“unless one was politically connected” Tad DeHaven, “Obama’s Stimulus: A Bit of Pork, a Lot of Opportunism,” CATO Institute, January 10, 2013, http://www.cato.org/blog/obamas-stimulus-bit-pork-lot-opportunism.
“an average of $260.6 million” “Harvard Economist Says Stimulus Was Designed to Reward Democrat Constituencies,” WinteryKnight.com, November 2, 2010, https://winteryknight.com/2010/11/02/harvard-economist-says-stimulus-was-designed-to-reward-democrat-constituencies/.
“form of pork for Senate Democrats” Ramesh Ponnuru, “The Stimulus Revisited,” The Corner (blog), National Review, January 24, 2012, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/289106/stimulus-revisited-ramesh-ponnuru.
“the 594,754 jobs allegedly ‘created or saved,’ ” “Harvard Economist Says Stimulus Was Designed to Reward Democrat Constituencies,” WinteryKnight.com, November 2, 2010, https://winteryknight.com/2010/11/02/harvard-economist-says-stimulus-was-designed-to-reward-democrat-constituencies/.
“forestalled one million private-sector jobs” John Hinderaker, “A Verdict on Obama’s ‘Stimulus’ Plan,” PowerlineBlog.com, May 15, 2011, http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/05/029042.php.
“The IRS’s ‘slow-walking’ ” Paul L. Caron, “The Media Ignores IRS Scandal: Column,” USA Today, May 16, 2014, http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/05/12/president-obama-irs-scandal-watergate-column/8968317/.
“including taking executive action” Everett Rosenfeld, “Obama Announces Gun Control Plans: ‘I believe in the Second Amendment,’ ” CNBC.com, January 5, 2016, http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/05/obama-announces-gun-control-plans-i-believe-in-the-second-amendment.html.
“ ‘gun violence’ ” Quinn Ford and Jeremy Gorner, “Chicago’s Gun Violence Up from a Year Ago, Topping 1,000 Victims Earlier,” Chicago Tribune, May 30, 2016, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-one-thousand-shootings-met-20150608-story.html.
“ ‘more guns equal less crime’ ” John R. Lott Jr., More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998).
“authorized gun dealers to sell two thousand weapons” Ian Tuttle, “El Chapo’s Capture Puts ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ Back in the Headlines,” National Review, January 21, 2016, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430153/fast-furious-obama-first-scandal.
“ ‘offensive’ language” “Stephen Coughlin on Fox and Friends 6.13.15,” YouTube video, 2:42, from Fox and Friends, televised on Fox News, June 3, 2015, posted by “Javelin DC,” June 3, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuL3_fCqMfw.
“al Qaeda’s connection to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing” “JW Report: ‘U.S. Government Purges of Law Enforcement Training Material Deemed “Offensive” to Muslims’ ” Press Room (blog), Judicial Watch, December 9, 2013, http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-releases-new-special-report-u-s-government-purges-of-law-enforcement-training-material-deemed-offensive-to-muslims/.
“ ‘nihilistic’ ” Barack Obama, “Remarks on the Execution of Journalist James Foley by Islamic State,” (remarks, Martha’s Vineyard, MA, August 20, 2014), The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-president-obamas-remarks-on-the-execution-of-journalist-james-foley-by-islamic-state/2014/08/20/f5a63802-2884-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html.
“ ‘counter violent extremism’” Benjamin Weingarten, “10 Troubling Aspects of President Obama’s ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ Summit,” TheBlaze, February 28, 2015, http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/10-troubling-aspects-of-president-obamas-countering-violent-extremism-summit/.
“hostile speech toward Muslims by Americans” John Stanton, “Loretta Lynch: ‘Actions Predicated on Violent Talk’ Toward Muslims Will Be Prosecuted,” Buzzfeed, December 3, 2015, https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/loretta-lynch-actions-predicated-on-violent-talk-toward-musl?utm_term=.xl4Aa6zNG#.poXEQG8Wb.
“global warming is the greatest threat to the planet” Jerome Hudson, “22 Times Obama Admin Declared Climate Change a Greater Threat Than Terrorism,” Breitbart, November 14, 2015, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/14/22-times-obama-admin-declared-climate-change-greater-threat-terrorism/.
“billions of public dollars” Larry Bell, “In Their Own Words: Climate Alarmists Debunk Their ‘Science,’ ” Forbes, February 15, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/02/05/in-their-own-words-climate-alarmists-debunk-their-science/#4fa6022476fb.
“citing environmental concerns” Juliet Eilperin and Katie Zezima, “Obama Vetoes Keystone XL Bill,” The Washington Post, February 24, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/02/24/keystone-xl-bill-a-k-a-veto-bait-heads-to-presidents-desk/.
“funding to back ‘green jobs’ ” Hans Bader, “More Failed Stimulus Spending: Green Jobs Boondoggles Promoted by Obama Fail, Go Bankrupt, but Obama Wants More,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, September 2, 2011, https://cei.org/blog/more-failed-stimulus-spending-green-jobs-boondoggles-promoted-obama-fail-go-bankrupt-obama.
“would reduce its emissions by between twenty-six percent and twenty-eight percent” William Mauldin and Colleen McCain Nelson, “U.S., China Build on Plan to Cut Emissions,” The Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2015, http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-china-build-on-climate-accord-1442342194.
“create a GDP loss of $650 billion” Matt Vespa, “Obama’s War on Coal Is Projected to Cost Us 125,800 Jobs and $650 Billion,” HotAir.com, November 25, 2015, http://hotair.com/archives/2015/11/25/obamas-war-on-coal-is-projected-to-cost-us-125800-jobs-and-650-billion/.
“in the service of their ideological agenda” Erica Martinson, “Uttered in 2008, Still Haunting Obama,” Politico, April 5, 2012, http://www.politico.com/story/2012/04/uttered-in-2008-still-haunting-obama-in-2012-074892.
“entitlement, now cast as a civil rights issue” Nia-Malika Henderson, “Obama Links Civil Rights, Health Care,” Politico, September 26, 2009, http://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/obama-links-civil-rights-health-care-027613.
“ ‘big f*cking deal’ ” “Joe Biden to Obama: ‘This is a Big Fucking Deal,’ ” YouTube video, :49, from when President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, March 23, 2010, posted by “FaceBook Day,” March 23, 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHKq9tt50O8.
“socialized medicine down the road” Charles Kesler, I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism (New York: Broadside Books, 2012), p. 13.
“partnerships between industry and government” Charles Kesler, I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism (New York: Broadside Books, 2012), p. 233.
“ ‘enlightened technocrats’ ” Charles Kesler, I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism (New York: Broadside Books, 2012), pp. 206–7.
“a living constitution” Charles Kesler, I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism (New York: Broadside Books, 2012), p. 207.
“without any Republican votes” Guy Benson, “Three Years Ago, Today: Democrats Ram Through Obamacare,” TownHall.com, March 21, 2013, http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2013/03/21/three-years-ago-today-democrats-ram-through-obamacare-n1544594.
“shun the checks and balances” “Obama’s Deal: Chronology,” Frontline, PBS.org, accessed May 29, 2016, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamasdeal/etc/cron.html.
“Jonathan Gruber, an architect of the legislation” Marc Thiessen, “Thanks to Jonathan Gruber for Revealing Obamacare Deception,” The Washington Post, November 17, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marc-thiessen-thanks-to-jonathan-gruber-for-revealing-obamacare-deception/2014/11/17/356514b2-6e72-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html.
“ ‘we’re going to get health care reform passed’ ” David M. Herszenhorn and Robert Pear, “While Confident Health Care Will Pass This Year, Democrats Still Search for a Plan,” The New York Times, January 28, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/health/policy/29health.html
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“ ‘Are you serious?’ ” Geoffrey Dickens, “Flashback: Pelosi Responds with ‘Are You Serious?’ to Question about ObamaCare’s Constitutionality,” NewsBusters.org, March 26, 2012, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2012/03/26/flashback-pelosi-responds-are-you-serious-question-about-obamacare.
“Using recess appointment power” Adam Liptak, “Supreme Court Rebukes Obama on Right of Appointment,” The New York Times, June 26, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/us/supreme-court-president-recess-appointments.html?_r=0.
“ ‘fairness’ and ‘justice’ ” “Education Experts Blast DOJ’s Apparent Call for Race-Based System of Punishment of Schoolkids,” FoxNews.com, January 10, 2014, http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/01/10/education-experts-blast-obama-administration-call-for-race-based-punishment.html.
“strip protections from college students” Caroline Kitchens, “Overreaching on Campus Rape,” National Review, May 13, 2014, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/377878/overreaching-campus-rape-caroline-kitchens.
“give thirty days’ notice to Congress” Josh Hicks, “Guantanamo Prisoner Transfer for Bowe Bergdahl Violated Laws, Review Finds,” The Washington Post, August 21, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2014/08/21/gao-pentagon-broke-law-with-guantanamo-transfer-for-bowe-bergdahl/.
“unconstitutional nationwide speech code” David Bernstein, “Two Cheers for President Obama’s Support for Free Speech on Campus,” The Washington Post, November 18, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/11/18/two-cheers-for-president-obamas-support-for-free-speech-on-campus/.
“risen to 45.8 million” United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation and Costs,” fns.usda.gov, May 6, 2016, http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/pd/SNAPsummary.pdf.
“now fallen to five percent” Benjamin Weingarten, “Everything You Though You Knew About the Unemployment Rate Is Wrong,” GenFKD.com, December 26, 2015, http://www.genfkd.com/everything-you-knew-about-unemployment-rate-wrong.
“Obama’s ‘recovery’ ” Stephen Moore, “The Obama Recovery That Wasn’t,” The Washington Times, January 3, 2016, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/3/stephen-moore-the-obama-economic-recovery-that-was/.
“have been hit particularly hard” United States Department of Labor “Labor Force Statistic from the Current Population Survey,” bls.gov, May 31, 2016, http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000.
“forty-nine states seeing premium hikes in 2016” Ali Meyer, “Forty-Nine of 50 States Will See Premium Hikes in 2016,” The Washington Free Beacon, January 11, 2016, http://freebeacon.com/issues/49-of-50-states-will-see-premium-hikes-2016/.
“at least a thousand ongoing investigations” Adam Kredo, “Rise in U.S. Terror Plots Tied to ‘Unprecedented’ Spike in Immigration,” The Washington Free Beacon, January 14, 2016, http://freebeacon.com/national-security/rise-in-u-s-terror-plots-tied-to-unprecedented-spike-in-immigration/.
“debt rose from $10.6 trillion” Phillip Bump, “The Story Behind Obama and the National Debt, in 7 Charts,” The Washington Post, January 7, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/01/07/the-story-behind-obama-and-the-national-debt-in-7-charts/.
“more than $19 trillion as of February 2016” Romina Boccia, “The US Debt Just Exceeded $19 Trillion. Here’s How We Got Here,” The Daily Signal, February 2, 2016, http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/02/the-us-debt-just-exceeded-19-trillion-heres-how-we-got-here/.
“$20 trillion by the end of his presidency” Dave Boyer, “$20 Trillion Man: National Debt Nearly Doubles During Obama Presidency,” The Washington Times, November 1, 2015, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/1/obama-presidency-to-end-with-20-trillion-national-/?page=all.
“rejected unanimously by the Supreme Court” David Bernstein, Lawless: The Obama Administration’s Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law (New York: Encounter Books, 2015), pp. 58–64.
“international coalitions and norms” Tamas Magyarics, “Wilsonianism—A Blueprint for 20th Century American Foreign Policy?” (paper, Cold War History Research Center, Corvinus University of Budapest), accessed May 29, 2016, http://www.coldwar.hu/html/en/publications/wilsonianism.html.
“ ‘unclench your fist’ ” Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address,” (speech, Washington, D.C., January 20, 2009), The White House, https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/01/21/president-barack-obamas-inaugural-address.
“nefarious jihadist designs” Benjamin Weingarten, “Obama Makes the Worst Trade in US History: Israel for Iran,” TheBlaze, March 3, 2015, http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/obama-makes-the-worst-trade-in-u-s-history-israel-for-iran/.
“violating the deal’s terms” Jon Gambrell, “Iran Fires 2 Missiles Marked with ‘Israel Must Be Wiped Out,’ ” Yahoo! News, March 9, 2016, https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-fires-2-missiles-marked-israel-must-wiped-071612751.html?ref=gs.
“self-determination for oppressed peoples” Vladimir Lenin, “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination,” Marxists.org, accessed May 29, 2016, https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/jan/x01.htm.
“above the advice of his national security team” Kate Scanlon, “Former Defense Secretary Says Obama Went Against the ‘Entire National Security Team’ on Egypt Coup,” TheBlaze, March 17, 2016, http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/03/17/former-defense-secretary-says-obama-went-against-the-entire-national-security-team-on-egypt-coup/.
“ ‘fully representative democracy’ ” CNN Wire Staff, “Obama Says Egypt’s Transition ‘Must Begin Now,’ ” CNN.com, February 2, 2011, http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/02/01/us.egypt.obama/.
“monetary aid and heavy weaponry” Spencer Case, “How Obama Sided with the Muslim Brotherhood,” National Review, July 3, 2014, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/381947/how-obama-sided-muslim-brotherhood-spencer-case.
“had repressed jihadist forces” Nic Robertson and Paul Cruickshank, “Islamic Militants Among Prisoners Free from Libyan Jail,” CNN.com, August 26, 2011, http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/26/libya.militants.analysis/.
“disarming in response to America’s invasion of Iraq” Ron Suskind, “The Tyrant Who Came in from the Cold,” Washington Monthly, October 2006, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0610.suskind.html.
“aiding the ‘rebels’” Washington Post Editorial Board, “What Obama Botched in Libya,” The Washington Post, May 5, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-obama-botched-in-libya/2014/05/05/3aef7176-d47a-11e3-95d3-3bcd77cd4e11_story.html.
“jihadists diving into the swimming pool” Tom Rogan, “Jihadists in the Swimming Pool,” National Review, September 2, 2014, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/386832/jihadists-swimming-pool-tom-rogan.
“approximately sixty-five hundred ISIS fighters” Jim Sciutto, Barbara Starr, and Kevin Liptak, “ISIS fighters in Libya Surge as Group Suffers Setbacks in Syria, Iraq,” CNN.com, February 4, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/04/politics/isis-fighters-libya-syria-iraq/.
“ ‘hostilities’ under the law” David Bernstein, Lawless: The Obama Administration’s Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law (New York: Encounter Books, 2015), p. xxi.
“keeping Ambassador Stevens in the country” Robert Young Pelton, “Low Profile in Benghazi: When Political Correctness Kills,” DangerousMagazine.com, May 8, 2013, http://dangerousmagazine.com/project/low-profile-in-benghazi-when-political-correctness-kills/.
“only liberal democracy in the Middle East” Ben Shapiro, “A Complete Timeline of Obama’s Anti-Israel Hatred,” Breitbart, March 20, 2015, http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/03/20/a-complete-timeline-of-obamas-anti-israel-hatred/.
“strengthening the Palestinian Arabs” Charles Krauthammer, “What Obama Did to Israel,” The Washington Post, May 26, 2011, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-obama-did-to-israel/2011/05/26/AGJfYJCH_s
tory.html.
“boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement” “Kerry Adds Fuel to BDS Fire,” The New York Jewish Week, February 4, 2014, http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial-opinion/editorial/kerry-adds-fuel-bds-fire.
“ ‘Israel and the West Bank’ ” Jennifer Rubin, “Obama Winks at BDS,” Right Turn (blog), The Washington Post, July 2, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogsright-turn/wp/2015/07/02/obama-winks-at-bds/.
“ ‘greatest geopolitical catastrophe’” “Putin: Soviet Collapse a ‘Genuine Tragedy,’ ” NBCNews.com, April 25, 2005, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7632057/ns/world_news/t/putin-soviet-collapse-genuine-tragedy/#.V03bs-crIy5.
“cyber-attacks on U.S. businesses” “Pentagon: China’s Man-Made Islands Growing, Now Thousands of Acres,” FoxNews.com, August 22, 2015, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/21/defense-official-china-grabs-50-percent-more-land-through-man-made-islands.html.
“ ‘open hand’ policy” “Chinese Cyberattacks on U.S. Companies Continue, Report Says,” NBCNews.com, October 19, 2015, http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chinese-cyberattacks-u-s-companies-continue-report-says-n447016.
“ ‘counterfeit’ progressive” Thomas Frank, “Cornel West: ‘He Posed as a Progressive and Turned Out to Be Counterfeit. We Ended Up with a Wall Street Presidency, a Drone Presidency,’ ” Salon, August 24, 2014, http://www.salon.com/2014/08/24/cornel_west_he_posed_as_a_progressive_and_turned_out_to_be_counterfeit_we_ended_up_with_a_wall_street_presidency_a_drone_presidency/.
“ ‘Git your black ass in the car with us’ ” Paul Kengor, The Communist (New York: Threshold Editions/Mercury Ink, 2012), p. 23.
“ ‘whole hour piss in their faces’ ” Paul Kengor, The Communist (New York: Threshold Editions/Mercury Ink, 2012), p. 24.
“ ‘horses, cattle, and furniture’ ” Paul Kengor, The Communist (New York: Threshold Editions/Mercury Ink, 2012), p. 25.