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The
American Spectator
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45.

Remarks at a campaign stop in Powder Springs, Georgia, July 8, 2008; available online at http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/bellantoni/2008/Jul/08/

que-obama-says-nations-kids-should-be-bilingual/.

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46.

National Center for Education Statistics, “Digest of Education Statistics 2009,”

Table 29, page 59, April 2010; available online at http://nces.ed.gov/

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47.

David Wright, “Los Angeles Public School Named After Robert Kennedy Costs $578 Million,” ABCNews.com, August 23, 2010; available online at http://

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story?id=11462095.

48.

Remarks at a campaign stop in Zanesville, Ohio, February 28, 2008; facts available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/159678/michelle-obama-dont-go-corporate-america/byron-york.

49.

The University of Chicago Medical Center, “Press Release: Michelle Obama appointed vice president for community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals,” May 9, 2005; available online at http://www.uchospitals.edu/

news/2005/20050509-obama.html.

50.

Remarks made to
The New Yorker
, March 10, 2008; available online at http://

www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/10/080310fa_fact_collins?

currentPage=all.

51.

Byron York, “Michelle’s Struggle,” National Review Online, February 29, 2008; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/223808/michelles-struggle/byron-york.

52.

Peter Baker and David M. Herszenhorn, “Obama Signs Overhaul of Student Loan Program,”
New York Times
, March 30, 2010; available online at http://www.

nytimes.com/2010/03/31/us/politics/31obama.html.

53.

U.S. Census Bureau Annual Survey of Government Employment.

54.

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55.

National Governor’s Association, “Return on Investment: Strategies for Improv-ing Remedial Education,” 2011; available online at http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/

C2CBriefingPaperRemedialEd.pdf.

56.

Scott Waldman, “State standards tweaks target early learners,”
The Albany Times
Union
, January 13, 2011; available online at http://www.timesunion.com/local/

article/State-standards-tweaks-target-early-learners-953033.php.

57.

Lillian G. Katz, “Reading, Writing and Narcissism,”
The American Educator
, Summer, 1993; available online at http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-07-16/

news/1993197146_1_self-esteem-i-am-special-children.

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58.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, “Student Learning: Attitudes, Engagement and Strategies,” Figure 3.6, p. 134, 2003; available online at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/58/37/33918006.pdf.

59.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, “Education at a Glance 2009: OECD Indicators,” Indicator A4, 2009; available online at http://

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60.

Charles Savage, “Scouring Obama’s Past for Clues on Judiciary,”
New York Times
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61.

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62.

Paul Bedard, “Help for Obama’s Shack-Living Brother,”
US News & World Report
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washington-whispers/2008/09/10/help-for-obamas-shack-living-brother.

63.

Remarks made during interview with Cathleen Falsani in Chicago, Illinois, March 27, 2004; available online at http://blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/

2008/11/obamas-interview-with-cathleen.html.

64.

Remarks made in video address aired in Berlin, Germany, November 9, 2009; available online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8351471.stm.

65.

Remarks to Planned Parenthood in Washington, D.C., July 17, 2007; available online at http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2007/07/17/4439758-obama-on-judges-supreme-court.

66.

Interview with Paula Zahn, “People in the News,” CNN, April 17, 2004; transcript available online at http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0404/17/pitn.00.

html.

67.

Andrew Sullivan, “Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters,”
The Atlantic
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68.

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69.

Remarks during a Department of Defense news briefing in Washington, D.C., February 12, 2002; available online at http://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=jtkUO8NpI84.

70.

Remarks during 9/11 anniversary observance in Boston, Massachusetts, September 11, 2007; available online at http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/11/video-911-was-a-failure-of-human-understanding-says-mass-governor/.

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71.

Remarks made on
CBS Evening News
, May 3, 2010; available online at http://

www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/03/eveningnews/main6457014.shtml.

72.

Remarks at a press conference in New York, New York, May 4, 2010; available online at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-05-03/new-york-city-plans-to-deploy-more-cameras-mayor-says.html.

73.

Bobby Cuza, “Bloomberg Repeatedly Defends Mosque By WTC Site,” NY1 News, July 16, 2010; available online at http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_

stories/122239/bloomberg-repeatedly-defends-mosque-by-wtc-site.

74.

Remarks made in New York, New York, August 3, 2010; available online at http://

www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/nyregion/04mosque.html.

75.

Hendrik Hertzberg, “Zero Grounds,”
The New Yorker
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76.

Vince Veneziani, “Oh Please: CNN Anchors Wonder If Times Square Bombing Suspect Was Stressed From Being Foreclosed On,”
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77.

James Gordon Meek, “Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad mumbles his way through ‘suicide attack’ video,”
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78.

Paul Berman,
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79.

All headlines available online at http://www.navy.mil/swf/index.asp.

80.

Richard Esposito, Mary-Rose Abraham, and Rhonda Schwartz, “Major Hasan: Soldier of Allah; Many Ties to Jihad Web Sites,” ABCNews.com, November 12, 2009; available online at http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/hasan-multiple-mail-accounts-officials/story?id=9065692.

81.

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82.

Associated Press, “Some recognized Fort Hood Army psychiatrist was troubled,”

November 8, 2009; available online at http://www.tampabay.com/incoming/

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83.

Barry Rubin, “Why I Murdered 13 American Soldiers at Ford Hood: Nidal Hassan Explains It All To You,”
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84.

Daniel Zwerdling and Steve Inskeep, “Former Colleagues Say Hasan Was Detached,” NPR, November 10, 2009; available online at http://www.npr.org/

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85.

Philip Sherwell, “Fort Hood shooting: Nidal Malik Hasan ‘said Muslims should rise up’,”
The Telegraph
, November 6, 2009; available online at http://www.

telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6511591/Fort-Hood-shooting-Nidal-Malik-Hasan-said-Muslims-should-rise-up.html.

86.

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87.

Associated Press, “Napolitano Warns Against Anti-Muslim Backlash,” FoxNews.

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88.

Andrew Bast, “Is Fort Hood a Harbinger? Nidal Malik Hasan May Be a Symptom of a Military on the Brink,”
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89.

Editorial, “In Plain Sight?”
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AR2009111123438.html.

90.

Frank Gaffney, “Connect the Dots on CAIR’s Foreign Funding and Lobbying at CAIRObservatory.org,” BigGovernment.com, April 3, 2010; available online http://biggovernment.com/fgaffney/2010/04/03/connect-the-dots-on-cairs-foreign-funding-and-lobbying-at-cairobservatory-org/.

91.

Chris Ayers, “Barack Obama ‘insensitive’ over his handling of Fort Hood shooting,”
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co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6908849.ece.

92.

Sharon Weinberger, “Fort Hood Shooting Puts Focus on ‘Internal Threat’,” AolNews.com, August 20, 2010; available online at http://www.aolnews.

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93.

Adam Sternbergh, “Up With Grups,”
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94.

Remarks made during a town hall in Strongsville, Ohio, March 15, 2010; available online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-healthcare-reform-strongsville-ohio.

95.

Tim Craig, “D.C. to begin using more-expensive Trojan condoms in HIV prevention program,”
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96.

April Gavaza, “Sweet Baby Jesus,”
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97.

Kimi Yoshino, “For the ‘funemployed,’ unemployment is welcome,”
Los Angeles
Times
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98.

Victor Davis Hanson, “Ten Random, Politically Incorrect Thoughts,” PajamasMedia.com, November 21, 2008; available online at http://pajamasmedia.com/

victordavishanson/ten-random-politicially-incorrect-thoughts/.

99.

Jessica Reaves, “Gore’s Political ‘Promiscuities’,”
Time
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100. Interview with Ross Robertson of Enlightenment, August-October 2008; available online at http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j41/mansfield.

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101. Remarks at a press conference in Beverly Hills, California, August 8, 2010; available online at http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20408849,00.html.

102. Elizabeth Marquardt, Norval D. Glenn, and Karen Clark, “My Daddy’s Name is Donor: New Study of Young Adults Conceived Through Sperm Donation,”

Institute for American Values, 2010; available online at http://www.

familyscholars.org/assets/Donor_FINAL.pdf.

103. Kristin Boehm, “Alexis Stewart Continues Fertility Treatments,”
People
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html.

104. Mark Dagostino, “My Struggle to Have a Baby,” People, August 13, 2007; available online at http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20059186,00.html.

105. John F. Harris and Beth Frerking, “Clinton aides: Palin treatment sexist,”
Politico
, September 3, 2008; available online at http://www.politico.com/news/

stories/0908/13129.html.

106. Cherry Norton, “Maternal instinct ‘is extinct for one woman in five’,”
The Independent
, October 27, 1999; available online at http://www.independent.co.uk/