red herring* to make everybody let d...

the senate majority leader and the speaker of the house are oh-so-surprised that george isn't working with them... harry on george (december 2007)... [Senator Harry Reid] said that in 40 years of public service he had not had a tougher relationship. “He is impossible to work with,� the senator s...