Paul Mirengoff is an attorney

Lawyer

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 and former blog

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ger at the Power Line

Power Line

Power Line is an American political blog, providing news and commentary from a conservative point-of-view. It was originally written by three lawyers who attended Dartmouth College together: John H. Hinderaker, Scott W. Johnson, and Paul Mirengoff...

 weblog.

Mirengoff graduated from Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

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 in 1971, and from Stanford Law School

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 in 1974. He is currently practicing law in Washington D.C. as a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

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. For several years, he worked for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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. He started writing articles for publications including the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard and Front Page

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. He currently resides in Bethesda, Maryland

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 with his wife and two daughters. He supports Everton Football Club

Everton F.C.

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, an English soccer club, and often blogs about them.

He became a fellow of the Claremont Institute, a conservative institute. Mirengoff formed Power Line, a conservative blog, in May 2002 with John Hinderaker and Scott W. Johnson

Scott W. Johnson

Scott W. Johnson is an American lawyer, executive and a blogger at Power Line.- Legal and business career :Johnson was born in Fargo, North Dakota to a Jewish family...

, 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 Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry

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, the editor of National Review

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, Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn

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 and Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin

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. On January 28, 2011 Paul posted on the blog that he was leaving it, thanking his fellow bloggers John and Scott and Powerline blog readers for the opportunity of participating in the blog.