Shark and Shepherd

As the race for state supreme court heats up, we have returned to one of last cycle's controversies. What to make of statistics that sho...

I am quoted in a Foxnews.com article on political clashes between the Catholic Church and the Obama administration. Although I am not sure t...

Last January, I published a piece in WI Interest, the journal of the Wisconsin Public Policy Research Institute, arguing that the drafters o...

The Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation has sent a letter of complaint regarding the recognition of Good Friday as a campus holi...

Patrick McIlheran continues the discussion teaching morality in public schools without religion. Can it be done? Ought it to be done? My ow...

Via Howard Wasserman at Prawfs via NPR, JAMSBIO ranks the songs of the Beatles. So there's a theme for Sunday. No. 1 was A Day in the Li...

By now, most everyone has seen the creepy celebrity video in which, as Iowahawk puts it in a fantastic spoof , a bunch of people who look va...

The decision of a divided Court of Appeals setting aside the sentence of Landray Harris has gotten a fair amount of play in the blogs and on...

My minor "bah humbug" on the Day the Earth Stood Still got a little attention here and over at Prawfs (a bit less so on the facul...

Paul's post on the iinaugural spectacle prompts me to confront my own reaction which is, for the most part, one of bemusement. It all st...

It's Inauguration Week and I can't help it. But what is the change to believe in? Prompt withdrawal from Iraq has turned into a Rums...

A commenter who identifies himself or herself as Clutch responded to my post on teaching values without inclusion of religion. Part of the b...

Common Council President Willie Hines has written a nice piece on values education in the Journal-Sentinel. I know that President Hines and ...

I am back from San Diego where I attended the American Association of Law Schools meeting, the annual meeting of the Federalist Society'...

I didn't get to it on Sunday but January is hard around here so here is some music on facing the winter. So as it gets colder (or worse,...

I believe in accountability. These were my predictions for 2008 and comments (italicized)in hindsight. 1. In Super Bowl, Brett Favre passes ...

1. Some ill advised stimulus and public works package will be enacted. It will have little impact on the economy although we will see the en...

I will be on Channel 12 News at (I think 6)prognosticating and pontificating on the comming year in politics.

To be honest, I doubt that I could. I think I'd wind up looking like Riff Raff (well, without the hump) in The Rocky Horror Picture Show...

New Year's is about starting over, even if we rarely do and even if we don't feel the need to. It is a reminder that redemption is s...