Tag: Law

  • Nation of Burkeans?

    The National Review features a fantastic piece by Alexander Benard and Anthony Dick on America’s True Genius. The thesis: change does not make a nation great, and it certainly is not what has made America great. Rather, it is the constitutionally-mandated stability of our system of laws – the difficulty of implementing radical change –…

  • We Passed!!!

    Sarah and I passed the bar exam!

  • Hello World.

    A few of the search terms people have used to find this site in the last 24 hours which have suddenly spiked in popularity: ed cottrell cottrell baker botts edblog “ed cottrell” blog I assume some of those folks are my new co-workers. Hello! Don’t worry, all; it’s pretty harmless on here. Some of the…

  • Blogging Hiatus?

    As much as I’ve enjoyed playing around with this site in the last couple of weeks, alas, the real world calls. I start at Baker Botts, tomorrow, as does Sarah. So, perhaps there will be a bit of a break in the blogging. To all five of my readers: please come back; I will not…

  • Heller Finally Gets His Permit

    Details here: Heller gets his gun permit. More coverage: SFGate [ed.: link updated to an archived link because the original was broken] SCOTUSBlog