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79. Ibid.
80. “The Presidential Divider,” Wall Street Journal, April 14, 2011, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730104576260911986870054.html.
Chapter 5. Tyranny of Obama’s Radical Accomplices
1. “The Buffett 391,000,” Wall Street Journal, October 14, 2011, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203914304576629302662250680.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop.
2. “Hedge funds raked in $6.1 billion in August,” Reuters, October 10, 2011, http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/10/hedge-funds-raked-in-6-1-billion-in-august/.
3. “Are You Smarter Than a Wall Street Occupier?” New York, October 19, 2011, http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/10/occupy_wall_street_quiz.html.
4. Charles Gasparino, “Stockholm Syndrome,” New York Post, October 20, 2011, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/stockholm_syndrome_zQj3ht17c8dFeAXtVKXhKI.
5. “#OccupyWallStreet Insiders: ‘Main political goal overthrow the gov’t,’ ” Ironic Surrealism, October 11, 2011, http://ironicsurrealism.com/2011/10/11/occupywallstreet-leaders-main-political-goal-overthrow-the-govt-lot-of-the-protesters-anarchists-revolu tionaries/.
6. Lachlan Cartwrightand Bob Fredericks, “Sex, drugs and hiding from the law at Wall Street protests,” New York Post, October 10, 2011, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/it_nyc_lam_sterdam_bmE4vlV5aDUWhBRv9IbaiK#ixzz1aNS6Loiy.
7. Stella Paul, “When America’s Children Come Home to Roost,” American Thinker, October 14, 2011, http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/americas_children_come_home_to_roost.html.
8. Aaron Klein, “Look who’s behind Occupy Jew-hating,” WorldNetDaily, November 7, 2011, http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=365377.
9. Ryan Jones, “Israeli worried by anti-Semitic flavor of ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests,” Israel Today, October 16, 2011, http://www.israeltoday.co.il/News/tabid/178/nid/22978/language/en-US/Default.aspx.
10. “New gaffe: Obama confuses Jews with janitors,” Los Angeles Times, September 26, 2011, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/09/obama-congressional-black-caucus-video-gaffe.html.
11. Bob Unruh, “Unmasked! ‘Occupy’ protests sending sharp anti-Jew message,” WorldNetDaily, October 20, 2011, http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=358449.
12. “Proposed list of OWS demands,” Occupy Wall Street, October 23, 2011, http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-ows-demands/.
13. Perry Chiaramonte, “Occupy Protests Plagued by Reports of Sex Attacks, Violent Crime,” FoxNews.com, November 2, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/09/rash-sex-attacks-and-violent-crime-breaks-out-at-occupy-protests/.
14. Matthew Kuruvila and Demian Bulwa, “Man shot to death near Occupy Oakland Camp,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 11, 2011, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/10/BA051LTHDK.DTL.
15. Kevin Fasick, Sally Goldenberg, and Bob Fredericks, “Protesters force café layoffs as biz drops,” New York Post, November 2, 2011, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/real_job_killers_2bVY2PIRGWUrVIqREYgtoL.
16. Ikimulisa Livingston, Hannah Rappleye, and Lorena Mongelli, “OWS protesters cause mayhem across the city, 275 arrested,” New York Post, November 18, 2011, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/roughly_people_demonstration_gathered_dqucDJs1oJYCdedLgh4rwL.
17. “Obama’s Army,” WorldNetDaily, October 27, 2011, http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=359809#ixzz1cpR9piVA.
18. “Soros Money Is Behind Occupy Wall Street Protests,” Reuters, October 13, 2011, http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/reuters-soros-money-behind-occupy-wall-street-protests/.
19. Jana Winter, “ACORN Officials Scramble, Firing Workers and Shredding Documents, After Exposed as Players Behind Occupy Wall Street Protests,” FoxNews.com, November 3, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/03/acorn-officials-scramble-firing-workers-and-shredding-documents-after-exposed/.
20. Meredith Somers, “With winter looming, labor unions fortify Occupy camp,” Washington Times, November 16, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/16/unions-back-occupy-dc/.
21. John McCormack, “Pelosi on Occupy Wall Street Protesters: ‘God Bless Them,’ ” Weekly Standard, October 6, 2011, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/pelosi-occupy-wall-street-protesters-god-bless-them_595117.html.
22. “National Air and Space Museum Closed After Protesters Storm Building,” Associated Press, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/national-air-and-space-museum-closed-after-protesters-swarm-building.
23. “Union Violence: Longshoremen Storm Port, Damage Railroad,” Big Government, September 8, 2011, http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/09/08/union-violence-longshoremen-storm-port-damage-railroad/.
24. Christopher Rugaber, “Economy adds 103,000 jobs, but it’s not enough,” Palm Beach Post, October 7, 2011, http://www.palmbeachpost.com/money/economy-adds-103-000-jobs-but-its-not-1900817.html.
25. Ed Morrissey, “Obama says Wisconsin conducting ‘an assault on unions,’ ” Hot Air, February 17, 2011, http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/17/obama-says-wisconsin-conducting-an-assault-on-unions/.
26. “Given Half a Chance: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males,” Schott Foundation for Public Education, 2008, http://www.blackboysreport.org/files/schott50statereport-execsummary.pdf.
27. “Obama . . . Joins Hands With His Fellow-Communist Thug Richard Trumka From AFL-CIO On Labor Day,” September 16, 2010, http://itmakessenseblog.com/2010/09/16/obama-joins-hands-with-his-fellow-communist-thug-richard-trumka-from-afl-cio-on-labor-day/.
28. “Is the White House Helping to Orchestrate a National Union Uprising? You be the Judge,” Redstate.com, February 22, 2011, http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/02/22/is-the-white-house-helping-to-orchestrate-a-national-union-uprising-you-be-the-judge/.
29. Webutante, “The Late Saul Alinsky, Obama’s Radical Community Organizer Inspirer-in-Chief,” Webutante, November 17, 2008, http://webutante07.blogspot.com/2008/11/saul-alinsky-obamas-mentor-in-chief.html.
30. Alan Caruba, “Applying Alinsky: Why Obamacare Makes No Sense,” Canada Free Press, February 26, 2010, http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/20448.
31. “Communists boast of ‘mentoring’ Axelrod,” WorldNetDaily, February 16, 2011, http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=151877.
32. Patrick T. Reardon, “The Agony and the Agony,” Chicago Tribune, June 24, 2007, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070620axelrod-htmlstory,0,7217326.htmlstory.
33. Howard Fineman, “Axelrod’s Alinsky-ism gave me an AH-HA! moment today,” Huffington Post, November 11, 2010, http://rartee.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/david-axelrods-alinsky-ism-gave-me-and-ah-ha-moment-today/.
34. “Interview with Saul Alinsky, Part Two,” Progress Report, http://www.progress.org/2003/alinsky3.htm.
35. Shayna Stron, “An Internet Guide to Community Organizing,” Poverty & Race Research Action Council, http://www.prrac.org/full_text.php?text_id=964&item_id=8814&newsletter_id=0&header=Community+Organizing.
36. Ibid., p. 52.
37. Ibid.
38. John Hawkins, “The Best Quotes From Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules For Radicals,’ ” Rightwing News, http://rightwingnews.com/quotes/the-best-quotes-from-saul-alinskys-rules-for-radicals/.
39. John Leo, “Islamic Radicals Take Advantage of Western Liberalism,” Real Clear Politics, February 12, 2006, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-2_12_06_JL.html.
40. Rob Port, “Chris Matthews: Mark Levine, Michael Savage Are To Blame For Tuscon Shooting,” SayAnythingBlog.com, January 11, 2011, http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/chris-matthews-mark-levine-michael-savage-are-to-blame-for-tucson-shooting/.
41. “Saul Alinsky’s son: ‘Obama learned his lesson well,’ ” Canada Free Press, September 2, 2008, http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4784.
Chapter 6. Tyranny of Obama’s Corporate Cronies
1. “President Obama’s ‘Czars,’ ” Politico, September 8, 2009, www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26
779.html.
2. Jeremy Arias, “$1000 Fine Cut in Takoma Park Tree Case,” Washington Post, November 26, 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/25/AR2009112502482.html.
3. “City of Takoma Park—Tree Protection or Removal,” Tree World, http://www.tree world.info/f14/takoma-park-maryland-usa-tree-protection-11499.html.
4. Arias, “$1000 Fine Cut in Takoma Park Tree Case.”
5. Ibid.
6. Scott London, “Book Review: Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech,” http://www.scottlondon.com/reviews/sunstein.html.
7. “Cass Sunstein Quotes,” http://www.stopsunstein.com/media/pdf/Sunstein%20quote%20file.pdf.
8. London, “Book Review: Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech by Cass R. Sunstein.”
9. “Obama’s unpaid ‘pay czar’ got $120K annual salary UPDATED! He gave it back, but still has to pay taxes on it,” Washington Examiner, September 9, 2010, https://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/obama039s-unpaid-039pay-czar039-got-120k-annual-salary-updated-he-gave-it-.
10. Jeffrey H. Anderson, “Obama Insists on Funding ‘Czars,’ After Agreeing to Cut Funds for ‘Czars,’ ” Weekly Standard, April 18, 2009, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-insists-funding-czars-after-agreeing-cut-funds_557545.html.
11. Robin Bravender, “Budget deal axes ‘czars’ already gone,” Politico, April 12, 2011, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53001.html.
12. “Statement by the President on H.R. 1473,” White House, April 15, 2011, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/04/15/statement-president-hr-1473.
13. “United States Constitution—Article 2, Section 2,” U.S. Constitution Online, http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A2Sec2.html.
14. Alexander Hamilton, “The Federalist No. 69: The Real Character of the Executive,” Federalist Papers, March 14, 1788, http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa69.htm.
15. Ibid.
16. Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein, “Holder’s 4G tax lax,” New York Post, April 17, 2011, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/holder_tax_lax_ZLrjDOZehZHon7f DakSwTL.
17. Ibid.
18. Jonathan Weisman, “Geithner’s Tax History Muddles Confirmation,” Wall Street Journal, January 14, 2009, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123187503629378119.html.
19. Brian Wingfield, “Geithner’s Tax Troubles Are Serious,” Forbes, January 13, 2009, http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/13/treasury-geithner-obama-biz-beltway-cx_bw_0113geithner2.html.
20. Weisman, “Geithner’s Tax History Muddles Confirmation.”
21. Alex Spillius, “Geithner’s tax evasion,” Telegraph, January 22, 2009, http://blogs.tele graph.co.uk/news/alexspillius/8174427/Tim_Geithners_tax_evasion_/.
22. Diana West, “Give Panetta the Pinko Slip,” TownHall.com, June 17, 2011, http://townhall.com/columnists/dianawest/2011/06/17/give_panetta_the_pinko_slip/page/full/.
23. Ibid.
24. Aaron Klein, “Obama’s DoD nominee linked to Cold War supporters of Soviets,” WorldNetDaily, June 16, 2011, http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=311485.
25. Irene North, “Why the TSA won’t improve its image anytime soon,” Daily Censored, April 25, 2011, http://dailycensored.com/2011/04/25/why-the-tsa-wont-improve-its-image-anytime-soon/.
26. Anne E. Kornblut, “White House moving to repair troubled relationship with cabinet,” Washington Post, March 9, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030805751.html.
27. Ibid.
28. “Press Briefing on the BP Oil Spill on the Gulf Coast,” The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, April 29, 2010, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/press-briefing-bp-oil-spill-gulf-coast.
29. Anne E. Kornblut, “White House moving to repair troubled relationship with cabinet.”
30. “Obama Fails To Meet With Six Cabinet Members For Two Years, But Talks or Meets With AFL-CIO President Almost Daily,” SodaHead, February 23, 2011, http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/obama-fails-to-meet-with-six-cabinet-members-for-two-years-but-talks-or-meets-with-afl-cio-presiden/question-1535985/.
31. David Shepherdson and Christina Rogers, “GM’s Akerson Pushing for Higher Gas Taxes,” Detroit News, June 7, 2011, http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/1796.
32. Ibid.
33. “Alfred Dreyfus and ‘The Affair,’ ” Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtual library.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Dreyfus.html.
34. Jeff Jacoby, “When Zola wrote ‘J’accuse!’ ” Boston Globe, March 30, 2008, http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/03/30/when_zola_wrote_jaccuse/.
35. Michael Savage, “From the Dreyfus affair to the Strauss-Kahn affair,” Michael Savage.com, http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/2011/07/savage-from-the-dreyfus-affair-to-the-strauss-kahn-affair/.
36. Shelley Ross, “Strauss-Kahn Fallout: NY DA Takes Five Steps Backwards For Rape Accusers,” Huffington Post, July 6, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shelley-ross/strausskahn-fallout-ny-da_b_888803.html.
37. John Swaine, “Dominique Strauss-Kahn Walks Free After Maid Rape Case Crumbles,” Telegraph, July 1, 2011, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/dominique-strauss-kahn/8611957/Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-walks-free-after-maid-rape-case-crumbles.html.
38. Jim Dwyer and Michael Wilson, “Strauss-Kahn Accuser’s Call Alarmed Prosecutors,” New York Times, July 1, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/nyregion/one-revelation-after-another-undercut-strauss-kahn-accusers-credibility.html?page wanted=all.
39. Brad Hamilton and Larry Celona, “Maid ‘Laid’ Low as DA Paid for Digs,” New York Post, July 3, 2011, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/she_laid_low_as_da_paid_for_digs_8Udq6nhQaHaC4KOOfkctpI.
40. Dwyer and Wilson, “Strauss-Kahn Accuser’s Call Alarmed Prosecutors.”
41. Ibid.
42. Hamilton and Celona, “Maid ‘Laid’ Low as DA Paid for Digs.”
43. John Eligon, “Strauss Kahn Is Released as Case Teeters,” New York Times, July 1, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/nyregion/new-yorkers-and-french-await-latest-dominique-strauss-kahn-legal-turn.html?pagewanted=all.
44. Alan Katz, “Strauss-Kahn Divides French on Political Return, Parisien Says,” Bloomberg.com, July 3, 2011, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-03/strauss-kahn-divides-french-on-political-return-parisien-says.html.
45. Michael Weissenstein and Angela Charlton, “Tristane Banon to File Sexual Assault Lawsuit Against Dominique Strauss-Kahn,” Huffington Post, July 4, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/04/tristane-banon-dominique-strauss-kahn-dsk_n_889684.html.
46. “Christine Lagarde: Executive Profile,” Bloomberg Businessweek, http://investing.business week.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=160171&ticker=INGA:NA&previousCapId=874263&previousTitle=Dexia%20Bank%20Belgium%20SA.
47. Julian Gavaghan, “Synchronized swimming, flirting for France and a VERY risqué dominatrix drawing: The secret life of new IMF boss Christine Lagarde,” Mail Online, July 1, 2011, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009973/Christine-Lagarde-Secret-life-new-IMF-boss.html.
48. Ibid.
49. Fred Schulte, John Aloysius, and Jeremy Borden, “Obama Rewards Big Bundlers with Jobs, Commissions, Stimulus Money, Government Contracts, and More,” iWatch News, June 15, 2011, http://www.iwatchnews.org/node/4880.
50. Derek Kravitz, “Tapping the Governor’s Phone,” Washington Post, December 9, 2008, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/12/good_stuff_for_the_people_of_i.html.
51. Schulte, Aloysius, and Borden, “Obama Rewards Big Bundlers with Jobs, Commissions, Stimulus Money, Government Contracts, and More.”
52. Ibid.
53. Sam Stein, “Obama Campaign Advised White House Staff to Give Top Donor Sense of Access,” Huffington Post, June 13, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/13/obama-campaign-arm-advise_n_875986.html.
54. Ibid.
55. David Willman, “Cost, need questioned in $433-million s
mallpox deal,” Los Angeles Times, November 13, 2011, http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-smallpox-20111113,0,6456082,full.story.
Chapter 7. Tyranny of the Egghead Wars
1. Kristinn Taylor, “Obama: Our Partyboy President,” Big Government, March 17, 2011, http://biggovernment.com/ktaylor/2011/03/17/obama-our-partyboy-president/.
2. Julianna Goldman and Iuri Dantas, “Obama Tells Rousseff U.S. to Be Among Brazil’s ‘Best Customers,’ ” Bloomberg Businessweek, March 19, 2011, http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-19/obama-tells-rousseff-u-s-to-be-among-brazil-s-best-customers-.html.
3. “Obama: ‘We cannot stand idly by,’ ” Telegraph, March 20, 2011, http://www.tele graph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8393482/Barack-Obama-we-cannot-stand-idly-by.html.
4. Robert Dreyfuss, “Obama’s Women Advisers Pushed War Against Libya,” Fox News, March 20, 2011, http://nation.foxnews.com/barack-obama/2011/03/20/obamas-women-advisers-pushed-war-against-libya.
5. Lee, Tim, “Sunstein on the Second Amendment,” The American Scene, November 4, 2007, http://theamericanscene.com/2007/11/14/sunstein-on-the-second-amendment.
6. Brent Lang, “Power, Who Called Clinton ‘Monster,’ Joins Obama White House,” CBS News, January 30, 2009, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-4764495-503544.html.
7. “Insider Report: Hillary’s College Thesis Revealed,” Newsmax.com, March 4, 2007, http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/3/4/184310.shtml.
8. “US War Criminals: Where are they now? Madeleine Albright,” Kadaitcha, January 16, 2011, http://www.kadaitcha.com/2011/01/16/us-war-criminals-where-are-they-now-madeleine-albright/.
9. Steve Dennis, “The Obama Doctrine: Is Ivory Coast next?” America’s Watchtower, April 3, 2011, http://americaswatchtower.com/2011/04/03/the-obama-doctrine-is-ivory-coast-next/.
10. “About Crisis Group,” International Crisis Group, http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about.aspx.
11. “Gates: Libya not ‘a vital interest’ for US, but part of region that’s of vital interest,” Washington Post, March 27, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/gates-libya-not-a-vital-interest-for-us-but-part-of-region-thats-of-vital-us-interest/2011/03/27/AF3ZcUiB_story.html.