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2. Don Lavoie, Rivalry and Central Planning: The Socialist Calculation Debate Reconsidered (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 78–116.
3. Ludwig von Mises, Socialism (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1981 (1922)), p. 101.
4. Ludwig von Mises, Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth, reprinted in F.A. Hayek (ed.), Collectivist Economic Planning (London: Routledge& Kegan Paul, 1935).
5. Ibid.
6. President Obama, speech at the headquarters of Solyndra Inc., Fremont, California, May 26, 2010. Accessed Jan. 11, 2011. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-economy-0.
7. Sean Higgins, “Van Jones, Other Liberals Defend Green Jobs Programs, Shift Focus From Jobs,” Capital Hill Blog, Investor’s Business Daily, Oct. 4, 2011, emphasis added. http://blogs.investors.com/capitalhill/index.php/home/35-politicsinvesting/3816-van-jones-liberals-green-jobs-solyndra-obama.
8. President Obama, remarks at Quincy, Ill., Apr. 28, 2010. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/presdocs/2010/DCPD-201000312.pdf.
9. Richard Reeves, “The Sayings of Chairman Barney,” Real Clear Politics, Dec. 2, 2011. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/12/02/the_sayings_of_chairman_barney_112253.html.
10. “The Fannie Mae Dice Roll Continues,” Review & Outlook, Wall Street Journal, Nov. 11, 2009.
11. Barney Frank, Fox News interview, July 14, 2008. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432173,00.html.
12. President Bush, speech, Phoenix, Ariz., Mar. 26, 2004.
13. Joseph Rago and Paul A. Gigot, “On Taxes, ‘Modeling,’ and the Vision Thing,” Wall Street Journal, Dec. 24, 2011.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. William Schambra, “Obama and the Policy Approach,” National Affairs, Fall 2009. http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/obama-and-the-policy-approach.
17. Ibid.
18. Peter J. Boettke, “Economics for Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” Journal of Private Enterprise, Spring 2011.
19. Glenn Beck on his Fox News Channel program, June 8, 2010. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,594265,00.html#ixzz1ibeDeFyS.
20. “With Assist from Glenn Beck, University of Chicago Press Book Tops Amazon Rankings,” Publishers Weekly, June 10, 2010.
21. Steven Rattner, “The 2012 Rivals Can Be Named: Hayek vs. Keynes,” Financial Times, Sept. 12, 2011.
22. John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Book 3, chapter 10, part 6, p. 116.
23. Exchange on “Global Public Square,” CNN, Aug. 12, 2011. http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/12/gps-this-sunday-krugman-calls-for-space-aliens-to-fix-u-s-economy/.
24. F. A. Hayek, Bruce Caldwell, ed., The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 9: Contra Keynes and Cambridge: Correspondence, Essays (University of Chicago Press, 1995), 1996. p. 243.
25. P.J. O’Rourke, Parliament of Whores, 1991, p. xxiv.
26. F. A. Hayek, Bruce Caldwell, ed., The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 9: Contra Keynes and Cambridge: Correspondence, Essays (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), p. 249.
27. F. A. Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” reprinted in Individualism and Economic Order (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 77.
28. Frédéric Bastiat, “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen,” section 1.1. http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basEss1.html.
29. Mario Rizzo, “Yes, Paul: It is Hayek versus Keynes,” ThinkMarkets Blog, Dec. 7, 2011 http://thinkmarkets.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/yes-paul-it-is-hayek-versus-keynes/.
30. Russ Feingold, “Feingold’s Statement on Czars,” New York Times, Oct. 6, 2009.
31. Jonah Goldberg, “Re: Czars,” The Corner, National Review Online, Dec. 15, 2008. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/174803/re-czars/jonah-goldberg.
32. Michael McAuliff, “Obama Tells Congress He’s Keeping His Czars,” Huffington Post, Apr. 15, 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/15/obama-czars-signing-statement_n_849963.html.
33. John Breshnahan, “Byrd: Obama in Power Grab,” Politico, Feb. 25, 2009. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19303.html.
34. Arthur Ekirch Jr., The Decline of American Liberalism (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1955), pp. 151–52.
35. Theodore Roosevelt, quoted at http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/theodoreroosevelt.
36. H. L. Mencken, “Roosevelt: An Autopsy,” in Prejudices (Baltimore: John Hopkins Paperbacks, 1996), pp. 61–62.
37. Charles A. Beard quoted in Arthur A. Ekirch Jr., Ideologies and Utopias: The Impact of the New Deal on American Thought (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1955), p. 132.
38. Gordon Tullock, “Welfare Costs of Monopolies, Tariffs, and Theft,” Western Economic Journal 5 (June 1967): pp. 224–32.
39. Charles B. Spahr, An Essay on the Present Distribution of Wealth in the United States (Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1896), p. 27.
Chapter 3: The Truth Cartel
1. Walter Cronkite, “The First Priority of Humankind . . .” Presented to the United Nations, New York, Oct. 1999. web.archive.org/web/20071011173432/http://www.ikosmos.com/wisdomeditions/essays/mw/cronkite01.htm.
2. Clark Peterson, “Frank Zappa: He’s Only 38 and He Knows How to Nasty,” Relix Magazine, Nov. 1979.
3. A. J. Liebling, “Do You Belong in Journalism?” New Yorker, May 14, 1960, pp. 104–12.
4. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Richard Price, Jan. 8, 1789. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/60.html.
5. Thomas Hazlett, “The Wireless Craze, The Unlimited Bandwidth Myth, The Spectrum Auction Faux Pas, and the Punchline to Ronald Coase’s ‘Big Joke.’,” AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, Jan. 2001. http://mason.gmu.edu/~thazlett/pubs/The%20Wireless%20Craze.pdf.
6. Pingdom, “Internet 2010 in numbers,” Royal Pingdom, Jan. 12, 2011. http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/Internet-2010-in-numbers.
7. Peter Voskamp, “GOP Attempt to Overturn FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Fails in Senate,” The Wrap, Reuters, Nov. 10, 2011.
8. “Evening News Viewership, by Network 1980–2006,” Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, Mar. 12, 2007. http://www.journalism.org/node/1346.
9. Brian Stetler, “CBS Evening News Ratings Tie 20-Year Low,” NY Times Media Decoder, Aug. 24, 2010.
10. Chris Ariens, “Evening News Ratings: Week of Nov. 28,” TVNewser, Dec. 6, 2011.
11. “U.S. Daily Newspaper Circulation Versus Number of Households,” Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, Mar. 13, 2006.
12. “Number of U.S. Daily Newspapers, 5-Year Increments,” Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, Mar. 12, 2007.
13. Joseph Plambeck, “Newspaper Circulation Falls Nearly 9%,” New York Times, Apr. 26, 2010.
14. Michelle Malkin, “Fairness Doctrine Watch: Schumer Likens Conservative Opinion to Pornography,” MichelleMalkin.com, Nov. 4, 2008. http://michellemalkin.com/2008/11/04/fairness-doctrine-watch-schumer-likes-conservative-opinion-to-pornography/.
15. Michael O’Brien, “Obama Open to Newspaper Bailout Bill,” The Hill, Sept. 20, 2009. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/59523-obama-open-to-newspaper-bailout-bill.
16. Office of Sen. Ben Cardin, “Senator Cardin Introduces Bill That Would Allow American Newspapers to Operate as Non-Profits,” (press release) Mar. 24, 2009. http://cardin.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/senator-cardin-introduces-bill-that-would-allow-american-newspapers-to-operate-as-non-profits.
17. Dave Murray, “Obama Concernced about Newspapers,” post-gazette.com, Sept. 20, 2009. http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/09263/999253-482.stm.
18. Mark Joyella, “Traffic Data: Cable News, Led by CNN, Crushing Newspapers on the Web,” Mediaite.com, May 10, 2011. http://www.mediaite.com/online/traffic-data-cable-news-led-by-cnn-crushing-newspapers-on-the-web/.
19. “Statistics,” Facebook.com, retrieved Dec. 11, 2011. http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics.<
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20. Reported by Dylan Stableford, “Drudge Report Drives More Traffic Than Facebook and Twitter Combined, Study Says,” The Cutline, Yahoo! News, Aug. 11, 2011. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/drudge-report-drives-more-traffic-facebook-twitter-combined-193516280.html.
21. Kamelia Angelova, “Glenn Beck: Why This Is The Most Dangerous Era Of Our Lifetime,” Business Insider, Dec. 27, 2011.
22. Ibid.
23. BITG research by Richard Greenfield.
24. Lauren A. E. Schuker, “Glenn Beck Faces Big New Test as New Show Bows,” Wall Street Journal, Sept. 12, 2011.
25. Glenn Thrush, “Pelosi: ‘I’m not afraid of August,’” Politico, July 23, 2009, http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0709/Pelosi_Im_not_afraid_of_August.html.
26. Rich Noyes, “TV’s Tea Party Travesty,” Media Research Center, Mar. 2010. http://www.mrc.org/specialreports/2010/TeaParty/Scorning.aspx.
27. Annie Gowen, “City: Rat Population Has ‘Exploded’ Around Occupy D.C. Camps,” Washington Post, Breaking News Blog, Jan. 9, 2012. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post_now/post/city-rat-population-has-exploded-around-occupy-dc-camps/2012/01/09/gIQA6AoylP_blog.html.
28. Tim Graham, “Omitting for Obama: How the Old Media Deliberately Censored New Media Scoops in 2009,” Media Research Center, 2010. http://www.mrc.org/specialreports/2010/OmittingforObama/ExecutiveSummary.aspx.
29. Dan Gainor, “Fire and Ice,” Business & Media Institute, Media Research Center, May 17, 2006. http://www.mrc.org/bmi/reports/2010/Fire_and_Ice.html.
30. W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm, “Creative Destruction,” Library of Economics and Liberty. http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/CreativeDestruction.html.
31. Tom Price, “Journalism Standards in the Internet Age,” CQ Researcher, vol 20–35, Oct. 8, 2010.
32. David Brooks and Gail Collins, “Old Media vs. New Media,” NY Times Opinionator Blog, June 30, 2010. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/old-media-v-new-media/.
33. Ibid.
34. Brink Lindsey, Jonah Goldberg, and Matt Kibbe, “Where Do Libertarians Belong: A Reason Debate,” Reason.com. Aug.–Sept. 2010. http://reason.com/archives/2010/07/12/where-do-libertarians-belong/singlepage.
35. Brian Stetler, “Debunkers of Fictions Sift the Net,” New York Times, Apr. 4, 2010.
36. Rick Santelli, Squawk Box, CNBC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or-EKjfVCoA.
37. Robert Seidman, “Cable News Ratings for Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009,” TV by the Numbers, Jan. 28, 2009. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2009/01/28/cable-news-ratings-for-tuesday-january-27-2009/11700/.
38. Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958).
Chapter 4: Don’t Hurt Others and Don’t Take Their Stuff
1. Transcript, Van Jones Address to Netroots Nation 2011. Retrieved from Northwest Progressive Institute. http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2011/07/transcript-van-jones-urges-netroots-to-lead-the-way-in-rebuilding-the-american-dream.html.
2. http://vanjones.net/.
3. Jeff Zeleny, “A Socialist? Obama Calls Back to Insist No,” New York Times, Mar. 8, 2009.
4. “Remarks by the President on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas,” WhiteHouse.gov. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/06/remarks-president-economy-osawatomie-kansas.
5. Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), p. 130.
6. Frédéric Bastiat, “That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen” (1850). http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html.
7. Transcript, Van Jones Address to Netroots Nation 2011, op. cit.
8. Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1789), Part 2, section II, reprinted by Library Classics, (1984) Indianapolis, Indiana pp. 83–84.
9. Peter Hamby, “Axelrod Suggests ‘Tea Party’ Movement Is ‘Unhealthy,’” CNN.com, Apr. 19, 2009. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/19/axelrod-suggests-tea-party-movement-is-unhealthy/.
10. Organizing for America memo, “2 Phone Calls on 9/11,” Sept. 11, 2009. Retrieved from Heritage Foundation. http://blog.heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/highlightedversion.jpg
11. Jonathan Allen and John Bresnahan, “Sources: Joe Biden Likened Tea Partiers to Terrorists,” Politico, Aug. 1, 2011. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60421.html.
12. Alicia Ciccone, “Occupy Wall Street Causing Problems on Main Street,” Huffington Post, Oct. 4, 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/04/occupy-wall-street-poses-challenge-to-main-street_n_993306.html.
13. Emma Brown and Del Quentin Wilber, “Air and Space Museum Closes after Guards Clash with Protesters,” Washington Post, Oct. 8, 2011.
14. John Nolte, “Occupy Wall Street: The Rap Sheet So Far,” Big Government.com, Dec. 9, 2011. http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/28/occupywallstreet-the-rap-sheet-so-far/.
15. Meghan Barr and Ryan J. Foley, “Occupy Protests Cost Nation’s Cities at Least $13M,” Associated Press, Nov. 13, 2011.
16. Alessandra Rizzo and Meera Selva, “Police Fire Tear Gas as Protesters Riot in Rome,” Associated Press, Oct. 15, 2011.
17. Matt Kibbe, “What Sets the Tea Party Apart,” Human Events, Nov. 14, 2011. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47501.
18. Cady Lang, “Chained Up,” 360 Magazine, Dec. 13, 2011. http://360magazine.org/2011/12/chained-up/.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Craig Kanalley, “Occupy Wall Street: At Zuccotti Park, Conflict Arises Among Occupiers,” Huffington Post, Oct. 22, 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-kanalley/occupy-wall-street-zuccotti-park_b_1026400.html.
22. Ibid.
23. Transcript, Van Jones Address to Netroots Nation 2011.
24. Hernando De Soto, “The Real Mohamed Bouaziz,” Foreign Policy, Dec. 16, 2011. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/12/16/the_real_mohamed_bouazizi?page=full.
25. Amy Bingham, “Occupy D.C. Protesters Mar. Through Washington Demanding Jobs,” ABC News, Oct. 6, 2011. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/occupy-d-c-protesters-march-through-washington-demanding-jobs/.
26. Mary Bruce, “Obama Says Wall St. Protests Voice Widespread Frustrations,” ABC News. Oct. 6, 2011. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/obama-says-wall-st-protests-voice-widespread-frustrations/.
27. David Jackson, “Occupy Protesters Decry Obama’s ‘Silence’ on Arrests,” USA Today, Nov. 23, 2011.
28. Ibid.
29. Transcript, Van Jones Address to Netroots Nation 2011.
30. Rebuild the Dream website, Contract for the Dream, http://contract.rebuildthedream.com/.
31. Christopher F. Karpowitz, J. Quin Monson, Kelly D. Patterson, and Jeremy C. Pope, “Tea Time in America? The Impact of the Tea Party Movement on the 2010 Midterm Elections,” PS: Political Science & Politics, 44, 2011, pp. 303–309.
32. Rebuild the Dream website, op. cit.
33. Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Change (New York: Random House, 2009), pp. 141–42.
34. Ibid.
35. Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), pp. 568–69.
Chapter 5: When America Beats Washington
1. George W. Bush, interview with Candy Crowley on CNN, Dec. 2008. Aired Nov. 14, 2010. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1011/14/sotu.02.html.
2. “Transcript of Speaker Pelosi’s Speech,” New York Times, Sept. 29, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/washington/30pelositranscript.html?pagewanted=all.
3. USLegal, http://definitions.uslegal.com/c/collusion/.
4. Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, “Death of the Duopoly,” Wall Street Journal, June 18, 2011.
5. Tim Graham, “Jimmy Carter Lies on NPR: ‘I Have Never Criticized the Tea Party Movement,’” Newsbusters.org, Dec. 2, 2010. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/12/02/jimmy-carter-lies-npr-i-have-never-criticized-tea-party-movement#ixzz1hOZ59gfa.
/> 6. Robert Higgs, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
7. Andreas Madestam et al., “Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence from the Tea Party Movement,” Abstract from Harvard University seminar, Dec. 4, 2011. http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~veuger/papers/Political%20Protests%20—%20Evidence%20from%20the%20Tea%20Party.pdf.
8. David Freddoso, “Pelosi on Health Care: ‘We Have to Pass the Bill So You Can Find Out What Is In It,’” Washington Examiner, Mar. 9, 2010.
9. David Espo, “Specter’s Defection to Democrats Roils Republicans,” Associated Press, Apr. 29, 2009. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97S56DG0.
10. U.S. Senate, Roll Call Vote 396, Dec. 24, 2009, on final passage of H.R. 3590, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The bill passed the Senate 60 to 39, with Senator Specter (D-PA) casting the 60th vote. Accessed Mar. 4, 2012. http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00396.
11. Josh Kraushaar, “After Specter Switch: Buyer’s Remorse?” Politico, May 4, 2009. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22092_Page2.html.
12. Sam Stein, “NRSC’s Cornyn: We Won’t Call for Repealing All of Health Care,” Huffington Post, May 23, 2010.
13. Jeremy P. Jacobs, “NRCC Stops Short Of Predicting Winning Majority,” Hotline ON CALL Blog, National Journal, Oct. 5, 2010. http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/10/nrcc_stops_shor.php.
14. Michael Steele on Fox News Channel’s Hannity, Jan. 4, 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33gmv5WV09Y.
15. Mark Preston. “Cornyn Expresses Optimism, Caution on 2010.” CNN.com, Sept. 8, 2009. http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/08/cornyn-expresses-optimism-caution-on-201/.
16. Scott Johnson, “The Tea Leaves in Last Week’s Primaries,” PowerLineBlog, June 28, 2010. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/06/026628.php.
17. Amy Gardner, “Gauging the Scope of the Tea Party Movement in America,” Washington Post, Oct. 24, 2010.
18. Profile of Mike Mulvaney, Townhall.com. http://townhall.com/election-2012/election-2010/state/sc/candidate/john-mick-michael-mulvaney/.
19. FEC Report filed by Mulvaney campaign. http://query.nictusa.com/pdf/724/10930239724/10930239724.pdf#navpanes=0.