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1 Clayton Christiansen, The Innovator’s Dilemma (NY: HarperCollins, 2000).
2 “Nuke over U.S. could unleash electromagnetic tsunami,” World Tribune , December 7, 2005; available at: http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/front2453711.9284722223.html.
3 William R. Forstchen, One Second After (NY: Forge Books, 2009).
4 See e.g., Gerald Posner, “China’s Secret Cyberterrorism,” The Daily Beast; available at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-13/chinas-secret-cyber-terrorism/.
5 See e.g., Joshua Davis, “Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe,” Wired magazine, August 21, 2007; available at: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia?currentPage=all.
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Index
A
AA. See Alcoholics Anonymous
ABC News
abolitionism
abortion
academia. See also education
ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union
ACORN Housing Corporation (AHC)
ACT. See America Coming Together
Acton, Lord
Adams, John
AFDC. See Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Afghanistan
AFL-CIO
African-Americans
AHC. See ACORN Housing Corporation
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
AIDS
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
AIG
Air America
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
Alexander, Lamar
Alinsky. David
Alinsky, Saul
Alliance Defense Fund
al Qaeda
America; China vs.; Cuba and; democracy and; energy reserves in; saving; traditional vs. secular-socialist view of; war on terrorism and
America Coming Together (ACT)
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
American Council on Science and Health
American Dream
American exceptionalism
American people: corruption and; government and; history of; Obama, Barack and; secular-socialist threat to; traditions of
American Revolution
American Solutions
American values: conflict resolution and; elected representation and; energy development and; government and; honesty and; localism and; private property and; productivity and; religious freedom and; secular-socialism vs.; taxation and; work ethic and
Amnesty International
anti-Americanism
AP. See Associated Press
An Appeal to Reason (Lawson)
AR4. See Fourth Assessment Report
The Argument (Bai)
Army Corps of Engineers
Asbell, Fred
Associated Press (AP)
Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN)
Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Australia
autism
automobile industry
Ayers, Bill
B
Bai, Matt
balanced budgets
Ban Ki Moon
Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model (Horowitz)
Barr, Bob
Barron’s magazine
Barthold, Thomas
Bartlett, Roscoe
Baucus, Max
BBC. See British Broadcasting Corporation
Bear Stearns
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bible
big business: Democratic Party, Democrats and; food safety bill (2009) and; government and; Left and; Obama, Barack and; political machine and; secular-socialist machine and
big government. See government
Bill of Rights
Bing, Stephen
bin Laden, Osama
biological warfare
bipartisanship
Blagojevich, Rod
Bloomberg, Michael
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Bolton, John
Boston Globe
Boys Scouts
Braun, Carol Moseley
bravery
bribery and payoffs; Cornhusker Kickback; Gator Aid; Handout Montana; healthcare bill and; Louisiana Purchase; U-Con
Britain; healthcare in; Labour Party of
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Brookings Institution
Brown, Scott
Brown, Willie
Buffett, Warren
Bunning, Jim
bureaucracy: big government and; civil service; corruption and; in education; elected representation and; energy development and; environment and; EPA; EU and; Founding Fathers and; green energy projects and; healthcare; job creation and; secular-socialist machine and; UN and
Bureau of Land Management
Burlingame, Debra
Burnett, Diane
Bush, George W.
Bush, Jeb
Bush administration
business: secular-socialist machine and; socialism and. See also big business; small business
C
California
Cameron, David
Camus, Albert
Canada
cap-and-trade energy tax bill
capitalism
Capital Research Center
Carney, Timothy
Carper, Tom
Carter, Jimmy
“Cash for Clunkers”
Castro, Fidel
Catholic Church, Catholicism
Cato Institute
CBO. See Congressional Budget Office
CBS News
CDBGs. See Community Development Block Grants
CDC. See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Census Bureau, U.S.
Center for American Progress
Center for Health Transformation (CHT)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Chavez, Hugo
Chile
China
choice, freedom of
Christianity
Christiansen, Clayton
Christie, Chris
Chrysler
CHT. See Center for Health Transformation
Churchill, Winston
CIA. See Central Inteligence Agency
citizenship
Citizens United
City Journal
Civil War, U.S.
Clancy, Tom
Clean Air Act
Cleveland Clinic
Climategate
Climate Research Unit (CRU)
climate science
Climbing magazine
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Clinton administration
Closway, Lynn
CMS. See Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Coakley, Martha
coal
Coburn, Tom
Cold War
Cole, USS
Colorado
Colson, Chuck
Columbus Dispatch
Commerce Department, U.S.
Communism
Community Development Block Grants (CDBGs)
Community Reinvestment Act
Compton, Bob
Congress, U.S.; dishonesty in
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Congressional Research Service
Connecticut
conservatism, conservatives; green; realism and; science and
Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC)
Constitution, U.S.; balanced budgets and; Bill of Rights; checks and balances and; environment and; establishment clause; First Amendment; property rights and; religious freedom and; Second Amendme
nt; secular-socialist machine and; Tenth Amendment
Contract From America
Contract with American
A Contract with the Earth (Gingrich and Maple)
Conyers, John
Cooper, Sharon
Cornhusker Kickback
Cornyn, John
corporatism
corruption: bureaucracy and; of climate science; in Congress, U.S.; government and; honesty vs.; institutionalized; of Left; people and; secular-socialist machine and; UN and
CRU. See Climate Research Unit
C-SPAN
Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
Culture of Corruption (Malkin)
Cushman, Jackie
cyberwarfare
D
Daily Telegraph
Darrow, Clarence
Dartmouth Health Atlas
Daskal, Jennifer
Davis, Al
Davis, Gray
Dean, Howard
death tax
Declaration of Independence
Defense Department, U.S.
democracy
Democracy Alliance
Democratic Party, Democrats; automobile bailouts and; big business and; bipartisanship and; dishonesty in; environment and; healthcare bill and; secular-socialism and; trial lawyers and; unions and
Democratic-Republican party
d’Escoto, Miguel
Desmond, Nancy
Dewey, John
diabetes
dictatorship
disability
dishonesty: honesty vs.; language, perversion of and; Obama, Barack and; secular-socialist machine and. See also honesty
Dodd, Christopher
Dornan, Robert
Dow Chemical
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Duncan, Arne
Dunn, Anita
Dwight, Nancy Sinnott
E
East African embassy bombings (1998)
economic crisis of 2008-2009
economy: 25-year boom in; Bush, George W. and; energy development and; healthcare and; Kennedy, John F. and; Left and; Obama, Barack and; Reagan, Ronald and; socialism and
Edgar, Jim
Edison, Thomas
education: bureaucracy in; charter schools and; homeschooling and; learning trends and; neuroscience and; Obama, Barack and; Pell grant system and; prayer in schools and; religious freedom and; school attendance certification and; secular-socialist machine and; solving crisis in; technology and; unions and
Education Department, U.S.
EFCA. See Employee Free Choice Act
Egypt
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
electromagnetic pulse attack (EMP)
Elmendorf, Douglas
Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)
Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)
ENDA. See Employment Non-Discrimination Act
The End of Prosperity (Laffer and Moore)
enemy combatants
energy: American reserves of; American traditional values and; biofuels and; bureaucracy and; cap-and-trade energy tax bill and; coal and; conservation and; economy and; energy independence and; government and; green; green conservatism and; hydrogen and; independence and; job creation and; litigation reform and; natural gas and; nuclear power and; Obama, Barack and; oil and; renewable sources and; research and development and; science and; solar power and; taxation and; technology and; wind power and
Energy Department, U.S.
English Civil War
Enlightenment
entitlement programs: federal spending and; healthcare bill and; Medicaid; Medicare; poverty and; replacement of; secular-socialist machine and; Social Security; welfare reform of 1996 and
entrepreneurship
environment: bureaucracy and; capitalism and; climate change and; climategate and; climate science and; conservation and; Constitution, U.S. and; Democratic Party, Democrats and; energy and; environmental leadership and; foreign aid and; global warming and; government and; green conservatism and; green energy projects and; secular-socialist machine and; socialism and; taxation and; UN and
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
EPA. See Environmental Protection Agency
Ernst, Mark
Estonia
European Union (EU)
Everley, Steve
F
Fabrizio, Tony
Facebook
Fall, Albert
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
Fannie Mae
Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund
Fascism
FBI. See Federal Bureau of Investigation
FDA. See Food and Drug Administration
FEC. See Federal Election Commission
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
federal government. See government
The Federalist
Federal Reserve, U.S.
FedEx
Feingold, Russ
Ferrara, Peter
FFVs. See flex-fuel vehicles
Financial Times
First Amendment; establishment clause of; religious freedom and; secularism and
Fischer, David Hackett
Fitton, Tom
flex-fuel vehicles (FFVs)
Florida
Fogel, Robert
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
food safety bill (2009)
Food Stamps
Forbes, Steve
Forbes magazine
Ford
Ford, Gerald
Ford, Henry
foreign enemy combatants
The Forgotten Man (Shlaes)
Forstchen, Bill
Fort Hood massacre
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Founding Fathers; big government and; Bill of Rights and; bureaucracy and; Enlightenment and; freedom and; private property and; religious freedom and; rights and; right to bear arms and; Second Amendment and; socialism and
Fourth Assessment Report (AR4)
FOX News
FOX News Sunday
France
Frank, Barney
Franklin, Benjamin
fraud: healthcare; voter
Freddie Mac
freedom; American exceptionalism and; of choice; Founding Fathers and; God and; property rights and; of religion; secular-socialist machine and; of speech; as unalienable right
Freedom of Information Act
Friedman, Tom
Frogue, Jim
Frye, Jocelyn
Fund, John
FutureGen
G
G-77
GAO. See Government Accountability Office
Gator Aid
Gaza
GE. See General Electric (GE)
Geithner, Timothy
General Electric (GE)
General Motors (GM)
Germany
Gill, John
Gillespie, Ed
Gitlin, Joseph N.
Giuda, Kellen
global warming
GM. See General Motors
God: Alcoholics Anonymous and; liberty and; Pledge of Allegiance and; in public life; rights and; secularism and; secular-socialism and. See also religious expression; religious freedom
Goddard Science and Space Institute
Goldberg, Jonah
Goldman Sachs
Goldstone Report
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gore, Al
government: accountability in; American people and; American traditional values and; big; big business and; bureaucracy in; corruption and; energy and; environment and; healthcare and; job creation and; limited; localism and; religious freedom and; secular-socialism and; self-; small business and
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Grassley, Charles
Great Depression
Great Society
green conservatism: cle
an American energy and; climate science and; definition of; environmental leadership and; global warming and; platform for; political activism of; tea party movement and
Grocery Manufacturers of America
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Gundersen Lutheran
H
H&R Block
Hamas
Handout Montana
Hansen, James
Hanser, Steve
Harding, Warren
Hart-Rudman Commission on National Security
Haskins, Ron
Hastert, Dennis
Hawaii
Hayek, Friedrich
Health and Human Services Department, U.S.
healthcare: affordability of; biological warfare and; British; bureaucracy in; Center for Health Transformation’s plan for; choice and; chronic illness and; Clinton administration and; costs of; economy and; electronic administration and; electronic administration of; fraud, waste, and abuse in; government and; Health Savings Accounts and; job creation and; litigation reform and; Medicaid and; Medicare and; personal accounts for; reform of; religious freedom and; secular-socialist machine and; socialism and; taxation and; Twenty-first century intelligent health system; unions and. See also healthcare bill; healthcare fraud; Twenty-first century intelligent health system
healthcare bill: bribery and payoffs and; bureaucracy and; coercive tactics and; complexity of; costs of; Democratic Party, Democrats and; elderly and; entitlement programs and; government and; health insurance companies and; machine politics in; medical malpractice and; Obama, Barack and; people and; rationing care and; Republican Party, Republicans and; secular socialism in; taxation and; unions and; voting process for. See also healthcare; healthcare fraud
healthcare fraud: examples of; Left and; Medicaid and; Medicare and; solutions for. See also healthcare; healthcare bill
health insurance companies
Health Justice Department
Health Savings Accounts
Heartland Institute
Hecker, Ryan
Heffernan, Olive
Heritage Foundation
HFCVs. See hydrogen fuel cell vehicles
Hispanics
A History of the American People (Johnson)
HIV
Hoeven, John, III,
Holder, Eric
Hollywood
Holmes, Katie
Holtzapple, Mark
homeschooling
Honda
honesty: American traditional values and; corruption vs.; free market and; housing bubble crash and; national security and; secular-socialist machine and. See also dishonesty
Hong Kong
Horowitz, David
housing: bubble crash and; subsidies for
Housing and Urban Development Department, U.S.
“How the Liars Won” (Ziegler)
Humana
human rights
Human Rights Watch
Hussein, Saddam
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