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Panetta, Leon, 7–8, 9, 74, 131–32
Le Parisienne, 139
Paris Match.com, 140
Particulate matter, 222–23
Patino, Uriel, 249
Paul, Les, 203
Paulson, Henry, 82, 90
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, 1
Pedophiles, privacy rights of, 52
Pelosi, Nancy, 77
birthday bash of, 29
energy policy and, 37, 111
on health care legislation, 261
OWS movement and, 100, 105, 108, 110–11
Solyndra project and, 210
Pelosi, Ronald, 210
Pennsylvania, 11–12
Pentagon Papers, 59
People’s Liberation Army (China), 80
Perelman, Ronald O., 143
Perino, Dana, 47
Perlo, Victor (Perlo spy group), 131
Peru, 198
Petrobras, 147, 192, 230
Phillips, Brian, 102–3
PIIGS, 93
Piven, Frances Fox, 102
Plant a Tree: A working guide to regreening America (Savage), 202
PM (newspaper), 116–17
Poland, 3, 4
Political attack ads, 126–27
Political contributions, 35. See also Campaign donors
Political correctness, 170
Politico.com, 49, 50, 128
Portugal, 84, 93, 94
Posse comitatus act, 267
Poverty rate, 92
Power, Samantha, 147, 148–49, 150
Powers, Scott, 34
President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, 77, 79
PricewaterhouseCoopers, 206
A Problem from Hell (Power), 149
Project Fast and Furious, 26, 47, 237–39, 242–53
absence of arrests resulting from, 252
ATF agents’ statements on, 248–49
ATF director’s testimony on, 249–50
Biden on, 27
congressional committee report on, 250
death of Border Patrol agent (see Terry, Brian)
death of Mexican citizens and, 243
guns from at crime scenes, 249
Holder’s denial of, 238, 243, 248, 251
initial cover-up of, 244
real purpose of, 239, 244–45, 252
stated purpose of, 244
withholding of information on, 249, 250
Project Gunrunner, 242, 243, 244, 248
Project Vote, 116
Public Citizen, 142
Public Interest Spectrum Coalition, 169
Public Knowledge, 169
Public opinion polls, 39–40, 220, 266
Pulitzer Prize, 149, 241
Putin, Vladimir, 39
Pyle, Thomas, 220
Al Qaeda, 9, 24, 55, 60, 154, 156, 157, 163, 181–82, 184
Breivik influenced by, 64
British intelligence on, 196
Holder’s representation of members, 240
Israel invaded by, 194
Times report on wiretapping of, 57–58, 241–42
QE2, 94, 95
Quantitative easing, 91, 92, 94, 95
Radical accomplices, 35, 98–122. See also Occupy Wall Street
mob rule by, 98, 111–15
rules for, 116–20
rules for beating, 120–21
Rainforest Alliance, 203
Rangel, Charles, 152
Rathke, Wade, 110
La Raza, 38, 253, 254
Reagan, Ronald, 8, 19, 131, 146, 196
Recovery of Auto Communities and Workers, 36
Redford, Robert, 231
Reficar, 231
Reid, Harry, 100, 128
Religion, freedom of, 39
Republicans
Democrats compared with, 19
opinion polls on, 266
public employees vs., 112
Tea Party ignored by, 20
The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All (Thakur), 151
“Responsibility to protect” doctrine, 36, 149, 174
developers of, 151
Islamist radicals protected by, 148, 154–57, 193
Libya and, 147–48, 150–51, 153, 156–57, 201
real meaning of, 148
selective application of, 150, 151
Revere, Paul, 42
Revolutionary Communist Party, 105
Rice, Susan, 46, 147, 150, 195
Rich, Marc, 241
“Right-wing Extremism” (Napolitano), 258
Rivera, Henry, 188
Rome Statute, 160
Romney, Mitt, 16, 142
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 32, 40, 41
Roosevelt, Teddy, 189, 260
Rose, Don, 116
Rosenthal, Lynn, 36
Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana, 191
Rothschild quote, 163
Royal Bank of Scotland, 82
Royal Dutch Shell, 221
Rubin, Robert, 84–85, 86, 87–88
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (Alinsky), 35, 116–19
The Rules of the Game (pamphlet), 226–27
Russia, 9, 20, 66, 102, 201
oil production in, 218
U.S. economic policy criticized by, 96
U.S. foreign policy and, 3–4, 36
Russian Revolution, 101, 131
Russo, Anthony, 59, 168
Rwanda, 150
Sadat, Anwar, 156
Salafist party (Egypt), 5
Salazar, Ken, 133
Samaria, 195
Sandinista junta, 131
San Francisco Chronicle, 47
Sarah’s Law, 52
Sarkozy, Nicolas, 136, 137, 139
Saudi Arabia, 154, 157, 199, 214
The Savage Nation (radio program), 3, 17
Savage Revolution, 19–21
SB 1070, 31
Schenck v. United States, 59
Schmaler, Tracy, 33
Scobey, Margaret, 155
Scotland, 180
SCYTL, 25
SEALs, Navy, 157, 164–66, 239
SEC. See Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S.
Second Amendment, 149, 245
Secure Border Initiative Network, 17
Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. (SEC), 82–83, 101, 231
SEIU. See Service Employees International Union
September 11 terrorist attacks, 29, 55, 63, 146, 181–83, 240
Service, John Stewart, 131
Service Employees International Union (SEIU), 35, 109–10, 111, 113, 134
Sharansky, Natan, 176
Shariah law, 5, 154, 156, 161
Sharpton, Al, 180
Shell Oil, 180, 221–22
Shelton, William, 167–68
Signa Technologies Inc., 143–44
Silvermaster spy group, 131
Silver prices, 92–93
Simon & Schuster, 47
Sinjar documents, 157
Sirte, Libya, 157, 163
SkyTerra, 169. See also LightSquared
Smallpox vaccine, 143–44
SNAP program, 69
Socialist International, 233
Socialist Party (Brazil), 192
Socialist Party (France), 139
Social Security, 69, 83
SOE, 25
Solana, Javier, 156
SolarReserve, 210
Solis, Hilda, 253
Solyndra, 26, 27, 37, 205–11, 213
bankruptcy declared by, 208, 211
criminal investigation of, 208, 210
spending spree in, 207
warning signs of problems, 206
Sorobama, 162–63
Soros, George, 9, 26, 98, 103, 109, 141, 147, 149, 151, 201
economic policy and, 65, 67, 72, 83
energy policy and, 228–33, 235, 236
LightSquared and, 169
Middle East policy and, 36, 155, 161–63, 175–77, 193
Murdoch con
flict and, 48–55
Soros Doctrine, 155, 175–77, 193
Soros Fund Management LLC, 169, 229, 230
South Africa, 141
South China Sea, 4
Southern California, 10
Soviet Union, 45, 131. See also Russia
Space programs, 80, 172
Spain, 15, 84, 93, 94
Special-interest bonds, 83
Spectrawatt, 211
Speech, freedom of. See Freedom of speech
Spies, communist, 131–32
Spinner, Steve, 206–7
Spitzer, Eliot, 137
“Spring Wind” initiative, 78
St. Vincent, 196
Stahl, Lesley, 150
Standard & Poor, 94–95
START treaty, 3
State Department, U.S., 195
State of the Union address (2011), 33
Stephentown, New York, 211
Stern, Andy, 35, 113, 134
Stimulus plan, 71–73, 141, 143, 264. See also Bailouts
Stock market crash of 1929, 87, 88, 96
Stock market crash of 2008, 81, 88
Stone, I. F., 116
Strauss-Kahn, Dominique, 135–40
Student-loan market, 33, 188
Subprime mortgage loans, 219. See also Housing crisis
Sulfur dioxide emissions, 222–23
Summers, Lawrence, 85
Sundance Film Festival, 231
Sunstein, Cass, 126–27, 148–49
Supreme Court, U.S., 33, 240, 261
Massachusetts v. EPA, 222
New York Times Co. v. the United States, 59
Schenck v. United States, 59
Surface Transportation Revenue Alternatives Office, 234
“Sustainable bankruptcy,” 69
Sweden, 50
Syria, 37, 51, 160, 161, 176, 201
Taft-Hartley Act, 106
Taiwan, 132, 172
Take Back the American Dream Conference, 109
Takoma Park, Maryland, 124–25
Taliban, 75–76, 165, 166, 182
Tamm, Thomas, 241
Tapie, Bernard, 137
TARP. See Troubled Assets Relief Program
Taxation, 86–87
cabinet secretaries and, 127–28, 129–31
capital gains, 76–77, 99
corporate income, 77–81
in health insurance field, 69
new taxes added by Obama, 76
on oil, 214, 215–16
OWS movement on, 106
political favoritism and, 77–81
without representation, 76–81
of the “wealthy,” 76–77, 80–81, 99–100, 117
Teachers’ unions, 112–13, 115
Teamsters union, 108
Tea Party, 20, 99, 115
Telegraph newspaper group, 51
TerraPower, 78
Terrorism. See also Airline screening measures; Al Qaeda; September 11 terrorist attacks; Taliban
al-Awlaki case, 24–25, 111
Breivik case, 60–64
“community-based approach” to, 258–59
extremism distinguished from, 61–62
Gitmo detainees, 58, 240–41
Holder’s policy on interrogation, 239–41
Israel listed as sponsor of, 195
NDAA as a response to, 22–24, 261
Terry, Brian, 245–48, 251, 253
Texas, 10, 17, 38, 257
Thakur, Ramesh, 151
“THERE IS ONLY THE FIGHT—An Analysis of the Alinsky Model” (Clinton), 117, 149–50
They Thought They Were Free (Mayer), 263
Tides Center, 109
Times of London, 85
The Tonight Show (television program), 266
Tonopah Solar Energy, 210
TransCanada, 216
Transnational National Council (TNC) (Libya), 181
Transportation Opportunities Act, 234
Transportation Security Administration (TSA), 38, 56, 132
Treasury bonds, 86, 88, 91, 94, 96
Treasury Department, U.S., 86, 127, 235
TreeWorld.info, 124
Trickle Up Poverty (Savage), 16, 33, 81, 83, 87, 99, 102, 175, 219, 225, 230, 253, 254
Trotsky, Leon, 131
Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), 82–83, 88, 90
Trumka, Richard, 35, 113, 114, 134
TSA. See Transportation Security Administration
Tulane University, 221
Tunisia, 6, 176, 199
Tupi oil field, 230
TurboTax, 131
Turkey, 8
Uganda, 146, 196
Unabomber, 64
Underwear bomber, 120
Unemployment, 68, 71–73, 264, 266. See also Employment
Unemployment benefits, 72
Unfunded liabilities, 83
Unions. See Labor unions
United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), 113
United Nations (UN), 147, 150, 151, 159, 194, 195
United Nations Security Council, 200
United Socialist Party (Venezuela), 191
University of California, Berkeley, 213
University of Chicago, 148–49
University of Hartford, 103
University of Washington, 131
University of Waterloo, 151
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), 184
USA Today, 75–76
Utah, 255
Vahidi, Ahmad, 194
Valdez, Alaska, 231
VantagePoint, 210
Venezuela, 187–92, 197, 199, 217
Verizon, 112, 169
Veterans Affairs Department, U.S., 39
Veterans Health Administration, 123
Vietnam War, 59, 145
Vietor, Tommy, 186
Vilsack, Tom, 69
Vlaams Belang (Belgium), 50
Voth, David, 252
Wachovia, 168
Walker, Scott, 112, 113, 114
Wall Street, 67, 68, 71
Wall Street Journal, 43, 97, 155
Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. See Dodd-Frank bill
War Powers Act, 32
Washington, George, 42, 129
Washington Examiner, 127–28
Washington Post, 125, 133, 183
Washington Post-ABC News poll, 220
Wasserstrom, Amy, 124
Waters, Maxine, 74
Waxman-Markey initiative, 227. See also Cap-and-trade legislation
Weathermen, 101–2
Weich, Ronald, 247
Welch, Robert, 249
Weld, William, 209
Wells Fargo, 79, 82
Wenzel, Fritz, 39
Wenzel Strategies, 39, 40
West Point, U.S. Military Academy at, 171–72
“What price privacy now?” (report), 52–53
WikiLeaks, 155
William, Prince, 53
Winnie the Pooh, banning of, 118
Wiretapping/phone-hacking
Murdoch and, 51–54, 57, 60, 241–42
Times report on, 57–58, 241–42
Wisconsin, 26, 35, 56, 98, 112–13, 114
Wisner, Frank, 199
Women (president’s), 147–52, 165
Working Familes Party, 109
Working Group III, 224
World Bank, 67, 189–90
World Cup soccer tournament, 239
World Economic Forum, 78
WorldNetDaily (website), 39, 41
World Trade Center (1993 bombing), 181
World War I, 59, 91, 110, 135
World War II, 1, 14, 80, 117, 196
Yahoo, 79
Yale Law School, 146, 149
Yale University, 146
Yemen, 24
Yousef, Ramzi, 181
Zardari, Asif, 183
Al-Zawahiri, Ayman, 62
Zelaya, Manuel, 197–98
Zeta drug cartel, 237
Zimbabwe, 91
Zola, Emile, 135
Zubaydah, Abu, 182
Zuccotti Park, 100, 107, 263
Acknowledgments
I want to acknowledge Greg Lewis for helping make this the book that it is, through his insights and research. Also Ian Kleinert, my literary agent, for bringing all the moving pieces together. And my eagle-eyed editor, Peter Hubbard, and deputy publisher Lynn Grady, both of William Morrow/HarperCollins, for the faith to publish this, my most seminal work.
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