John H. Hinderaker (born September 1950) (the name is pronounced hinder-rocker) is a conservative American lawyer and a blogger at the Power Line weblog, as well as a fellow at the Claremont Institute. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law as an attorney, Counsel or Solicitor; a person A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of See Electric power transmission for the more common use of this term The Claremont Institute is a conservative Think tank based in Claremont California. Hinderaker is best known for promoting a Conservative foreign policy.
He is an advisory board member of the North Star Legal Center, the legal arm of the Minnesota Family Council/Institute; the NSLC also is "instrumental in giving definition and professional credibility to the conservative pro-family legal position in Minnesota. "[1] He is a 1971 graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and completed Harvard Law School in 1974. Dartmouth College ( is a private, Coeducational University located in Hanover, New Hampshire, U Hanover is a town along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional Graduate schools of Harvard University. Power Line has promoted outsiders as candidates to be Dartmouth alumni trustees, such as T.J. Rodgers, founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor. Thurman John Rodgers, better known as TJ Rodgers, is the founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor. Cypress Semiconductor Corporation ( is a Silicon Valley -based semiconductor design and manufacturing company founded by T
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Hinderaker has claimed that some "scientists [have] pointed out the absence of evidence for human-caused global warming"[2] and that "In fact, scientific support for that theory [anthropogenic global warming] is weak. "[3] He has also stated that "Darwin's theory of macroevolution is plainly wrong, on strictly scientific grounds" and "is, in my view, a rather obvious fraud, which cannot withstand the mildest scrutiny" [4] and that "benefits of embryonic stem cell research have been vastly oversold". [5]
He has been a consistent supporter and often admirer of George W. Bush and once wrote of his work in creating the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate:[6]
- A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can't get anyone to notice. Aims US President George W Bush called it a "new results-oriented partnership" that he said "will allow our nations to develop and accelerate deployment 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. Hyperbolic? Well, maybe.
When Time magazine named Power Line as their inaugural "Blog of the year" award in 2004, they wrote that:[7]
- Hinderaker, a. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and k. a. Hindrocket, is the ranter, always willing to go over the top with a big speech and flights of fancy. He's also the mediagenic one. He's a clear and forceful speaker—he's a litigator by day, after all.
Challenging mainstream media reporting
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For more details on this topic, see Killian documents and Killian documents authenticity issues. During the Killian documents controversy in 2004 the authenticity of the documents themselves was disputed by a variety of individuals and groups
A consistent theme in Hinderaker's blogging is that the major US news outlets suffer from incompetence and a tendency to slant the news to favor the political left.
He was one of the first on the blogosphere to suggest that the Bush National Guard document included in a '60 Minutes' report are a hoax. [8] CBS later apologized for the story,[9] and reported that "the Killian documents were produced on a computer in Times New Roman typestyle . . . the Killian documents were not produced on a typewriter in the early 1970s and therefore were not authentic. "[10]
Hinderaker also took the lead in attacking some national newspapers' and networks' reporting on the Schiavo "talking points memo", speculating on his blog and in The Weekly Standard that it was a Democratic Party dirty trick: "What, then, was the evidence for the claim that it was created and distributed by Republicans? As far as the public record shows: There is none. The Weekly Standard is an American opinion Magazine published 48 times per year On the contrary, the only published report identifying the purveyors of the memo on March 17 states that they were Democrats. "[11] When the memo turned out to be written by a Republican aide, Brian Darling, Hinderaker acknowledged this fact, but continued to criticize the mainstream media for suggesting the memo was a "a product of the party's leadership or had an official status. Brian Darling (born in Andover Massachusetts, 1965 is the director of United States Senate relations for the Heritage Foundation. "[12]
Vulgar email
On February 20, 2005, Minnesota anonoblogger "minnpolitics" published a profanity-laced email John Hinderaker wrote in response to an email comment about Jeff Gannon:[13]
- You dumb shit, he didn't get access using a fake name, he used his real name. James Dale Guckert (born 1957 a Conservative Columnist who worked under the Pseudonym Jeff Gannon as a White House reporter between You lefties' concern for White House security is really touching, but you know what, you stupid asshole, I think the Secret Service has it covered. Go crawl back into your hole, you stupid left-wing shithead. And don't bother us anymore. You have to have an IQ over 50 to correspond with us. You don't qualify, you stupid shit.
Hinderaker offered an apology, explaining that after a flood of "inexpressibly vulgar and vile" emails and phone calls:[14]
- I read about ten [emails] in a row that were vulgar and abusive in varying degrees; most were unprintable. At that point I snapped and lost my temper. I sent irate and intemperate replies to the last couple of emails I read—unfortunately, not the most abusive ones, but the ones I read after losing my temper.
- The next day, one of these emailers responded that he thought my reply was disproportionate to the offensiveness of his email; I agreed and apologized for having reacted inappropriately. I would have done the same with the "Minnesota Politics" guy if he had contacted me rather than posting my email—which obviously wasn't intended for publication—on his site.
City Pages gave Hinderaker a "Best Meltdown" Award [15] for this in their 2005 "Best of the Twin Cities" Issue. City Pages is an Alternative weekly Newspaper serving the Minneapolis-St
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