29. Pamela Geller, “Obama and Blago… and the SEIU,” AtlasShrugs.com, December 10, 2008, http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2008/12/obama-and-blago.html.
30. Jackie Calmes, “Lawmakers Detail Obama’s Pitch,” New York Times, November 7, 2009.
31. Helen Kennedy, “President Obama Insult by Glenn Beck has Advertisers Boycotting Show,” Daily News (New York), August 18, 2009.
32. Richard Leiby, “Obama Delivers the Zingers at Journalists’ Dinner,” Washington Post, May 10, 2009.
33. Howard Kurtz, “Study: Coverage of McCain Much More Negative Than That of Obama,” Washington Post, October 22, 2008.
34. Alexander Burns, “Halperin at Politico/USC conf.: ‘extreme pro-Obama’ press bias,” Politico, November 22, 2008, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/
1108/15885.html#xzz0WPq5PGFN.
35. “Most Voters Say News Media Wants Obama to Win,” The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, October 22, 2008, http://people-press.org/report
/463/media-wants-obama.
36. Fred Lucas, “Poll: Big Majorities Say Objective Journalism Is Dead and that Media Back Obama,” CNS News, September 25, 2009.
37. Jeff Poor, “Obama Blasts Fox News: ‘I’ve Got One Television Station that is Entirely Devoted to Attacking My Administration,’” Business & Media Institute, June 16, 2009.
38. Brian Stelter, “Fox’s Volley With Obama Intensifying,” FOXNews.com, October 11, 2009.
39. “Obama Team Continues Effort to Isolate Fox News,” FOXNews.com, October 18, 2009.
40. Ibid.
41. Johanna Newman, “The Obama War Against Fox News: Risky Business?” Los Angeles Times, October 19, 2009.
42. James Gordon Meek, “Obama’s Team Again Rips Fox News—But Says Aides Will Appear on Shows,” Daily News (New York), October 19, 2009.
43. “Obama Team Continues Effort to Isolate Fox News.”
44. “Obama Compares Fox News to Talk Radio, Says He’s Not ‘Losing Sleep’ Over Controversy,” FOXNews.com, October 21, 2009.
45. Peter Nicholas, “Democratic Consultant Says He Got a Warning from White House After Appearing on Fox News,” Los Angeles Times, November 6, 2009.
46. John Fontana, “Bill giving Obama power to shut Web takes on new tone,” Computer-World, August 31, 2009.
47. Jaikumar Vijayan, “Privacy Office approves laptop searches without suspicion at U.S. borders,” ComputerWorld, August 31, 2009.
48. Kyle Smith, “Gag the Internet!,” New York Post, July 11, 2009.
49. Ibid.
50. Kerry Picket, “New AG Choice Advocated To Stifle Speech On Web,” Newsbusters.com, November 21, 2008.
51. Macon Phillips, “Facts Are Stubborn Things,” WhiteHouse.gov, August 4, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/
blog/facts-are-stubborn-things/.
52. “Sen. Cornyn Sends Letter To President Obama About ‘Fishy’ Activities Program,” John Cornyn website, August 5, 2009, http://cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.
cfm?FuseAction=ForPress.NewsReleases
&ContentRecord_id=ebc2c77d-802a-23ad
-4ae4-6ccf4c7a255c&ContentType_id
=b94acc28-404a-4fc6-b143-a9e15bf92da4
&Group_id=24eb5606-e2db
-4d7f-bf6c-efc5df80b676&MonthDisplay
=8&YearDisplay=2009.
53. Erick Erickson, “John Cornyn Takes on Obama’s [email protected] Program, But Wait! There’s More with the NTIA,” RedState.com, August 5, 2009, http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/08/05/john
-cornyn-takes-on-obamas-
flagwhitehousegov-program-but-
wait-theres-more-with-the-ntia/.
54. Jake Tapper, “Political Punch,” ABCNews.com, August 10, 2009.
55. Audrey Hudson, “EXCLUSIVE: W.H. Collects Web Users’ Data Without Notice,” Washington Times, September 16, 2009.
56. Jacqui Cheng, “EFF: MySpace suicide charges a threat to free speech,” Ars Technica, August 4, 2008, http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/
news/2008/08/eff-myspace
-suicide-charges-a-threat-
to-free-speech.ars.
57. “H.R. 1966 - Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act,” available at http://www.opencongress.org/bill/
111-h1966/text.
58. Eugene Volokh, “Federal Felony To Use Blogs, the Web, Etc. To Cause Substantial Emotional Distress Through ‘Severe, Repeated, and Hostile’ Speech?” Volokh Conspiracy, April 30, 2009, http://volokh.com/
posts/1241122059.html.
59. Rep. Linda Sanchez, “Protecting Victims, Preserving Freedoms,” Huffington Post, May 6, 2009.
60. “H.R. 1966 - Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act.”
61. Ryan Singel, “FCC Backs Net Neutrality—And Then Some,” Wired.com, September 21, 2009, http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/09
/net-neutrality-announcement/.
62. Ibid.
63. James G. Lakely, “‘Net Neutrality’ Is Socialism, Not Freedom,” Examiner (Washington), October 20, 2009.
64. Glenn Beck, “The Radicals on the Left Want You to Shut Up,” Fox News, August 13, 2009.
65. Pamela Geller, “Free Speech Silenced at Columbia and Princeton,” American Thinker, November 24, 2009.
66. William J. Becker, Jr., “The American Library Association’s Stealth Jihad Against Free Speech,” FrontPageMagazine.com, October 9, 2009.
67. Pamela Geller, “Free Speech Code Blue: Geert Wilders Goes on Trial January 2010,” AtlasShrugs.com, September 12, 2009, http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/09/free-speech-code-blue-geert
-wilders-goes-on-trial-january-2010.html; Pamela Geller, “Geert Wilders Arrested! Refused Entry,” AtlasShrugs.com, February 12, 2009, http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/02/geert-wilders-
arrested-refused-entry.html; Pamela Geller, “Wilders Liberated to Travel to UK! Coming to Columbia University Next Week,” AtlasShrugs.com, October 13, 2009, http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/10/wilders-liberated-to-travel
-to-uk-coming-to-columbia
-university-next-week.html; Pamela Geller, “Self Imposed Noose Tightens on the West: Another Wilders Ban,” AtlasShrugs.com, November 22, 2009, http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/
2009/11/self-imposed-noose-tightens
-on-the-west-another-wilders-ban.html.
68. “Reaction to the decision in the pre-trial review,” WildersOnTrial.com, February 3, 2010, http://www.wildersontrial.com/index.php?option
=com_content&view=section&
layout=blog&id=4&Itemid=2.
ELEVEN: SOCIALIST AMERICA
1. “Obama College Thesis: ‘Constitution is Inherently Flawed,’” Jumping In Pools, August 25, 2009, http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/08/
obama-college-thesis-constitution-is.html.
2. Michael Ledeen, “The Obama ‘thesis’ hoax,” Pajamas Media, October 23, 2009, http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2009/10/
23/the-obama-thesis-hoax/.
3. “Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered,” Barack Obama interview, WBEZ-FM, 2001, YouTube, October 26, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck&
feature=player_embedded.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. “The next campaign,” Progressive Populist, November 1996, http://www.populist.com/11.96.Edit.html.
8. Stanley Kurtz, “Life of the New Party,” National Review, October 30, 2008.
9. Bob Roman, “A Town Meeting on Economic Insecurity: Employment and Survival in Urban America,” New Ground 45, March-April 1996, http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng45.html.
10. Carl Shier, “So Long, Saul, Old Friend,” New Ground 58, May-June 1998, http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng58.html.
11. John Berlau, “Nationalization Review,” American Spectator, June 23, 2009.
12. “Krauthammer’s
Take,” National Review, May 20, 2009.
13. John Lott, “The Nationalization of the US auto industry,” John Lott’s Website, April 28, 2009, http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2009/04/
nationalization-of-us-auto-industry.html.
14. Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, “The Young Turn Against Obamacare,” DickMorris.com, November 24, 2009.
15. Pamela Geller, “Obamacare DOA: Rx America, A Doctor’s Prescription,” AtlasShrugs.com, September 20, 2009, http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/09/obamacare-doa-rx-america.html.
16. Robert Creamer, Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win (Santa Ana, Calif.: Seven Locks Press, 2007); Joel B. Pollak, “Was Democrats’ Health Care Strategy Written In Federal Prison?” Big Government, December 7, 2009.
17. Sarah Palin, “Statement on the Current Health Care Debate,” Sarah Palin’s Notes, Facebook.com, August 7, 2009.
18. Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller, “President Obama Addresses Sarah Palin ‘Death Panels,’ ‘Wild Representations,’” ABC News, August 11, 2009.
19. Sarah Palin, “Concerning the ‘Death Panels,’” Sarah Palin’s Notes, Facebook.com, August 12, 2009.
20. “Obama’s Senior Moment,” Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2009.
21. “Morning Bell: The Obamacare Rationing Threat To Your Mammograms,” The Heritage Foundation, November 24, 2009, http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/24/
morning-bell-the-obamacare-rationing
-threat-to-your-mammograms/.
22. Pamela Geller, “Palin Rules: No Health Care Reform Without Legal Reform,” AtlasShrugs.com, August 22, 2009, http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/08/palin-rules-.html.
23. “Video: Pelosi Says Jail ‘Very Fair’ Punishment For Not Buying Health Insurance,” Heritage Foundation, November 13, 2009, http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/13/
video-pelosi-says-jail-very-fair-
punishment-for-not-buying-health-insurance.
24. Sunlen Miller, “Interview with the President: Jail Time for Those without Health Care Insurance?” ABC News, November 9, 2009.
25. “Video: Pelosi Says Jail ‘Very Fair’ Punishment For Not Buying Health Insur-ance.”
26. “Lyrics: Songs About President Obama,” FOXNews.com, September 24, 2009.
27. Ibid.
28. John Nolte, “Elementary Epidemic: 11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama,” Big Hollywood, November 4, 2009, http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/
2009/11/04/elementary-epidemic-11
-uncovered-videos-show-school-children
-performing-praises-to-obama
/#more-251738.
29. Pamela Geller, “Obama Recruiting Radicals in High Schools,” Big Government, January 31, 2010, http://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/01/31
/obama-recruiting-radicals-in-high-schools/.
30. Patrick Courrielche, “The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion?” Big Hollywood, August 25, 2009. http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pcourrielche/2009/08
/25/the-national-endowment-for-the-art
-of-persuasion-patrick-courrielche.
31. Ibid.
32. John Nolte, “Propaganda, Health Care and ACORN: Full Context of NEA Conference Call Reveals Disturbing Pattern,” Big Hollywood, September 21, 2009, http://bighollywood.breibart.com/jjmnolte/2009
/09/21/propaganda-health
-care-and-acorn-full-context-of-nea-conference
-call-reveals-disturbing-pattern.
33. Lee Rosenbaum, “‘United We Serve’: Should the Arts be Politically Exploited?” CultureGrrl, September 2, 2009, http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2009/09u
/nited_we_serve.html.
34. John Berry, “Memorandum For Heads Of Executive Departments and Agencies,” United States Office of Personnel Management, November 5, 2009, http://www.chcoc.gov/Transmittals
/TransmittalDetails.aspx?TransmittalId=2588.
35. Mark Tapscott, “Obama to weed out Bush political appointees who careered in; Establishes new political test for career jobs UPDATED!,” Examiner (Washington), November 12, 2009, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/
blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-to
-weed-out-Bush-political-appointees-who
-careered-in-Establishes-new-political-test
-for-career-jobs-69858442.html.
36. Erick Erickson, “Obama Administration Intends to Purge Republicans From the Civil Service,” RedState.com, November 12, 2009, http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/11/12
/obama-administration-intends-to
-purge-republicans-from-the
-civil-service/.
37. Ibid.
38. P. J. Gladnick, “Will MSM Report on Louis Farrakhan Declaration of Obama as the Messiah?” Newsbusters, October 9, 2008, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/10/09/will-msm-report-louis-farrakhan-declaration-obama-messiah.
39. Ayn Rand, The Ayn Rand Column, ed. Peter Schwartz (New Miford, Conn.: Second Renaissance Books, 1998), p. 18.
TWELVE: THE RED CZARS
1. Eric Cantor, “Obama and His 32 Czars: President is Skirting Legislative Branch,” Washington Post, August 1, 2009.
2. Robert Byrd, Letter to Barack Obama, February 23, 2009, available at http://www.eenews.net/public/25/9865/
features/documents/2009/02/25
/document_gw_02.pdf.
3. Cantor, “Obama and His 32 Czars.”
4. Byrd, Letter to Barack Obama.
5. Eric Cantor, “Obama and His 32 Czars.”
6. David Rochelson, “The search for knowledge, truth and a greater understanding of the world around us,” Change.gov, December 20, 2008, http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/
the_search_for_knowledge_truth_and_a_
greater_understanding_of_the_world_aro.
7. http://www.pugwash.org/.
8. Paul Ehrlich, Anne Ehrlich, and John Holdren, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, and Environment, (New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1977), p. 954. Quoted in Ben Johnson, “Obama’s Biggest Radical,” FrontPageMagazine.com, February 27, 2009, http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.
aspx?ARTID=34198.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. “Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered,” Barack Obama interview, WBEZ-FM, 2001, YouTube, October 26, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
&feature=player_embedded.
12. Ehrlich, Ehrlich, and Holdren, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, and Environment, pp. 837–38. Quoted in Johnson, “Obama’s Biggest Radical.”
13. Ibid., p. 943. Quoted in Johnson.
14. Ibid., p. 917. Quoted in Johnson.
15. John P. Holdren, “Arms Limitation and Peace Building in the Post-Cold-War World,” Pugwash Online, December 10, 1995, http://www.pugwash.org/award/Holdrennobel.htm. Quoted in Ben Johnson, “Obama’s Biggest Radical,” FrontPageMagazine.com, February 27, 2009, http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.
aspx?ARTID=34198.
16. John P. Holdren, “Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being,” Science 25, January 2008: Vol. 319, no. 5862, pp. 424–34. Quoted in Ben Johnson, “Obama’s Biggest Radical,” FrontPageMagazine.com, February 27, 2009, http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.
aspx?ARTID=34198.
17. Ben Johnson, “Obama’s Biggest Radical,” FrontPageMagazine.com, February 27, 2009, http://97.74.65.51/readArticle
.aspx?ARTID=34198.
18. Bob Roman, “A Town Meeting on Economic Insecurity: Employment and Survival in Urban America,” New Ground 45, March-April 1996, http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng45.html.
19. “Browner is an Environmental Radical—and a Socialist (Seriously),” Examiner (Washington), January 8, 2009, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion
/Browner_is_an_environmental_radical_
_and_a_socialist_seriously_010809.html.
20. Stephen Dinan, “Obama Climate Czar has Social
ist Ties,” Washington Times, January 12, 2009.
21. John Griffing, “Watermelon Marxists,” American Thinker, December 8, 2009.
22. Eliza Strickland, “The New Face of Environmentalism,” The East Bay Express, November 2, 2005.
23. Aaron Klein, “Will a ‘Red’ Help Blacks Go Green?” WorldNetDaily, November 5, 2009.
24. Deborah Solomon, “Pay Czar Gets Broad Authority Over Executive Compensation,” Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2009.
25. David Harsanyi, “The Rise of the Mob Economy,” Townhall.com, October 23, 2009, http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidHarsanyi
/2009/10/23/the_rise_of_the_mob_
economy?page=full&comments=true.
26. Eamon Javers, “‘Pay czar’ Kenneth Feinberg caps pay of midlevel executives,” Politico, December 11, 2009, http://www.politico.com/news/stories
/1209/30480.html.
27. Harsanyi, “The Rise of the Mob Economy.”
THIRTEEN: ACORN: FEDERALLY FUNDED FRAUD
1. James O’Keefe, “Complete ACORN Baltimore Child Prostitution Investigation Transcript,” Big Government, September 10, 2009, http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/10/complete-acorn
-baltimore-prostitution
-investigation-transcript/.
2. Amanda Carpenter, “ACORN’s Rap Sheet,” Townhall.com, October 13, 2008, http://townhall.com/columnists/AmandaCarpenter
/2008/10/13/acorns_rap_sheet?
page=full&comments=true.
3. Terrence Scanlon, “Is ACORN disenfranchising the process itself?” Examiner (Washington), November 6, 2006, http://www.examiner.com/a-381567
~Terrence_Scanlon_Is_ACORN_disenfranchising
_the_process_itself_.html.
4. Carpenter, “ACORN’s Rap Sheet.”
5. Ibid.
6. Ronald Kessler, “Former ACORN Employee: More Than Half Voter Registrations Invalid,” Newsmax, March 19, 2009.
7. Sol Stern, “ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities,” City Journal, Spring 2003, http://www.city-journal.org/html/
13_2_acorns_nutty_regime.html.
8. Stanley Kurtz, “Inside Obama’s Acorn,” National Review, May 29, 2008.
9. Adam Doster, “Growing the Pie: How Obama’s Voter-Registration Efforts Could Reshape the Electoral Map in November,” Illinois Times, August 6, 2008.
10. Ibid.
11. John Fund, “Acorn Who? Obama Heads for the High Grass,” Wall Street Journal, September 21, 2009.
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