Trickle Down Tyranny (58 page)

Ghadafi’s letter to, 153

on immigration laws, 253

impeachment of called for, 41

law license voluntarily surrendered by, 26

Nobel Prize awarded to, 157, 162

not invited to British royal wedding, 196, 197

Osawatamie speech, 260–61

possibility of reelection, 2–3, 266–67

presidential prerogatives claimed by, 128–29

Project Fast and Furious and, 242–43

public opinion polls on, 39–40

on self-reliance, 66–67

serious problems concealed by administration, 1–2

“signing statement” issued by, 128

State of the Union address (2011), 33

Obama, Michelle, 27–30

anti-obesity campaign of, 29

law license voluntarily surrendered by, 26

vacations of, 27–29

Obamacare, 16, 76, 77, 108, 146, 255

“The Obama Miracle, a White House Free of Scandal” (Alter), 27

Obamanomics, 141

Obamavilles, 26

Ocasio, Arlene, 39

Occupy D.C., 109–10

Occupy Tahrir Square, 5

Occupy Wall Street (OWS), 26, 35, 56, 98–111, 263–64, 267

anti-Semitism in movement, 103–5, 109, 195

beliefs and demands, 105–6

characteristics of supporters, 109–10

as a “civilian army,” 108

crimes and uncivil behavior of, 107

ignorance of participants, 100–101

Occupy Yom Kippur, 103

Office of Management and Budget, U.S., 205

Office of Personnel Management, U.S., 127

Ogden, David, 242, 243, 248

O’Hare International Airport, 132

Oil, 7, 10–13, 36, 37, 147, 192, 213–22, 226, 231, 235, 265

company profits, 215–16

fracking and, 12

government regulation and, 218–22

horizontal drilling technology and, 12

jobs created by industry, 10, 11–12

Keystone XL pipeline, 10, 12–13, 206, 216–18

Libyan, 180–81

number of projects awaiting review, 234

Obama’s production strategy, 213–18

Oil spill, 37, 133

Old Testament, 63

Olsen’s Crop Services, 211

Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company, 211

Omar, Mullah, 182

O’Neill, Tip, 47

Open Society Institute, 109, 149

Organizing for America (OfA), 113

Orlando Sentinel,
34

Orszag, Peter, 85

Orwell, George, 49, 227

Osorio-Arellanes, Manuel, 246, 247

Our Man in Havana
(Greene), 184

Out Magazine,
232

OutServe, 170, 171

Owens-Illinois, 187–88, 189

OWS.
See
Occupy Wall Street

Pacific Gas and Electric, 79

Paige, Leslie, 35

Pakistan, 181–84

Palestinian Authority, 194

Palestinians, 8, 194, 195

Palin, Sarah, 119

Pampas Humedas LLC, 229

Panama, 131, 198

Panama Canal, 131

Pan Am flight 103, bombing of, 158, 180–81

Panetta, Leon, 7–8, 9, 74, 131–32

Le Parisienne,
139

Paris Match.com, 140

Particulate matter, 222–23

Patino, Uriel, 249

Paul, Les, 203

Paulson, Henry, 82, 90

Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, 1

Pedophiles, privacy rights of, 52

Pelosi, Nancy, 77

birthday bash of, 29

energy policy and, 37, 111

on health care legislation, 261

OWS movement and, 100, 105, 108, 110–11

Solyndra project and, 210

Pelosi, Ronald, 210

Pennsylvania, 11–12

Pentagon Papers, 59

People’s Liberation Army (China), 80

Perelman, Ronald O., 143

Perino, Dana, 47

Perlo, Victor (Perlo spy group), 131

Peru, 198

Petrobras, 147, 192, 230

Phillips, Brian, 102–3

PIIGS, 93

Piven, Frances Fox, 102

Plant a Tree: A working guide to regreening America
(Savage), 202

PM
(newspaper), 116–17

Poland, 3, 4

Political attack ads, 126–27

Political contributions, 35.
See also
Campaign donors

Political correctness, 170

Politico.com, 49, 50, 128

Portugal, 84, 93, 94

Posse comitatus
act, 267

Poverty rate, 92

Power, Samantha, 147, 148–49, 150

Powers, Scott, 34

President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, 77, 79

PricewaterhouseCoopers, 206

A Problem from Hell
(Power), 149

Project Fast and Furious, 26, 47, 237–39, 242–53

absence of arrests resulting from, 252

ATF agents’ statements on, 248–49

ATF director’s testimony on, 249–50

Biden on, 27

congressional committee report on, 250

death of Border Patrol agent
(see
Terry, Brian)

death of Mexican citizens and, 243

guns from at crime scenes, 249

Holder’s denial of, 238, 243, 248, 251

initial cover-up of, 244

real purpose of, 239, 244–45, 252

stated purpose of, 244

withholding of information on, 249, 250

Project Gunrunner, 242, 243, 244, 248

Project Vote, 116

Public Citizen, 142

Public Interest Spectrum Coalition, 169

Public Knowledge, 169

Public opinion polls, 39–40, 220, 266

Pulitzer Prize, 149, 241

Putin, Vladimir, 39

Pyle, Thomas, 220

Al Qaeda, 9, 24, 55, 60, 154, 156, 157, 163, 181–82, 184

Breivik influenced by, 64

British intelligence on, 196

Holder’s representation of members, 240

Israel invaded by, 194

Times
report on wiretapping of, 57–58, 241–42

QE2, 94, 95

Quantitative easing, 91, 92, 94, 95

Radical accomplices, 35, 98–122.
See also
Occupy Wall Street

mob rule by, 98, 111–15

rules for, 116–20

rules for beating, 120–21

Rainforest Alliance, 203

Rangel, Charles, 152

Rathke, Wade, 110

La Raza, 38, 253, 254

Reagan, Ronald, 8, 19, 131, 146, 196

Recovery of Auto Communities and Workers, 36

Redford, Robert, 231

Reficar, 231

Reid, Harry, 100, 128

Religion, freedom of, 39

Republicans

Democrats compared with, 19

opinion polls on, 266

public employees
vs.,
112

Tea Party ignored by, 20

The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All (Thakur), 151

“Responsibility to protect” doctrine, 36, 149, 174

developers of, 151

Islamist radicals protected by, 148, 154–57, 193

Libya and, 147–48, 150–51, 153, 156–57, 201

real meaning of, 148

selective application of, 150, 151

Revere, Paul, 42

Revolutionary Communist Party, 105

Rice, Susan, 46, 147, 150, 195

Rich, Marc, 241

“Right-wing Extremism” (Napolitano), 258

Rivera, Henry, 188

Rome Statute, 160

Romney, Mitt, 16, 142

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 32, 40, 41

Roosevelt, Teddy, 189, 260

Rose, Don, 116

Rosenthal, Lynn, 36

Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana, 191

Rothschild quote, 163

Royal Bank of Scotland, 82

Royal Dutch Shell, 221

Rubin, Robert, 84–85, 86, 87–88

Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
(Alinsky), 35, 116–19

The Rules of the Game
(pamphlet), 226–27

Russia, 9, 20, 66, 102, 201

oil production in, 218

U.S. economic policy criticized by, 96

U.S. foreign policy and, 3–4, 36

Russian Revolution, 101, 131

Russo, Anthony, 59, 168

Rwanda, 150

Sadat, Anwar, 156

Salafist party (Egypt), 5