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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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Clueless in Kabul
We've noted the Obama administration's penchant for bullying America's allies and kowtowing to its adversaries. This Washington Post story presents another case-in-point -- our treatment of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. As Afghan presidents go, Karzai…
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Global Warming Bombshell
The biggest news story of the day is one that has barely begun to break and will continue to reverberate for months or years to come. Someone hacked into a computer at the University of…
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The Obama administration -- ask it no questions, it will tell you some lies
Even congressional Democrats are disgusted with the Obama administration's phony accounting of what the stimulus plan supposedly is accomplishing. Earlier this week, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey lambasted the government's flawed data purporting to…
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A hack argument
There's a stock column appearing in left-liberal MSM outlets all over the country, The author varies, but the main point is the same: Republican Senators are guilty of "hypocrisy" for attempting to filibuster one of…
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Geithner on the Hot Seat
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner appeared before the Joint Economic Committee today. One striking feature of Geithner's testimony was how partisan it was. In keeping with the Obama administration's mantra, he repeatedly tried to cast blame…
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Leahy Lunacy
We noted last night that under the Obama administration's law-enforcement approach to terrorism, if we capture Osama bin Laden the first things we'll have to do are read him his rights and get him a…
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Senator Leahy's pre-9/10/01 mentality
Responding to Sen. Lindsey Graham's concern that under administration policy we might have to "Mirandize" Osama bin Laden, Sen. Patrick Leahy claims that "If the U.S. captures bin Laden, there's no need to interrogate him."…
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To Create Jobs, Cut Taxes and Spending
We've commented before on how often voters' experience and common sense allows them to see through the fog of misdirection that emanates from politicians and the media. The latest example: 62% say that "tax cuts…
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The Decline and Fall of Andrew Sullivan
I'm currently finishing the last volume of Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. One of the book's themes is the decline and fall of Kenneth Widmerpool, a friend (sort of) of the narrator…
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Trying KSM: why? It might make a good movie
Some of us went to law school hoping we might one day participate in the "trial of the century." That trial would command universal attention, involve the central issue of the epoch, and result not…