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politics/main700170.shtml.

28.

Winston Churchill,
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29.

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, February 14, 2009; available online at http://www.

telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/4623148/Barack-Obama-sends-bust-of-Winston-Churchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html.

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30.

Nick Schulz, “Help Wanted, No Private Sector Experience Required,” The Enterprise Blog of the American Enterprise Institute, November 25, 2009; available online at http://blog.american.com/?p=7572.

31.

Remarks in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2008; available online at http://www.

breitbart.com/article.php?id=D912VD200.

32.

Remarks at St. James’s Palace in London, England, July 8, 2009; facts available online at http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/just-96-months-to-save-world-says-prince-charles-1738049.html.

33.

Michael Grunwald, “The New Action Heroes,”
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34.

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35.

Charlie LeDuff, “Los Angeles County Weighs Cost of Illegal Immigration,”
New
York Times
, May 21, 2003; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/21/

us/los-angeles-county-weighs-cost-of-illegal-immigration.html.

36.

Remarks at a campaign event for Martha Coakley, Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, January 17, 2010; available online at http://www.white house.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-event-with-massachusetts-attor ney-general-martha-coakley.

37.

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38.

Stephen F. Hayes, “Scott Brown’s Road to Victory,”
The Weekly Standard
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39.

MSNBC, “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” January 19, 2010; facts available online at http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/20/olby-massachusetts-suddenly-turned-racist/.

40.

Chris Woodyard, “Scott Brown drives his GMC pickup to U.S. Senate victory,”

USA Today
, January 20, 2010; facts available online at http://content.usatoday.

com/communities/driveon/post/2010/01/scott-brown-drives-his-gmc-pickup-truck-to-us-senate-victory/1.

41.

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Scranton Times
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42.

Michael Young, “Down With Meritocracy,”
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43.

Peter Berkowitz,
“The New Dogma of Fairness,” from New Threats to Freedom
, ed.

Adam Bellow (Templeton Press, May, 2010); available online at http://www.

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44.

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National Journal
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45.

Frank Rich, “The Rage is Not About Health Care,”
New York Times
, March 27, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28rich.

html.

46.

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story.php?storyId=97620520.

47.

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October 15, 2010; available online at http://www.foxnews.com/poli tics/2010/10/15/new-health-care-rules-require-doctors-note-pay-otc-drugs-fsas/.

48.

NPR, “What’s The Role Of Race In Health Care Fracas?” August 14, 2009; available online at http://m.npr.org/news/front/111899507?page=2.

49.

Remarks to the Atlanta Press Club in Atlanta, Georgia, October 21, 2010; facts available online at http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/10/21/130728202/npr-ceo-williams-views-of-muslims-should-stay-between-himself-and-his-psychiatrist.

50.

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51.

Greg Bluestein, “Firefighters stuck in Ga. awaiting orders,”
Associated Press
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52.

David Warren, “Two Solitudes,”
Ottawa Citizen
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53.

John Tierney, “Nader Searches for His Roots,”
New York Times
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campaign/15POIN.html.

54.

David Warren, “Two Solitudes,”
Ottawa Citizen
.

55.

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pays_taxes/index.htm.

56.

Benjamin Niolet, “Stimulus funds pay for monkey research in N.C.,”
The Raleigh
News & Observer
, March 8, 2010; available online at http://www.mcclatchydc.

com/2010/03/08/89974/stimulus-funds-pay-for-monkey.html.

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57.

Interview with WJR in Detroit, Michigan on October 7, 2009; facts available online at http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_100809/con tent/01125107.guest.html.

58.

Christopher Caldwell, “Islam on the Outskirts of the Welfare State,”
New York
Times
, February 5, 2006; available online at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/full-page.html?res=9C01E1DA1E3FF936A35751C0A9609C8B63&pagewanted=1.

59.

“The ‘Shameless’ generation of benefit addicts: Almost five million adults live in jobless homes,”
UK Daily Mail
, August 26, 2009; available online at http://www.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209072/Five-million-job-Labour--raising-fears-Shameless-generation-benefit-addicts.html.

60.

Remarks to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, March 31, 2010; available online at http://www.facebook.com/note.

php?note_id=10150147642760012.

61.

Pew Research Center, “A Balance Sheet at 30 Months: How the Great Recession Has Changed Life in America,” June 30, 2010; available online at http://pewso cialtrends.org/files/2010/11/759-recession.pdf.

62.

Interview with Robert Costa of
National Review
in New York, New York, September 2, 2010; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/arti cles/245438/caddell-midterm-elections-robert-costa.

63.

Remarks during first inaugural address in Washington, D.C., January 20, 1981; available online at http://www.reaganfoundation.org/pdf/Inaugural_

Address_012081.pdf.

64.

Dennis Cauchon, “For Feds, More Get 6-Figure Salaries,”
USA Today
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65.

Ibid.

66.

Veronique de Rugy, “Interesting Data on Increasing Public Employment,”
National
Review
, July 22, 2010; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/

corner/233524/interesting-data-increasing-public-employment-veronique-de-rugy.

67.

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with_us.htm.

68.

Dennis Cauchon, “Federal workers earning double their private counterparts,”

USA Today
, August 13, 2010; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/

money/economy/income/2010-08-10-1Afedpay10_ST_N.htm.

69.

Ibid.

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“Charlie’s Ways and Means,”
New York Post
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71.

Kerry Picket, “Rangel to TWT: I don’t deal in average American citizens,”
Washington Times
, December 3, 2010; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/

money/economy/income/2010-08-10-1Afedpay10_ST_N.htm.

72.

Remarks at a town hall meeting in Hayward, California, August 2, 2010; available online at http://www.breitbart.tv/congressman-at-town-hall-the-federal-government-can-do-most-anything-in-this-country/.

73.

Remarks to the National Press Club at a luncheon, July 24, 2009; facts available online at http://www.cnsnews.com/node/51610 and http://press.org/speakers/

speakers-press-club/luncheon-archive.

74.

Allahpundit, “Aw: John Conyers openly reading Playboy on airplanes now,”

HotAir.com, November 24, 2010; facts available online at http://hotair.com/

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75.

Charles Hurt and Yoav Gonen, “Teachers union gets a pass on ObamaCare rule,”

New York Post
, October 8, 2010; available online at http://www.

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76.

Todd J. Gillman, “Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson repays Congressional Black Caucus Foundation for scholarships,”
Dallas Morning News
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77.

Remarks at a press conference, July 4, 2005; facts available online at http://

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blogspot.com/2005/07/pelosi-supreme-court-is-god.html.

78.

Remarks during first inaugural address, March 4, 1861; available online at http://

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79.

Theodore Lowi,
The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1979).

80.

Remarks to the Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties, March 9, 2010; available online at http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/

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81.

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82.

Robert Pear, “Obama Returns to End-of-Life Plan That Caused Stir,”
New York
Times
, December 26, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/

2010/12/26/us/politics/26death.html; and Jay Solomon, “Medicare Will Pay for End-of-Life Talks,”
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748.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama.

83.

Philip Klein, “The Empress of ObamaCare,”
American Spectator
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84.

Reuven Fenton and Jennifer Fermino, “Extra Tax for Slicing,”
New York Post
, August 25, 2010; available online at http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ny_

cut_of_bagel_dough_YEhNdwO7ZwlUO555GQ4rNN.

85.

Cardwell, Diane, “A New Team Helps Steer Restaurateurs Through a Thicket of Red Tape,”
New York Times
, December 27, 2010; available online at http://www.

nytimes.com/2010/12/28/nyregion/28permits.html.

86.

Danny Hakim, “Albany’s Two Payrolls: One Is Anybody’s Guess,”
New York Times
, July 27, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/

nyregion/28payroll.html

87.

Tom Cohen, “White House: $98 billion in bad payments,” CNNMoney.com, November 18, 2009; available online at http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/18/news/

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88.

Jack Shafer, “Fannie Mae and the Vast Bipartisan Conspiracy,” Slate.com, September 16, 2008; available online at http://www.slate.com/id/2200160/.