Words of Wisdom

Following are a few articles which may be of interest to you. It is suggested that you cut and paste the web address, otherwise the article is likely to be truncated and subject to a request to subscribe!

* Wall Street Journal  May 12, 2010     Extend the Bush Tax Cuts – For Now by Martin Feldstein

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704370704575228123196462504.html

* Wall Street Journal May 13, 2010    Notable & Quotable – Michael Barone writing in the Washington Examiner

This is the extract:

Professor chooses professor. That’s one headline you could write about Barack Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.

Obama graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991, Kagan in 1996. Kagan joined the faculty at the University of Chicago Law School in 1991 and became a full professor there in 1995. Obama taught consitutional law there , though he was not formally a professor, from 1992 to 2004.

They have other things in common. Unusually for top law students who go on to teach, they have published little: Kagan has written just five law review articles, Obama none.

Nor, from all the accounts we have, has either of them expressed, even in conversation, opinions on many burning legal issues. That should be just a little embarrassing for those Democrats who expressed disbelief when Clarence Thomas said he had not opined on the rightness of Roe v Wade.