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Salazar, Ken, 133

Samaria, 195

Sandinista junta, 131

San Francisco Chronicle,
47

Sarah’s Law, 52

Sarkozy, Nicolas, 136, 137, 139

Saudi Arabia, 154, 157, 199, 214

The Savage Nation
(radio program), 3, 17

Savage Revolution, 19–21

SB 1070, 31

Schenck v. United States,
59

Schmaler, Tracy, 33

Scobey, Margaret, 155

Scotland, 180

SCYTL, 25

SEALs, Navy, 157, 164–66, 239

SEC.
See
Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S.

Second Amendment, 149, 245

Secure Border Initiative Network, 17

Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. (SEC), 82–83, 101, 231

SEIU.
See
Service Employees International Union

September 11 terrorist attacks, 29, 55, 63, 146, 181–83, 240

Service, John Stewart, 131

Service Employees International Union (SEIU), 35, 109–10, 111, 113, 134

Sharansky, Natan, 176

Shariah law, 5, 154, 156, 161

Sharpton, Al, 180

Shell Oil, 180, 221–22

Shelton, William, 167–68

Signa Technologies Inc., 143–44

Silvermaster spy group, 131

Silver prices, 92–93

Simon & Schuster, 47

Sinjar documents, 157

Sirte, Libya, 157, 163

SkyTerra, 169.
See also
LightSquared

Smallpox vaccine, 143–44

SNAP program, 69

Socialist International, 233

Socialist Party (Brazil), 192

Socialist Party (France), 139

Social Security, 69, 83

SOE, 25

Solana, Javier, 156

SolarReserve, 210

Solis, Hilda, 253

Solyndra, 26, 27, 37, 205–11, 213

bankruptcy declared by, 208, 211

criminal investigation of, 208, 210

spending spree in, 207

warning signs of problems, 206

Sorobama, 162–63

Soros, George, 9, 26, 98, 103, 109, 141, 147, 149, 151, 201

economic policy and, 65, 67, 72, 83

energy policy and, 228–33, 235, 236

LightSquared and, 169

Middle East policy and, 36, 155, 161–63, 175–77, 193

Murdoch conflict and, 48–55

Soros Doctrine, 155, 175–77, 193

Soros Fund Management LLC, 169, 229, 230

South Africa, 141

South China Sea, 4

Southern California, 10

Soviet Union, 45, 131.
See also
Russia

Space programs, 80, 172

Spain, 15, 84, 93, 94

Special-interest bonds, 83

Spectrawatt, 211

Speech, freedom of.
See
Freedom of speech

Spies, communist, 131–32

Spinner, Steve, 206–7

Spitzer, Eliot, 137

“Spring Wind” initiative, 78

St. Vincent, 196

Stahl, Lesley, 150

Standard & Poor, 94–95

START treaty, 3

State Department, U.S., 195

State of the Union address (2011), 33

Stephentown, New York, 211

Stern, Andy, 35, 113, 134

Stimulus plan, 71–73, 141, 143, 264.
See also
Bailouts

Stock market crash of 1929, 87, 88, 96

Stock market crash of 2008, 81, 88

Stone, I. F., 116

Strauss-Kahn, Dominique, 135–40

Student-loan market, 33, 188

Subprime mortgage loans, 219.
See also
Housing crisis

Sulfur dioxide emissions, 222–23

Summers, Lawrence, 85

Sundance Film Festival, 231

Sunstein, Cass, 126–27, 148–49

Supreme Court, U.S., 33, 240, 261

Massachusetts v. EPA, 222

New York Times Co. v. the United States,
59

Schenck v. United States,
59

Surface Transportation Revenue Alternatives Office, 234

“Sustainable bankruptcy,” 69

Sweden, 50

Syria, 37, 51, 160, 161, 176, 201

Taft-Hartley Act, 106

Taiwan, 132, 172

Take Back the American Dream Conference, 109

Takoma Park, Maryland, 124–25

Taliban, 75–76, 165, 166, 182

Tamm, Thomas, 241

Tapie, Bernard, 137

TARP.
See
Troubled Assets Relief Program

Taxation, 86–87

cabinet secretaries and, 127–28, 129–31

capital gains, 76–77, 99

corporate income, 77–81

in health insurance field, 69

new taxes added by Obama, 76

on oil, 214, 215–16

OWS movement on, 106

political favoritism and, 77–81

without representation, 76–81

of the “wealthy,” 76–77, 80–81, 99–100, 117

Teachers’ unions, 112–13, 115

Teamsters union, 108

Tea Party, 20, 99, 115

Telegraph newspaper group, 51

TerraPower, 78

Terrorism.
See also
Airline screening measures; Al Qaeda; September 11 terrorist attacks; Taliban

al-Awlaki case, 24–25, 111

Breivik case, 60–64

“community-based approach” to, 258–59

extremism distinguished from, 61–62

Gitmo detainees, 58, 240–41

Holder’s policy on interrogation, 239–41

Israel listed as sponsor of, 195

NDAA as a response to, 22–24, 261

Terry, Brian, 245–48, 251, 253

Texas, 10, 17, 38, 257

Thakur, Ramesh, 151

“THERE IS ONLY THE FIGHT—An Analysis of the Alinsky Model” (Clinton), 117, 149–50

They Thought They Were Free
(Mayer), 263

Tides Center, 109

Times
of London, 85

The Tonight Show
(television program), 266

Tonopah Solar Energy, 210

TransCanada, 216

Transnational National Council (TNC) (Libya), 181

Transportation Opportunities Act, 234

Transportation Security Administration (TSA), 38, 56, 132

Treasury bonds, 86, 88, 91, 94, 96

Treasury Department, U.S., 86, 127, 235

TreeWorld.info, 124

Trickle Up Poverty
(Savage), 16, 33, 81, 83, 87, 99, 102, 175, 219, 225, 230, 253, 254

Trotsky, Leon, 131

Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), 82–83, 88, 90

Trumka, Richard, 35, 113, 114, 134

TSA.
See
Transportation Security Administration

Tulane University, 221

Tunisia, 6, 176, 199

Tupi oil field, 230

TurboTax, 131

Turkey, 8

Uganda, 146, 196

Unabomber, 64

Underwear bomber, 120

Unemployment, 68, 71–73, 264, 266.
See also
Employment

Unemployment benefits, 72

Unfunded liabilities, 83

Unions.
See
Labor unions

United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), 113

United Nations (UN), 147, 150, 151, 159, 194, 195

United Nations Security Council, 200

United Socialist Party (Venezuela), 191

University of California, Berkeley, 213

University of Chicago, 148–49

University of Hartford, 103

University of Washington, 131

University of Waterloo, 151

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), 184

USA Today,
75–76

Utah, 255

Vahidi, Ahmad, 194

Valdez, Alaska, 231

VantagePoint, 210

Venezuela, 187–92, 197, 199, 217

Verizon, 112, 169

Veterans Affairs Department, U.S., 39

Veterans Health Administration, 123

Vietnam War, 59, 145

Vietor, Tommy, 186

Vilsack, Tom, 69

Vlaams Belang (Belgium), 50

Voth, David, 252

Wachovia, 168

Walker, Scott, 112, 113, 114

Wall Street, 67, 68, 71

Wall Street Journal,
43, 97, 155

Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
See
Dodd-Frank bill

War Powers Act, 32