Go New Orleans! The Little Engine That Could! WaPo: At the moment the Saints won the Super Bowl and New Orleans would never be the same, they spilled through the doors of Sidney's Saloon at the corner of St. Bernard Avenue and St. Claude. They jumped and they danced and they hugged and they shou ...

Monday opinions are fresh and occasionally hot. Leading off today are two good ones from EJ Dionne: On the Obama-GOP Q&A session: But if the meeting was good for Obama with his base, it was also useful for his effort to win back middle-of-the-road voters. Obama was occasionally tough in his ...

In this editorial, E.J. Dionne Jr. discusses Justice Alito’s reaction to President Obama’s reference to Citizens United.

Saturday follies, opinions and drawing the wrong lessons from life's ups and downs. The Opinionator (NY Times) on the SCOTUS decision to allow corporations to buy elections: WaPo says it sucks. So does the NY Times. So does the LA Times. But the WSJ loves it. I'm shocked to find gambling in this c ...

E.J. Dionne: [L]eaders of both Houses are considering: The House would pass a version of the reconciliation bill containing the various amendments and send it to the Senate. The Senate would change it slightly (in ways that the House agreed to), which would require the House to vote on it again. ...

Your one stop pundit shop. Gail Collins says there is a bright side about Tuesday's vote in Massachusetts: Meanwhile, about that bright side: Some commentators have been arguing that having 60 votes in the Senate was really more trouble than it was worth. That once the Democrats hit a filibuste ...

SFTP v Tea Party You know, at least to me, they were much more interesting when they were "tea baggers."Still, I suppose since it was just filed in the ...

What’s a blogger to do when too busy to post something original – cite to other interesting blog posts, of course. Seattle Trademark Lawyer Michael Atkins, posting a follow-up related to a declaratory judgment action for noninfringement of alleged trade dress filed by language software company Topic ...

Specifically, my thanks to him for writing this article, which starts with an alleged 2008 conversation that he had with two ‘Republican’ financial experts: …one offered a dire and uncannily accurate forecast. He explained why banks would blow up, investments would crash and the f ...

Monday morning quarterbacking... and how about those J-E-T-S? WaPo: President Obama made a last-ditch effort Sunday to resurrect the candidacy of a struggling Democrat who could provide him a critical Senate vote, returning to the city that launched him onto the national stage in 2004, this time ...