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August 8, 2013 — John Hinderaker
The competition is intense, but Durbin is definitely a contender. Here is the latest evidence: In preparation for a previously announced hearing on controversial “stand your ground” laws announced after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., sent letters to more than 300 possible corporate backers of the American Legislative Exchange Council, requesting their position on such policies in states
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August 1, 2011 — Steven Hayward
“Turban Durbin” is the moniker Illinois’s far-left Democratic Senator Dick Durbin acquired when he compared U.S. troops in Iraq to Nazis back around 2005. No need to flog that hobby horse again. Better is his moaning in the Puffington Host today that the debt ceiling deal spells the end of Keynesianism. Sayeth the Turban-man: “I would say … that symbolically, that agreement is moving us to the point where we
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February 6, 2006 — Paul Mirengoff
As we noted earlier today, Paul is in Washington with filmmaker Andrew Marcus covering the Senate Judiciary Committee’s NSA hearings. The Senators periodically give interviews outside of the hearing room, and this morning Paul asked a question of Senator Dick Durbin. Paul’s question was a good one: FISA contains an exception for surveillance that is authorized by another statute, and the administration says that the Authorization for Use of Military
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February 6, 2006 — John Hinderaker
As we noted earlier today, Paul is in Washington with filmmaker Andrew Marcus covering the Senate Judiciary Committee’s NSA hearings. The Senators periodically give interviews outside of the hearing room, and this morning Paul asked a question of Senator Dick Durbin. Paul’s question was a good one: FISA contains an exception for surveillance that is authorized by another statute, and the administration says that the Authorization for Use of Military
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July 28, 2005 — Paul Mirengoff
I understand that Congressman Henry Hyde has sent the following letter to Senator Richard Durbin: I read with some interest comments attributed to you in news reports detailing your Monday meeting with the President’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. While we may disagree on various domestic and international issues, we have also found common ground over the years on numerous matters of importance to all Americans. As
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June 20, 2005 — Scott Johnson
Tomorrow’s Minneapolis Star Tribune editorial endorses the vile, ignorant fulminations of Senator Durbin and chides Durbin only for not standing fully behind them: “Durbin’s message/U.S. must end prisoner abuse.” The Star Tribune’s criticism of Durbin for buckling is as ill-founded as its support of the aid and comfort Durbin’s trash talk has lent the enemies of the United States. The Star Tribune says Durbin got it right and shouldn’t have
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June 20, 2005 — John Hinderaker
I called Senator Dick Durbin’s office this morning at (202) 224-2152 and, after being on hold for a while, laid out the reasons why I think Durbin should resign from the Senate. His staffer told me that as of this morning, he is standing by his statement comparing American soldiers to the Nazis, the Communists and the Khmer Rouge. There was one caveat, however: the staffer told me that Durbin
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June 18, 2005 — John Hinderaker
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich sent the following letter to all U.S. Senators today: Dear Senator _______________: By his statements equating American treatment of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay with the behavior of the evil regimes of Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and Pol Pot
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June 17, 2005 — John Hinderaker
Dick Durbin has posted a sort-of apology on his web site; here it is:
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June 17, 2005 — John Hinderaker
The Boston Herald called this morning for Dick Durbin’s resignation. The Herald draws an excellent comparison between Trent Lott’s faux pas and Durbin’s slander of the U.S. armed forces: The second highest ranking Democrat in the Senate has compared American servicemen and women to Nazis on the floor of that body. Has political debate sunk so low that a comment that hideous can be made by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.)
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June 17, 2005 — Scott Johnson
Senator Dick Durbin — soon to be Turban Durbin — stands pat. Hugh Hewitt has the quote (and much more): I have heard my colleagues and others in the press suggest that I have said our soldiers could be compared to Nazis. I’d say to the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, I do not even know if the interrogator involved here was an American soldier. I didn’t say that
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June 16, 2005 — Paul Mirengoff
Earlier today Scott noted that Senator Durbin hit the “mo’ better metaphors” trifecta, managing to compare our practices at Guantanamo Bay with those of the Nazis, the Soviets, and the Khmer Rouge. Scott gave me credit for “anticipat[ing] the rabid foaming at the mouth” of Durbin and his partner in defamation Senator Leahy. In fact, however, I never expected that any U.S. Senator would express such absurd sentiments. I didn’t
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December 5, 2023 — Scott Johnson
This morning the Supreme Court hears oral argument in Moore v. United States. It could be one of the most important cases to be heard by the Supreme Court this year. In it the Court has certified this question for review (references to “App.” are to the appendix to the petition for review filed with the Court by counsel for Mr. and Mrs. Moore): The Sixteenth Amendment authorizes Congress to
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May 2, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The Democrats are attacking the independence of the Supreme Court, for obvious reasons: for once, they don’t control it. The attack is multi-faceted, but “ethics” is the most common excuse. They attacked Justice Thomas, whom they hate, for going on vacations with a rich conservative friend, Harlan Crow. It is obvious that Thomas committed no ethics violation, and the Wall St. Journal’s Editorial Board points out the Left’s usual double
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April 12, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The calculated barrage of lies directed at Judge Brett Kavanaugh in his 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearing should never be forgotten. The Democrats did everything but physically assassinate Justice Kavanaugh as they assassinated his good name. Complicit in the assault were the Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee including Dianne Feinstein, Patrick J. Leahy, Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse — who could forget Sherlock Sheldon? — Minnesota’s own Amy
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September 15, 2022 — Scott Johnson
Punchbowl News is one of the insider online outlets that facilitates the Democrats’ Gleichschaltung. The founders describe the venture here. I subscribe to the morning newsletter via the Punchbowl home page when they established the site. In this morning’s edition — it can be accessed here at the moment — Punchbowl gurus Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan pass on the the Schuminations of the Senate Majority Leaders speaking to colleagues
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June 24, 2022 — Steven Hayward
I’ve been traveling the second half of this week, and am still digesting the Dobbs and Bruen cases in preparation for a much later than normal Three Whisky (Very) Happy Hour podcast taping tonight with special guest John Yoo, but I at least have time to look at some of the rank hypocrisy on the left. Start with our doddering president, Slow Joe. The New York Times reminds us: Mr.
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