{"id":4221,"date":"2007-03-03T23:01:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T07:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2007-03-04T16:29:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T00:29:48","slug":"human-events-man-of-the-year-rep-james-sensenbrenner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4221","title":{"rendered":"Human Events Man of the Year Rep. James Sensenbrenner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest Blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpotatomash.com\">Alan Breslauer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/k6aJhy5Dwrg\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"6\" align=\"left\"><\/embed>Former House Judiciary Chairman Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) was an inspired choice for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/\">Human Events<\/a> Man of the Year.  Considering the &#8220;news&#8221; source champions &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/about-he.php\">above all, a staunch, unwavering defense of American freedom<\/a>,&#8221; who better to receive its top honor than the Congressman who introduced the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sensenbrenner\">USA PATRIOT Act<\/a> and authored the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sensenbrenner\">Real ID Act<\/a>.  This video (4:30), which includes parts of a lovely introduction by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/\">Human Events<\/a> Assistant Editor Amanda Carpenter, is whittled down from Sensenbrenner&#8217;s twenty minute speech Friday at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpac.org\/\">CPAC<\/a>. Be sure to stick around to hear Sensenbrenner&#8217;s final recommendation per global warming which, in addition to making much of the speech superfluous, boggles the mind. Oh, and there is plenty of good material throughout including a United States Representative boasting about standing his ground to cries of injustice.<\/p>\n<p><b>ADDITIONAL THOUGHT FROM BRAD:<\/b> While enjoying the celebration of &#8220;American freedoms&#8221; personified by Sensenbrenner, perhaps a visit of <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1453\">this old BRAD BLOG chestnut<\/a> will be amusing and\/or enlightening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer Former House Judiciary Chairman Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) was an inspired choice for Human Events Man of the Year. Considering the &#8220;news&#8221; source champions &#8220;above all, a staunch, unwavering defense of American freedom,&#8221; who better to receive its top honor than the Congressman who introduced the USA PATRIOT Act and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,143],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voter-id","category-wisconsin","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}