Trickle Down Tyranny (44 page)

15
. “Fox Business launches series on Media Matters,”
Politico
, August 4, 2011, http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0811/Fox_Business_launches_series_on_Media_Matters.html.

16
. Graeme Wearden, “What has happened to Conrad Black’s media empire?”
Guardian
, July 25, 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/26/conrad-black-media-empire-assets.

17
. Brian Cathcart, “James Murdoch’s Facts Trap,”
Daily Beast
, July 21, 2011, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/21/james-murdoch-caught-in-new-facts-from-parliament-hacking-testimony.html.

18
. Sarah Rappaport, “News Of The World’s Greatest Hits,”
Business Insider
, July 7, 2011, http://www.businessinsider.com/news-of-the-world-stories-2011-7?op=1.

19
. “What price privacy now?” Information Commissioner’s Office, United Kingdom, December 13, 2006, http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/corporate/research_and_reports/ico-wppnow-0602.pdf.

20
. Indu Chandrasekhar, Murray Wardrop, and Andy Trotman, “Phone Hacking: Timeline of Scandal,”
Telegraph
, November 10, 2011, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8634176/Phone-hacking-timeline-of-a-scandal.html.

21
. “Rupert Murdoch gets Burma-Shave pie in the face,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 19, 2011, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/07/nothing-says-answer-the-dang-question-like-a-pie-in-the-face-testimony-by-james-and-rupert-murdock-before-parli ments.html.

22
. “News of the World phone-hacking scandal—Friday 8 July 2011,”
Guardian
, July 8, 2011, http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/08/news-of-the-world-phone-hacking-scandal.

23
. Jeff Labrecque, “Piers Morgan pulled into phone-hacking investigation by Heather Mills claim,”
EW.com
, August 4, 2011, http://news-briefs.ew.com/2011/08/04/piers-morgan-heather-mills/.

24
. Michael Tomasky, “U.S. Could Prosecute Murdoch,”
Daily Beast
, July 19, 2011, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/19/rupert-murdoch-s-american-law breaking-how-he-could-be-prosecuted.html.

25
. Mark Duell and Jennifer Madison, “U.S. Justice Department launches investigation into the extent of News Corp phone hacking and bribes,”
Mail Online
, July 19, 2011, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2016529/News-World-phone-hacking-bribes-US-Justice-Department-launches-investigation.html.

26
. “Why Now of All Times!” Above Top Secret, September 26, 2011, http://www.above topsecret.com/forum/thread757088/pg1.

27
. Jerry Gray, “Florida Couple Are Charged In Taping of Gingrich Call,”
New York Times
, April 24, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/24/us/florida-couple-are-charged-in-taping-of-gingrich-call.html.

28
. James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, “Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts,”
New York Times
, December 16, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html?pagewanted=all.

29
. Eric Lichtblau and James Risen, “Bank Data Is Sifted in Secret to Block Terror,”
New York Times
, June 23, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/washington/23intel.html?pagewanted=all.

30
. David Johnston and Mark Mazzetti, “A Window Into C.I.A.’s Embrace of Secret Jails,”
New York Times
, August 12, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/world/13foggo.html?pagewanted=all.

Chapter 4. Tyranny of the Treasurer

1
. Kerry Kubilius, “Cannibalism in the Soviet Union,”
East European History
, October 27, 2007, http://kerrykubilius.suite101.com/cannibalism_in_the_soviet_union-a34252.

2
. “Obama Warns Against Being Self-Reliant,” Walton & Johnson, October 27, 2011, http://www.waltonandjohnson.com/showarchives.html?n_id=2115.

3
. Jeffrey H. Anderson, “Obama’s Recovery A Flop Of Historical Proportions,”
Investor’s Business Daily
, September 7, 2011, http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/583866/201109061718/Obamas-Recovery-A-Flop-Of-Historical-Proportions.htm.

4
. Mortimer B. Zuckerman, “Why the Jobs Situation Is Worse Than It Looks,”
U.S. News & World Report
, June 20, 2011, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2011/06/20/why-the-jobs-situation-is-worse-than-it-looks.

5
. Matt Cover, “Obama Agriculture Secretary: Food Stamps Create Jobs,”
CNSNews.com
, August 16, 2011, http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-agriculture-secretary-food-stamps-create-jobs.

6
. “Expanding Net,” http://si.wsj.net//files/33/10/f3310/public/resources/images/NA-BN588_Benefi_G_20111005140904.jpg.

7
. Bruce Watson, “The Middle-Class Squeeze: Falling Wealth, Rising Costs,”
Daily Finance
, October 27, 2011, http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/10/27/the-middle-class-squeeze-falling-wealth-rising-costs/?ncid=webmail30.

8
. Matt Cover, “Flashback: Obama in 2008: Adding $4 Trillion to National Debt ‘Unpatriotic,’ ”
CNSNews.com
, August 24, 2011, http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/flashback-obama-2008-adding-4-trillion-n.

9
. Peter Roff, “A Plan Better than Obama’s to Create Jobs,”
U.S. News & World Report
, September 9, 2011, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2011/09/09/better-ways-than-obamas-plan-to-create-jobs?s_cid=rss:peter-roff:better-ways-than-obamas-plan-to-create-jobs.

10
. Becket Adams, “New Jobless Claims Continue to Hover Above 400,000,”
Blaze
, October 20, 2011, http://www.theblaze.com/stories/new-jobless-claims-continue-to-hover-above-400000/.

11
. Andrew Malcolm, “961 days in, Obama becomes sick and tired of someone dawdling about jobs,”
Los Angeles Times
, August 9, 2011, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/wash ington/2011/09/obama-jobs-speech-congress-bad-news-polls-.html.

12
. Charles Gasparino, “Wall St. Hypocrites,”
New York Post
, July 29, 2011, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/wall_st_hypocrites_rfge3Ca2Goa0FY QU2JECcN.

13
. Naftali Bendavid and Carol E. Lee, “Leaders Agree on Debt Deal,”
Wall Street Journal
, August 1, 2011, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903520204576480123949521268.html.

14
. Stephen Dinan, “U.S. eats up most of debt limit in one day,”
Washington Times
, August 3, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/3/us-eats-most-debt-limit-one-day/.

15
. “U.S. Debt . . . $15 Trillion and Counting . . . ,”
International Business Times
, November 20, 2011, http://m.ibtimes.com/debt-15-trillion-counting-au-ibtimes-com-252911.html.

16
. “After Obama’s Hitler Coup: The Guts To Impeach,”
Executive Intelligence Review
, August 12, 2011, http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2011/3831coup_guts_impeach.html.

17
. Bridget Johnson, “McKeon at AEI: Super Committee Deadlock Would Put U.S. Military ‘Out of Business,’ ” The Enterprise blog, September 12, 2011, http://blog.american.com/2011/09/mckeon-at-aei-super-committee-deadlock-would-put-us-mili tary-out-of-business/.

18
. “Comprehensive List of Obama Tax Hikes,” Americans for Tax Reform, http://www.atr.org/comprehensive-list-obama-tax-hikes-a6433.

19
. Matthew Boyle, “Nearly 20 percent of new Obamacare waivers are gourmet restaurants, nightclubs, fancy hotels in Nancy Pelosi’s district,”
Daily Caller
, May 17, 2011, http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/17/nearly-20-percent-of-new-obamacare-waivers-are-gourmet-restaurants-nightclubs-fancy-hotels-in-nancy-pelosi%E2%80%99s-district/.

20
. “Pay to Not Play: More ObamaCare Waivers Pile Up,”
Redstate.com
, May 19, 2011, http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/05/19/pay-to-not-play-more-obamacare-waivers-pile-up/.

21
. Jeffrey Immelt, “A blueprint for keeping America competitive,”
Washington Post
, January 21, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/20/AR2011012007089.html.

22
. Matthew Saltmarsh, “U.S. Slips to Fifth Place On Competitiveness List,”
New York Times
, September 7, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/business/global/us-slides-singapore-rises-in-competitiveness-survey.html.

23
. Kevin Collins, “Is Immelt’s Appointment Obama’s Pay-Off to Red China?”
Floyd Reports
, January 27, 2011, http://floydreports.com/is-immelt-appointment-obamas-pay-off-to-red-china/.

24
. “Leader of Obama Jobs Council, Jeff Immelt, Moves GE’s Health Care Unit to China,”
FoxNews.com
, July 25, 2011, http://nation.foxnews.com/general-electric/2011/07/25/leader-obama-jobs-council-jeff-immelt-moves-ge-s-health-care-unit-china.

25
. “Obama’s ‘Job Czar’ Jeffrey Immelt is moving X-Ray Company out of U.S. and into China,” Fact Over Fiction, July 28, 2011, http://www.factoverfiction.com/article/1962.

26
. “Bill Gates to Build Next-Gen Nuclear Reactors With China,” FoxNews.com, December 7, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/07/bill-gates-to-build-next-gen-nuclear-reactors-with-china/.

27
. Jake Tapper, “General Electric Paid No Federal Taxes in 2010,” ABC News, March 25, 2011, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/general-electric-paid-federal-taxes-2010/story?id=13224558.

28
. Jonathan Turley, “General Electric Profits Up 77% But Company Avoids Paying a Penny in Taxes,”
JonathanTurley.org
, April 21, 2011, http://jonathanturley.org/2011/04/21/general-electric-profits-up-77-but-company-avoids-paying-a-penny-in-taxes/.

29
. Curtis Dubay, “U.S. to have Highest Corporate Tax Rate in the World,” The Foundry blog, December 15, 2010, http://blog.heritage.org/2010/12/15/u-s-to-have-highest-corporate-tax-rate-in-the-world/.

30
. John McCormack, “GE Filed 57,000-Page Tax Return, Paid No Taxes on $14 Billion in Profits,”
Weekly Standard
, November 17, 2011, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/ge-filed-57000-page-tax-return-paid-no-taxes-14-billion-profits_609137.html.