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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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"Storm Clouds on the Fourth of July"
Roger Simon writes, provocatively: I don't think I've ever seen my country so divided and depressed on the Fourth of July in my lifetime....The current situation is grim. Obama is already over. In six short…
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The eternal meaning of Independence Day
On July 9, 1858, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas gave a campaign speech to a raucous throng from the balcony of the Tremont Hotel in Chicago. Abraham Lincoln was in the audience when Douglas prepared to…
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They Won't Have Sarah Palin to Kick Around Any Longer
Not as Governor of Alaska, anyway: Governor Palin announced today that she will not seek re-election and, indeed, will resign her office in the near future. Her statement is here. She isn't retiring, but says…
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Suicide of the West
Today's sign of the apocalypse, from Great Britain: "Prisoners on run cannot be named 'due to privacy rights.'" Civil servants have refused to name inmates who have fled prison even though individual police forces will…
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Car of the Future
This IowaHawk video spoofs Washington's takeover of Detroit. It's pretty funny; we might as well laugh as the bows of the ship sink beneath the waves: Via InstaPundit.
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Meet Lieutenant Vargas
Hats off to the New York Times for an inspiring profile of Lt. Ben Vargas, a New Haven firefighter who was one of the plaintiffs--the only Hispanic plaintiff--in the Ricci case. The Hispanic Firefighters' Association…
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Barack Milhous Obama
What prior administration does the Obama administration most resemble? In its early days, there is a surprising contender: that of Richard Nixon. Helen Thomas sounded the theme in an interview with CNS News that followed…
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Ballad of a thin man
Omar Jamal of of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center played a walk-on role when prosecutors indicted Somali pirate Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse in New York. He made contact with family members of the pirates during the…
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While America sleeps
Peter Berkowitz has been spending time in Israel this summer. In "Bibi's choice," he reports on the perception of Israelis regarding the choices they confront on Iran's nuclear program. Berkowitz writes: Conversations over the last…
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A Miserable Failure
That's the Obama administration's "stimulus" plan, which mainly stimulated Democratic constituencies with great gobs of pork. The web site Innocent Bystanders has done a service by plotting the actual unemployment rate against the Obama administration's…