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11
. Robin Bravender, “Budget deal axes ‘czars’ already gone,”
Politico
, April 12, 2011, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53001.html.

12
. “Statement by the President on H.R. 1473,” White House, April 15, 2011, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/04/15/statement-president-hr-1473.

13
. “United States Constitution—Article 2, Section 2,” U.S. Constitution Online, http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A2Sec2.html.

14
. Alexander Hamilton, “The Federalist No. 69: The Real Character of the Executive,” Federalist Papers, March 14, 1788, http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa69.htm.

15
. Ibid.

16
. Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein, “Holder’s 4G tax lax,”
New York Post
, April 17, 2011, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/holder_tax_lax_ZLrjDOZehZHon7f DakSwTL.

17
. Ibid.

18
. Jonathan Weisman, “Geithner’s Tax History Muddles Confirmation,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 14, 2009, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123187503629378119.html.

19
. Brian Wingfield, “Geithner’s Tax Troubles Are Serious,”
Forbes
, January 13, 2009, http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/13/treasury-geithner-obama-biz-beltway-cx_bw_0113geithner2.html.

20
. Weisman, “Geithner’s Tax History Muddles Confirmation.”

21
. Alex Spillius, “Geithner’s tax evasion,”
Telegraph
, January 22, 2009, http://blogs.tele graph.co.uk/news/alexspillius/8174427/Tim_Geithners_tax_evasion_/.

22
. Diana West, “Give Panetta the Pinko Slip,”
TownHall.com
, June 17, 2011, http://townhall.com/columnists/dianawest/2011/06/17/give_panetta_the_pinko_slip/page/full/.

23
. Ibid.

24
. Aaron Klein, “Obama’s DoD nominee linked to Cold War supporters of Soviets,”
WorldNetDaily
, June 16, 2011, http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=311485.

25
. Irene North, “Why the TSA won’t improve its image anytime soon,” Daily Censored, April 25, 2011, http://dailycensored.com/2011/04/25/why-the-tsa-wont-improve-its-image-anytime-soon/.

26
. Anne E. Kornblut, “White House moving to repair troubled relationship with cabinet,”
Washington Post
, March 9, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030805751.html.

27
. Ibid.

28
. “Press Briefing on the BP Oil Spill on the Gulf Coast,” The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, April 29, 2010, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/press-briefing-bp-oil-spill-gulf-coast.

29
. Anne E. Kornblut, “White House moving to repair troubled relationship with cabinet.”

30
. “Obama Fails To Meet With Six Cabinet Members For Two Years, But Talks or Meets With AFL-CIO President Almost Daily,” SodaHead, February 23, 2011, http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/obama-fails-to-meet-with-six-cabinet-members-for-two-years-but-talks-or-meets-with-afl-cio-presiden/question-1535985/.

31
. David Shepherdson and Christina Rogers, “GM’s Akerson Pushing for Higher Gas Taxes,”
Detroit News
, June 7, 2011, http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/1796.

32
. Ibid.

33
. “Alfred Dreyfus and ‘The Affair,’ ” Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtual library.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Dreyfus.html.

34
. Jeff Jacoby, “When Zola wrote ‘J’accuse!’ ”
Boston Globe
, March 30, 2008, http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/03/30/when_zola_wrote_jaccuse/.

35
. Michael Savage, “From the Dreyfus affair to the Strauss-Kahn affair,”
Michael Savage.com
, http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/2011/07/savage-from-the-dreyfus-affair-to-the-strauss-kahn-affair/.

36
. Shelley Ross, “Strauss-Kahn Fallout: NY DA Takes Five Steps Backwards For Rape Accusers,”
Huffington Post
, July 6, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shelley-ross/strausskahn-fallout-ny-da_b_888803.html.

37
. John Swaine, “Dominique Strauss-Kahn Walks Free After Maid Rape Case Crumbles,”
Telegraph
, July 1, 2011, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/dominique-strauss-kahn/8611957/Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-walks-free-after-maid-rape-case-crumbles.html.

38
. Jim Dwyer and Michael Wilson, “Strauss-Kahn Accuser’s Call Alarmed Prosecutors,”
New York Times
, July 1, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/nyregion/one-revelation-after-another-undercut-strauss-kahn-accusers-credibility.html?page wanted=all.

39
. Brad Hamilton and Larry Celona, “Maid ‘Laid’ Low as DA Paid for Digs,”
New York Post
, July 3, 2011, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/she_laid_low_as_da_paid_for_digs_8Udq6nhQaHaC4KOOfkctpI.

40
. Dwyer and Wilson, “Strauss-Kahn Accuser’s Call Alarmed Prosecutors.”

41
. Ibid.

42
. Hamilton and Celona, “Maid ‘Laid’ Low as DA Paid for Digs.”

43
. John Eligon, “Strauss Kahn Is Released as Case Teeters,”
New York Times
, July 1, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/nyregion/new-yorkers-and-french-await-latest-dominique-strauss-kahn-legal-turn.html?pagewanted=all.

44
. Alan Katz, “Strauss-Kahn Divides French on Political Return,
Parisien
Says,”
Bloomberg.com
, July 3, 2011, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-03/strauss-kahn-divides-french-on-political-return-parisien-says.html.

45
. Michael Weissenstein and Angela Charlton, “Tristane Banon to File Sexual Assault Lawsuit Against Dominique Strauss-Kahn,”
Huffington Post
, July 4, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/04/tristane-banon-dominique-strauss-kahn-dsk_n_889684.html.

46
. “Christine Lagarde: Executive Profile,”
Bloomberg Businessweek
, http://investing.business week.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=160171&ticker=INGA:NA&previousCapId=874263&previousTitle=Dexia%20Bank%20Belgium%20SA.

47
. Julian Gavaghan, “Synchronized swimming, flirting for France and a VERY risqué dominatrix drawing: The secret life of new IMF boss Christine Lagarde,”
Mail Online
, July 1, 2011, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009973/Christine-Lagarde-Secret-life-new-IMF-boss.html.

48
. Ibid.

49
. Fred Schulte, John Aloysius, and Jeremy Borden, “Obama Rewards Big Bundlers with Jobs, Commissions, Stimulus Money, Government Contracts, and More,”
iWatch News
, June 15, 2011, http://www.iwatchnews.org/node/4880.

50
. Derek Kravitz, “Tapping the Governor’s Phone,”
Washington Post
, December 9, 2008, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/12/good_stuff_for_the_people_of_i.html.

51
. Schulte, Aloysius, and Borden, “Obama Rewards Big Bundlers with Jobs, Commissions, Stimulus Money, Government Contracts, and More.”

52
. Ibid.

53
. Sam Stein, “Obama Campaign Advised White House Staff to Give Top Donor Sense of Access,”
Huffington Post
, June 13, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/13/obama-campaign-arm-advise_n_875986.html.

54
. Ibid.

55
. David Willman, “Cost, need questioned in $433-million smallpox deal,”
Los Angeles Times
, November 13, 2011, http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-smallpox-20111113,0,6456082,full.story.

Chapter 7. Tyranny of the Egghead Wars

1
. Kristinn Taylor, “Obama: Our Partyboy President,” Big Government, March 17, 2011, http://biggovernment.com/ktaylor/2011/03/17/obama-our-partyboy-president/.

2
. Julianna Goldman and Iuri Dantas, “Obama Tells Rousseff U.S. to Be Among Brazil’s ‘Best Customers,’ ”
Bloomberg Businessweek
, March 19, 2011, http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-19/obama-tells-rousseff-u-s-to-be-among-brazil-s-best-customers-.html.

3
. “Obama: ‘We cannot stand idly by,’ ”
Telegraph
, March 20, 2011, http://www.tele graph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8393482/Barack-Obama-we-cannot-stand-idly-by.html.

4
. Robert Dreyfuss, “Obama’s Women Advisers Pushed War Against Libya,” Fox News, March 20, 2011, http://nation.foxnews.com/barack-obama/2011/03/20/obamas-women-advisers-pushed-war-against-libya.

5
. Lee, Tim, “Sunstein on the Second Amendment,” The American Scene, November 4, 2007, http://theamericanscene.com/2007/11/14/sunstein-on-the-second-amendment.

6
. Brent Lang, “Power, Who Called Clinton ‘Monster,’ Joins Obama White House,” CBS News, January 30, 2009, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-4764495-503544.html.

7
. “Insider Report: Hillary’s College Thesis Revealed,”
Newsmax.com
, March 4, 2007, http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/3/4/184310.shtml.

8
. “US War Criminals: Where are they now? Madeleine Albright,” Kadaitcha, January 16, 2011, http://www.kadaitcha.com/2011/01/16/us-war-criminals-where-are-they-now-madeleine-albright/.

9
. Steve Dennis, “The Obama Doctrine: Is Ivory Coast next?” America’s Watchtower, April 3, 2011, http://americaswatchtower.com/2011/04/03/the-obama-doctrine-is-ivory-coast-next/.

10
. “About Crisis Group,” International Crisis Group, http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about.aspx.

11
. “Gates: Libya not ‘a vital interest’ for US, but part of region that’s of vital interest,”
Washington Post
, March 27, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/gates-libya-not-a-vital-interest-for-us-but-part-of-region-thats-of-vital-us-interest/2011/03/27/AF3ZcUiB_story.html.