August 11, 2026

Obama’s Latest Jobs Speech: “Stop the political circus,” says the Ring Master.

President Obama and I agree on at least one thing: “Washington hasn’t always put [Americans’] interests first.” Ain’t that the truth. With Republicans vying for his job, the economy persistently sluggish, and unemployment relatively unchanged since the Bush Administration, President Obama took to the podium to make “the big speech” before a special Joint Session […]

IT’S ABOUT TIME: U.S. News Encourages Law Schools To ‘Fess Up on Employment Rates – Law Blog – WSJ

The rest of the legal world, and the legions of recent law grads that are unemployed and underemployed, already know this: law schools lie. Not directly, mind you. They just fudge the numbers. Now, finally, U.S. News, the leading source for the all important law school rankings, will  “encourage” law schools to come clean on the real […]

Killing the golden goose in Wisconsin

Greed: what is it good for? In my other life, I play a member of one of the major political parties, and I regularly engage in issues, campaigns, and debates on a partisan level. In all of my activities, however, I try to maintain a level of civility that encourages healthy debate and discussion that allows […]

Opening up the books on post-grad employment

Remember graduating from law school?  Remember studying for the bar, and then taking the bar, and then that long wait for results?  And, if you were in my class, just starting to realize that the economy’s nose dive affected the legal industry, too, there was during all of that the constant hunt for a job. […]