Archive for 2011

WELL, WE NEED THOSE: New Ways For Lawyers To Make Money. “This sort of thing is what’s going to pick up the slack in the legal market after the Death of Big Law.”

CONNING THE COUNTRY on jobs? “The administration’s industrial policy, if you can [call] anything so haphazard and corrupt such, is about as logical as playing the lottery. There is no coherent plan or analysis of technology, markets, or opportunities. Green is good. Everything else is bad. It has taken the President 2 1/2 years to come up with a grab bag of proposals that he will be rolling out over the next two weeks.”

WISCONSIN UPDATE: On Ann Althouse’s blog, “Supreme Court just ruled in favor of the Republicans on Budget Repair.”

Actual ruling here, which notes, “one of the courts that we are charged with supervising has usurped the legislative power which the Wisconsin Constitution grants exclusively to the legislature.”

UPDATE: At Legal Insurrection, “Wisconsin Supreme Court Overturns Judge Sumi:”

This is a sweeping victory for Republicans and Gov. Scott Walker.  (And for my prior legal anaylsis, but that’s another matter.  I’ll be spiking the football, for sure.)

Heh.

RECOVERY SUMMER II: US Small Business Sentiment Dims: NFIB Survey. “Small business sentiment in the United States fell for a third straight month in May, landing squarely in recessionary territory due to consumer reticence, high unemployment, and inflation worries, according to a monthly survey released on Tuesday.”

THE MOST BUSTED NAME IN NEWS, again.

RAND SIMBERG: An Out-Of-This-World Debate Question. “Space-policy analysts were as surprised as everyone else at one of the more obscure, but also more intelligent, questions asked in last night’s Republican debate. It was intelligent in both the nature of the question itself and in the candidate at whom it was directed.”

LAWPROF BLOG TRAFFIC RANKINGS. Since I don’t have a Sitemeter any more, I’m not on this list.

UNEXPECTEDLY? May retail sales post first drop in 11 months. “Retail sales fell in May for the first time in 11 months as receipts at auto dealerships dropped sharply, but the decline was less than expected, offering hope of a pick-up in economic activity.”