Post-American Presidency (51 page)

3
. John Carey, “House Passes Carbon Cap-and-Trade Bill,”
BusinessWeek,
June 26, 2009; Peter Ferrara, “Cap and Trade Dementia,”
American Spectator,
July 1, 2009.

4
. “The Cap and Tax Fiction,”
Wall Street Journal,
June 26, 2009.

5
. Tom LoBianco, “Obama Counting On Cap-and-Trade,”
Washington Times,
February 25, 2009.

6
. Declan McCullagh, “Obama Admin: Cap And Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 A Year,” CBS News, September 15, 2009,
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/15
/taking_liberties/entry5314040.shtml
.

7
. “The Cap and Tax Fiction.”

8
. Pamela Geller, “Obama’s Energy Plan: Mandated Scarcity in the Richest Country in the World,” AtlasShrugs.com, August 17, 2009,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/08/obamas-energy-plan-mandated-scarcity
-in-the-richest-country-in
-the-world.html
.

9
. “The Cap and Tax Fiction.”

10
. Karl Rove, “Scrap Cap-and-Trade,”
Newsweek,
October 31, 2009.

11
. Ibid.

12
. On Obama Calling It a Jobs Bill, cf. Peter Ferrara, “Cap and Trade Dementia,”
American Spectator,
July 1, 2009.

13
. Amanda DeBard, “Energy Job Losers Could Get Windfall,”
Washington Times,
July 3, 2009.

14
. Sarah Palin, “The ‘Cap And Tax’ Dead End,”
Washington Post,
July 14, 2009.

15
. Geller, “Obama’s Energy Plan: Mandated Scarcity in the Richest Country in the World.”

16
. David Freddoso, “Don’t Buy Those Carbon Credits Just Yet,”
Examiner
(Washington), November 10, 2009,
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/
blogs/beltway-confidential/Dont-buy-
those-carbon-credits-just-yet-69645032.html
.

17
. Peter Ferrara, “Cap and Trade Dementia,”
American Spectator,
July 1, 2009.

18
. Tim Ball, “The Death Blow to Climate Science,” Canada Free Press, November 21, 2009,
http://canadafreepress.com/index
.php/members/17102/Ball/
.

19
. James Delingpole, “Climategate: The Final Nail in the Coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’?”
Telegraph,
November 20, 2009.

20
. Ball, “The Death Blow to Climate Science.”

21
. Andrew C. Revkin, “Hacked E-Mail is New Fodder for Climate Dispute,”
New York Times,
November 20, 2009.

22
. Andrew C. Revkin, “Private Climate Conversations on Display,”
New York Times,
November 20, 2009.

23
. “Leaked E-mails Muddy Waters Ahead of Climate Change Conference,” FOXNews.com, November 30, 2009,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/30
/leaked-e-mails-muddy-waters-ahead-climate
-change-conference/?utm_source=feedburner
&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign
=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fpolitics
+%2528FOXNews.com+-+Politics%2529&
utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
.

24
. Ben Geman, “EPA chief: The hacked e-mails change nothing,” The Hill, December 7, 2009,
http://thehill.com//blogs/e2-wire/677-e2
-wire/70943-epa-chief-the-hacked-emails-
dont-change-a-thing
.

25
. Jake Tapper, “White House Pushes Back on Climate Change Email Controversy,” ABC News, December 3, 2009,
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch
/2009/12/white-house-pushes-back-on-
climate-change-email-controversy.html
.

26
. David Rochelson, “The search for knowledge, truth and a greater understanding of the world around us,” Change.gov, December 20, 2008,
http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/the_search_for
_knowledge_truth_and_a_greater
_understanding_of_the_world_aro
.

27
. Sarah Palin, “Mr. President: Boycott Copenhagen; Investigate Your Climate Change ‘Experts,’” Sarah Palin’s Notes, Facebook.com, December 3, 2009.

28
. Sarah Palin, “Copenhagen’s Political Science,”
Washington Post,
December 9, 2009.

EPILOGUE: WHAT LOVERS OF FREEDOM
MUST
DO

1
. George Jahn, “Analysis: A year on, Iran, NKorea threats worsen,” Associated Press, December 13, 2009.

2
. See F. A. Hayek,
The Road to Serfdom
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).

3
. “Howard Dean has a point on capitalism and socialism,” Free Frank Warner, December 5, 2009,
http://frankwarner.typepad.com/free_
frank_warner/2009/12/howard-dean
-has-a-point-on-capitalism-and
-socialism.html?cid=6a00d83451cd37
69e20128761c4ae6970c
.

4
. Ayn Rand,
For the New Intellectual
(New York: Signet, 1963), p. 46.

5
. Kathleen Gilbert, “Lech Walesa: World Has ‘Lost Hope’ of America’s Moral Leadership,” LifeSite News, February 5, 2010.

Much thanks to attorney John Jay for helping me parse through the legal language of the Copenhagen climate change documents; to Scott Mendel for his efforts on behalf of this book; and to Mitchell Ivers and his colleagues at Threshold for their excellent work on the manuscript. But most of all, deepest gratitude to my Atlas Shrugs readers, those great Americans and freedom lovers who sent me news tips and other material that helped me expose Obama’s agenda and activities—
mwah!

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al-Awlaki, Anwar,
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107

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95

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32

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110

Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN),
302
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(Obama),
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auto industry,
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bin Laden, Osama,
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Blow, Charles M.,
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Blumenauer, Earl,
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Blunt, Matt,
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,
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32
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,
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missile defense system and,
134

on norming,
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,
157
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73
,
127
,
158

on Obama’s Nobel Prize speech,
175

torture and,
224
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on U.S. exceptionalism,
vii
–ix

Booker, Christopher,
144

Boot, Max,
177

Boroumand, Roya,
148

Brooks, Rosa,
93
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Brown, David B.,
245
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Browner, Carol M.,
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322
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Brzezinski, Zbigniew,
92
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Burns, William J.,
130

Burton, Bill,
256

Bush, George H. W.,
ix
,
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