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  3. Herbert London, “U.S. Endorses Tolerance of Dictators Killing Their Own,” Human Events, March 26, 2011.

  4. Edward Kennedy, “Address at the Public Memorial Service for Robert F. Kennedy,” June 8, 1968, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, American Rhetoric, Top 100 Speeches, americanrhetoric.com.

  5. Claes Ryn, The New Jacobinism: America as Revolutionary State (With a Major New Afterward by the Author) (Bowie, Md.: National Humanities Institute, 2011).

  6. “German Lessons,” German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, ghi-dc.org, reprint of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Nov. 27, 2008.

  7. Rev. Martin Luther King, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” Riverside Church, Apr. 4, 1967, hartford-hwp.com.

  8. Justin Driver, “Robust and Wide-Open,” The New Republic, Feb. 17, 2011, 37.

  9. Ed Pilkington, “Obama Angers Midwest Voters with Guns and Religion Remark,” Guardian, April 14, 2008.

  10. “A More Perfect Union,” Remarks of Sen. Barack Obama, Constitution Center, Philadelphia, huffingtonpost.com, March 18, 2008.

  11. Murray Rothbard, “A Strategy for the Right,” The Irrepressible Rothbard, lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch1.html.

  12. Michael Kinsley, “Cordoba House: Charles Krauthammer, and the First Amendment,” theatlanticwire.com Aug. 16, 2010.

  13. Chilton Williamson, Jr., “The New American Mob,” Chronicles, July 2010, 17.

  14. Ibid., 18.

  15. Carol Swain, The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 423.

  16. “President Nixon’s ‘Silent Majority’ Speech, November 1969,” vietnamwar.net.

  17. “Military Needs to Close More Bases,” reuters.com, Sept. 15, 2010.

  18. Yaakov Katz, “Stuxnet Virus Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by 2 Years,” Jerusalem Post, Dec. 15, 2010.

  19. Ralph Gomory, “A Time for Action: Jobs, Prosperity and National Goals,” huffingtonpost.com, Jan. 25, 2010.

  20. Ibid.

  21. Abraham Lincoln, “The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions,” Lyceum Address, Jan. 27, 1838, Speeches and Writings, Abraham Lincoln Online, showcase.netins.net.

  22. James Gimpel, “Immigration, Political Realignment, and the Demise of Republican Political Prospects,” backgrounder, Center for Immigration Studies, Feb. 2010, 5.

  23. Ibid.

  24. Toby Hamden, “Barack Obama in Turkey: US ‘Will Never Be at War With Islam,’” The Telegraph, April 6, 2009.

  25. “Novak’s Secret Source Revealed: Former Sen. Tom Eagleton Labeled ’72 Dem Nominee as Candidate of ‘Amnesty, Abortion and Acid,’” Crown Forum, July 10, 2007, yubanet.com.

  26. David Gordon, “Courts and Congress: America’s Unwritten Constitution,” The Mises Review, April 2008, mises.org.

  27. “Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King Jr.],” African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, africa.upenn.edu.

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