John Hinderaker was born September 1950 and is a conservative American lawyer and a blogger at the Power Line weblog, as well as a fellow at the Claremont Institute. He is a 1971 graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Harvard Law School in 1974. Power Line has promoted outsiders as candidates to be Dartmouth alumni trustees, such as T.J. Rodgers, founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor.

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. CBS later apologized for the story, 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."

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. On the contrary, the only published report identifying the purveyors of the memo on March 17 states that they were Democrats." 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."

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