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Invasion of the porn snatchers (UPDATED)

Featured image Thanks to the many readers who have written us, we are aware of the graphic pornographic ads that have invaded the top of our comments. We have asked our publisher to help us remove and block them, but it remains a work in progress. So long as the problem persists I can only ask readers to avoid clicking on comments. Don’t do it! We will let you know when we »

Time for a Sabbatical

Featured image Dear Power Line Readers: Alas it has become necessary for me to take an extended sabbatical from Power Line. It’s a simple matter of becoming steadily overcommitted and needing to devote a lot more time to overdue projects and upcoming demands. I’m now just a month out from starting up again at Pepperdine University, filling the large shoes of the late Ted McAllister next semester, and I haven’t even started »

Live From Washington DC, John Yoo In-Depth!

Featured image Last year, as many readers will recall, I was fortunate to have the privilege of appearing on C-SPAN’s “In-Depth” series, a two hour program where the host takes you through your entire corpus of work. Well, our podcast partner, and my frequent classroom partner, John Yoo was jealous, and is appearing  tomorrow at noon eastern (9 am Pacific) on In-Depth. He encourages all Power Line readers to tune in, and »

Lost in cyberspace

Featured image We are up to the fifth generation of our Power Line gmail account. We rely on the gmail forwarding function to get your messages to us from the public address, but I notice it hasn’t been working since this past Friday. If you have written us at [email protected] since then, please resend the message directly to [email protected]. If you want to write us in the future, please write us at »

Announcement: Live Podcast Episode This Friday

Featured image Our regular podcast co-host John Yoo is overseas this week and next, and isn’t going to be available to join us from afar. And it occurred to us that we haven’t done a live podcast taping for quite some time, in large part because we can seldom plan ahead for our recording time each week because all three of us have schedules that sometimes change at short notice (especially when »

Announcement: Hadley Arkes Tomorrow at Berkeley

Featured image I’m finally back from my extended overseas journey—more articles from this to come—and tomorrow I’ll be back on campus hosting the great Hadley Arkes at the law school for a mid-day lecture (12:50 pm – 2 pm, Room 105) based on his new book, Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution. (Highly recommended by the way. Podcast hopefully to come.) Needless to say, the idea of »

Return to Pritikin

Featured image In October 2019, shortly before Covid hit and soon after I had “The Donald Trump experience,” President Trump scrapped his plans to hold the following year’s G-7 gathering of world leaders at the Trump National Doral in Miami. “Based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G-7 in 2020,” he announced on Twitter »

Live Podcast Today is On!

Featured image Despite the monsoon that is bringing some epic flooding to my location on the central coast of California, our live Three Whisky Happy Hour podcast taping is ON today at 4:30 Pacific time. If you’re able to join us and participate in what I think will be a lively chat thread, use this Zoom link. I don’t think we’ll talk about it in our already overlong agenda for today, but »

Live Friday! The 3WHH

Featured image This Friday we’re going to try something we haven’t done since John Yoo joined the 3WHH podcast last summer—a live webinar taping open to all comers this Friday evening. It is not always easy to get the three of us coordinated, but we think this Friday we have it down, though check back on the home page Friday afternoon in case unforeseen circumstances (like the next yuuuge storm about to »

Lawyer shaming — as someone might say, not a joke

Featured image Ten years ago I was invited to speak to the Professional Responsibility section of the Federalist Society at the National Lawyers Convention. Section head Jack Park had followed my comments addressing Minnesota’s elimination-of-bias continuing legal education requirement and asked me to address it in a program that satisfied the requirement itself. GWU Law Professor Thomas Morgan (a scholar and a gentleman) was my counterpart on the panel, which was moderated »

Announcement: Power Line Welcomes Elizabeth Stauffer

Featured image We are thrilled to welcome a new contributor to our site starting this week: Elizabeth Stauffer. In addition to contributing to Power Line, Elizabeth writes for the Washington Examiner, The Western Journal, and American Free News Network. Her articles have appeared on many websites including MSN, RealClearPolitics, RedState, The Federalist and Newsmax. Prior to raising three children, Elizabeth worked in the financial services industry, first as a financial consultant with »

Announcement: PLU Class Session 8: The Federalist on the Judiciary

Featured image We’re going to hold our eighth Power Line University class session on The Federalist tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon at 3 pm Pacific time, where Lucretia and I will turn to the treatment of judicial review in The Federalist, which chiefly means papers 78 – 84. If you are able to join us live, here’s the Zoom link to use. The scope and nature of the judicial power was as uncertain and »

Out Today: ‘American Requiem’ on Fox Nation

Featured image For those of you who are subscribers to Fox Nation, you may wish to take in a new documentary that dropped today, “American Requiem.” Here’s the one-minute trailer for the film, where you may just see a familiar face (actually several familiar faces): And if you aren’t a Fox Nation subscriber, here’s a two-minute highlight reel of a certain familiar face from the film: »

Your Chance to See Academic Superheroes in Action

Featured image Needless to say the academic scene in America is dismal, but there are some excellent conservative academics scattered around. I’m delighted that the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) has organized a two-day conference taking place on February 23-24 in Fort Lauderdale featuring many leading conservative professors, under the general title “American Politics and Government Summit.” There is a modest registration fee, but the conference is open to the general public as »

Live Podcast: PLU on The Federalist, Session 6

Featured image Power Line University will be back in the seminar room again tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon at 5 pm Pacific time/8 pm Eastern, to resume our leisurely stroll through The Federalist Papers.  We’ll begin this week’s session with a detour into why and how the Progressives attacked the separation of powers along with rejecting the natural rights philosophy of the Founding, both of which were necessary for their project of creating the »

How to read Power Line with RSS

Featured image Google has slowly been deprecating (shutting down) the RSS feed features associated with the Feedburner service. Consequently, Power Line has had to adapt to a local RSS feed. So if you have been looking for the right way to read Power Line through RSS feeds, this post is for you. The correct URL to use to read Power Line’s RSS feed is: https://www.powerlineblog.com/feed/rdf. This feed is also accessible by clicking »

Reminder: Power Line University in One Hour!

Featured image Just your 6 pm Eastern time reminder that our next Power Line University class on The Federalist begins one hour from this posting (7 pm Eastern time). Lucretia has had some unavoidable scheduling problems crop up today and will be late for class, but I’ll be there to launch on time and carry on solo as long as possible. If you’re able to join us live, use this Zoom link. »