Respectfully Katall, While I am a great fan of hyperbole, there is a point where it can cease to be funny mockery used to drive home a point and become counter productive. In the US today we have a very deep partisan divide b/c both sides have been too free with their vitriolic hyperbole. To suggest that a political argument over when a collection of unique human DNA becomes worthy of protection of law is somehow similar to throwing acid in the face of a girl wishing to go to school suggests a level of ignorance and even hatred on the person making the comparison that staggers the mind of a reasonable person.

Professor, Perhaps it is my limited knowledge, but I have rarely heard a post New Deal democrat do anything but equate the government with 'doing things together.' I would suggest that to the American Left, government action, by its nature, an expression of the will of the people. In short, the government is 'we the people.' An idea perhaps expressed in their preference for democracy over republic in describing our nation. The idea that the government could be a separate entity from the people, an agent with a habit of exceeding its authority at every opportunity, seems to completely beyond their ken.

oh come on Prof, why shouldn't law profs at Jimmy's JD Mill have the exact pay as Harvard types and mint to the exact same standard? After all isn't a lawyer a lawyer? ;-) Seriously though, there have been serious calls for reform and even following the English model of a bifurcated bar since at least the 1940's when the Langdellian method was pretty much made standard in every law school. As a recent grad, I'm fairly favorable of both the Washington model of supervised apprenticeships (they have a pretty detailed curriculum for the students and their attorney supervisor to follow) or the Wyoming model of allowing up to 2 yrs of actual work count as academic credits. Any way we go, we need to figure out a way of driving down costs to offer legal services or Legal Zoom and outsourcing will put us in the same boat as heavy industrial manufacturing (i.e. crying about globalization).

Has anyone done a comparison of respective funding? I've heard that the mayor + 3rd party funding was about 25M while Walker's was 30M but no idea how much Walker's allies spent. It would be interesting to be able to compare apples to apples re: funding.

I say let them keep charging. Maybe they will wake enough people up that we get some of our freedoms back. If not then maybe we deserve to loose what we are not willing to fight for.

I would hope that Paul would ask Congress for a declaration of war followed by such actions as necessary to reopen the straits. I do believe he would defer to Congress on the decision to initiate hostilities. Once the Congress had authorized the use of military force, Paul would be moved by his Constitutional duties to aggressively exercise his C-in-C duties. I find it doubtful he would seek an authorization to use military force or some other Orwellian phrasing for diplomatic/political reasons.

Since when do constitutional questions of compelled speech turn on how much a particular compelled speech might cost? If the government can violate the restrictions placed on it in a written constitution, what value does it serve? It sort of sounds like guarantees of religious freedom under the Soviet Constitution.

I am wondering if we are in the first years of a new age of migrations as the Europeans call AD 450 - 910.

Can we undo the Rebellion of 1776? The mother country has better TV ... ;-)

For this evening's pleasure, Mr. Doyle and his associates will all try out for the part of Dudley Dursley of Harry Potter fame.

Pew asked the wrong questions. It seems they were trying to get people to choose between two fixed points. One hand you could have entitlement reform and on the other you could have deficit reduction. Given the limited options the people are exposed to (hamburger, fries, and a soda or a chicken burger, fries, and a soda) little wonder they make poor choices.

Sorry to say but I fear we Oregonians are going to follow that state to the South of us. Just ask Mr. Hunt.

The best path to breaking a filibuster is for Obama to do what Clinton did to get RBG onto the SCOTUS. Clinton complied a list of desired appointees, then asked Hatch and other leading opponents to strike the ones they would be guaranteed to oppose. RBG was about 1/2 way down the list. She got 92 votes. Obama could learn a lot from Clinton.

Please correct me if I am wrong but, by international law, war can only be declared and fought between governments. A non-governmental-organization like Al-Qaeda, and certainly not individuals, is unable to declare war. Any purported military actions by such NGOs are crimes not acts of war, no matter on what scale they occur. If my limited knowledge of international law is accurate, then we could never have a war on terrorism or a war against Al-Qaeda but rather some form of police action. Question posed - Anything wrong with a SWAT team taking out a suicide bomber before the bomb goes off? Personally, Muchas Gracias to every one of those rough men who allow me to sleep safely at night.