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Power Line: Five dollars worth of “adorableâ€
(Paul Mirengoff) Organizing for America, the Democratic Party’s successor organization to Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign, is asking folks to “forward” Joe Biden’s response to a letter from a seven year-old boy on t...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 9:15pm -07:00T (201 words)
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Power Line: North America’s Strangest Mayor
(John Hinderaker) Rob Ford, the Mayor of Toronto, has been in the news lately because someone allegedly has a video of him smoking crack. I have no idea whether the video is genuine or not, but Ford is a distinctly odd character. He makes Rahm Emanuel loo...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 9:15pm -07:00T (294 words)
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Power Line: Three Cheers for Tesla
(John Hinderaker) I have always been skeptical of electric vehicles, mostly because of my perception that electric car makers are more interested in subsisting on government subsidies than in competing on a level playing field for my business. So I was in...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 3:00pm -07:00T (428 words)
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Power Line: The Week in Pictures, Umbrellagate Update
(Steven Hayward) If the old weekly Life magazine had managed to hang on until the Internet arrived, it might have survived as an online summary, but fortunately they left the space open to Power Line. Â And things are happening so fast we almost need to g...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 2:00pm -07:00T (95 words)
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Power Line: Obama adminstration talking points scrubbed jihadists from Cairo as well as Benghazi
(Paul Mirengoff) In the days after the Benhazi attack, the State Department scurried to cover up its failure to heed warnings of such attacks while the White House scurried to cover up the fact that that attacks were the work of al Qaeda-linked terrorists...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 12:45pm -07:00T (513 words)
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Power Line: As IRS scandal deepens, Obama fetes anti-democracy pal
(Paul Mirengoff) I don’t contend that President Obama was involved in the decision to target conservative groups for harassment by the IRS. So far, there is no evidence that would support that contention.
I do contend, however, that Obama has littl...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 11:30am -07:00T (410 words)
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Power Line: The Ultimate Nixon-Obama Parallel
(Steven Hayward) How will we tell when Obama is slipping fully into Nixon territory? Â I predict it will be when The Daily Show juxtaposes the two images below (though as one commenter suggests, wouldn’t Walter Slobchak be screaming “over the ...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 9:00am -07:00T (43 words)
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Power Line: The Power Line 100: Jonathan Adler
(Steven Hayward) It’s about time we start turning our attention to law professors who belong on the Power Line 100 list, and we’ve got a long list of them. As with the rest of the field of finalists, there is no particular order, so we’ll start wi...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 9:00am -07:00T (590 words)
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Power Line: Bye, Bye Beretta
(John Hinderaker) Beretta USA has been headquartered in Maryland for many years. But Maryland’s left-wing governor, Martin O’Malley, has just signed legislation that, among other things, bans the possession or use of average-capacity magazines...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 7:45am -07:00T (327 words)
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Power Line: Nixon’s IRS
(Scott Johnson) One of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon included his alleged misuse of the IRS. Article 2 of the Articles of Impeachment was carefully framed to charge that Nixon “endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Serv...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 6:45am -07:00T (381 words)
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Power Line: What If the Obama Scandals Had Surfaced Last Fall?
(John Hinderaker) I was on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show last night, talking about the Benghazi talking point emails. Near the end of the segment, Hugh asked whether I thought the presidential election might have turned out differently if Obama and Clint...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 10:00pm -07:00T (573 words)
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Power Line: Highlights of Today’s IRS Hearing
(John Hinderaker) Former acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller testified before the House Ways and Means Committee today; Paul live-blogged his appearance. My friend Jeff Davis compiled this video of highlights of today’s proceedings. As usual, the h...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 3:45pm -07:00T (62 words)
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Power Line: Liver-blogging the House IRS hearing
(Paul Mirengoff) Steve Miller, former acting Commissioner of the IRS, is testifying before the House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee. Paul Ryan has just taken him to task for his prior testimony to Congress. Ryan demonstrated that Miller failed to...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:45am -07:00T (441 words)
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Power Line: The Week in Pictures, Scandalpalooza Edition
(Steven Hayward) I had to doublecheck the calendar this morning to make sure I hadn’t woken up back on April 1, for a couple of the front section headines in today’s Wall Street Journal had me wondering. Â Such as: “As Hepatitis C Spread...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:45am -07:00T (122 words)
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Power Line: The Bulworth identity
(Scott Johnson) Peter Baker reports on President Obama’s frustrations in the New York Times:
In private, [Obama] has talked longingly of “going Bulworth,†a reference to a little-remembered 1998 Warren Beatty movie about a senator who risked it...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 6:15am -07:00T (755 words)
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