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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx many </font></div><div>pOSTED ON DECEMBER 21, 2019 BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN CLIMATE, LEFTISM</div><div>OUR SINCEREST COMPLIMENTS COME FROM OUR ENEMIES</div><div>
</div><div>Minnesota’s Democratic governor has initiated a rule-making proceeding intended to import California’s vehicle emission standards to Minnesota. Basically, a large percentage of vehicles sold in the state would have to be electric. In order to meet that mandate, electric cars would be subsidized by higher prices for gasoline-powered vehicles, the ones a large majority of people want to buy.</div><div>
</div><div>The rule-making order is, I think, illegal, as there is no statute that authorizes it. This will be fought out in the legal arena, with the Upper Midwest Law Center, on whose board I serve, taking the lead. Beyond the legal issue, the proposed rule is a terrible idea. It would seriously harm Minnesota consumers while having zero effect on the Earth’s climate. My organization, Center of the American Experiment, submitted a 27-page comment opposing the proposed rule, and encouraged other concerned Minnesotans to file comments opposing the rule. We provided a template letter that others could use as a comment.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Our effort was successful, as you can tell from this headline on DeSmog Blog, a house organ for the climate hysteria movement: “</b>Public Comments Reveal Big Oil and Koch-backed Opposition to Minnesota’s Clean Car Standards.” Much could be said about this, but the point I want to make is that global warming hysterics never–and I mean never–argue their case on the merits. Instead, they invariably smear their opponents, usually by alleging that they are tools of the fossil fuel industries. That is what DeSmog did here:</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A DeSmog analysis found that a majority of the hundreds of comments received were supportive of the initiative, which aims to reduce the state’s transportation-sector emissions.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">However, opposing comments also poured in from industry groups and citizens borrowing a script provided by a right-wing think tank tied to the petrochemical billionaire Koch network.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That “right-wing think tank” is<b> Center of the American Experiment, which I run.</b> But how, exactly, are we “tied to” the Koch network? As we approach year-end, we expect to raise around <b>$3.3 million in 2019,</b> of which not a single dollar, so far, has come from the “Koch network.” We are supported by thousands of individual Minnesotans, a fact with which the Left is simply unable to deal. More:</span></div><div>
</div><div>This think tank, Center of the American Experiment (CAE), has been a vocal opponent of Minnesota’s proposed clean car standards. As a member of the Koch-funded State Policy Network (SPN), the center regularly attacks clean energy and climate initiatives, just as other SPN-member organizations do in other states.</div><div>
</div><div>So apparently the State Policy Network has gotten support from one or more Koch-related entities. Wow. How “tied to” the Koch network can my organization get?</div><div>
</div><div><b>Don’t get me wrong: we would love to get money from Koch or other industry groups that agree with our policy positions.</b> There is obviously nothing wrong with that, just as there is nothing wrong with “green” advocacy groups being funded by wind and solar entrepreneurs and utilities that hope to profit from “green” investments, no matter how much they hurt the utilities’ ratepayers. Almost all of the money on these issues is on the “green” side. In this case, DeSmog is simply barking up the wrong tree.</div><div>
</div><div>CAE misleadingly claims that Minnesota’s clean car standards would have no meaningful impact on reducing both global warming and harmful pollutants, and would force auto dealers to offer more expensive electric vehicles that consumers are unwilling to buy. These arguments appear aimed at undermining the whole point of the initiative.</div><div>
</div><div>They certainly are. But wait! How is the 27-page comment that we submitted “misleading”? DeSmog blog offers no clue; certainly no argument. This is not just typical, it is universal. Climate hysterics refuse to engage in debate, they just smear, pointlessly. DeSmog continues:</div><div>
</div><div>Many of the comments opposing the proposed standards are identical in wording, which comes from a script written by CAE’s Isaac Orr.</div><div>
</div><div>Isaac is a policy fellow in my organization, and one of the country’s top energy experts.</div><div>
</div><div>They question the legality of Minnesota adopting the standards and requests a hearing be scheduled before an administrative law judge.</div><div>
</div><div>That’s right. The rule-making proceeding is in fact illegal, as noted above.</div><div>
</div><div>Out of the more than 600 comments received (not including one supportive letter with 685 signatures and over 300 additional comments), DeSmog estimates that roughly 13 percent of them borrowed the script that Orr provided.</div><div>
</div><div>Thank you! <b>We are indeed the main source of opposition to climate hysteria in Minnesota</b>, as DeSmog acknowledges. We patiently await any argument that may come from the governor’s office, DeSmog, or anyone else, in opposition to our position. But I am not holding my breath. When we have challenged climate hysterics to debate, they have always folded. That is the state of the climate debate in 2019.</div></div><div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bs  bk; <span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Marc Morano’s book Green Fraud provides a factual scientific and political account of the Green New Deal and other misanthropic and self-serving schemes of the global elite and their opportunistic or deluded acolytes.” —</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Will Happer,</span><b times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> Cyrus Fogg</b><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Brackett Professor of Physics emeritus, Princeton University</span></font></p><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Morano is truly the Pete Rose and Hank Aaron of climate contrarians.” —</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Steven Hayward of</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Power Line SAME?</span></b></font></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">bs  bk; </font><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">“Marc Morano’s book Green Fraud provides a factual scientific and political account of the Green New Deal and other misanthropic and self-serving schemes of the global elite and their opportunistic or deluded acolytes.” —</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Will Happer,</span><b style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> Cyrus Fogg</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">Brackett Professor of Physics emeritus, Princeton University</span></p><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Morano is truly the Pete Rose and Hank Aaron of climate contrarians.” —</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Steven Hayward of </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Power Line</span></b></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">=</span></p><div><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/to-court-a-secretive-donor-law-deans-at-george-mason-blasted-climate-scientists-and-their-own-accreditor/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.chronicle.com/article/to-court-a-secretive-donor-law-deans-at-george-mason-blasted-climate-scientists-and-their-own-accreditor/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>To Court a Secretive Donor, Law Deans at George Mason Blasted Climate Scientists and Their Own Accreditor</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Jack Stripling and Nell Gluckman</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DECEMBER 18, 2019</font></div><div>
</div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Dean Henry N. Butler</b>, left, and the artist Greg Wyatt unveil a<b> statue of Antonin Scalia at George Mason U. law school </b>in the fall of 2018. In the audience are Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; Chief Justice John G. Roberts and his wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts; Justice Samuel Alito and his wife, Martha-Ann Bomgardner Alito; Justice Elena Kagan, and Justice Neil Gorsuch.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Leaders of George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, which has been criticized for its ties to conservative donors, have spent years courting a wealthy Chicago philanthropist who has steered money toward organizations that promote skepticism of climate change or finance conservative and libertarian journalism on college campuses.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Newly released documents show the extent to which <b>Barre Seid</b>, the philanthropist, sought to engage law-school deans on hot-button political topics</span>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> On several occasions he raised alarms about political activism by climate scientists at George Mason, prompting assurances from the dean that “some of our friends on the board” were “all over it (behind the scenes).”</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The documents, which include more than 800 pages of emails and other communications, were obtained through a public-records request filed by UnKoch My Campus, a national group that seeks to expose the Charles Koch Foundation’s influence on higher education.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2016, George Mason announced that it had received a $10 million grant from the Koch Foundation, along with <b>$20 million from an anonymous donor</b>, who asked that the law school be named in honor of Scalia, the late Supreme Court justice and a conservative icon. In a news release on Thursday, Allison Pienta, a lawyer working with UnKoch My Campus, argued that the <b>documents she had obtained “prove that Mr. Seid is the Scalia Law donor.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Taxpayers, students, Virginia citizens, we have a right to know who is donating to a public law school and asking the law school in return to serve their interest.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pienta, who had requested records that contained the anonymous donor’s name, suspected that Seid had been the benefactor in part because people associated with him are referred to in a number of exchanges. She concluded that he was the donor after cross-referencing those emails with others that mention Seid by name.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anne Holton, George Mason’s interim president, said in a letter to Pienta that the university could not “confirm or deny your conclusion” that Seid is the anonymous donor, “as universities have an obligation to respect a donor’s right to anonymity.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After reviewing the records, which contained numerous redactions to protect donor privacy, The Chronicle could not independently verify the identity of the donor.<b> What the records do show, however, is a <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">yearslong, politically tinged dialogue between Seid and two successive deans of George Mason’s law school.</span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">People who are concerned about undue donor influence often envision clear-cut quid pro quos or prescriptive gift agreements that grant wealthy people too much control over the academic enterprise. These documents imply a subtler form of influence, one in which a donor elevates concerns about a professor or a regulatory body just by passing information along to university decision makers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An Activist Donor</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As told through the documents, the story of Seid’s relationships with Daniel D. Polsby, former dean of the law school, and his <b>successor, Henry N. Butler, begins at least nine years ago</b>. By that time, Seid had already been working to transform a tiny part of the higher-education landscape. Through the Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation, he gave $825,000 to Shimer College, an institution that enrolled about 100 students and followed the Great Books curriculum. After the donation, <b>several people with financial ties to Seid joined the college’s Board of Trustees, and a fierce battle over governance of the college followed.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(In 2017, Shimer was absorbed by North Central College, which added the Shimer Great Books School as an academic program).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Between 2011 and 2016, Seid had or had scheduled at least seven meetings with one or both of George Mason’s law deans.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The deans found in Seid an inquisitive communicator, particularly when it came to conservative causes. In 2012, for example, he wrote to Polsby asking for “any insight” into a new program, housed at George Mason, that was established by the <b>former Republican Congressman Bob Inglis</b>. The question was notable given Seid’s apparent interest in the politics of climate science. Inglis had been voted out of office two years earlier during his primary, largely because he supported a tax on carbon. Now he was being embraced by George Mason.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Inglis’s program, the Energy and Enterprise Initiative, was meant to “promote conservative solutions to America’s energy and climate challenges.” Polsby responded to Seid right away, appearing to distance himself and the law school from the program.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Inglis’s new center is in a different college from us,” Polsby said. “The law school has no role and wasn’t asked before the announcement was made.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The conversations at times took on an antiregulatory flavor. In one exchange with Seid, in 2013, Polsby launched into a broadside against the law school’s accrediting agency. The American Bar Association, he wrote, “has added all kinds of dubious nonsense in its accreditation standards.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Poking them in the eye,” Polsby continued, “would be a genuine pleasure.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Seid seemed particularly curious about the powers of higher-education regulators. Who was to say whether a person could operate a school, he wondered? Did you need the state’s permission, he asked Polsby? Did you need accreditation?</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The impetus for that discussion was a Chronicle article that said the state of Virginia was shutting down an unaccredited university.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2015, the year Butler became dean, a controversy in climate science captured Seid’s attention. Butler assured the philanthropist that he, too, was aghast.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>A group of 20 professors, including some at George Mason, signed a letter urging the Obama administration to open a racketeering investigation into fossil-fuel companies and their allies</b>. The companies had “knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change,” the professors wrote, and could be investigated under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly known as RICO.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This wasn’t the professors’ idea. Several months earlier, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, had proposed the possibility of suing fossil-fuel companies under RICO, just as the Justice Department had done to Big Tobacco more than a decade earlier. Tobacco companies had engaged in a “massive 50-year scheme to defraud the public,” the department had argued. The same might be said of fossil-fuel companies, Senator Whitehouse wrote, which had sponsored climate-change research that contradicts peer-reviewed consensus.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><b>Seid forwarded to Butler a blog post by Judith A. Curry</b>, a high-profile skeptic of climate science and former chairwoman of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Curry wrote that “the consensus on human caused climate change is not as overwhelming as you seem to think.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">” She admonished the professors for engaging in “irresponsible advocacy,” accusing them of trying to “silence scientists that disagree with you.”</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Is it significant that 6 GMU guys,” Seid wrote to Butler, “were the originators” of the letter.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“This is really outrageous behavior,” Butler replied </b>on September 18, 2015. “I do not know the GMU folks who signed the letter, but they should be embarrassed. I wonder if they really understand anything about <b>RICO, which was the source of much abuse by prosecutors (and the plaintiffs’ bar in follow on private suits) until the Feds went totally crazy and criminalized almost all behavior (which meant there was less need to use conspiracy theories)</b>.</span>”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A few weeks later, Seid forwarded to Butler another blog post on the same subject from</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> <b style="">Powerline,</b> an outlet for conservative commentary.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“Not your problem — but. … ” Seid wrote to the dean.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The post, titled “An Instance of Warmist Corruption,” took aim at Jagadish Shukla,</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> a climate scientist at George Mason and the first signatory to the professors’ letter calling for a RICO investigation. The blog described Shukla as “remarkably well paid” and suggested some form of financial malfeasance on his part.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Shukla was one of the lead authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore Jr., in 2007.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Responding to the Powerline post, Butler assured Seid that powerful people at George Mason were involved with the matter.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“This is such absurd behavior,” Butler wrote to Seid on October 9, 2015. “Totally indefensible.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Some of our friends on the board,” he continued, “are all over it (behind the scenes).</span>”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>That same month, George Mason began an internal audit of Shukla’s handling of grants, a university spokesman confirmed to The Chronicle.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">By this time, Shukla had run smack into a political buzz saw. Lamar S. Smith, a Republican Congressman from Texas, had announced plans to investigate a nonprofit research group led by Shukla.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On November 5, 2015, Seid forwarded to Butler an email about Shukla from Joseph L. Bast, then the president of the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank.</b> Seid’s foundation has donated at least $1 million to the institute, which rejects as “propaganda” the idea of scientific consensus on the causes and consequences of climate change. George Mason’s own “multimillionaire government trough-feeder,” Bast wrote, was finally being exposed.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response to Seid, Butler wrote, “The president is freaking out about this,” referring to Ángel Cabrera, George Mason’s president at the time.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For climate scientists like Shukla, criticism often comes with the job. But the newly released emails, Shukla told The Chronicle, suggest that those attackers had the ear of George Mason’s Board of Visitors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“The ferocity of their attack was totally expected,” Shukla said in an email. “The fact that these guys had access to GMU board members, as the emails show, that is very unusual.</b>”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Sandler, a spokesman for George Mason, told The Chronicle that <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">George Mason’s audit “concluded no wrongdoing on the part of Professor Shukla.”</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Chronicle requested a copy of the audit, but George Mason officials said it was a personnel record and not subject to public-disclosure laws.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">As for congressional scrutiny, a politically connected board member says he came to Shukla’s defense. Thomas M. Davis III, the rector of George Mason’s board and a former Republican congressman from Virginia, said in an interview on Tuesday that he had quietly urged Representative Smith not to call a public hearing.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I said ‘Look, lay off this guy,’” Davis said. “I made it clear we stood behind him and they ought to lay off him, and they did. I met with Shukla and told him we supported him.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“When one of our professors is under attack, either from the right or the left, we are behind them,” Davis continued.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Butler, the dean, declined an interview request </b>and did not answer specific questions from The Chronicle about his emails. In a statement, Butler said he had nothing to do with the university’s response to Shukla.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I had no influence in this matter, nor did I attempt to exert any influence in this matter,” Butler’s statement reads. “I support academic freedom at George Mason University’s Scalia Law School and across the university. Academic freedom and an open marketplace of ideas, including room for robust debate, is the very foundation of higher learning.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A spokeswoman for Tripp Lite, a manufacturing company where Seid served as president, did not respond to emails this week seeking comment from Seid, who did not respond to a phone message on Wednesday.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A University on the Defensive</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For George Mason, the release of a new cache of documents related to donor influence marks a chapter in a continuing saga. For years the university has fought in courts of law and public opinion, defending its relationships with conservative philanthropists. Only recently, however, did the university acknowledge that it hasn’t always gotten it right.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last year when Cabrera, then the university’s president, announced a review of George Mason’s gift-acceptance policies, he conceded that some of its grant agreements “fall short of the standards of academic independence.” The agreements gave donors opportunities to weigh in on faculty hiring and stated with some specificity what professors would study.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But donors can still keep their identities secret, making it difficult to discern their intent.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By channeling a gift through a third party, a donor can further obscure the source of the money. That appears to have happened at George Mason. Several of the newly released emails refer to Donors Trust, a nonprofit organization that, among other things, offers donors anonymity.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donors Trust describes itself as a public charity that was created to work with donors who are “dedicated to the ideals of limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise.” Mother Jones described it as “the dark-money ATM of the right.” In her book Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, Jane Mayer explained that donors could give to the fund, which in turn donated to conservative groups and, in effect, “erased the donors’ names from the money trail.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That kind of opacity troubles some at George Mason, who say the public deserves more information about who may be exerting influence on a public university’s leadership and its faculty members. Pienta, the lawyer working with UnKoch My Campus, said “Mason has become basically ground zero for improper donor influence on a public institution.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Taxpayers, students, Virginia citizens, we have a right to know who is donating to a public law school and asking the law school in return to serve their interest,” said Pienta, a graduate of George Mason’s law school.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Virginia code, however, exempts from disclosure any records that could reveal the identity of a donor who has requested anonymity. (The state’s Supreme Court ruled last week that George Mason’s fund-raising arm is exempt from public-records laws).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is still not clear what Seid’s involvement in renaming the law school may have been, if anything. But when the school unveiled a 4,300-pound “Bill of Rights Eagle” statue in front of its building, Butler wanted Seid to know about it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Yesterday was a really cool day at Scalia Law,” he wrote to Seid in May 2017, just over a year after the school was renamed. The sculptor had another project in the works, Butler explained: “a larger-than-life statue of Justice Scalia.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jack Stripling covers college leadership, particularly presidents and governing boards. Follow him on Twitter @jackstripling, or email him at jack.stripling@chronicle.com.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nell Gluckman is a senior reporter who writes about research, ethics, funding issues, affirmative action, and other higher-education topics. You can follow her on Twitter @nellgluckman, or email her at nell.gluckman@chronicle.com.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dan Bauman and Megan Zahneis contributed to this report.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A version of this article appeared in the January 10, 2020, issue.</font></div></div><p><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">=</span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/toxic-masculinity-killing-us-many-ways">https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/toxic-masculinity-killing-us-many-ways</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After every mass shooting—and sadly, there are so many that we have become numb to them—there’s an inevitable combing through the shooter’s past to see what could have motivated him.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We learned a lot about Omar Mateen, who shot up an Orlando, Florida, gay nightclub called Pulse in 2016. His ex-wife describes a man who was controlling and abusive. A colleague says he was always using racial and sexual slurs and "talked about killing people all the time." Both his ex-wife and his father describe him as homophobic. He was clearly fond of guns, having not one, but two concealed carry licenses. He was investigated by the FBI in 2013 for making threats to a coworker.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stephen Paddock, who killed nearly 60 people at a country-western concert in 2017, also loved guns, amassing several dozen. He was a massive gambler who loved freebies but was rudely unwilling to tip waitresses. He dressed down his girlfriend in public for no reason, and was described by people who knew him as rigid, uncompromising, arrogant and entitled.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Elliot Rodger, who killed six and injured 14 in Isla Vista, California, was also entitled, and released a video and a manifesto explaining why he deserved female attention—and committed murder as revenge because he did not get it. And so on and so forth, with one killer after another.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is a common theme here: <b>Toxic masculinity.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Every time feminists talk about toxic masculinity, there is a chorus of whiny dudes who will immediately assume—or pretend to assume—that feminists are condemning all masculinity, even though the modifier "toxic" inherently suggests that there are forms of masculinity that are not toxic.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So, to be excruciatingly clear, toxic masculinity is a specific model of manhood, geared toward dominance and control. It's a manhood that views women and LGBT people as inferior, sees sex as an act not of affection but domination, and which valorizes violence as the way to prove one's self to the world.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For obvious political reasons, conservatives try to reduce conversations about public mass murder to “radical Islam,” the suggestion being that these impulses are inherent to Islam and that Christianity does not cause such violence. This, of course, is hoary nonsense, as there is a long and ignoble history of Christian-identified men, caught up in the cult of toxic masculinity, sowing discord and causing violence in our country: The gun-toting militiamen that caused a showdown in Oregon, the self-appointed border patrol called the Minutemen that again made news when their founder was convicted of child molestation, men who attack abortion clinics and providers.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Toxic masculinity aspires to toughness but is, in fact, an ideology of living in fear:</b> The fear of ever seeming soft, tender, weak, or somehow less than manly. This insecurity is perhaps the most stalwart defining feature of toxic masculinity, and examples are endless. Donald Trump flipping out when someone teases him about his small fingers. (Or about anything, really.) The ludicrously long and shaggy beards on "Duck Dynasty," meant to stave off any connection to the dreaded feminine with a thicket of hair. The emergence of the term "cuckservative," flung around by hardline right-wingers to suggest that insufficient racism is somehow emasculating. Conservatives absolutely melting down about an Obamacare ad that suggested, gasp, sometimes men wear pajamas. (This ad traumatized them so much that many conservative pundits are still freaking out, years after the fact, that the Obama administration dared suggest the emasculating fabric of flannel pajamas ever touched the skin of the American male.)</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If toxic masculinity was just about men posturing around each other in a comical fashion, that would be one thing, but this persistent pressure to constantly be proving manhood and warding off anything considered feminine or emasculating is the main reason why we have so many damn shootings in the United States. Whether it's Islamic terrorism or Columbine-style shootings or, as is the case with </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">some of the most common but least covered mass shootings, an act of domestic violence by a man who would rather kill his family than lose control, t</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">he common theme is this toxic masculinity, a desire on the part of the shooter to show off how much power and control he has, to take male dominance to the level of exerting control over life and death itself.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Toxic masculinity is also the reason it's so easy for men with major issues to get a hold of the high-powered weaponry necessary to commit these crimes. Sure, the pro-gun movement likes to roll out a bunch of half-baked pseudo-arguments pretending at rationality to justify the lack of gun control in this country, but really, the emotional selling point of guns is that they feed the cult of toxic masculinity. Being able to stockpile weapons and have ever bigger and scarier-looking guns is straightforward and undeniable overcompensation for insecure men, who are trying to prove what manly men they are.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This issue also goes back to social and cultural forces, especially the way that the gun industry and the NRA have cultivated a culture of gun-powered macho power fantasies. The number of people who own guns has steadily declined in recent years, so the gun industry has shifted its marketing tactics.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It's clear that the gun industry is marketing to people who are already their customer base and finding new and novel and unfortunately more dangerous weapons to sell them," Lindsay Nichols, federal policy director for the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, explained to me.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[ironic gun ad auto spam]
<b>"The gun industry and the NRA are profiting off a sense of fear,</b>" Kris Brown, the co-president of the Brady Campaign, told me.The gun industry uses a carrot-and-stick approach to get this done. The carrot is the power fantasy—the idea that having a whole bunch of guns will make you feel manly and tough. Gun advertising also emphasizes the diverse range of technical attributes available, appealing to the "collect-'em-all" mentality. On the stick front, the NRA and other gun-industry propaganda arms have heavily promoted visions of social collapse and discord to make gun owners feel they have to buy enough weapons to start their own personal army in self-defense.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Most gun owners don't commit violent crimes, of course. But it's difficult to deny that this culture of heightened emotions and power fantasies is a huge factor in producing so many mass shootings. The gun industry's message that an arsenal of weapons makes you manly and powerful falls on the ears of unstable people every single day. Whether their motivations are rooted in domestic violence, political terrorism or just a desire to cause chaos, one thing mass shooters have in common is that they're plugged into gun industry marketing that appeals to that desire to dominate.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That's why any attempt to discuss putting even the smallest, most commonsensical restrictions on guns turns into a bunch of right-wing dudes squeeing about how the liberals are coming to taking their guns. This isn't a discussion being held on the plane of rationality, but is a psychological drama about these men's fears of emasculation, represented in an unsubtle way over their attachment to guns and their fear that liberals, stereotyped as effeminate in their imagination, are coming to steal the guns away.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What is particularly frustrating about all this is that, even though toxic masculinity is clearly the problem here, you have a bunch of conservatives running around and pushing toxic masculinity as the solution, as if all we need to end violence and terrorism is a bunch of silly posturing about who is the biggest man of all the menfolk out there.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump leads the pack on this, posturing about how we need "toughness," which he appears to define as a willingness to tweet ignorant, belligerent nonsense</b>. And, of course, you have the chorus of conservatives who imbue their tokens of toxic masculinity—guns—with near-magical powers to somehow stop the violence.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Under Florida law, guns can’t be carried into bars," John Hinderaker of Powerline tried to argue, in response to the Orlando shooting. "So Pulse was a gun-free zone. That is one legal change that should be made."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The idea that a bunch of drunk people dancing around a nightclub are safer with loaded weapons on their bodies is clearly not coming from a rational place, but from a place of deep insecurity and gender weirdness that treats phallic symbols like they are magical totems. In reality, there was armed security at the club, an off-duty police officer who did engage Mateen, but failed to take him down. And there were lots of people who had guns in their cars at the Las Vegas shooting, but were helpless as Paddock rained bullets from above on concert-goers.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Our country is saturated in guns, and yet the mythical "good guy with a gun" who is supposed to stop these mass shootings has yet to actually be produced. That is because the good guy with a gun is a myth, propped up to justify toxic masculinity's obsession with guns, and nothing more.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The relentless drumbeat of mass shootings lays bare what damage that this kind of dominance-oriented masculinity does to our society, especially now that an overcompensating bully who is completely immersed in the discourse of toxic masculinity is the president. It's a stark reminder of why we, as a country, need to get past the politics of tough guy posturing and move towards a more thoughtful, inclusive society. One with more dancing and less waving guns around while talking about what a manly man you imagine yourself to be.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">===
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How can you tell the climatistas are getting desperate? When they enlist

the “Funny or Die” folks to do this pathetic attempt at reverse

psychology entitled “Old people don’t care about climate change”: You

know what people really don’t care about? Ed Asner’s opinion about

anything. Funny or Die used to be funny. Too bad this had to happen to

them. (Actually I didn’t know Cloris Leachman was still alive
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</font><div class="story-intro format-s" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-right: 810.90625px;"><div class="summary" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><header style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.2em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Democrats' climate probe brings ‘witch hunt’ accusations</font></h1><p class="subhead" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; font-stretch: normal;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva is on a mission to expose climate skeptics. Some say he's going too far.</font></p></header><footer class="meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><p class="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; display: inline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">By <span class="vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="http://www.politico.com/reporters/AlexGuill%C3%A9n.html" rel="author" class="url fn" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700;">ALEX GUILLÉN</a></span></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>

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Updated <time datetime="2015-02-28T06:28-05:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">2/28/15 6:28 AM EST</time></p></footer></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Now conservatives are the ones complaining about being the victims in a politically motivated “war on science.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In a turnabout from years of debate about intrusion into scientific research, Democratic lawmakers launched investigations this week into the funding sources of several scientists whose work is popular with skeptics of manmade climate change. And that’s bringing a furious counterattack from congressional Republicans and right-wing pundits — including some who cheered on a past probe by former Republican Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli into a leading scientist whose research pointed to man-made causes of climate change.</font></p><p class="story-continued" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><div class="story-interrupt format-s pos-alpha predetermined" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; width: 737.188px; float: left; margin-right: 73.7188px;"><div class="interrupt-item ad" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva, the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee,</span> sparked the latest dispute by asking universities to turn over documents about grants, congressional testimony and other activities involving seven scientists who have testified at congressional climate hearings. Grijalva was following up on a New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/ties-to-corporate-cash-for-climate-change-researcher-Wei-Hock-Soon.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">story</a> reporting that Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, had gotten $1.25 million in undisclosed money from fossil fuel companies.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Three Democratic senators then took up the case, asking more than 100 energy companies and trade groups to provide details on their research spending.</font></p><aside class="story-related" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top: 1px solid rgb(232, 232, 232); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(232, 232, 232); padding: 0.625em 0px; margin: 0px 810.906px 1em 0px; overflow: hidden;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></aside><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Supporters of Soon’s research say it casts doubt on human activity being a major driver of global warming. That made the Times story a public relations coup for the green activists who originally uncovered the documents on his funding. But Grijalva’s broadened inquiry prompted conservatives to accuse him of staging an ideological witch hunt, and even one green-minded science group expressed qualms he may have gone too far. Eleven Republican senators rebuked both Democratic probes on Friday as “wholly inappropriate.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Still, Democrats are undeterred, saying the two cases are in no way comparable. They note that a strong majority of climate scientists say climate change is real, is primarily driven by human-caused greenhouse gas pollution and poses a threat to civilization.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Republicans went after amazing scientists doing honest and great work on climate change,” said a spokesman for Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who helped lead the Senate Democrats’ information request to the energy trade groups. Spokesman Eben Burnham-Snyder added, “What’s different here are some clear indications that the very same companies and trade groups who have been sowing doubt on climate change and stopping any sort of legislative action in Congress, also may have been participating in these ‘denial for hire’ operations where they would pay very specifically for results.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Grijalva was unavailable to comment on the flap Thursday.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But critics of his document request were quick to liken it to McCarthyism — or worse.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Climate Skeptic?” asked a headline on the conservative blog Power Line, which appeared atop a <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/02/are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-a-climate-skeptic.php" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">post</a> written by one of the researchers Grijalva is probing,<b> Steven F. Hayward </b>of Pepperdine University. The climate skeptic blog Junk Science <a href="http://junkscience.com/2015/02/25/shocking-letter-of-intimidation-from-congressman-to-mit-re-climate-skeptic-richard-lindzen/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">alleged</a> that Grijalva’s probe “closes in on 1933 Germany, and the Soviet Union.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But Power Line had a different take on Cuccinelli’s climate probe five years ago, after the then-attorney general <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/Virginia_Attorney_General_CID.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">ordered</a> the University of Virginia to turn over 11 years of emails and a raft of other documents involving former UVA scientist Michael Mann. Cuccinelli <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/03/AR2010050304139.html?sid=ST2010100407513" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">said</a> he wanted to know whether Mann had manipulated data as part of his research, which included a now-famous “hockey stick” graphic showing a sharp increase in global temperatures linked to human activity.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Cuccinelli’s subpoena has been greeted with howls and protests from warmists and others who view inquiry into a scientist’s work as an infringement of academic freedom — the freedom, that is, to make stuff up, hide or falsify data, and thereby impose trillions of dollars of costs on consumers, all while being supported by taxpayers,”<b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Power Line’s John Hinderaker</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/05/026262.php" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">wrote</a> in May 2010.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Similarly, JunkScience’s <b>Steve Milloy</b> <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/12/tree-ring-circus-global-warming-hysteria-might-be-/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">wrote</a> in The Washington Times five years ago that greens’ claims that Cuccinelli was threatening academic freedom were “so much rot.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“A thorough investigation by someone not in cahoots with the climate mob is the only way to answer legitimate questions related to the expenditure of taxpayer money,” Milloy wrote at the time.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Much like Markey’s spokesman, Hinderaker said Thursday that the Cuccinelli and Grijalva probes are “completely different.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The Cuccinelli [document demand] related to the substance of work done by Michael Mann,” Hinderaker wrote in an email to POLITICO. He added: “The Grijalva ‘investigation’ is merely an attempt to smear scientists and others by claiming that they received funding from various private sources; it does not relate to the substance of anything they have written … As you know if you have read my posts, I believe that it is government money, not private money, that is corrupt, because government is the main party in interest in the global warming controversy.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Cuccinelli’s probe fizzled after the Virginia Supreme Court <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/virginia-politics/post/va-supreme-court-tosses-cuccinellis-case-against-u-va/2012/03/02/gIQAeOqjmR_blog.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">ruled</a> he did not have the power to demand the university records.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Unlike Cuccinelli, who sought the documents under Virginia’s Fraud Against Taxpayers Act, Grijalva and the other Democratic lawmakers don’t have subpoena power to back up their requests. But the Democrats are citing a motivation similar to what Cuccinelli had offered: protecting taxpayers from policy influenced by bad science.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Companies with a direct financial interest in climate and air quality standards are funding environmental research that influences state and federal regulations and shapes public understanding of climate science,” Grijalva <a href="https://www.politicopro.com/f/?f=34750&inb" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">wrote</a> in letters Tuesday to seven universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Colorado and Georgia Tech. “These conflicts should be clear to stakeholders, including policymakers who use scientific information to make decisions.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Grijalva requested information dating back to 2007, including all drafts of the scientists’ testimony before government bodies, the researchers’ sources of external funding, their financial disclosure forms and “communications” regarding their testimony and funding sources.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Markey and Democratic Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Barbara Boxer</b> of California followed up the next day by <a href="http://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/02-25-15_Markey_ClimateDenialOversight_AmericanPetroleumInstitute.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">asking</a> more than 100 energy companies and trade groups, including the American Petroleum Institute and the National Mining Association, to disclose details on their research funding over the past 10 years.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“This investigation will help to determine who is funding these denial-for-hire operations and whether those who are funded by these fossil fuel interests are keeping their funders’ identities secret from the public and legislators,” Markey said in a statement.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The mining association responded to POLITICO that it “has not financed scientific research on climate change,” although it has commissioned studies on topics including “the serious and far reaching economic consequences of proposed policies ostensibly advanced to address climate change.” API said it is looking into the matter.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Grijalva’s investigation and the Democratic senators’ questions got a rebuttal Friday from all 11 Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, who wrote to the same universities, energy groups and companies to tell them the inquiry was out of line. “We ask you to not be afraid of political repercussions or public attacks regardless of how you respond,” the Republicans wrote.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The scientists themselves were quick to denounce Grijalva’s probe.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“I know with complete certainty that this investigation is a politically motivated ‘witch hunt’ designed to intimidate me (and others) and to smear my name,” Roger Pielke Jr., a professor at the University of Colorado’s Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, <a href="https://theclimatefix.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/i-am-under-investigation/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">wrote</a> on his blog Tuesday under a photo of former Sen. Joe McCarthy.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“I have no funding, declared or undeclared, with any fossil fuel company or interest. I never have,” he added, a statement the university <a href="http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_27593340/cu-boulders-roger-pielke-jr-says-congressman-is" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">backed up</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Pielke rejects the label of climate skeptic but has questioned the notion that greenhouse gas emissions are connected to the increasing costs of natural disasters. He notes that he supports EPA’s climate regulations and has advocated a <a href="http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2010/10/interview-roger-pielke-jr-on-why-a-small-tax-is-our-best-hope-in-climate-change-fight/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">small tax</a> on carbon emissions. Still, his views have made him a target for liberals, leading him to quickly <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/07/roger-pielke-jr-leaves-fivethirtyeight-192991.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">part ways</a> last year with the website FiveThirtyEight just a few months after its relaunch.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Incessant attacks and smears are effective,” Pielke lamented this week.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Other researchers Grijalva is <a href="https://www.politicopro.com/f/?f=34750&inb" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">targeting</a> include <b>David Legates of the University of Delaware, John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Judith Curry of Georgia Tech and Richard Lindzen of MIT.</b> Many of them reject the notion that they are climate change skeptics, although their work has drawn the attention of the skeptic camp. Christy, for example, <a href="http://waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/111/ctest.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">testified</a> before Congress that climate models overstate the atmosphere’s sensitivity to greenhouse gases, while Curry has <a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/08/22/213894792/uncertain-science-judith-currys-take-on-climate-change" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">maintained</a> that forecasting the climate is more uncertain that many scientists admit.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Curry took to her own blog to blast Grijalva’s request.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“I don’t think anything good will come of this,” she <a href="http://judithcurry.com/2015/02/25/conflicts-of-interest-in-climate-science/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">wrote</a>. “I anticipate that Grijalva will not find any kind of an undisclosed fossil fuel smoking gun from any of the 7 individuals under investigation.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hayward, from Pepperdine, wrote on Power Line that he has received “no grants, honoraria, consulting fees, good karma baubles, or even Christmas cards from any fossil fuel interest, though I’d be proud and open about it if I did.” He also questioned the wisdom of judging scientists’ work based on who pays for the research.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Is the good congressman really telling us that he is incapable of assessing factual claims and judgments about the wisdom of policy on the merits alone?” he wrote. “That doesn’t speak well of his probity.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Even some groups that support acting on climate change have expressed worries that Grijalva’s questions may intrude on academic freedom. Michael Halpern of the Union of Concerned Scientists <a href="http://blog.ucsusa.org/what-kinds-of-scrutiny-of-scientists-are-legitimate-638" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">wrote</a> in a blog post that Grijalva’s questions about funding are appropriate, but said his request for drafts of congressional testimony amounts to an investigation into private communications.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Just as I have supported universities’ efforts to protect communications among academics that constitute the research process, so, too, I see justification in protecting drafts of congressional testimony,” Halpern wrote.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <b>American Meteorological Society</b> jumped into the fray Friday, <a href="http://www.ametsoc.org/sss/letter_on_challenges_to_academic_freedom_Feb15.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">writing</a> to Grijalva that “publicly singling out specific researchers based on perspectives they have expressed … sends a chilling message to all academic researchers.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mann, the former University of Virginia scientist, told <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/democratic-congressman-draws-backlash-over-climate-funding-probe-20150225" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">National Journal</a> that Grijalva’s letter “does come across as sort of heavy handed and overly aggressive.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Meanwhile, some climate-skeptic groups chose to mimic Grijalva’s probe by filing a similar request for information about University of Delaware climate scientist John Byrne.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“The sole distinctions are, first, that we far more narrowly tailor our request in comparison to Rep. Grijalva’s; second, our request is made pursuant to statutory authority,” <a href="http://eelegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/EELI-FME-Law-Delaware-Byrne-FOIA-request.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">wrote</a> the <b>Free Market Environmental Law Clinic, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute and the Caesar Rodney Institute.</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Read more: <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/climate-change-study-funding-raul-grijalva-115568.html#ixzz3TXnLkCMi" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration: none;">http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/climate-change-study-funding-raul-grijalva-115568.html#ixzz3TXnLkCMi</a></span></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">desmog</font></p><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="min-height: 280px; line-height: 18.59px;"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li class="p2"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A.B., Dartmouth College, 1971</font></p></li><li class="p2"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">J.D., Harvard Law School, 1974</span></font></p></li></ul><p class="p2 rteindent1" style="margin: 1em 0px 1em 40px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">Source: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s1" style="text-decoration: none;">[1]</a> , <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s2" style="text-decoration: none;">[2]</a> , <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s4" style="text-decoration: none;">[4]</a></span></font></p><h2 class="p1" style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> Background</font></h2><p class="p2" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">John Hinderaker is “a lawyer in Minneapolis who occasionally writes stuff on the web” for Powerlineblog.com, according to his <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140819155632/https://twitter.com/jhinderaker" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Twitter profile biography</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s3" style="text-decoration: none;">[3]</a> Hinderaker’s litigation practice spans the United States and for twenty years he has written on public policy issues “i<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ncluding income inequality</span>, income taxes, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">campaign finance reform,</span> affirmative action, welfare reform, and<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> race in the criminal justice system</span>.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s1" style="text-decoration: none;">[1]</a> His articles, which were co-written with law partner Scott W. Johnson, have been published in The American Enterprise, National Review, The Weekly Standard, American Experiment Quarterly, “and newspapers from Florida to California.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s1" style="text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></font></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hinderaker has appeared in court in 17 different states according to his <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140826140942/http://www.faegrebd.com/john-hinderaker" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">biography at Faegre Baker Daniels</a>, where he is a Partner. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s4" style="text-decoration: none;">[4]</a> Hinderaker has “won the largest case that was tried in Colorado in 2010, with<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> $200 million in claims and counterclaims, on behalf of the owner of a $1.3 billion power plant project.</span>” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s4" style="text-decoration: none;">[4]</a> Additionally, Hinderaker “won a $4 million arbitration award on behalf of a piping subcontractor in a case arising out of refinery construction in Utah … represented one of the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">world’s largest seed companies</span> before congress and federal agencies in antitrust matters relating to the biotech seed industry,” and also, “represented a major<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> chemical </span>company in a lawsuit by a seed corn company, in which it was alleged that a fungicide caused millions of dollars in damages to hybrid seed corn.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s4" style="text-decoration: none;">[4]</a></font></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">According to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Hinderaker’s Sourcewatch profile</a>, he was the chairman of the Center for the American Experiment, a Minneapolis-based think tank, in the year 2000, and is a fellow at the Claremont Institute conservative think tank. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s5" style="text-decoration: none;">[5]</a></font></p><h2 class="p1" style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Stance on Climate Change</font></h2><p class="p2" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Global warming hysteria is politics, not science. If the <span class="caps">IPCC</span> enterprise were science, it would at least make a good faith effort to deal with major defects in the temperature data, like the <span class="caps">UHIE</span>. Alarmists refuse to address the <span class="caps">UHIE</span> [Urban Heat Island Effect] not because they have a plausible case that it doesn’t exist–they don’t–but because there is an enormous amount of money being made by promoting “green” energy. You should read the comments to<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Dr. Spencer</a>’s</span> post; they draw out the difficulty of properly understanding and quantifying the urban heat island effect.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s6" style="text-decoration: none;">[6]</a></font></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>The fact is that global warming alarmism is a well-funded industry. The United States government alone has contributed billions of dollars to promote global warming alarmists, and nothing to the voices of scientific sanity. What is going on here is that the alarmists, knowing their science is shaky at best, cannot tolerate diversity of thought. They know that if critics are allowed to exist, their “scientific” house of cards will come tumbling down. So they must silence every dissenting voice; otherwise, the gravy train might end.</font></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It isn’t pretty, but this is what happens when you make science subservient to a political agenda.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s7" style="text-decoration: none;">[7]</a></font></p><h2 class="p1" style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Key Quotes</font></h2><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p class="p2" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>There are many more problems with the data on which global warming hysteria rests; for example, those who have inspected weather stations in the <span class="caps">U.S.</span> have reported that well over half are out of compliance with standards for such stations, e.g. because they are<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> next to heating vents.”</span> <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s6" style="text-decoration: none;">[6]</a></font></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p class="p2" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Michael Mann, perpetrator of the notorious hockey stick hoax, is one of the world’s execrable characters.</span> On top of his more important bad qualities, he is a whiner. The self-pitying Mann complains that scientists and organizations that are skeptical of the alarmists’ claims—like the now-ridiculed hockey stick—get tiny amounts of funding from concerned citizens.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s7" style="text-decoration: none;">[7]</a></font></p></blockquote><h2 class="p1" style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Key Deeds</font></h2><p class="p2" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>February 21, 2012</strong></font></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">John Hinderaker writes a blog post on Powerlineblog.com titled, “<a href="http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2Farchives%2F2012%2F02%2Fglobal-warming-alarmists-resort-to-hoax.php&date=2014-08-22" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Global Warming Alarmists Resort to Hoax</a>,” referring to the “<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/2012%20Climate%20Strategy.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Confidential Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy</a>.” Within the post, Hinderaker writes, “The <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Heartland Institute</b> is a superb organization that deals with a number of issues including climate science. We have cited Heartland’s research many times.</span>” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s8" style="text-decoration: none;">[8]</a> Further on, he states, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Let me be perfectly clear<b>: I think it is obvious that Peter Gleick fabricated this document</b></span><b>—</b>the only one he posted that makes the Heartland Institute look bad—because the real ones he stole from Heartland didn’t serve his partisan purpose. Or, if he didn’t make it up himself, he got it from an ally who fabricated it. No knowledgeable person could mistake Gleick’s hoax for a legitimate top-secret Heartland memo.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s8" style="text-decoration: none;">[8]</a></font></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>March 3, 2011</strong></font></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Think Progress publishes an article titled, “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140822191818/http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011/03/03/147953/bloggers-kneel-to-koch/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Blogger From Koch’s Law Firm Defends Koch, Doesn’t Disclose Ties</a>,” which details Hinderaker’s “failure to disclose his firm’s financial relationship with Koch,” while blogging for Powerlineblog.com. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s9" style="text-decoration: none;">[9]</a>Hinderaker responded to Think Progress with his own post, “<a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/03/028507.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Think Ignorance Swings and Misses</a>.”</font></p><h2 class="p1" style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> Affiliations</font></h2><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><p class="p1" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">Powerlineblog.com</span></font></p></li><li><p class="p1" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em;">The Claremont Institute</span></font></p></li><li><p class="p1" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.03em; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Koch Industries</span></font></p></li></ul><p class="p2 rteindent1" style="margin: 1em 0px 1em 40px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Source: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s1" style="text-decoration: none;">[1]</a> , <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s5" style="text-decoration: none;">[5]</a> , <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/john-hinderaker#s9" style="text-decoration: none;">[9]</a></font></p><h2 class="p1" style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> Publications</font></h2><p class="p2" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">According to a <a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=john+hinderaker&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C46" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">search of Google Scholar</a>, John Hinderaker has not published any research in peer-reviewed journals. The search does list that he has published numerous articles with Powerlineblog.com and one with the Center of the American Experiment titled “The Truth About Income Inequality.”</font></p><p class="p2" style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">View an ongoing <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/author/john" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">archive of John Hinderaker’s posts on Powerlineblog.com</a>.</font></p><h2 class="p1" style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> Resources</font></h2><ol style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="s1" id="s1" style="">“</a><a href="http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2Fabout-us&date=2014-08-29" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">About Us</a>,” Powerlineblog.com. Archived August 29, 2014.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="s2" id="s2" style="">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140819164813/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Power Line</a>,” Wikipedia. Archived August 19, 2014.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="s3" id="s3" style="">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140819155632/https://twitter.com/jhinderaker" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Biography</a>,” @jhinderaker Twitter Profile. Archived August 19, 2014.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="s4" id="s4" style="">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140826140942/http://www.faegrebd.com/john-hinderaker" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">John Hinderaker</a>,” Faegre Baker Daniels. Archived August 26, 2014.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="s5" id="s5" style="">“</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">John H. Hinderaker</a>,” <em>Sourcewatch.org</em>.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="s6" id="s6" style="">John Hinderaker. “</a><a href="http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2Farchives%2F2012%2F04%2Fis-the-globe-warming-or-just-your-city.php&date=2014-08-21" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Is the Globe Warming? Or Just Your City?</a>,” Powerlineblog.com, April 1, 2012. Archived August 21, 2014.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="s7" id="s7" style="">John Hinderaker. “</a><a href="http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2Farchives%2F2013%2F01%2Fwhos-funding-whom.php&date=2014-08-21" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Who's funding whom?</a>,” Powerlineblog.com, January 27, 2013. Archived August 21, 2014.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="s8" id="s8" style="">John Hinderaker. “</a><a href="http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2Farchives%2F2012%2F02%2Fglobal-warming-alarmists-resort-to-hoax.php&date=2014-08-22" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Global Warming Alarmists Resort to Hoax</a>,” Powerlineblog.com, February 21, 2012. Archived August 22, 2014.</font></p></li><li><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a name="s9" id="s9" style="">Lee Fang. “</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140822191818/http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011/03/03/147953/bloggers-kneel-to-koch/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Blogger From Koch's Law Firm Defends Koch, Doesn't Disclose Ties</a>,” <em>ThinkProgress</em>, March 3, 2011. Archived August 22, 2014.</font></p></li></ol></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above" style="padding-top: 1.5em; border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 1.5em; line-height: 18.59px;"><div class="field-label" style="text-transform: uppercase; display: inline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">TAGS: </font></div><div class="field-items" style="display: inline;"><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/1934" style="">global warming misinformation</a></font></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/5968" style="">Koch</a></font></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/17846" style="">powerlineblog</a></font></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/17847" style="">claremont institute</a></font></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/3068" style="">climate change denier</a></font></div></div></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">sourcewatch</font></p><div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px;" lang="en"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>John H. Hinderaker</b> is a partner in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, law firm <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Faegre%26_Benson_LLP&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Faegre & Benson LLP (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Faegre & Benson LLP</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FB_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_note-FB-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hinderaker operates the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Power_Line_Blog" title="Power Line Blog" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Power Line Blog</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> with his former law partner <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_W.Johnson" title="Scott W. Johnson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Scott W. Johnson</a>, both of whom are fellows<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PL_bio_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_note-PL_bio-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Claremont_Institute" title="Claremont Institute" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Claremont Institute</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">conservative</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Think_tank" title="Think tank" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">think tank</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Hinderaker's "claim to fame" at <i>Power Line</i> is for the "2004 reporting on '<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rathergate" title="Rathergate" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Rathergate</a>.' </b>Hinderaker helped expose as fake a series of documents claimed by CBS's Dan Rather to be about <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">George Bush</a>'s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W.Bush%27s_military_service" title="George W. Bush's military service" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">service in the Texas Air National Guard</a>--a revelation that helped lead to the famous anchor's resignation."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">1<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#Quotes" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" none="none" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" color="color" rgb="rgb"> <span class="toctext">Quotes</span></a></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#Profiles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Profiles</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#Resources_and_articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Resources and articles</span></a></font><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Related SourceWatch articles</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#External_articles" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">External articles</span></a></font><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#Articles_by_John_H.Hinderaker" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3.3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Articles by John H. Hinderaker</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#Articles_about_John_H.Hinderaker" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3.3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Articles about John H. Hinderaker</span></a></font><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#2005" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3.3.2.1</span> <span class="toctext">2005</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#2006" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3.3.2.2</span> <span class="toctext">2006</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#2007" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3.3.2.3</span> <span class="toctext">2007</span></a></font></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#External_resources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3.4</span> <span class="toctext">External resources</span></a></font></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Quotes">Quotes</span></font></h2><blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"It must be very strange to be President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bush</a>. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can't get anyone to notice. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile."—John Hinderaker, </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Power Line</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Blog, July 28, 2005.</span><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p></blockquote><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Profiles">Profiles</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2000, Hinderaker was chairman of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_of_the_American_Experiment" title="Center of the American Experiment" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Center of the American Experiment</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup> a Minneapolis-based think tank created in 1990 by "longtime <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Republican</a>" <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mitchell_Pearlstein&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mitchell Pearlstein (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Mitchell Pearlstein</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hinderaker and Johnson have written "on public policy issues including income inequality, income taxes, campaign finance reform, affirmative action, welfare reform, and race in the criminal justice system. ... Their articles have appeared in National Review, The American Enterprise, American Experiment Quarterly, and newspapers from Florida to California."<sup id="cite_ref-PL_bio_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_note-PL_bio-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 1974, Hineraker earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, graduating <i>cum laude</i>. In 1971, he graduated with a A.B., <i>magna cum laude</i>, Phi Beta Kappa, from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.<sup id="cite_ref-FB_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_note-FB-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Resources_and_articles">Resources and articles</span></font></h2><h3 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Related_SourceWatch_articles">Related SourceWatch articles</span></font></h3><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bloggers" title="Bloggers" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">bloggers</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Chickenhawk" title="Chickenhawk" style="text-decoration: none; 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margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li id="cite_note-FB-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;">↑ <sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_ref-FB_1-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:</span>1.0</a></sup> <sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_ref-FB_1-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.faegre.com/lawyer_bio.aspx?pid=147" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">Bio: John H. Hinderaker,</a> Faegre & Benson LLP, accessed August 28, 2007. Biographical profile lists law cases won by Hinderaker.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.powerline.com/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">Power Line Blog.</a></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.claremont.org/scholars/scholarID.181/scholar.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8+PGc+PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg) 100% 50%;">Scholar: John H. Hinderaker,</a> Claremont Institute, accessed August 28, 2007. Includes links to articles archived on the Claremont Institute website.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-PL_bio-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;">↑ <sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_ref-PL_bio_4-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:</span>4.0</a></sup> <sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_ref-PL_bio_4-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/aboutus.php" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8+PGc+PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg) 100% 50%;">About Us,</a> <i>Power Line</i> Blog, accessed August 28, 2007.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/23/web-celeb-25-tech-media_cx_de_06webceleb_0123top_slides_23.html?thisSpeed=30000" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">In Pictures: The Web Celeb 25: John H. 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color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Media Transparency</a>.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_H.Hinderaker#cite_ref-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientprofile.php?recipientID=64" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">Profile: Center of the American Experiment,</a> Media Transparency.</span></font></li></ol><h3 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="External_articles">External articles</span></font></h3><h4 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Articles_by_John_H.Hinderaker">Articles by John H. Hinderaker</span></font></h4><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/698fxmcs.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"A Study in Abuse. The media ignores the facts about Koran abuse and piles on the Army,"</a> <i>The Weekly Standard</i>, June 6, 2005.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/021iwlen.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"Preparing for World War III. Replacing Rehnquist before O'Connor makes matters tougher on the Bush administration and guarantees a showdown with liberal interest groups,"</a> <i>The Weekly Standard</i>, September 8, 2005.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">With Paul Mirengoff, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/04/AR2005110402276.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"Why Alito's the Man for the True Conservative Agenda,"</a> November 6, 2005.</font></li></ul><h4 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Articles_about_John_H.Hinderaker">Articles about John H. Hinderaker</span></font></h4><h5 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="2005">2005</span></font></h5><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.citypages.com/bestof2005/citygritty/bestof2623.asp" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;"><i>City Gritty. Best of the Twin Cities 2005</i>: "Best Meltdown": John Hinderaker,</a> <i>City Pages</i>, 2005. Note that the "meltdown" was re fake White House reporter <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeff_Gannon" title="Jeff Gannon" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jeff Gannon</a>.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://redstatesinners.blogspot.com/2005/01/john-hinderaker-greed.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"John Hinderaker - Greed,"</a> <i>Republican Sinners</i> Blogspot, January 17, 2005.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jerome Armstrong, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/2/16/224931/878" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"John Hinderaker on Jimmy Carter: 'He's on the other side',"</a> <i>MyDD</i>, February 16, 2005.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/20/rs.01.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">Transcript: <i>CNN Reliable Sources</i>,</a> February 20, 2005. re "Was Gannon Targeted by Liberal Blogs?"</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jerome_Armstrong" title="Jerome Armstrong" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jerome Armstrong</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/2/21/03445/6896" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8+PGc+PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg) 100% 50%;">"John Hinderaker unhinged,"</a> <i>MyDD</i>, February 21, 2005.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Nico Pitney, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2005/04/14/hinderakers-hackery/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"Hindrocket’s Hackery,"</a> <i>Think Progress</i>, April 14, 2005.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ezra Klein, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/2005/04/yawn.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"Yawn,"</a> <i>EzraKlein</i> Blogspot, April 22, 2005.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://chasemeladies.blogspot.com/2005/10/malkins-and-hinderaker-not-of-age-but.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"Malkins and Hinderaker: Not of an age, but for all time,"</a> <i>Chase me ladies, I'm in the cavalry</i> Blogspot, October 15, 2005.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thedeets.com/2005/10/27/power-lines-john-hinderaker-on-miers-withdrawing/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"Power Line’s John Hinderaker on Miers Withdrawing,"</a> <i>The Deets</i>, October 25, 2005.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.isthatlegal.org/archives/2005/10/that_was_now_th.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"That was now, this is then,"</a> <i>Is That Legal?</i>, October 26, 2005.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Gavin M., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/002162.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"John Hinderaker, super-genius,"</a> <i>Sadly, No!</i> Blog, December 21, 2005.</font></li></ul><h5 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="2006">2006</span></font></h5><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tbogg.blogspot.com/2006/02/warning-innate-ignorance-ahead-least.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"Warning: Innate ignorance ahead,"</a> <i>TBogg</i> Blogspot, February 16, 2006.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Judd Legum, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/05/is-john-hinderaker-nuts/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"Is John Hinderaker Nuts?"</a> <i>Think Progress</i>, March 5, 2006.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Glenn Greenwald, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/08/28/will-howard-kurtz-continue-to-put-john-hinderaker-on-his-cnn-show/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"Will Howard Kurtz continue to put John Hinderaker on his CNN show?"</a> <i>Crooks and Liars</i>, August 28, 2006.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Glenn Greenwald, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/09/hinderaker-shows-us-central-defect-in.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"Hinderaker shows us the central defect in the mindset of Bush followers,"</a> <i>Unclaimed Territory</i>, September 5, 2006.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Glenn Greenwald, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/10/john-hinderakers-defense-of-denny.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"John Hinderaker's defense of Denny Hastert,"</a> <i>Unclaimed Territory</i>, October 1, 2006.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">John Cole, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=7612" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"John Hinderaker - Total Idiot,"</a> <i>Balloon Juice</i>, November 11, 2006.</font></li></ul><h5 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="2007">2007</span></font></h5><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/interviews/hinderaker.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">Interviews: John Hinderaker,</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/PBS" title="PBS" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">PBS</a> <i>Frontline</i>, February 27, 2007.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Cenk Uygur and Ben Mankiewicz, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/03/05/is-john-hinderaker-ignorant-or-purposely-misleading/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz48c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwIj48ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtODI2LjQyOSAtNjk4Ljc5MSkiPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSI1Ljk4MiIgaGVpZ2h0PSI1Ljk4MiIgeD0iODI2LjkyOSIgeT0iNzAyLjMwOSIgZmlsbD0iI2ZmZiIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjMDZjIi8+PGc+PHBhdGggZD0iTTgzMS4xOTQgNjk4Ljc5MWg1LjIzNHY1LjM5MWwtMS41NzEgMS41NDUtMS4zMS0xLjMxLTIuNzI1IDIuNzI1LTIuNjg5LTIuNjg5IDIuODA4LTIuODA4LTEuMzExLTEuMzExeiIgZmlsbD0iIzA2ZiIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik04MzUuNDI0IDY5OS43OTVsLjAyMiA0Ljg4NS0xLjgxNy0xLjgxNy0yLjg4MSAyLjg4MS0xLjIyOC0xLjIyOCAyLjg4MS0yLjg4MS0xLjg1MS0xLjg1MXoiIGZpbGw9IiNmZmYiLz48L2c+PC9nPjwvc3ZnPg) 100% 50%;">"Is John Hinderaker Ignorant or Purposely Misleading?"</a> <i>The Young Turks</i>, March 5, 2007.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Christopher Null, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129301-page,8-c,techindustrytrends/article.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"The 50 Most Important People on the Web,"</a> <i>PC World</i>, March 5, 2007.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Gavin M., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/5488.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"John Hinderaker: The Trofim Lysenko Of Our Time?"</a> <i>Sadly, No!</i> Blog, March 29, 2007.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200704020002" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"UPDATE: CNN's Ware flatly denies report that he 'heckled' McCain, but right-wing media flog it anyway,"</a> Media Matters for America, April 2, 2007.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Eric Boehlert, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mediamatters.org/columns/200704180002" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"Can conservative bloggers tell the truth?"</a> Media Matters for America, April 18, 2007.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Mona, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2007/05/15/6415" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"Crafty Political Operative John Hinderaker on Despising Hagel,"</a> <i>High Clearing</i>, May 15, 2007.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">John Cole, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.balloon-juice.com/?cat=39" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">"Great Moments In Political Hackery,"</a> <i>Balloon Juice</i>, July 16, 2007.</font></li></ul><h3 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; 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color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Premiere Speakers Bureau</a>.</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H.Hinderaker" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">John H. Hinderaker</a> in the <i>Wikipedia</i>.</font></li></ul></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Categories</a>: </font><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style: none none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-style: none; padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.25em; zoom: 1;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Blogging_and_Bloggers" title="Category:Blogging and Bloggers" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Blogging and Bloggers</a></font></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Right_wing" title="Category:Right wing" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Right wing</a></font></li></ul></div></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">wiki</font></p><div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px;" lang="en"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Power Line</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> is an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States" title="Politics of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">political</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog" title="Blog" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">blog</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, founded in May 2002. Its posts were originally written by three lawyers who attended </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College" title="Dartmouth College" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dartmouth College</a> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">together: John H. Hinderaker, Scott W. Johnson, and Paul Mirengoff. The site is published by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Publir&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Publir (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Publir</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, founded by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Malchow" title="Joseph Malchow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Joseph Malchow</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, also a Dartmouth graduate.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The site gained recognition among the American right for its role in</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> covering the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents" title="Killian documents" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Killian documents</a> story that aired during the 2004 Presidential campaign about President George W. Bush's term of service in the Texas Air National Guard, by which he avoided service in the Vietnam War.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2004, Power Line was named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_magazine" title="Time magazine" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><i>Time</i> magazine</a>'s first-ever "Blog of the Year."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> When <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL" title="AOL" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">AOL</a> added blogs to their news website in 2007, Power Line was one of the five blogs included.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> A 2007 memo from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Republican_Senatorial_Committee" title="National Republican Senatorial Committee" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Republican Senatorial Committee</a> described Power Line as one of the five best-read national conservative blogs.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#Contributors" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Contributors</span></a></font><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#Steven_F.Hayward" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Steven F. Hayward</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#John_H.Hinderaker" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext">John H. Hinderaker</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#Scott_W.Johnson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Scott W. Johnson</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#Paul_Mirengoff" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1.4</span> <span class="toctext">Paul Mirengoff</span></a></font></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#Political_positions" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Political positions</span></a></font><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#Rathergate" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Rathergate</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#Schiavo_memo" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Schiavo memo</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#President_Carter" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">President Carter</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#Judicial_nominations" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Judicial nominations</span></a></font></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#Other_coverage" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Other coverage</span></a></font><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#Tucson_shooting" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Tucson shooting</span></a></font></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#See_also" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></font></li></ul></div><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Contributors">Contributors</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Contributors" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The contributors to Power Line are Steven F. Hayward, John H. Hinderaker, Scott W. Johnson, and Paul Mirengoff.</font></p><h3 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Steven_F.Hayward">Steven F. Hayward</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Steven F. Hayward" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h3><div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_F.Hayward" title="Steven F. Hayward" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Steven F. Hayward</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Steven F. Hayward</b> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">is an American author, political commentator, and policy scholar. He argues for </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">libertarian</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">conservative</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> viewpoints in his writings. He writes frequently on the topics of environmentalism, law, economics, and public policy. Hayward earned a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science" title="Bachelor of Science" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bachelor of Science</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in business and administrative studies from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_College" title="Lewis and Clark College" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Lewis and Clark College</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He then earned a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph.D." title="Ph.D." class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ph.D.</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in American History and a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Masters of Arts</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in government from the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Graduate_School" title="Claremont Graduate School" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Claremont Graduate School</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He worked as the Director of Journalism of the group Public Research Syndicated at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Institute" title="Claremont Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Claremont Institute</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> from 1984 to 1987. He was the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M.Weaver" title="Richard M. Weaver" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Richard M. Weaver Fellow</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercollegiate_Studies_Institute" title="Intercollegiate Studies Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Intercollegiate Studies Institute</a> from 1985 to 1986</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He was the director of the Golden State Center for Policy Studies from 1987 to 1991. He also worked as the Executive Director for </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Inland Business Magazine</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> from 1985 to 1990.</span><sup id="cite_ref-AEI_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-AEI-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In 1987, he received the Felix Morley Memorial Prize for distinguished commentary on business and economic affairs.</span><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From 1990 to 2001, Hayward was a contributing editor at </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_Magazine" title="Reason Magazine" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Reason</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He served on the Departmental Transportation Advisory Committee of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_California" title="Government of California" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">government</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_California" title="State of California" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">State of California</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> from 1996 to 2001. He served as well as a Public Interest Member in the California Citizens Compensation Commission from 1990 to 1995. He has worked as a Senior Fellow of the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Research_Institute" title="Pacific Research Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Pacific Research Institute</a></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Research_Institute" title="Pacific Research Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> for Public Policy</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> since 1992. He has also held various fellowships with the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Enterprise Institute</a> (AEI)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. As of April 2009, he serves as the F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at AEI.</span><sup id="cite_ref-AEI_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-AEI-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He is also a former President of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Society" title="Philadelphia Society" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Philadelphia Society</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="John_H.Hinderaker">John H. Hinderaker</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: John H. Hinderaker" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">John H. Hinderaker (born September 1950) is a conservative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">lawyer</a>, as well as a fellow at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Institute" title="Claremont Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Claremont Institute</a>. He is a 1971 graduate of Dartmouth College in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover,New_Hampshire" title="Hanover, New Hampshire" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Hanover, New Hampshire</a>, and received a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Juris Doctor</a> (J.D.) from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" title="Harvard Law School" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Harvard Law School</a> in 1974.</font></p><h3 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Scott_W.Johnson">Scott W. Johnson</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Scott W. Johnson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Scott W. Johnson (born 1951) is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">lawyer</a> and executive.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Johnson was born in Fargo, North Dakota to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish" title="Jewish" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Jewish</a> family. He received a Bachelor's Degree from Dartmouth College in 1973 and subsequently undertook a degree at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Minnesota_Law_School" title="University of Minnesota Law School" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of Minnesota Law School</a>. At one stage, he was a partner of John Hinderaker at Faegre and Benson, and is now Senior Vice President of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TCF_National_Bank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="TCF National Bank (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">TCF National Bank</a> in Minneapolis.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Johnson started working with Hinderaker on opinion pieces on tax, welfare reform and other public policy issues. The articles were run in conservative publications such as </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">National Review</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and a wide range of newspapers. Both Johnson and Hinderaker became involved with the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Institute" title="Claremont Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Claremont Institute</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> along with </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mirengoff" title="Paul Mirengoff" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Paul Mirengoff</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, who was Hinderaker's roommate at Dartmouth.</span></font></p><h3 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Paul_Mirengoff">Paul Mirengoff</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Paul Mirengoff" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Paul Mirengoff (born April 17, 1949) is a retired <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">attorney</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mirengoff graduated from Dartmouth College in 1971, and from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Stanford Law School</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in 1974. He formerly practiced law in Washington D.C. as a partner at </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akin_Gump_Strauss_Hauer%26_Feld" title="Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Akin Gump </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akin_Gump_Strauss_Hauer%26_Feld" title="Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Strauss Hauer & Feld</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. For several years, he worked for the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Employment_Opportunity_Commission" title="Equal Employment Opportunity Commission" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Equal Employment Opportunity Commission</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He started writing articles for publications including the </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Washington Post</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, the </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Standard" title="Weekly Standard" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Weekly Standard</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Page" title="Front Page" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Front Page</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He became a fellow of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Institute" title="Claremont Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Claremont Institute</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a conservative institute. Mirengoff formed Power Line, in May 2002 with </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinderaker" title="John Hinderaker" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">John Hinderaker</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_W.Johnson" title="Scott W. Johnson" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Scott W. Johnson</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, also fellows of the Claremont Institute. He originally used his nickname Deacon in posting to the blog. The blog gradually built a strong following amongst conservative Americans, winning praise from such notable conservatives as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Lowry" title="Rich Lowry" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Rich Lowry</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, the editor of </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">National Review</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Steyn" title="Mark Steyn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mark Steyn</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin" title="Michelle Malkin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Michelle Malkin</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Political_positions">Political positions</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Political positions" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Power Line's authors typically support the conservative agenda, especially the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_war" title="Iraq war" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Iraq war</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terrorism" title="War on Terrorism" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">War on Terrorism</a>. But they criticized former President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">George W. Bush</a> for being insufficiently conservative on issues including immigration and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action" title="Affirmative action" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">affirmative action</a>. The blog advocated the nomination and confirmation of judicially conservative judges during the Bush administration and regularly features analysis of court decisions. Power Line often vigorously criticizes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Democrats</a> and liberals for dishonesty, lack of morals, bad judgment and disloyalty to the United States. They occasionally attack Republicans for similar shortcomings, such as Senator John McCain for his position advocating the US should not "torture" suspected terrorists or "enemy combatants."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Power Line authors believe the media suffer from systemic liberal bias because too many reporters and editors are partisan liberals. They frequently question the integrity of organizations such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Associated Press</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" title="BBC" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">BBC</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Reuters</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New York Times</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Washington Post</a>. Power Line authors have repeatedly advocated criminal prosecution of CIA leakers and media outlets that publish national security information. They also frequently criticize the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Tribune" title="Star Tribune" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Star Tribune</a> of Minneapolis, home to two of the Power Line authors.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><h3 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Rathergate">Rathergate</span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">P</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ower Line gained widespread recognition for its 2004 reporting on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents" title="Killian documents" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Killian documents</a> controversy relating to a CBS report on George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard, starting with a post entitled "The Sixty-First Minute</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">".</span><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Conservatives (including Power Line, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review_Online" title="National Review Online" class="mw-redirect" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">National Review Online</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Footballs" title="Little Green Footballs" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Little Green Footballs</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) referred to the controversy as "Rathergate". The blogs and their readers contributed research in assessing the authenticity of the documents, presenting evidence of forgery. After a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Republic" title="Free Republic" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Free Republic</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> contributor pointed out that the alleged documents used a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_font" title="Proportional font" class="mw-redirect" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">proportional font</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Power Line helped advance the story, triggering coverage by mainstream media outlets. Dan Rather apologized and resigned from the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" title="CBS" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">CBS</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor" title="Anchor" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">anchor</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> chair.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Power Line became identified with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pajamahadeen" title="Pajamahadeen" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Pajamahadeen</a> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">when criticized by a former </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">CBS News</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> executive.</span></font></p><div class="hatnote" style="padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents" title="Killian documents" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Killian documents</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_authenticity_issues" title="Killian documents authenticity issues" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Killian documents authenticity issues</a></font></div><h3 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Schiavo_memo">Schiavo memo</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Schiavo memo" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Power Line speculated that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiavo_memo" title="Schiavo memo" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Schiavo memo</a> was most likely forged by Democrats as a political dirty trick. When the memo turned out to be written by a Republican aide, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Darling" title="Brian Darling" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Brian Darling</a>, Power Line acknowledged the revelation, but continued to criticize the mainstream media for depicting the memo as "a product of the party's leadership or had an official status."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="President_Carter">President Carter</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: President Carter" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Power Line frequently criticizes former US President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Jimmy Carter</a>. They have called him a "nut"<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[11]</a></sup> and said in a post about his actions regarding the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_legislative_election,January_2005" title="Iraqi legislative election, January 2005" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Iraqi election in January 2005</a> that he is "on the other side"</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hinderaker later wrote<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></sup> that Carter "started aligning himself with America's enemies", citing the possibility that Carter asked the Soviet Union to expand Jewish emigration to help him in the 1980 Presidential election, and added</font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In more recent years, Carter has never met an anti-American dictator he didn't like.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">... [H]e used the occasion of being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to attack the current American government.... Jimmy Carter is a disgrace. We've said so before, and we'll continue saying so as long as he merits the criticism. If you want to learn more, read </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hayward" title="Steven Hayward" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Steven Hayward</a>'s book <i>The Real Jimmy Carter</i>.</span></font></dd></dl><h3 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Judicial_nominations">Judicial nominations</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Judicial nominations" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Other_coverage" style="color: black; line-height: 1.3; background-color: initial;">
Other coverage</span></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The bloggers often comment on nominations of federal judges, especially to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Supreme Court</a>. Mirengoff has suggested that "Republican Senators should feel free to</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> vote against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor" title="Sonia Sotomayor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sotomayor</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Half of the Senate Democrats voted against Roberts and a strong majority voted against Alito...for no other reason than their desire not to have another 'conservative' on the Supreme Court...Thus, non-liberal Senators have every right to vote against her for that reason."</span><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Coverage and commentary by Hinderaker, Johnson, and Mirengoff, all alumni of</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College" title="Dartmouth College" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dartmouth College</a>, was instrumental in the 2005 election of "insurgent" candidates <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Robinson(speechwriter)" title="Peter Robinson (speechwriter)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Peter Robinson</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Zywicki" title="Todd Zywicki" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Todd Zywicki</a> to the Board of Trustees</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The blog also covers some lighter material. Johnson regularly posts historical articles about jazz and other musicians, Mirengoff reported on European soccer teams and Hinderaker covers beauty pageants.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></sup>Hinderaker also hosts a weekly radio show as part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Alliance_Radio_Network" title="Northern Alliance Radio Network" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Northern Alliance Radio Network</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Minnesota</a> (Johnson left the show in February 2005, but is an occasional guest).</font></p><h3 style="color: black; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Tucson_shooting">Tucson shooting</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Tucson shooting" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mirengoff left the blog shortly after writing a January, 2011 post on a Tucson memorial service honoring those who died as the result of shootings at a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Giffords" title="Gabrielle Giffords" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Gabrielle Giffords</a> rally; in his post he </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">criticized the inclusion of Native American rituals. The post was later removed, but days later Mirengoff left the blog</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and in announcing his exit thanked Hinderaker, Johnson, and the readers for the opportunity to participate in the blog.</span><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When Mirengoff left the site, Hinderaker and Johnson recruited </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hayward" title="Steven Hayward" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Steven Hayward</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to replace him. On Apr 20, 2012, Mirengoff rejoined the site, saying </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"My return to blogging</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> coincides with my retirement from the practice of law. With all that extra time on my hands, I hope to be a better, more productive blogger this time around."</span><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power_Line&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_media(U.S.political_right)" title="Alternative media (U.S. political right)" style="text-decoration: none; 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width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web" style="word-wrap: break-word;">Hinderaker, John (February 22, 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2007/02/016571.php" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">"Introducing Power Line AOL"</a>. <i>Power Line</i>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APower+Line&rft.aufirst=John&rft.au=Hinderaker%2C+John&rft.aulast=Hinderaker&rft.btitle=Introducing+Power+Line+AOL&rft.date=February+22%2C+2007&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2Farchives%2F2007%2F02%2F016571.php&rft.pub=%27%27Power+Line%27%27&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; 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color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Politico</a></i>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APower+Line&rft.au=Budoff+Brown%2C+Carrie&rft.aufirst=Carrie&rft.aulast=Budoff+Brown&rft.btitle=GOP+issues+rules+to+avoid+Macaca+moments&rft.date=13+June+2007&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2Fstories%2F0607%2F4483_Page2.html&rft.pub=%27%27Politico%27%27&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-AEI-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-AEI_4-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-AEI_4-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aei.org/scholar/28" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">"AEI - Scholars - Steven F. Hayward"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Enterprise Institute</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015358.php#015358" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">[1]</a></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-8" style="text-decoration: none; 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color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web" style="word-wrap: break-word;">Scott Johnson, Scott (September 9, 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2004/09/007699.php" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">"The sixty-first minute"</a>. <i>Power Line</i>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APower+Line&rft.aufirst=Scott&rft.aulast=Scott+Johnson&rft.au=Scott+Johnson%2C+Scott&rft.btitle=The+sixty-first+minute&rft.date=September+9%2C+2004&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2Farchives%2F2004%2F09%2F007699.php&rft.pub=%27%27Power+Line%27%27&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web" style="word-wrap: break-word;">Hinderaker, John (April 8, 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2005/04/009980.php" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">"Real Memo, Fake Story"</a>. <i>Power Line</i>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APower+Line&rft.aufirst=John&rft.au=Hinderaker%2C+John&rft.aulast=Hinderaker&rft.btitle=Real+Memo%2C+Fake+Story&rft.date=April+8%2C+2005&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2Farchives%2F2005%2F04%2F009980.php&rft.pub=%27%27Power+Line%27%27&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web" style="word-wrap: break-word;">Johnson, Scott (March 3, 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2006/03/013098.php" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">"Jimmy Carter: Nut"</a>. <i>Power Line</i>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APower+Line&rft.aufirst=Scott&rft.au=Johnson%2C+Scott&rft.aulast=Johnson&rft.btitle=Jimmy+Carter%3A+Nut&rft.date=March+3%2C+2006&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2Farchives%2F2006%2F03%2F013098.php&rft.pub=%27%27Power+Line%27%27&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web" style="word-wrap: break-word;">Hinderaker, John (February 2, 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2005/02/009326.php" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">"Administration Critics Keeping Mum"</a>. <i>Power Line</i>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APower+Line&rft.aufirst=John&rft.au=Hinderaker%2C+John&rft.aulast=Hinderaker&rft.btitle=Administration+Critics+Keeping+Mum&rft.date=February+2%2C+2005&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2Farchives%2F2005%2F02%2F009326.php&rft.pub=%27%27Power+Line%27%27&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><span class="citation web" style="word-wrap: break-word;">Hinderaker, John (February 16, 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2005/02/009485.php" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E) 100% 50%;">"Jimmy Carter Revisited"</a>. <i>Power Line</i>.</span><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APower+Line&rft.aufirst=John&rft.au=Hinderaker%2C+John&rft.aulast=Hinderaker&rft.btitle=Jimmy+Carter+Revisited&rft.date=February+16%2C+2005&rft.genre=book&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2Farchives%2F2005%2F02%2F009485.php&rft.pub=%27%27Power+Line%27%27&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Line#cite_ref-14" style="text-decoration: none; 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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">One of <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/how-shadowy-right-wing-front-groups-engineered-our-national-embrace-debt-reduction-over-job-creation">the key right-wing front groups</a>

behind both the GOP takeover of our state and national legislatures, as

well as the starve-grandma-so-rich-folks-don’t-pay-taxes mindset

driving the ginned-up “deficit crisis” (which <a href="http://www.crewof42.com/cbc/conyers-on-jobs-weve-had-it-lays-out-obama-calls-for-protest-at-white-house">unfortunately President Obama also buys into</a>, in large part as a way to woo Wall Street donations for 2012), is of course ALEC — the <a href="http://firedoglake.com/2011/02/19/come-saturday-morning-alec-the-koch-funded-group-thats-stealing-your-rights-and-your-birthright/">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">One of the right wing’s staunchest and most prolific public defenders of ALEC is none other than <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/07/whos-afraid-of-private-industry.php">John Hinderaker</a> of the PowerLine Blog. However, in his plentiful writings on the subject, there are some words you won’t find — <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011/03/03/147953/bloggers-kneel-to-koch/">namely, these</a>:</font></p>

<blockquote><div class="wbq"><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fighting back against public scrutiny,

Koch Industries is relying on a small army of conservative bloggers,

reporters, and lobbyists. Chief among them is <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008190007">John Hinderaker</a>,

a blogger at the “Powerline Blog.” However, in his now daily defense of

the Koch brothers, Hinderaker has failed to disclose that his law firm

counts Koch Industries as a major client.</font></p></div></blockquote>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That’s right, kiddies: John Hinderaker, ALEC’s fair-haired cabin boy, has a wee bit of a disclosure problem:</span></font></p>

<blockquote><div class="wbq"><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hinderaker is an <a href="http://www.faegre.com/showbio.aspx?Show=2192">attorney</a>

for the law firm Faegre and Benson. Despite his previous role handling

“ethics and professional responsibility” for Faegre, he has failed to

disclose in his Koch-friendly blogging that Koch is a major client for

his firm. <b>Faegre represented Koch Industries in cases related to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Koch’s

theft of oil </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">(using the famed “<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/11/27/60II/main252545.shtml">Koch Method</a>” of manipulating oil data)</span> [FROM NAT AM?] in <a href="http://www.faegre.com/11386">Texas</a> and <a href="http://www.faegre.com/11387">North Dakota</a>, in <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">cases against Koch’s own employees regarding Koch’s <a href="http://www.faegre.com/7091">speculative</a> weather derivatives </span>business and<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> an <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XCFFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=R7sMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5702,5323726&dq=charles+s+chadwell+koch&hl=en">environmental</a> <a href="http://www.faegre.com/showrepmatter.aspx?Show=7910&Language=148">whistleblower</a> case</span>, and in a case against a Koch <a href="http://www.faegre.com/showrepmatter.aspx?Show=11487&Language=148">subcontractor</a>. In an <a href="http://www.faegre.com/11385">ongoing case</a>, Hinderaker’s firm <a href="http://www.faegre.com/11385">represents</a>

Koch Industries in a class action suit brought by a group of plaintiffs

regarding <b>oil Koch allegedly stole from wells in Oklahoma.</b> In addition,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">

Hinderaker has <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/02/028429.php">defended</a> the <b>Bradley Foundation after <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/21/zombie-johnbirch-walker/">we profiled</a>

the group and its support for Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI)</b></span>. Hinderaker

never disclosed that he is a fellow of the Claremont Institute, a front

that has received over <a href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/Claremont_Institute/funders">$3 million</a> from the Bradley Foundation.</font></p></div></blockquote>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">For those of us who’ve watched Hinderaker and his fellow upscale cons

ply their blog trade over the years, this is not surprising in the

least.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://firedoglake.com/2011/07/30/come-saturday-morning-meet-alecs-fair-haired-cabin-boy-john-hinderaker/">http://firedoglake.com/2011/07/30/come-saturday-morning-meet-alecs-fair-haired-cabin-boy-john-hinderaker/</a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">-----</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fighting back against public scrutiny, Koch Industries is relying on a

small army of conservative bloggers, reporters, and lobbyists. Chief

among them is <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008190007">John Hinderaker</a>,</span>

a blogger at the “Powerline Blog.” However, in his now daily defense of

the Koch brothers, Hinderaker has failed to disclose that his law firm

counts Koch Industries as a major client.

</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hinderaker has been on the war path defending Koch. He has tasked

himself with sniping at ThinkProgress posts, spending the last few weeks

<a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/02/028449.php?format=print">defending</a> <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/05/29/afp-timphillips-astroturf/">forced-abortion lobbyist</a> and Koch operative Tim Phillips, <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/03/028501.php?format=print">celebrating</a>

Koch’s self-interested propaganda against climate change science, and

generally making juvenile swipes at yours truly, including posting my

picture and calling me a “high school student.” In a bizarre rant

defending “what a great company Koch Enterprises is,” <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hinkeraker even

claims ThinkProgress is being paid “millions of dollars by left-wing

billionaires” to report on Koch Industries.</span> But here’s what he didn’t

say:</font></p>

<blockquote><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>– Hinderaker Has A Disclosure Problem.</strong> Hinderaker is an <a href="http://www.faegre.com/showbio.aspx?Show=2192">attorney</a>

for the law firm Faegre and Benson. Despite his previous role handling

“ethics and professional responsibility” for Faegre, he has failed to

disclose in his Koch-friendly blogging that Koch is a major client for

his firm. Faegre represented Koch Industries in cases related to Koch’s

theft of oil (using the famed “<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/11/27/60II/main252545.shtml">Koch Method</a>” of manipulating oil data) in <a href="http://www.faegre.com/11386">Texas</a> and <a href="http://www.faegre.com/11387">North Dakota</a>, in cases against Koch’s own employees regarding Koch’s <a href="http://www.faegre.com/7091">speculative</a> weather derivatives business and an <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XCFFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=R7sMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5702,5323726&dq=charles+s+chadwell+koch&hl=en">environmental</a> <a href="http://www.faegre.com/showrepmatter.aspx?Show=7910&Language=148">whistleblower</a> case, and in a case against a Koch <a href="http://www.faegre.com/showrepmatter.aspx?Show=11487&Language=148">subcontractor</a>. In an <a href="http://www.faegre.com/11385">ongoing case</a>, Hinderaker’s firm <a href="http://www.faegre.com/11385">represents</a>

Koch Industries in a class action suit brought by a group of plaintiffs

regarding oil Koch allegedly stole from wells in Oklahoma. In addition,

Hinderaker has <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/02/028429.php">defended</a> the Bradley Foundation after <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/21/zombie-johnbirch-walker/">we profiled</a>

the group and its support for Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI). Hinderaker

never disclosed that he is a fellow of the Claremont Institute, a front

that has received over <a href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/Claremont_Institute/funders">$3 million</a> from the Bradley Foundation.</font></p></blockquote>

<p><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Asked about his failure to disclose his firm’s financial relationship

with Koch, Hinderaker told ThinkProgress’ Scott Keyes today that he has

no comment. </font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Koch spin machine is much larger than just Hinderaker. Koch recently <a href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=48AFDC2A-E10F-4DC3-A8A9-15DBEBA3F8F2">retained</a>

Orion Strategies, a PR firm run by Weekly Standard writers like Michael

Goldfarb, Wilson Miller Communications, and PR consultant Ron Bonjean,

as well as government affairs <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?lname=Koch+Industries&year=2010">firms</a>

like Cove Strategies, Hunton & Williams, ADS Ventures, the Palmetto

Group, and Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti. In addition to their

communication consultants, Koch is being aided by the right-wing media

investments they have made over the years. </font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As ThinkProgress has <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/media/2010/10/23/125735/koch-meeting-journalists/">detailed</a>, Koch funds a number of conservative media positions using grants distributed by the <a href="http://www.thephillipsfoundation.org/scholarship/2009/luke__juday/reagan_profiles.cfm#about.cfm">Phillips Foundation</a>, a conservative journalism front <a href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/search?name=phillips+foundation&year=all&ffield=Select+Field&fcmp=greater&fval=">funded</a> by Koch charitable foundations, the Koch-owned <a href="http://www.theihs.org/ihs-journalism-internship-program">Institute for Humane Studies</a>, and the <a href="http://www.theihs.org/ksfp-host-search">Charles Koch fellowship</a>. Moreover, the top conservative media outlets are owned by close associates of the Koch brothers: the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/28/gov-walker-wont-say-it-but-i-will/2/">Daily Caller</a> is <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/10/AR2010011002388.html">owned</a> by <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/20/beck-koch-chamber-meeting/">Foster Friess</a>,

a friend of the Koch brothers and attendee of secret Koch fundraising

meetings; the Washington Examiner and the Weekly Standard are owned by <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/20/beck-koch-chamber-meeting/">Phil Anschutz</a>, another oil billionaire and Koch meeting attendee. Predictably, these outlets are now attacking us:</font></p>

<blockquote><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><strong>– Koch-Funded Media Attacks ThinkProgress.</strong>

In the last month, the Anschutz-owned Washington Examiner has published

nine articles defending to honor of David and Charles Koch. Mark

Tapscott, who previously wrote <a href="http://www.kochindustries.com/files/Examiner111207PowerProfile.pdf">long love letters</a> to Charles Koch, criticized ThinkProgress without disclosing that much of his career, which includes <a href="http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/t/mark-tapscott">stints</a> at the <a href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/The_Heritage_Foundation/funders">Koch-funded</a> Heritage Foundation, has been funded by Koch or Koch allies like Anschutz. The Examiner’s Tim Carney, a <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/media/2010/10/23/125735/koch-meeting-journalists/">regular Koch meeting</a> attendee, has dutifully defended his benefactors. Meanwhile, a writer for the Weekly Standard, who got <a href="http://www.thephillipsfoundation.org/scholarship/2008/michael__warren/reagan_profiles.cfm">his start</a> with a Phillips Foundation grant, has promoted an odd theory that Koch Industries is a model <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/koch-brothers-receive-praise-obama-administration_552650.html">company</a> according to Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency. In reality, Koch Industries was <a href="http://www.caller.com/news/2010/oct/22/flint-hills-to-drop-flex-permits-in-favor-of-epa/">forced to submit</a>

to the EPA permit in question after a protracted struggle. After

funding various conservative writers, using fronts or other means, the

Koch Industries PR team is now blasting anti-ThinkProgress pieces out to

the media. On the official Koch Industries Twitter feed, the shoddy

writing of <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/Koch_Industries/status/43052215023308800">Hinderaker</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/Koch_Industries/status/43034816098217984">Carney</a>, and <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/Koch_Industries/status/42977168824868864">others</a> is being promoted and forwarded to the public. </font></p></blockquote>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Longtime Republican pundit and Koch lobbyist <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/06/28/dirty-nancy-pfotenhauer/">Nancy Pfotenhauer</a> was recently rehired to work for Koch Industries as a “<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/31/local/la-me-koch-brothers-20110131">Koch spokeswoman</a>.” Last year, after<b> Jane Mayer’s <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer">blockbuster article</a>

in the New Yorker about Koch’s political machine,</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pfotenhauer placed a

hit-piece in the Daily Beast against Mayer. </span>The Daily Beast writer later

<a href="http://m.gawker.com/5730684/the-rich-cant-get-enough-of-listicles-about-how-rich-the-rich-are">confessed</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

that both Pfotenhauer and David Koch contacted her to write the piece

on Mayer. A mysterious opposition researcher again tried to <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201101140021">shop around</a> a hit piece against Mayer in January. </span></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Koch brothers are famously thin-skinned and afraid of honest

media attention. The only lengthy interviews given by Koch Industries

are through friendly conservative outlets like the <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/260685/koch-executives-speak-out-wisconsin-robert-costa">National Review</a>, <a href="http://www.frumforum.com/the-lefts-billion-dollar-tea-party-lie">FrumForum</a>, or the Wall Street Journal (even in his <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114687252956545543.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">only interview</a> to the WSJ, Charles Koch spoke with an editorial board member <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/media/2010/10/23/125735/koch-meeting-journalists/">funded</a>

by Koch groups). Indeed, during a family feud, the Koch brothers hired a

team of lawyers and investigators to go after one another, and in <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1003687/3/index.htm">one incident</a>, caught private detectives rifling through their trash for information.</span></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011/03/03/147953/bloggers-kneel-to-koch/">http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011/03/03/147953/bloggers-kneel-to-koch/</a>
</span></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">lee fang mar 3
</span></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</span></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">POSTED ON MARCH 3, 2011 BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN THE <b>WAR ON THE KOCH BROTHERS</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">THINK IGNORANCE SWINGS AND MISSES</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Apparently the deconstructions I have been doing of Think Progress’s attacks on Charles and David Koch and their company, Koch Industries, have hit home. That web site has now responded with a silly attack on me, titled “Blogger From Koch’s Law Firm Defends Koch, Doesn’t Disclose Ties.” Lee Fang writes:</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fighting back against public scrutiny, Koch Industries is relying on a small army of conservative bloggers, reporters, and lobbyists. Chief among them is John Hinderaker, a blogger at the “Powerline Blog.” However, in his now daily defense of the Koch brothers, Hinderaker has failed to disclose that his law firm counts Koch Industries as a major client.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">I don’t know about “major,” but <b>Koch Industries is a client of my firm.</b> This is no secret; the firm’s web site lists Koch as a client and identifies four lawsuits in which we have represented Koch entities. (I had no involvement in any of those cases.) When I mention companies, I never say whether they are clients of my law firm. There are two reasons for this. First, try to I keep my political/media activities separate from the firm’s law practice, to the point of not even using a firm-owned computer to write posts.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Second, my law firm has thousands of clients. I’ve never tried to count, but I believe we have represented more than half of the companies in the Fortune 500. With respect to the vast majority of companies, I have no idea whether they are a client or not. If I were to undertake a practice of “disclosing” every time I mention a company that is a client of my firm, I would have to ask my secretary to run a computer search virtually every time I mention a corporation (or, for that matter, a person, since we also have individual clients) in a post. This would be a distraction for her and for me, and would convey no useful information to readers.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">When I have a relationship to a company or person that is relevant to the subject matter of a post, I do disclose i<b>t. Thus, I did say that I had participated in one of the Koch-sponsored seminars in Aspen.</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Earlier today someone from Think Progress named Scott Keyes called me on the telephone. He was less than fully coherent, but I understood that he wanted to ask me a question about whether legal ethics require me to disclose that Koch Industries is a client. The answer to that question is No. Lawyers are freely permitted to say nice things about their firms’ clients whether they identify them as clients or not (nasty things too, as long as they don’t disclose confidential information). Under some circumstances, however, it can be improper for lawyers to disclose to the public that a certain person or company is a client.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This next charge is classic Think Ignorance:</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In addition, Hinderaker has defended the Bradley Foundation after we profiled the group and its support for Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI). Hinderaker never disclosed that he is a fellow of the Claremont Institute, a front that has received over $3 million from the Bradley Foundation.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Here is a puzzle: how do you suppose those sleuths at Think Progress uncovered the secret that I am a fellow of the Claremont Institute, which I “never disclosed”? Maybe they got it from the “About Us” page of this web site, where we describe ourselves. This is a screenshot from that page; click to enlarge:</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">AboutUs005.jpg</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Seems like a pretty clear disclosure to me: “Both Hinderaker and Johnson are fellows of the Claremont Institute.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Actually, in my case the Claremont connection is a bit of a joke. When we were first doing television, producers always wanted to know an affiliation that they could crawl across the screen while we talked. We didn’t want to use my law firm or Scott’s company for that purpose, since we keep our political work separate from our day jobs. So Scott came up with the idea of describing us as “Adjunct Fellows of the Claremont Institute.” Actually, to my knowledge there is no such thing as an Adjunct Fellow of the Claremont Institute, but we have used that title quite a few times over the years when people can’t seem to believe that we aren’t associated with any organization<b>,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> but are just a couple of guys doing what we do in our spare time. </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">I have high regard for Claremont, but I have never been there, and that organization has never paid me a nickel.</span></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Here is the conclusion of Fang’s attack on me:</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Asked about his failure to disclose his firm’s financial relationship with Koch, Hinderaker told ThinkProgress’ Scott Keyes today that he has no comment.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sorry, kid, you better go listen to the tape. (Midway through the conversation I asked Keyes whether he was taping it. He said that he was. Keyes did not disclose that he was recording the conversation until I asked him point-blank.) What I actually said to Keyes was not “no comment.” I told him that I would be delighted to give him an interview, as long as I can also interview Lee Fang. Keyes seemed taken aback, and asked what I wanted to question Fang about. I told him that I wanted to ask Fang why he never mentions Wal-Mart, and whether it is because<b> Wal-Mart donated $500,000 to the group that owns Think Progress</b>. I said I had lots more questions, too. Curiously enough, Keyes wasn’t excited about the prospect of turning Lee Fang over to me for an interview. I told him that I would be happy to answer his questions, as soon as Think Progress makes Fang available to answer mine. The offer still stands.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What is most notable about Fang’s attack on me (and others, too, in the same post) is that not once does he address the substance of anything I have written about Think Progress’s attacks. If Fang thinks that something I wrote can be disproved, now would be the time to speak up.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">SCOTT adds: When I came up with the idea of our using an identification separate from our professional lives, it was after then Claremont Institute President (current Hillsdale College President) Larry Arnn had named us adjunct fellows as a result of his regard for our work. We have since been promoted to fellows by current Claremont Institute President Brian Kennedy, with no corresponding increase in our compensation, which remains a nice round number: zero. Maybe we should take that up with Brian. end</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mayer hit</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/1/13/1469288/--Koch-Propaganda-Machine-Tries-Unsuccessfully-to-Discredit-Jane-Mayer-again">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/1/13/1469288/--Koch-Propaganda-Machine-Tries-Unsuccessfully-to-Discredit-Jane-Mayer-again</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><div class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 24px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">POSTED ON</span> <span class="entry-date" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">FEBRUARY 26, 2015</span> <span class="meta-sep" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">BY</span> <span class="author vcard" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/author/steven" title="" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">STEVEN HAYWARD</a></span> IN <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/category/climate" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">CLIMATE</a></span></font></div><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.3em; text-transform: uppercase; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD</font></h1><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; line-height: 1.6em; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><div class="p402_premium" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Our pals at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute</span> issued the following <a href="http://0z37.mj.am/nl/0z37/sr3ny.html?a=eJ95N6&b=bfb17658&c=0z37&d=452ebdc1&e=f5ca2340&" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">press release</a> today, which I post here in full:</font></p><blockquote style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">For Immediate Release</strong>:
</strong>February 26, 2015</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Contact</strong>:
Craig Richardson<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">
</strong><a href="mailto:Richardson@eelegal.org" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Richardson@eelegal.org</a>
703-981-5553</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following Rep. Grijalva Inspiration, E&E Legal Files FOIA Request with the University of Delaware Seeking Records Relating to the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy</font></strong></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington, D.C. — Today, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), in conjunction with the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic (FMELC) and the Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI), <a href="http://eelegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/EELI-FME-Law-Delaware-Byrne-FOIA-request.pdf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">filed a Delaware Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA)</a> with the University of Delaware related to <b>Dr. John Byrne, </b>Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy and Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Specifically, the FOIA request seeks documents describing the University of Delaware’s policy or policies relating to disclosure applying to Dr. Byrne; records in the University’s possession relating to outside funding, grants, or other contributions made to support Dr. John Byrne’s work at or relating to the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy; records involving Dr. Byrne’s outside funding, including consulting fees, promotional considerations, speaking fees, honoraria, travel expenses, salary and other compensation or monies given to Dr. Byrne which did not originate with the University itself; financial disclosure forms in which Dr. Byrne lists the University of Delaware or the State of Delaware as his affiliation; and records reflecting Dr. Byrne’s total annual compensation for each year at the University of Delaware.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those who have followed recent news reports may notice that this FOIA request was inspired by and even replicated <a href="http://eelegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Grijalva-Pepperdine-ltr.pdf" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">the request that U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) made to seven universities</a>, including Delaware. In his letters, Congressman Grijalva notes that the “disclosure of a few key pieces of information will establish the impartiality of climate research and policy recommendations published in your institute’s name…[C]onflicts should be clear to stakeholders, including policymakers who use scientific information to make decisions.” Although the University responding to Rep. Grijalva is discretionary, processing FOIA requests from Delaware citizens is not.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We certainly appreciate Congressman Grijalva’s rhetoric about the importance of disclosure and transparency,” said Chris Horner, E&E Legal Senior Legal Fellow and the attorney who filed the FOIA request on behalf of the three organizations. “His insistence that the Constitution compels him to demand these records — citing to no authority for why the universities should provide them — so moved us that we followed in his footsteps, if in our case by proceeding under Delaware law.”</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is possible that Representative Grijalva assumes that congressional letterhead carries authority to insist such demands be satisfied. Regardless, E&E Legal, FME Law and CRI appreciate the Congressman’s enthusiasm that the University dedicate itself to producing such records.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The groups far more narrowly tailor the period of time covered by their request,</b> otherwise modeled after Rep. Grijalva’s nearly verbatim (also changing of course the party whose records are involved, which we are confident is not material to whether records should be released). The requesters look forward to the University of Delaware taking to heart Rep. Grijalva’s embrace of transparency, and satisfying this request made pursuant to Delaware’s statute which implements the legislature’s determination that, for institutions including the University, “it is vital that citizens have easy access to public records in order that the society remain free and democratic”. FOIA § 10001.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We have followed Rep. Grijalva’s footsteps for our request, if under actual statutory making our request, unlike the Congressman’s, not discretionary. UDel has provided records in the past to Greenpeace, and we are confident that the State of Delaware will comply with this request,” concludes <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Horner.</span></font></p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heh.  By the way, learning some fun things about Rep. Grijalva, and his<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> lead “investigator” for this witch hunt, Vic Edgerton, who turns out to be a former Green Party candidate for local office in Connecticut, because, he <a href="http://www.ctgreenparty.org/candidates/vic/index.html" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">said at the time</a>, he needed to shine a light on issues Democrats ignore.  Edgerton also previously worked for Keith Ellison, and Dennis Kucinich.  He clearly knows how to pick leading statesmen.</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stay tuned.  More to come</font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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This page is a profile of <span style="font-weight: bold;">John</span> H. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hinderaker</span> which lists the cases <span style="font-weight: bold;">John</span> H. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hinderaker</span> has ...</span></a></font></div></div></li></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">bs</span></a></font></p><h2 id="bionameNew" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24pt; color: rgb(63, 155, 52); clear: both;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">John H. Hinderaker</span></a></font></h2><h3 id="biotitleNew" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(134, 134, 134); line-height: 17px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Partner</span></a></font></h3><div id="subbio-primary" class="visible" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 17px; clear: both;"><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For more than 40 years, John Hinderaker has had a broad-based and varied commercial litigation practice. A veteran of 100 jury trials, he has appeared in courts in 19 states. John has been honored as one of Minnesota's 40 top commercial litigators and as one of the state's 100 best lawyers. In recognition of his achievements, the <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Journal of Law and Politics </em>named John Minnesota's "Super Lawyer of the Year" in 2006. In 2010, he was voted one of Minnesota's most respected lawyers by his peers. In 2014 he was named Construction Litigation Lawyer of the Year by <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Minnesota Monthly</em>. He is also listed in <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Best Lawyers in America </em>in the fields of antitrust and construction.</span></a></font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">John has represented clients in such diverse areas of litigation as antitrust, construction, product liability, intellectual property, Lanham Act, trade secrets and the First Amendment. He also is experienced in class action litigation.</span></a></font></p><h2 style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(76, 163, 66); clear: both;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Construction Litigation</span></a></font></h2><ul style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He represents a major Midwestern utility in claims arising out of construction at two nuclear power plants.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He represented Target Corporation in connection with litigation involving over $80 million worth of improper asphalt paving work performed on Target stores throughout the United States.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He won the largest case that was tried in Colorado in 2010, with $200 million in claims and counterclaims, on behalf of the owner of a $1.3 billion power plant project.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He represented the Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District in litigation arising out of the construction of Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers. Beginning by defending an $87 million claim against the District, he ultimately obtained a $33 million net recovery in the District's favor.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Representing a construction manager that was terminated for cause from a $50 million condominium project in Wisconsin, he defeated a $6 million damage claim and obtained a $5 million judgment against the developer/owner, as well as a cash recovery from the construction lender and a written apology by the developer and lender.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He won a trial victory on behalf of an architectural firm in a case in which the plaintiff alleged that failure to control costs led to the failure of a major mixed-use development project.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He won a $4 million arbitration award on behalf of a piping subcontractor in a case arising out of refinery construction in Utah.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He represented the nation's largest insurance company in asserting claims and defending counterclaims totaling more than $50 million, arising out of the construction of a $290 million facility.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He obtained a $6 million recovery on behalf of a major medical center in a case arising out of the settlement of the ground floor slab in a medical care facility.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He represented the mechanical contractor in lawsuits arising out of the repeated deflations of the HHH Metrodome roof.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He won a defense verdict in favor of a developer in a multimillion-dollar case involving allegations of breach of contract and fraud relating to a shopping center development.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He won a $1.2 million jury verdict in favor of a highway contractor in a breach of contract case against another contractor. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Richard Knutson, Inc. v. C. S. McCrossan, Inc</em>., 1994 WL 25506 (Minn. App. 1994).</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He won a landmark victory in the Minnesota Court of Appeals on behalf of a surety that was sued for fraud and breach of contract in connection with a highway project in Arkansas. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">D. H. Blattner & Sons, Inc. v. Firemen's Ins. Co</em>., 535 N.W. 2d 671 (Minn. App. 1995).</span></a></font></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(76, 163, 66); clear: both;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Antitrust Litigation</span></a></font></h2><ul style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He represented a manufacturer of finishing equipment in connection with a $650 million acquisition which the Federal Trade Commission sought to enjoin.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He successfully defended the world's largest syringe manufacturer in antitrust litigation brought by a competitor.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He obtained a recovery on behalf of a manufacturer of ice cream cones and wafers in antitrust litigation against a competing manufacturer.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He represented one of the world's largest seed companies before Congress and federal agencies in antitrust matters relating to the biotech seed industry.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He represented a major chemical company in antitrust and Lanham Act litigation, venued in Delaware and South Carolina, involving herbicides and genetically modified crops, heading a team of more than 30 lawyers and staff.</span></a></font></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(76, 163, 66); clear: both;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other Commercial Litigation</span></a></font></h2><ul style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He represented one of the country's largest manufacturers in a series of unfair competition cases involving purportedly false advertising. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Porous Media Corp. v. Pall Corp</em>., 110 F.3d 1329 (8th Cir. 1997); <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Porous Media Corp. v. Pall Corp</em>., 173 F.2d 1109 (8th Cir. 1999); <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Porous Media Corp. v. Pall Corp</em>., 186 F. 3d 1077 (8th Cir. 1999); <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Porous Media v. Pall Corp</em>., 201 F.3d 1058 (8th Cir. 2000).</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He represented the Minnesota Timberwolves in litigation arising out of the proposed sale of the Timberwolves to New Orleans interests.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On behalf of the principal lender to the Galtier Plaza project in St. Paul, he supervised a broad range of litigation arising out of that development, including claims against the construction manager, various contractors, design professionals, a title insurance company and the local taxing authority.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He won a significant First Amendment victory for two college professors in an academic freedom case. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Burnham v. Ianni </em>, 899 F.Supp. 395 (D. Minn. 1995); aff'd, 119 F.3d 668 (8th Cir. 1997); see "Burnham v. Ianni: The Eighth Circuit Forges Protection for the Free Speech Rights of Public University Professors Outside the Pickering-Connick-Waters Analysis," 32 <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Creighton Law Review</em> 883 (1999).</span></a></font></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(76, 163, 66); clear: both;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Production Liability Litigation</span></a></font></h2><ul style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He defended two chemical manufacturers against claims asserted by 250 sugar beet growers in western Minnesota.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He represented a major chemical company in a lawsuit by a seed corn company, in which it was alleged that a fungicide caused millions of dollars in damages to hybrid seed corn.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He won a defense verdict on behalf of an equipment supplier in a $40 million lawsuit arising out of the failure, due to noxious odors, of a composting facility in Florida. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">U.S. West Financial Services, Inc. v. Buhler, Inc</em>., 150 F.3d 929 (8th Cir. 1998).</span></a></font></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(76, 163, 66); clear: both;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Class Actions</span></a></font></h2><ul style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He won a settlement valued at up to $200 million on behalf of three nationwide classes, totaling more than one million people, in class action litigation against a manufacturer of defective water heaters. The settlement was later reversed as insufficiently favorable to the corporate defendant.</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He tried $100 million in claims under the Alaska Tort Claims Act on behalf of approximately 700 Alaska residents who lost homes or other property in the Miller's Reach Fire of 1996. <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bartek et al. v. State of Alaska</em>, 31 P.3d 100 (Alas. 2001); <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Angnabouguk et al. v. State of Alaska</em>, 26 P.3d 447 (Alas. 2001).</span></a></font></li></ul><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="subheader" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(63, 156, 53);">Honors</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></a></font></p><div class="body12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><ul style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Who's Who in America</em></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Who's Who in American Law</em></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Best Lawyers in America —</em> Antitrust Law and Construction Litigation, 2007-15 (Minnesota Construction Litigation Lawyer of the Year, 2015)</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Super Lawyers —</em> Business Litigation, 2007–11</span></a></font></li><li style="margin: 0px 1em 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Journal of Law and Politics</em> — Minnesota's Super Lawyer of the Year, 2006</span></a></font></li></ul></div></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></a></font></p><h5 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 22.4px; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="Burnham_v.Ianni"><i>Burnham v. Ianni</i></span></font></h5><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In fall 1991 two students in the History Club at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Minnesota_Duluth" title="University of Minnesota Duluth" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of Minnesota Duluth</a> had the idea to photograph professors in the history department with props that represented their specialties for a display near the department offices. Albert Burnham, the club's advisor and a specialist in American military history, wore a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coonskin_cap" title="Coonskin cap" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">coonskin cap</a> while brandishing a .45-caliber military pistol. Ronald Marchese, who specialized in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_antiquity" title="Classical antiquity" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">classical antiquity</a>, was photographed with an ancient Roman sword and laurel wreath. A month after the display was installed, the university's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor(education)" title="Chancellor (education)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">chancellor</a>, Lawrence Ianni, ordered the two photographs removed after complaints from female administrators and faculty, some of whom had been targeted by an anonymous public harassment campaign that year over Ianni's establishment of a Commission on Women. The professors and students sued, and won partial <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summary_judgement" title="Summary judgement" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">summary judgement</a> holding that Ianni did not have <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity" title="Qualified immunity" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">qualified immunity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Burnham_in_district_court_70-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waters_v.Churchill#cite_note-Burnham_in_district_court-70" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[67]</a></sup> The defendants cited <i>Waters</i>, but Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J.Davis" title="Michael J. Davis" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Michael J. Davis</a> ruled that it was not relevant since the case did not involve an adverse employment action.<sup id="cite_ref-Burnham_district_court_at_400_71-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waters_v.Churchill#cite_note-Burnham_district_court_at_400-71" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[68]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Eighth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Eighth Circuit</a> reversed on appeal.<sup id="cite_ref-First_Burnham_appellate_court_decision_72-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waters_v.Churchill#cite_note-First_Burnham_appellate_court_decision-72" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[69]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_McMillian" title="Theodore McMillian" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Theodore McMillian</a> relied on <i>Waters</i> to give weight to the chancellor's fears of disruption in light of the harassment campaign, noting that "It cannot seriously be disputed that, during that spring 1992 semester, the atmosphere on campus was more tense than normal."<sup id="cite_ref-First_Burnham_appellate_decision_at_1016_73-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waters_v.Churchill#cite_note-First_Burnham_appellate_decision_at_1016-73" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[70]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Arlen_Beam" title="Clarence Arlen Beam" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Clarence Arlen Beam</a> rejected that analysis in his dissent, saying those fears were "based on conclusory hearsay and rank speculation".<sup id="cite_ref-First_Burnham_appellate_decision_at_1023_74-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waters_v.Churchill#cite_note-First_Burnham_appellate_decision_at_1023-74" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[71]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">An <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_banc" title="En banc" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">en banc</a></i> rehearing in turn reversed that panel. Beam reiterated his arguments in the majority opinion.<sup id="cite_ref-Burnham_en_banc_75-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waters_v.Churchill#cite_note-Burnham_en_banc-75" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[72]</a></sup> McMillian, dissenting along with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R.Gibson" title="John R. Gibson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">John R. Gibson</a>, who had joined him in the original panel, wrote that the majority had understated the effect of the harassment on the campus in assessing the potential for disruption. Despite the lack of adverse action, it was "no less an employment-related case" than <i>Waters</i> and its related cases, he argued.<sup id="cite_ref-Burnham_en_banc_at_681.E2.80.9383_76-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waters_v.Churchill#cite_note-Burnham_en_banc_at_681.E2.80.9383-76" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[73]</a></sup> Ianni, who they felt had <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity" title="Qualified immunity" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">qualified immunity</a> in any event due to the lack of settled law where academic freedom was concerned, had had to make a choice between two subordinates' conflicting interests. The messages conveyed by the photographs could clearly have been conveyed through other means, they observed.<sup id="cite_ref-Burnham_en_banc_at_684.E2.80.9388_77-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waters_v.Churchill#cite_note-Burnham_en_banc_at_684.E2.80.9388-77" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[74]</a></sup></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Py3MHHnJB-oJ:www.law360.com/firms/faegre-benson/attorneys/john-h-hinderaker/cases+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></a></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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May 5, 2016 — Steven Hayward</b>
Gore, Ten Years Later
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hey, kids—did you realize it’s the tenth anniversary of Al Gore’s Academy Award and Nobel Prize winning movie, An Inconvenient Truth? Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller has gone back and checked on some of Gore’s near-term predictions and found—spoiler alert!—that lots of them look pretty silly now: One of the first glaring claims Gore makes is about Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. He claims Africa’s tallest peak will be snow-free » </span>  

 
 

May 3, 2016 — Scott Johnson
<b>A conspiracy</b> so intense, cont’d
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Democratic officeholders seem to be operating a conspiracy to stifle free speech and suppress heterodox thought. They’re on C.P. time, alright: Communist Party time. Glenn Reynolds named names in his USA Today column “Dear attorneys general, conspiring against free speech is a crime.”<b> Glenn identified U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as co-conspirators.</b> Glenn laid out the »   

 
 

May 1, 2016 — Scott Johnson
Live from Omaha, it’s Warren and Charlie
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Nebraska attorney Dave Begley follows up on his report on the appearance of James Hansen to support his proposal at the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting. Dave reports: The climate change resolution put forth by Dr. James Hansen was defeated but it gathered slightly more than ten percent of the vote. In other business, Warren Buffett discussed the $3.6 billion capital investment MidAmerican Energy is making in windmills. His business »   

 
 

April 30, 2016 — Scott Johnson
Live from Omaha, it’s James Hansen
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Nebraska attorney Dave Begley is our faithful Omaha correspondent. Dave reports: Friday night in a crowd of 500 to 700 people at Creighton University it appeared that I was not only the only conservative, I was also the only person who was thinking clearly and critically. One of global warming’s oldest and most revered leaders, Dr. James Hansen, spoke prior to his protest at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders’ meeting on »   

 
 

April 28, 2016 — Steven Hayward
Not Funny and Die Anyway
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How can you tell the climatistas are getting desperate? When they enlist the “Funny or Die” folks to do this pathetic attempt at reverse psychology entitled “Old people don’t care about climate change”: You know what people really don’t care about? Ed Asner’s opinion about anything. Funny or Die used to be funny. Too bad this had to happen to them. (Actually I didn’t know Cloris Leachman was still alive. »   

 
 

April 25, 2016 — Steven Hayward
Mark Steyn Versus the Climatistas
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The New Criterion and Change Up Media have produced a series of videos featuring <b>Mark Steyn </b>discussing climate change and especially Michael Mann’s ludicrous libel suit against Mark. You can watch the entire 27 minute interview conducted by Benjamin Weingarten here, but here’s a 5 minute excerpt on how the climate extremists resemble Islamic extremists: Also this two-minute clip on the Godfathers of climate extremism: »   

 
 

April 25, 2016 — Steven Hayward
A Taxonomy of Climate Camps
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<b>Physicist Richard Muller of UC Berkeley</b> offers up a remarkably unbiased classification of climate change thinkers in the unlikely venue of the Puffington Host. I think it isn’t half bad: In my book, “Energy for Future Presidents” (pg 74) I give the following categories: Alarmists. They pay little attention to the details of the science. They are “unconvincibles.” They say the danger is imminent, so scare tactics are both necessary »   

 
 

April 18, 2016 — Steven Hayward
Climate Egg on Their Face
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Here’s another sign of the bankruptcy of both the climatistas and the liberals who fawn over “democracy” until the people don’t do exactly what they want. Science authorities in Britain put the naming of a new Arctic research ship to an online vote of the public. And the public chose—by a landslide margin—”Boaty McBoatface.” Which I suppose is better than “Big McLargehuge,” for you MST3K fans out there. Anyway, Her »   

 
 

April 15, 2016 — Steven Hayward
Unhinged Leftist of the Week
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Outgoing California Senator Barbara “Call Me Senator” Boxer deserves a Power Line Green Weenie Lifetime Achievement Award for her performance this week in a hearing about energy and climate policy that featured <b>Alex Epstein, author of the cheeky book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, and Father Robert Sirico </b>of the Acton Institute. Here’s a five-minute highlight reel of Boxer losing ground to Epstein and Sirico: And as a special »   

 
 

April 13, 2016 — Scott Johnson
A conspiracy so intense
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Democratic officeholders seem to be operating a conspiracy to stifle free speech and suppress heterodox thought. They’re on C.P. time, alright: Communist Party time. Glenn Reynolds names names in his USA Today column “Dear attorneys general, conspiring against free speech is a crime.” Glenn identifies U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as co-conspirators. Glenn lays out the »   

 
 

April 11, 2016 — Steven Hayward
Climate Change Hits the Snooze Button
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One reason I’ve been writing much less about the climatistas here lately is that the subject has become such a crashing bore. Don’t take my word for it—just ask the lefty Media Mutters for America, the site David Brock curates to whine on Hillary’s behalf. Media Mutters has a new study out bemoaning that the major TV network news broadcasts are losing interest in climate change, despite the UN Paris »   

 
 

March 23, 2016 — Steven Hayward
McKibben Gets One Right!
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Multiple Power Line Green Weenie Award winner Bill McKibben, who puts the “fan” in “fanatic,” is out with a new article attacking the Obama Administration for tolerating fracking. But it’s the cover note from his publicist that is giving me a smile this morning, which reveals the real culprit in this story: Bill looks at the latest studies on methane coming out of Harvard and concludes that greenhouse gas emissions »   

 
 

March 11, 2016 — Steven Hayward
The Upside of Trump-Sanders
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This morning finds me styling at the California Club in downtown Los Angeles, after a splendid evening last night conducting a structured conversation with Paul Wolfowitz at the annual dinner of the Friends of Ronald Reagan. One of the things about having breakfast at the California Club morningafterwise is that you can read the New York Times in hard copy. So it was with mounting incredulity that I kept going »   

 
 

March 10, 2016 — John Hinderaker
The Obama Administration’s Idea of a Crime…
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…is not, apparently, violating federal laws and regulations and State Department procedures in a manner that exposes thousands of classified documents to our enemies. No, that isn’t the sort of conduct that is likely to draw an indictment from Loretta Lynch’s Department of Justice. Obama’s DOJ is more interested in trying to jail scientists who point out the rather obvious flaws in the government’s desperate effort to convince Americans that »   

 
 

March 3, 2016 — John Hinderaker
The Great Free Speech Issue of Our Time
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Government-funded climate activists have devised fraudulent models that exist for the sole purpose of stirring up alarm about “climate change.” They have blatantly misrepresented the relationship between “climate change” and extreme weather events, which have become less common in recent years. They have deliberately propagated data they know to be wrong or misleading in order to serve their government paymaster’s political cause. When weather data have disproved their models, they »   

 
 

March 1, 2016 — Steven Hayward
And the Award for the Biggest Green Weenie Goes To. . .
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It goes without saying that Leo Di Caprio wins the coveted Power Line Green Weenie Award for his climate change screech that accompanied his Oscar win for best actor Sunday night. I guess Marlon Brando’s sidekick, Whatshername Littlefeather or something, wasn’t available. The Guardian, of all places, offers some nice details about Leo’s interest in saving the planet: Leonardo DiCaprio was a climate champion long before the actor wrapped himself in »   

 
 

February 29, 2016 — John Hinderaker
Is Global Warming Making It Snow?
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In the early days of global warming hysteria, the alarmists understandably warned that warmer temperatures would cause, among other things, less snow. Jim Steele reminds us: [Kevin] Trenberth’s 1999 paper framing the effects of global warming on extreme precipitation declared, “With higher average temperatures in winter expected, more precipitation is likely to fall in the form of rain rather than snow, which will increase both soil moisture and run off, »   

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