Democratic voter fraud, 230–233
illegal immigration and, 207–212
Universal Voter Registration, 210
voting reform, 307
Wages, myth of living wage, 225–228, 229
Wahl, Shannon, 279
Wake Up Wal-Mart, 235
Wal-Mart, 229
Wal-Mart Alliance for Reform Now, 235
Wal-Mart Organizing Project, 235
Wal-Mart Workers Association, 235
Wall Street. See Financial markets; Stock market
Waxman, Henry, 137, 176
Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax bill, 167–168, 171
Wealth
building, 79
socialist redistribution of, 60, 64, 107, 111, 142, 224
Weather Underground, 42
Welfare benefits, limiting, 307
Welfare reform legislation, 217
Welfare state, 28–29, 32
Whitney, Mike, 92
Wilcox, Gary, 14
Wiley, George, 218
Williams, Danny, 142
Williams, Michael, 105
Wills, Harvey, 191
Wilson, Cid, 198
Work ethic, 28–29, 32
Wright, Rev. Jeremiah, 38–40, 277
Wurzelbacher, Joe “The Plumber,” 107
Yugoslavia, 65
Zappa, Frank, 68
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I want to acknowledge Bob DeMoss for helping make this the book that it is; Matthew Benjamin, my editor at Harper Collins, for knowing when to say “No”; Greg Lewis for his insights and research regarding the Wall Street mess; and Ian Kleinert, my literary agent with Objective Entertainment, for bringing together all the working elements.
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NOTES
Author’s Note
1 Barack Obama, “Obama to Mexican President: ‘We Are Defined Not By Our Borders,” Real Clear Politics Video, may 19, 2010. www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/05/19/obama_to_mexican_president_we_are_defined_not_by_our _borders.html
2 Anna Fifield and Alan Rappeport, “US Home Loan Foreclosures Reach Record High,” Financial Times, February 19, 2010. www.ft.com/cms/s/0/832c383e-1d86-11df-a893-00144feab49a.html
3 Robert Barron, “Bankruptcy Filings at Record High In 2009, Despite Law Changes,” The Enid News and Eagle, February 21, 2009. http://enidnews.com/localnews/x1834675010/Bankruptcy-filings-at-record-high-in-2009-despite-law-changes
4 Mike Allen and Craig Gordon, “4 million jobs—Obama ups the ante,” POLITICO, January 11, 09. www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17298.html
5 Patrice Hill, “American Reliance on Government at All-time High,” Washington Times, March 1, 2010. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/01/americans-reliance-on-government-at-all-time-high//print/.
Chapter 1
1 Phil Rosenthal, “Rant by CNBC’s Rick Santelli Puts Pundit at Odds with Obama Administration,” Chicago Tribune, February 22, 2009. www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/chi-sun-phil-rosenthal-22feb22,0,7002362.column
2 Ibid.
3 “Judicial Watch Uncovers New Documents Detailing Pelosi’s Use of Air Force Aircraft,” Press Release, January 28, 2010. www.judicialwatch.org/news/2010/jan/judicial-watch-uncovers-new-documents-detailing-pelosis-use-air-force-aircraft
4 Ibid.
5 “Health Care Reform,” Rasmussen Reports, February 23, 2010. www.rasmussen reports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform.
6 Carolyn Lochhead, “Pelosi: Pole vaults and parachutes,” SFGate.com, January 28, 2010. www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=56238
7 Jake Sherman and Alex Isenstadt, “Fraction would reelect incumbents,” Politico.com, February 12, 2010. www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32893.html.
8 Mark Finkelstein, “Will MSM Ignore Michelle Obama’s Anger?”, NewsBusters.org, April 16, 2008. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/04/16/will-msm-ignore-michelle-obamas-anger#ixzz0gTLKz2TJ
9 Dr. Paul L. Williams, “First Lady Now Requires 26 Servants,” Canada Free Press, August 17, 2010. www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13827
10 Jake Tapper, “Drinks Are On the (White) House,” Political Punch, ABC News, January 28, 2009. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/01/drinks-are-on-t.html
11 Fred Lucas, “White House Won’t Reveal How Much Michelle Obama’s European Vacation Cost Taxpayers,” CNSNEWS.COM, July 6, 2009. www.cnsnews.com/PUBLIC/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=50528
12 Drew Zahn, “Michelle Obama has Staff of 22 Assistants,” WorldNetDaily/Chicago Sun Times, August 4, 2009.
13 George Stephanopoulos, “Obama Calls for ‘Grand Bargain’ on Economy: ‘Everybody’s Going to Have to Give,” George’s Bottom Line, ABC News, January 10, 2009. http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/01/obama-calls-for.html
14 Tom Raum, “US Debt Will Keep Growing Even with Recovery,” Associated Press, February 14, 2010. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DEFICIT_CRUNCH ?SITE=AP&SECTION = HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-02-14-10-11-23.
15 Edmund Conway, “US Faces one of Biggest Budget Crunches in World—IMF,” The Telegraph, May 14, 2010. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/edmundcon way/100005702/us-faces-one-of-biggest-budget-crunches-in-western-world-imf/
16 Brock Vergakis, “Utah Fears Repeat of Land Grab by Feds, Wary of List of National Monument Candidates in West,” Associated Press, February 24, 2010. www.washing tonexaminer.com/economy/utah-fears-repeat-of-land-grab-by-feds-wary-of-l
ist-of-national-monument-candidates-in-west-85191592.html
17 Roger Kimball, “The Gipper vs. Obama,” RealClearPolitics.com, February 15, 2009. www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/the_gipper_vs_obama.html
18 Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution, as listed by Wikiquote.org, June 6, 1788. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Madison
19 Joseph Farah, “Obama’s ‘civilian national security force,” WorldNetDaily.com, July 15, 2008. www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=69601
20 Rob Bloom, “Obama’s Czar Ron Bloom Agrees With Mao,” Speech at Investor Conference, YouTube video clip. <
21 Andrew Malcolm and Johanna Neuman, “Murtha’s unlikely political bedfellow,” Los Angeles Times, February 21, 2010. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/21/nation/la-na-ticket21-2010feb21
22 Eric Shawn, “Tea Party Organizer Wins New York State Assembly Seat,” FOXNews.com, February 17, 2010. www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/17/tea-party-organizer-wins-new-york-state-assembly-race/?test=latestnews
23 Patrick J. Buchanan, “November’s Consequence: A Paralyzed Government,” World NetDaily.com, February 18, 2010. www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&page Id=125514
24 “Steele Meets With Tea Party Leaders at RNC Headquarters,” FoxNews.com, February 16, 2010. www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/16/steele-meet-tea-party-leaders/?test=latestnews
25 Donald W. Meyers, “Hatch: Tea Party Movement Threatening to Tear GOP Apart,” Salt Lake Tribune, February 18, 2010. www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14423113
26 David A. Patten, “Tea Parties Warn of ‘Coordinated Assault,” Newsmax.com, February 19, 2010. http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/teaparty-sarahpalin-cpac-conservatives/2010/02/19/id/350393
27 Dale Robertson, “WARNING—The Tea Party Is In Danger!” CanadaFreePress.com, February 11, 2010. www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/19921
28 Ibid.
29 Patten, “Tea Parties Warn of ‘Coordinated Assault.”
30 Bill Dupray, “CPAC Exclusive: Utah RINO Hunter Mike Lee Tries to Unseat Sen. Robert Bennett,” PatriotRoom.com, February 19, 2010. http://patriotroom.com/article/cpac-exclusive-utah-rino-hunter-mike-lee-tries-to-unseat-sen—robert-bennett
31 Cliff Kincaid, “CPAC sells out? Sodomy, the ACLU, Ron Paul and the conservative movement,” WorldTribune.com, February 26, 2010. www.worldtribune.com/world tribune/WTARC/2010/ss_politics0149_02_26.asp
32 Ronald Kessler, “Tea Party Patriots Launch ‘Contract From America,” Newsmax. com, February 18, 2010. http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/tea-party-contract-from/2010/02/18/id/350236
33 Bob Unruh, “‘Five pillars of Islam’ taught in public school,” WorldNetDaily.com, October 10, 2006. www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=38269
34 Robert Wright, “The First Tea-Party Terrorist?” New York Times, February 23, 2010. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/the-first-tea-party-terrorist/
35 David A. Patten, “Media Uses Austin IRS Terror Attack to Slam Tea Party Movement,” Newsmax.com, February 18, 2010. www.newsmax.com/404?nfurl=http://www.newsmax.com:80/Newsfront/austin-attack-media-tea/2010/02/18/id/350266
36 Charles Postel, “Tea party: Dark side of conservatism,” Politico, May 14, 2010. www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37217.html
37 Robertson, “WARNING—The Tea Party Is In Danger! “
38 Robert Pear and Holli Chmela, “Thousands Attend Rally in Washington, Seeking Greater Power for African-Americans,” New York Times, October 16, 2005. www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/national/16rally.html?_r=1
39 “‘White Right’ Wants Obama to Be One-Term President, Farrakhan Says,” Associated Press, February 28, 2010. www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/28/white-right-wants-obama-term-president-farrakhan-says/
Chapter 2
1 Michelle Malkin, “Both Parties Willing to Buy Votes,” The Sun News, November 6, 2008.
2 Toby Harnden, “Frank Marshall Davis, Alleged Communist, Was Early Influence on Barack Obama,” Telegraph.co.uk, August 22, 2008. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/2601914/Frank-Marshall-Davis-alleged-Communist-was-early-influence-on-Barack-Obama.html
3 “Poet Advised Young Obama,” Associated Press, August 12, 2008. www.washing tontimes.com/news/2008/aug/12/poet-advised-young-obama/
4 Cliff Kincaid, “Obama’s Communist Mentor,” Accuracy in Media, February 18, 2008. www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/
5 Frank Marshall Davis, “Frank-ly Speaking,” Honolulu Record, no 41 (May 12, 1949): 3.
6 FBI file on Frank Marshall Davis, Internal Security memo, November 13, 1950. PDF.
7 Ibid.
8 FBI file on Frank Marshall Davis, Internal Security memo, November 10,1953. PDF.
9 Cliff Kincaid, “Obama’s Communist Mentor.”
10 Ibid.
11 Cliff Kincaid, “Van Jones Scandal Threatens Obama Presidency,” Accuracy in Media, September 5, 2009. www.aim.org/aim-column/van-jones-scandal-threatens-obama-presidency/
12 Jane Chastain, “Obama’s Words as Troubling as Pastor’s,” WorldNetDaily.com, March 20, 2008. www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=59340
13 Scott Baker and Liz Stephans interview with Dr. John Drew and The B-Cast, “Was Obama A Committed Marxist in College?” Breitbart. TV, February 12, 2010. www.breitbart.tv/the-b-cast-interview-was-obama-a-committed-marxist-in-college/
14 Edwin Chen and Roger Runningen, “Obama, on 100th Day, Says He Is ‘Remaking America,” Bloomberg.com, April 29, 2009. www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= 20601070&sid=aEOXy3xJPVoU
15 Macon Phillips, “Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov,” The White House Blog, January 20, 2009. www.whitehouse.gov/blog/change_has_come_to_white house-gov/
16 Ross Goldberg, “Obama’s Years at Columbia Are a Mystery,” New York Sun, September 2, 2008. www.nysun.com/new-york/obamas-years-at-columbia-are-a-mystery/85015/
17 Joe Conason, “Blame Wright’s Enablers,” New York Observer, April 29, 2008. www.observer.com/2008/blame-wright-s-enablers
18 Brian Ross and Rehab El-Buri, “Obama’s Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11,” ABC News, March 13, 2008. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/DemocraticDebate/story?id=4443788&page=1
19 Ibid.
20 Pamela Geller, “New Controversial Video Obama’s Radical Marxist Pastor: ‘Land of the Greed and Home of the Slave,” Atlas Shrugs, November 2, 2009. http://at lasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/11/new-controverisal-video-obamas-radical-marxist-pastor-land-of-the-greed-and-home-of-the-slave.html
21 Jerome R. Corsi, “Rev. Wright: U.S. ‘land of greed and home of slave,” WorldNet Daily.com, November 2, 2009. www.wnd.com/?pageId=114796
22 “Obama’s minister: U.S. ‘No. 1 killer in the world,” WorldNetDaily.com, March 14, 2008. www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=58928
23 Ibid.
24 Mark Finkelstein, “Obama’s Spiritual Guide: ‘God Damn America,” NewsBusters, March 13, 2008. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/03/13/could-mccain-be-candidate-pastor-obamas-god-damn-america-wright
25 “Obama pastor: Not God bless, but God d-America!” WorldNetDaily.com, March 13, 2008. www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=58858
26 Finkelstein, “Obama’s Spiritual Guide: ‘God Damn America.”
27 Niles Gardiner, “Top 10 Obama Apologies,” Human Events, June 17, 2009. www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32296
28 “All aboard! Obama pals back violent Gaza flotilla,” Aaron Klein, WorldNet Daily.com, 5/31/2010. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=160661
29 “No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen,” Dinitia Smith, New York Times, 9/11/2001. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/books/no-regrets-for-love-explosives-memoir-sorts-war-protester-talks-life-with.html?pagewanted=1?pagewanted=1
30 “No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weatherme
n,” Dinitia Smith, New York Times, 9/11/2001. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/books/no-regrets-for-love-explosives-memoir-sorts-war-protester-talks-life-with.html?pagewanted=1?pagewanted=1
31 “Amazing Ayers Audio Unearthed from Same Week Obama worked with Him!” NakedEmperorNews, October 19, 2008. Video at www.youtube.com/watch?v= 0x BlTdsnOh8.
32 Tom Maguire, “Obama, Ayers, and the Annenberg Challenge Cover-Up,” Pajamas Media.com, August 22, 2008. http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-ayers-and-the-annenberg-challenge-cover-up/
33 Jack Kelly, “How Could the Obama Administration Have Hired This Guy?” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 13, 2009; B3.
34 Glenn Beck, “Van Jones, in His Own Words,” FOXNews.com, September 1, 2009, www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,545360,00.html
35 Barack Obama, “Obama: Fundamentally Transforming the United States of America,” Campaign Speech, YouTube.com, video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv JJP9AYgqU.
36 “The Rubber-Stamping of Radicals,” Investor’s Business Daily, September 9, 2009, A11.
37 Carrie Budoff Brown, “Van Jones ‘brought down,’ says Dean,” Politico.com, September 2, 2009. www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0909/Van_Jones_brought _down_Dean_says.html
38 “NAACP to Honor Van Jones as ‘American Treasure,” FOXNews.com, February 24,2010. www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/23/naacp-honor-van-jones-national-treasure/
39 Ron Bloom, “Czar Ron Bloom Agrees With Mao,” Address at an Investor Conference, YouTube.com, posted September 12, 2009 at www.youtube.com/watch?v= RCvQ8BSUv-g.
40 “Your World” interview with Neil Cavuto, Fox News, February 4, 2010. Video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9-rCui_3W4.
41 Glenn Beck, “Which Revolutionaries Should Americans Choose?: First Amendment Is Under Attack,” Fox News Network, Air Date October 29, 2009.
42 Nicholas Ballasy, “Obama’s Science Czar on His Past Work: ‘If You Read It and You Have a Problem, You’re Misreading It,” CNSNews.com, June 14, 2010. www.cnsnews.com/news/article/67690
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