by Beck, Glenn
PAGE 10: “‘should be grateful to you for writing it’” Atlantic Monthly, February 1917, 144; Scribner’s Magazine, July 1917, 32d. • “Roosevelt’s Progressive Party ticket” Eugene Lyons, Herbert Hoover: A Biography (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), 139. • “to elect a Democratic Congress” New York Times, April 2, 1920, 17. • “angled to be his running mate” David Pietrusza, 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2007), 118, 137–39. • “‘unsolicited advice—all of it bad’” William E. Leuchtenburg, Herbert Hoover (New York: Times Books, 2009), 64. • “‘in peacetime in all of history’” Bill Flax, The Courage to Do Nothing: A Moral Defense of Markets and Freedom (Mustang, OK: Tate, 2010), 152. • “‘regimentation without stint or limit.’” David T. Beito, Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance During the Great Depression (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009), 163. • “‘country down the path of socialism.’” William C. Spragens, Popular Images of American Presidents (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1988), 350.
PAGE 11: “‘at its highest level in five years’” Amity Shlaes, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (New York: Harper Perennial, 2008), 94. • “‘for leadership in such times.’” Arthur A. Ekirch Jr., Ideologies and Utopias: The Impact of the New Deal on American Thought (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971); Paul Johnson, A History of the American People (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), 741. • “‘sure the economy doesn’t collapse.’” AFP News Agency, “Bush Says Sacrificed Free-Market Principles to Save Economy,” AFP, December 16, 2008 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jyyKrPjYt7VhpS8G8DrRkr18B0hA. • “less conservative than they already were” Irving Stone, They Also Ran (Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1966), 365. • “elements into a single party in 1948” David M. Jordan, FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011), 258–60. • “‘on health care, and on housing.’” Richard Nixon, interviewed by Frank Gannon, “The Nixon/Gannon Interviews,” February 9, 1983, Day 1, Tape 6, transcript, The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Special Collections Libraries, http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/nixon/nixonday1.html.
PAGE 12: “‘dime store New Deal.’” Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961–1973 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 131.
PAGE 13: “‘our district to the Republican Party.’” John P. Avlon, Independent Nation: How Centrism Is Changing the Face of American Politics (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004), 166. • “even LBJ did it in 1968–69” Thomas Alan Schwartz, Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003), 205. • “to tens of millions of Americans” “General Article: Domestic Politics: American Experience: Nixon,” PBS.org, accessed April 18, 2012, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/nixon-domestic. • “spending skyrocketing 120 percent” Robert E. Kelly, The National Debt of the United States 1941 to 2008 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008). • “gold standard and devalued the dollar” Jerry W. Markham A Financial History of the United States, vol. 3 (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2002), 38. • “instituted wage-and-price-controls” Donald H. Rumsfeld speaking at Tribute to Milton Friedman, May 9, 2002, http://www.defense.gov/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=216. • “‘we [the liberals] get the action.’” John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (New York: Penguin Press, 2004), 70. • “‘reconciliation with the Communists abroad.’” James Reston, “Back to Cuba and the Cold War,” New York Times, September 27, 1970, E15.
PAGE 14: “in his own private office” Margaret MacMillan, Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World (New York: Random House, 2008), 9–10. • “economic policy he instituted in 1922” Jerry W. Markham A Financial History of the United States, vol. 3 (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2002), 38. • “‘Read my lips, no new taxes,’” Alfred Regnery, Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism (New York: Threshold Editions, 2008), 345. • “an 89 percent approval rating” Roper Center at the University of Connecticut, “Job Performance Ratings for President Bush (G.H.W.),” Roper Center, University of Connecticut, ropercenter.uconn.edu, accessed April 18, 2012, http://bit.ly/IweelD.
PAGE 15: “37.5 percent in the 1992 election” Alfred Regnery, Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism (New York: Threshold Editions, 2008), 345. • “spent more on education than on Iraq” “Little-known Fact: Obama’s Failed Stimulus Program Cost More Than the Iraq War,” Beltway Confidential blog at washingtonexaminer.com, August 23, 2010, http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/little-known-fact-obama039s-failed-stimulus-program-cost-more-iraq-war. • “issued just twelve vetoes” “Vetoes by President George W. Bush,” senate.gov, http://www.senate.gov/reference/Legislation/Vetoes/BushGW.htm, accessed April 29, 2012. • “$5.768 trillion to $10.626 trillion” Mark Knoller, “National Debt Has Increased $4 Trillion Under Obama,” Political Hotsheet, cbsnews.com, August 22, 2011, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20095704-503544.html. • “number of programs had grown to 1,816” Veronique de Rugy, “Spending Under President George W. Bush” (working paper, Mercatus Center, George Washington University, March 2009), http://bit.ly/IwaIYv.
PAGE 17: “drafting a Constitution in the year 2012” Ariane de Vogue, “Ginsburg Likes S. Africa as Model for Egypt,” Politics: Legal blog at abcnews.com, Feb 3, 2012, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/ginsburg-likes-s-africa-as-model-for-egypt. • “he wasn’t alone: the vote was 96–3” Steve Benen, “It’s Amazing Ginsburg is even on the Bench,” Political Animal blog at washingtonmonthly.com, August 30, 2011, http://bit.ly/IwaUa4.
Chapter 2
THE LIBERTARIAN OPTION
Ending the Progressive Scam
PAGE 22: “‘that honors the traditions of our country’” Nancy Pelosi, “Rep. Pelosi’s Floor Speech Before the House Health Care Vote,” aolnews.com, March 21, 2010, http://www.aolnews.com/2010/03/21/rep-pelosis-house-floor-speech-before-health-care-vote. • “the Founding Fathers had envisioned” Mark Hemingway, “Harry Reid: The Founding Fathers Would Support Telling Boeing Where They Can Build Factories,” The Blog blog at weeklystandard.com, May 11, 2011, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/harry-reid-founding-fathers-would-support-telling-boeing-where-they-can-build-factories_560885.html. • “‘not give them up for expedience’s sake’” Barack Obama, “Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address,” transcript, nytimes.com, January 20, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/us/politics/20text-obama.html.
PAGE 23: “Heritage Foundation Freedom Index” The Heritage Foundation, “2012 Index of Economic Freedom,” heritage.org, accessed April 13, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/index/default. • “‘economic freedom over the last 10 years.’” James Gwartney, Robert Lawson, and Joshua Hall, “2011 Economic Freedom Dataset,” Economic Freedom of the World: 2011 Annual Report Executive Summary (Vancouver, BC: Fraser Institute, 2011), http://www.cato.org/pubs/efw/efw2011/EFW-2011-executivesummary.pdf. • “‘Which comes closer to your own view?’” Nate Silver, “Poll Finds a Shift Toward More Libertarian Views,” Five Thirty Eight blog at nytimes.com, June 20, 2011, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/poll-finds-a-shift-toward-more-libertarian-views.
PAGE 24: “want the government to cut taxes” “To Help Economy, Voters Want Government To Do More Cutting,” rasmussenreports.com, December 26, 2011, http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/general_business/december_2011/to_help_economy_voters_want_government_to_do_more_cutting. • “government being the arbiters of morality” Nate Silver, “Poll Finds a Shift Toward More Libertarian Views,” Five Thirty Eight blog at nytimes.com, June 20, 2011, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/poll-finds-a-shift-toward-more-libertarian-views. • “John McCain in the general election” Matt Welch, “Ron Paul’s McCain-Like Path to the Nomination,” reason.com, December 30, 2011, http://reason.com/archives/2011/12/30/ron-pauls-mccain-like-path-to-the-nomina. • “pretty good p
lace to find libertarians” “CBS Poll: Independents Prefer Ron Paul Vs Obama,” forbes.com, January 9, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/01/09/cbs-poll-independents-prefer-ron-paul-vs-obama.
PAGE 25: “independents has increased in 18 states” Richard Wolf, “Voters Leaving Republican, Democratic Parties in Droves,” USA Today, December 22, 2011, http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2011-12-22/voters-political-parties/52171688/1.
PAGE 27: “and against gun rights” Chris Field, “Let’s Closely Examine McCain’s Record,” humanevents.com, February 1, 2008, http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24785.
PAGE 28: “Heritage Foundation’s Index of Government Dependence” William W. Beach and Patrick D. Tyrrell, “The 2012 Index of Dependence on Government,” Heritage Center for Data Analysis, Heritage Foundation, February 8, 2012, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/02/2012-index-of-dependence-on-government. • “if a foreign country had invaded them” “Just Days After 9/11, Ron Paul Blames America,” rightscoop.com December 26, 2011, http://www.therightscoop.com/just-days-after-911-ron-paul-blames-america.
PAGE 29: “‘they attack us because we’re over there’” “Ron Paul in 2007 Republican Primary Debate in Columbia SC,” sponsored by Fox News, May 15, 2007, http://www.issues2000.org/Archive/2007_GOP_primary_SC_Ron_Paul.htm. • “241 American soldiers were murdered” “Beirut Barracks Attack Remembered,” cbsnews.com, February 11, 2009, http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-202_162-579638.html. • “‘building walls around our own country’” Newt Gingrich, interview by Wolf Blitzer, The Situation Room, CNN online, transcript, December 31, 2011, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1112/31/sitroom.01.html.
PAGE 30: “‘measure the cause of all mankind’” Thomas Paine, Common Sense (Bartleby.com, 1999), http://www.bartleby.com/133.
PAGE 31: “over 650 at last count” “Ron Paul says U.S. has Military Personnel in 130 Nations and 900 Overseas Bases,” politifact.com, September 12, 2011, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/sep/14/ron-paul/ron-paul-says-us-has-military-personnel-130-nation. • “extreme fiscal and social conservatives” Emily Ekins, “Is Half the Tea Party Libertarian?” reason.com, September 26, 2011, http://reason.com/poll/2011/09/26/is-half-the-tea-part-libertart.
PAGE 32: “published his results on Politico.com” David Kirby and Emily Ekins, “Tea Party’s Other Half,” politico.com, October 28, 2010, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/44243.html. • “‘Liberty and responsibility are inseparable’” Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Creative Powers of a Free Civilization,” chap. 2 in The Constitution of Liberty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960). • “‘general description also of what libertarianism is’” Manuel Klausner, “Inside Ronald Reagan: A Reason Interview,” Reason, July 1975, http://reason.com/archives/1975/07/01/inside-ronald-reagan/singlepage. • “referred to himself a ‘libertarian journalist’” William F. Buckley, Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist (New York: Random House Inc., 1993).
PAGE 33: “‘soul of conservatism is libertarianism.’” Manuel Klausner, “Inside Ronald Reagan: A Reason Interview,” Reason, July 1975, http://reason.com/archives/1975/07/01/inside-ronald-reagan/singlepage.
PAGE 34: “Senator Lee, for example, said:” Mike Lee, “Patriot Act and the Fourth Amendment—Floor Speech,” transcript, May 31, 2011, http://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/blog?ID=9d699112-5663-4707-a5e7-41f6aafbcadb. • “We can find a balance there” Nick Gillespie, Matt Welch, and Jim Epstein, “Sen. Jim DeMint: Why Republicans Must Become More Libertarian,” reason.com, February 7, 2012, http://reason.com/blog/2012/02/07/sen-jim-demint-why-republicans-must-beco.
PAGE 36: “federal income tax is a libertarian nightmare” “Congressman Scott Garrett Claims Half of All Americans Don’t Pay Federal Income Taxes,” politifact.com NJ, The Star Ledger, February 15, 2012, http://www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2012/feb/29/scott-garrett/congressman-scott-garrett-claims-half-all-american. • “the people with piercings. . .” Benny Johnson, “Van Jones Unloads on Libertarians,” TheBlaze.com, April 2, 2012, http://www.theblaze.com/stories/van-jones-unloads-on-libertarians-they-hate-the-brown-folk-the-gays-the-lesbians-theyre-anti-immigrant-bigots.
PAGE 37: “‘a freedom indistinguishable from selfishness’” Michael Gerson, “Ayn Rand’s Adult-Onset Adolescence,” Post Opinions blog at washingtonpost.com, April 21, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ayn-rands-adult-onset-adolescence/2011/04/21/AFv2JyKE_story.html. • “‘all are to take a back seat’” Jeffrey Sachs, “Libertarian Illusions,” Huff Post Politics, huffingtonpost.com, January 15, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/libertarian-illusions_b_1207878.html. • “you have to read about how perfect he is” Earth Institute at Columbia University, “Full Bio: Jeffrey D. Sachs,” earth.columbia.edu, accessed April 13, 2012, http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/1770, accessed April 13, 2012 • “‘determine how likely one is to give’” Arthur C. Brooks, Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism (New York: Basic Books, 2006), 110.
Chapter 3
GEORGE SOROS
The Puppet Master Pulls All the Strings
PAGE 42: “‘I am beginning to be able to. . .’” George Soros, Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1995), 238.
PAGE 44: “‘[Q]uite anti-Semitic, and ashamed of being Jewish’” George Soros, interview by Steve Kroft, 60 Minutes, CBS, December 20, 1998. • “a future-tense Esperanto verb meaning ‘will soar.’” “The Mind of George Soros; Meet the Esperanto Enthusiast Who Wants to Save the World from President Bush,” The Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2004. • “Soros’s father purchased forged papers” Michael T. Kaufman, Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire (New York: Knopf, 2002), 27. • “identifying the family as Christians and bribed” George Soros, interview by Steve Kroft, 60 Minutes, CBS, December 20, 1998. • “Baumbach took the young Soros. . . to take the possessions of a Jewish family” Michael T. Kaufman, Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire (New York: Knopf, 2002), 37. • “asked by Steve Kroft about that experience” George Soros, interview by Steve Kroft, 60 Minutes, CBS, December 20, 1998.
PAGE 45: “‘not only to save ourselves but also to save others’” George Soros, foreword to Masquerade: Dancing Around Death in Nazi-Occupied Hungary, by Trivadar Soros (New York: Arcade Publishing, 2001), x. • “‘It’s a very happy-making, exhilarating experience’” George Soros, interview by Steve Kroft, 60 Minutes, CBS, December 20, 1998.
PAGE 46: “philosopher Professor Karl Popper as his ‘tutor’” George Soros, Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1995), 33. • “‘Yet, this is what is happening, both internally and externally’” David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party (Nashville: Nelson Current, 2006) 73. • “‘what the Constitution ought to be’” David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party (Nashville: Nelson Current, 2006), 69. • “‘bubble of American supremacy’ as the greatest threat to world peace” George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy: The Costs of Bush’s War in Iraq (New York: PublicAffairs, 2004). • “to save $500,000 and then return to Europe” Michael T. Kaufman, Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire (New York: Knopf, 2002), 83. • “It was worth more than $1 billion” “Soros Fund Management Llc—Company Profile, Information, Business Description, History, Background Information on Soros Fund Management Llc,” referenceforbusiness.com, accessed April 11, 2012, http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/85/Soros-Fund-Management-Llc.html. Peter Schweizer, Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy (New York, Doubleday, 2005), 157.
PAGE 47: “‘on a global scale.’” George Soros, “America’s Global Role: Why the Fight for a Worldwide Open Society Begins at H
ome,” soros.org, May 27, 2003, http://www.soros.org/resources/articles_publications/articles/americanprospect_20030527.
PAGE 48: “‘I hope you are wrong’” George Soros, Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1995), 15. • “by his own account, was not constrained by scruples” George Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism (New York: Public Affairs, 1998), 75. • “he pocketed a billion dollars off the trade” Michael T. Kaufman, Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire (New York: Knopf, 2002). • “‘chances of being successful would have been reduced’” Michael T. Kaufman, Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire (New York: Knopf, 2002). • “convicted him of insider trading” “Soros Loses Case Against French Insider-Trading Conviction,” Bloomberg Business Week, October 6, 2011, http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-06/soros-loses-case-against-french-insider-trading-conviction.html.
PAGE 49: “‘at a private townhouse in Manhattan’” Karl West, “Man Who Broke the Bank of England, George Soros, ‘at Centre of Hedge Funds Plot to Cash in on Fall of the Euro,’” Daily Mail, February 27, 2010, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1253791/Is-man-broke-Bank-England-George-Soros-centre-hedge-funds-betting-crisis-hit-euro.html. • “his ‘Open Society Foundations’ in Hungary” Open Society Foundation, “About the Open Society Foundation,” soros.org, accessed April 12, 2012, http://www.soros.org/about. • “throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia” Open Society Foundation, “About: Timeline,” soros.org, accessed April 12, 2012, http://www.soros.org/about/timeline. • “In 1993, Soros established the flagship of his network” Open Society Foundation, “About: Timeline,” soros.org, http://www.soros.org/about/timeline, accessed April 12, 2012. • “‘whose governments are accountable to its citizens’” Open Society Foundations, “About the Open Society Foundation,” soros.org, http://www.soros.org/about, accessed April 12, 2012. “United States and Israel the chief targets of its ‘human rights’ protests” Adrian Karatnycky and Arch Puddington, “The Human-Rights Lobby Meets Terrorism,” NGO Monitor, March, 2002, http://www.ngo-monitor.org/data/images/File/The_Human_Rights_Lobby_Meets_Terrorism_2003.pdf. • “more than 70 countries” Open Societies Foundation “About the Open Society Foundation,” soros.org, accessed April 12, 2012, http://www.soros.org/about. • “Open Society Institute is a $1.9 billion operation” Open Society Institute, tax return, signed by Greg Collier, http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org//990pf_pdf_archive/137/137029285/137029285_200812_990PF.pdf.