August 1, 2013 — Joe Malchow
How might we describe, in general terms, American young adulthood? For anyone inclined to despair of humanity’s future in the postwar period, Americans 25 to 35 have proved the great savior. In Greece, they’re eating mother’s moussaka. In France, they are in les rues wearing tight t-shirts and protesting unfair tuition prices. In Russia, they are drunk. In America, they’re working incredibly hard to get ahead. As though ahead were
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July 26, 2012 — Joe Malchow
Just kidding. Power Line wouldn’t exist without the Government Internet upon which it is transmitted and the Government Roads we drive on to buy our Government MacBooks and consequently our true and deepest thanks belong to the Public Servants who moved upon the waters to create this amazing American system of spontaneous centralized capital bestowal. But we’re nevertheless grateful also to you, our readers. We haven’t boasted much, but more
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May 13, 2012 — Joe Malchow
As the election nears, beware zombies. That’s the lesson from Bob Hope in the 1940 film The Ghost Breakers. Herewith, perhaps the greatest line from a movie of all time. But one wonders: who is the voodoo priest?
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May 11, 2012 — Joe Malchow
Ever since we launched the latest version of Power Line, we’ve been extremely pleased to see a bustling community of readers filling our pages with comments and debate. We also are aware of a certain degree of, ahem, trolling going on–but we’ve decided that the specter of our witty readers going to battle against trolls resembled something like Thermopylae, with the result that we’ve allowed you to go about your
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April 3, 2012 — Joe Malchow
Readers may be aware that Pope Benedict made a visit to Cuba last week. It was the first pontifical visit to that island nation since 1998, when John Paul II visited and prompted Fidel Castro to relax his government’s imaginary grip on the faiths of its people. Since the Communist revolution in 1959, Cuba has been officially atheist. It’s just one example, in a place full of them, of an
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September 11, 2011 — Joe Malchow
All morning, New York police and firefighters–who in their regalia blues were today’s de facto hosts–and families and friends of victims gathered downtown for the tenth remembrance of the 9/11 attacks. It took place under the shadow of the new and rising 1 World Trade Center. Here are some images from today.
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August 28, 2011 — Joe Malchow
Irene has passed Washington, D.C., which is as far west of New York as it is south, and therefore only ever saw the storm’s liminal rain and winds. (This was enough to cause blackouts for millions of homes in the suburbs–including Steven Hayward’s–but so far as I can tell, proper D.C. never once lost electricity. It must have been the President’s slick subterranean hurricane command center, its electronic eye draping
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May 30, 2009 — Joe Malchow
The Emily Litella Presidency continues: The Obama administration insists it has no obligation to provide access to a top secret document in a [warrantless] wiretapping case, setting up a showdown next week with the judge who ordered it released. … The judge has ordered department lawyers to appear before his court Wednesday to make the case why he should not award damages to the now-defunct Oregon chapter of the Al-Haramain
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December 31, 2008 — Joe Malchow
Talk about disproportionate response. Just an hour or so after Power Line posted a series of videos from the Israeli Defense Forces–videos that, as Scott discovered, YouTube had pulled–we experienced a Denial-of-Service attack from a cabal of a half-dozen servers in the U.S. The attack sought to make Power Line and the videos we are hosting inaccessible by overloading our server. Our data center promptly registered the attack, and then
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December 30, 2008 — Joe Malchow
This morning, Scott noted that the Israeli Defense Force had set up a YouTube channel to which it uploaded videos of the fighting in Gaza, but YouTube deleted some of the videos. With the assistance of Noah Pollak, we’ve obtained the videos and will be posting them this afternoon. This one shows Hamas members loading Grad missiles into a truck, just prior to being on the receiving end of a
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October 21, 2008 — Joe Malchow
What, after all, is our motive for reading a dead philosopher’s words about another dead philosopher who never wrote anything himself? This is a way of asking a popular question, Why do history of philosophy? –which has no settled answer. Our study of some of our philosophical predecessors is intrinsically valuable, one might reply, philosophically enlightening and satisfying. When we contemplate the words of a dead philosopher, a philosopher with
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October 17, 2008 — Joe Malchow
To judge by the e-mail traffic the new face of Power Line has met with your approval. Splendid. But many readers have been chiming in to note that they cannot read PL on their BlackBerries, cellular phones, PDAs, and what-have-you. Clearly this will not do. So we have created a special mobile edition of Power Line suitable for reading on portable devices like BlackBerries. Simply go to http://m.powerlineblog.com, or click
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October 14, 2008 — Joe Malchow
It’s a long way from the original. With an eye toward making PL reliable, speedy, and highly available during burst traffic, we have redesigned and reengineered the site from top to bottom. The new look is the most visible change, but you will also notice that pages load more rapidly than before, and that the site looks consistent from browser to browser. Archives are now more readily available; we’ve implemented
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July 3, 2008 — Joe Malchow
A reader created this video highlighting Barack Obama’s relationship with terrorists Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. If you have a web site, feel free to embed it. Or you can email it to your friends. While the media have done a good job of covering the Jeremiah Wright story, Obama’s relationship with Ayers and Dohrn has not gotten the attention it deserves. To comment on this post go here.
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January 9, 2008 — Joe Malchow
Anticipating that John McCain’s moment might come around again, as it did tonight, I reread McCain’s
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June 5, 2006 — Joe Malchow
The Minutemen have been shooting video footage along the border to show what conditions there are like. You can watch one of their clips here. It’s pretty remarkable. The Minutemen show some of the sites where large groups of illegals apparently camp before making a run across the border. In one case, it looks as though an army had been encamped. And near the end, there is a reminder that
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