Blog Profile / Power Line
| URL : | http://www.powerlineblog.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | US Politics / Conservative | |
| Posts on Regator: | 15428 | |
| Posts / Week: | 55.1 | |
| Archived Since: | February 7, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Hinderaker-Ward Experience, Episode 48: Stood Up!
(John Hinderaker) This is how Brian Ward described tonight’s podcast on Ricochet: The Hinderaker-Ward Experience (HWX) returns for another special Friday night broadcast. John Hinderaker of Power Line and Brian Ward of Fraters Libertas...Show More Summary
Lindsey Graham is in the tank for Samantha Power, naturally
(Paul Mirengoff) I always expect the worst from Lindsey Graham, and he rarely disappoints. Today, Graham strongly backed Samantha Power for the U.N. ambassador post. But that wasn’t the worst. The worst was his statement that Power “will be a strong supporter of our close friend and ally Israel.” As I said, Graham rarely disappoints. Show More Summary
Now It’s Credit Cards and Correspondence; What Next?
(John Hinderaker) The initial revelations about NSA’s collection of metadata on telephone calls has triggered an avalanche of stories about previously unknown, or only suspected, surveillance projects. First the Washington Post reported...Show More Summary
Climate Breakthroughs?
(Steven Hayward) There are two items of interest in the otherwise dreary and repetitive world of climate change in the last few days—one about causation, and the other about potential remedy (if necessary). Let’s take the “remedy” item first, which can be summarized with the image of giving the oceans a really really big Alka Seltzer tablet. Show More Summary
The Immigration Bill: Whose Deal Is It?
(John Hinderaker) Debate began this morning in the Senate on the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill. Jeff Sessions kicked off opposition to the bill with a speech that focused, among other things, on the bill’s genesis. As everyone knows, the bill began with a “deal” that was reached by the Gang of Eight. Show More Summary
There’s no NSA scandal (yet), but Obama should explain the situation
(Paul Mirengoff) I agree with John that, from all that appears so far, the NSA’s collection of phone records is not a scandal. No law appears to have been violated; the administration proceeded with permission from the appropriate court;...Show More Summary
Eric Holder clinches the case for his resignation
(Paul Mirengoff) Eric Holder’s interview with Pete Williams of NBC News is, as John says, a classic. It seems to me that Holder’s statements during the interview nail down the case that he lied to Congress or to a court. According to...Show More Summary
Flatten the IRS?
(Steven Hayward) The cartoon below brings up the question that has been on my mind since the IRS scandal first broke: might this be the opening for tax reform, or better still, a flat tax? The arguments for a flat tax have long been...Show More Summary
Power of persuasion
(Scott Johnson) I think of newly appointed ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power in the words of the title of her Pulitzer Prize-winning book: ”A Problem From Hell”: America in the Age of Genocide. Power passionately believes...Show More Summary
God bless Matt Birk
(Paul Mirengoff) Earlier this week, the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens visited President Obama at the White House. The reports I read noted that a few members of the championship squad were unable to attend because they were practicing with a new team. Show More Summary
Eric Holder Says: It’s Too Bad We Don’t Have a Better Attorney General!
(John Hinderaker) Barack Obama is the bystander president; nothing that happens in his administration has anything to do with him. Michael Ramirez illustrates the point: Eric Holder is the perfect attorney general for the Obama administration. Show More Summary
Is the NSA’s Collection of Phone Records a Scandal?
(John Hinderaker) Since the Guardian revealed a court order under which the National Security Agency is collecting telephone call data from Verizon, there have been howls of protest from some observers–Al Gore, Rand Paul and the New York Times editorial board, to name a few. Show More Summary
A Case Study in Denial and Fanaticism
(Steven Hayward) In its desperation the climate campaign resorted to calling climate skeptics “denialists” for quite a while now, with some going so far as to make an explicit comparison with holocaust deniers, just in case anyone didn’t...Show More Summary
The Obamacare blame game — a contest the Democrats can’t win
(Paul Mirengoff) Although the Obama administration scandals that have emerged since Election Day are hurting the Democrats a bit, Obamacare remains the real threat to the Dems in 2014. As Tevi Troy points out in Commentary, by most every...Show More Summary
Spindle Time
(Steven Hayward) 1. There’s a lot of miscellaneous stories right now that deserve brief notice. Start with this headline: “VP Biden Says Educators Should Learn To Recognize Mental Illness.” Excuse me a minute while I clear out the coffee I snorted all over my keyboard. Show More Summary
Samatha Power and neoconservatism
(Paul Mirengoff) The label “neoconservative” has been misused and abused so frequently that it has lost most of its substantive meaning. Without getting deep into the details, consider that the most famous neoconservative article ever...Show More Summary
Now They’re Messing with Miss World
(Steven Hayward) I knew John would be first in line to cover the congressional campaign of Erika Harold, but there’s another beauty pageant story breaking today that Power Line will need to un-cover fully: the Miss World pageant, toShow More Summary
The ordeal of Omaha Beach
(Scott Johnson) Professor David Gelernter of Yale University is a man of formidable learning with little patience for phonies. He has detected a tidal wave of phoniness in the celebration of “the greatest generation,” as he wrote inShow More Summary
How Chairman Jim turned the NEH into a tool of the Obama administration
(Scott Johnson) We’ve had a lot of fun here in the past few years with the buffoonery of former National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jim Leach, whose recently concluded tenure at the NEH offered a near-daily target-rich environment...Show More Summary
Chris Christie’s decision — some nuance
(Paul Mirengoff) A Power Line reader from New Jersey agrees generally with my assessment of Chris Christie’s decision to hold a special election in October of this year to fill Frank Lautenberg’s seat, but adds some nuance. Our reader...Show More Summary