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A blawg "covering income taxes, campaign finance and welfare reform, affirmative action, race in the criminal justice system and conservative politics."
Author: John Hinderaker is a partner at Faegre & Benson in Minneapolis, and Scott Johnson a senior vice president of TCF National Bank in Minneapolis. Paul Mirengoff is a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C. All are fellows at the Claremont Institute in Claremont, Calif.
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Recent Posts from Power Line
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A ray of hope inside the beltway
Barbara Comstock is an ace Republican political consultant. I met her, thanks to my daughter, at a dinner for Mitt Romney for whom Comstock served as a consultant and for whom my daughter's employer did…
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Mike Huckabee 2.0
Mike Huckabee came to Washington on Wednesday to promote his new book A SImple Christmas. This was part of a book tour that will encampass 64 cities. Along with maybe 15 to 20 journalists, I…
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Humor Value Only
A Boston TV station discovered that Barney Frank was present in 2007 when police raided his boyfriend's home in Maine and confiscated marijuana, bongs and marijuana plants. Somehow this didn't come out until now. In…
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Pelosicare Moves Toward Vote
According to the Washington Post, the House is expected to vote on the Democrats' health care takeover bill at around 10:00 tonight, eastern time. The Post says that both parties are keeping their vote counts…
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Facts Leak Out
Reporters are interviewing friends and acquaintances of Nidal Malik Hasan, and troubling facts are beginning to come out. Troubling, but frankly not very surprising: His fellow students complained to the faculty about Hasan's "anti-American propaganda,"…
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Tune In to Hear Michael Barone
A reminder: in one hour, 11:30 central, we will be interviewing Michael Barone on our radio show, talking about Tuesday's election and the new edition of his Almanac of American Politics. Go here to listen…
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Dictatorships and double standards, part 2
Our friend Monical Showalter writes regarding the victimization of the heroic Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (of Generación Y) by one of the dictators with whom Barack Obama takes no issue: Yoani Sanchez, the adorable and…
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Into the Teeth of Public Opinion
At this moment, the House of Representatives has begun to debate Pelosicare. Unexpectedly, the Democrats' leadership is struggling to find the 218 votes needed for passage. The immediate hurdle is abortion. The Democrats' House bill…
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It's A Mystery
President Obama's radio address today is on the Fort Hood massacre. Byron York has the full text. Yesterday, Obama warned us against jumping to conclusions. Now, as we predicted, it's pretty clear that Obama has…
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Dictatorships and double standards revisited
Stephen Hayes invokes Jeane Kirkpatrick's classic 1979 essay on Jimmy Carter's foreign policy in his his Weekly Standard article of the same title on Barack Obama's foreign policy. Hayes updates the the continuing saga of…