After America: Get Ready for Armageddon (55 page)

28.

Rachel Donadio, “Europe’s Young Grow Agitated Over Future Prospects,”
New
York Times
, January 1, 2011; available online at http://www.nytimes.

com/2011/01/02/world/europe/02youth.html.

29.

Carl Mortished, “What do cars and cows have in common? No, not horns,”
The
Times
, March 10, 2009; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/

news/environment/article5877416.ece.

30.

Ibid.

31.

Theodore Dalrymple, “Know Thyself,”
City Journal
, May 7, 2010; available online at http://www.city-journal.org/2010/eon0507td.html.

32.

“G20 summit: Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel demand tough market regulations,”
The Telegraph
, May 17, 2011; available online at http://www.telegraph.

notes

373

co.uk/finance/g20-summit/5090442/G20-summit-Nicolas-Sarkozy-and-Angela-Merkel-demand-tough-market-regulations.html.

33.

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, “OECD Family database,” 2010; available online at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/

50/61/42294015.xls.

34.

Ibid.

35.

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, “OECD Family database,” 2010; facts available line at http://www.oecd.org/datao ecd/52/26/41920005.pdf.

36.

Russell Shorto, “No Babies?”
New York Times
, June 29, 2008; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29Birth-t.html?pagewanted=all.

37.

Douglas A. McIntyre, “Memo To Congress: ‘Buy Land, They Ain’t Making Any More Of It,’”
Time
, January 28, 2009; available online at http://www.time.com/

time/business/article/0,8599,1874407,00.html.

38.

International Monetary Fund, “World Economic Outlook,” (Chapter IV: Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions: Why Reforms Pay Off) April 2003; available online at http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2003/01/pdf/

chapter4.pdf.

39.

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, “OECD Economic Outlook No. 88 Annex Tables,” 2011; available online at http://www.oecd.org/

dataoecd/5/51/2483816.xls.

40.

Abul Taher, “ ‘Soviet’ Britain Swells Amid the Recession,”
Sunday Times
, January 25, 2009; available online at http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/

economics/article5581225.ece.

41.

“Islam and Phobias,”
The Economist
, January 10, 2008; available online at http://

www.economist.com/node/10499144?story_id=10499144.

42.

Steven Erlanger, “Europeans Fear Crisis Threatens Liberal Benefits,”
New York
Times
, May 22, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/

world/europe/23europe.html.

43.

Dan Bilefsky and Landon Thomas Jr., “The Bitter Pills in the Plan to Rescue Greece,”
New York Times
, April 30, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.

com/2010/05/01/business/global/01euro.html.

44.

Paul Krugman, “The Comeback Continent,”
New York Times
, January 11, 2008; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/opinion/11krugman.

html.

45.

Post-election panel at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, November 3, 2008; available online at http://strictlyright.com/2010/11/video-post-election-panel-with-mark-steyn-howard-dean-fred-thompson/.

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46.

Remarks during a press conference in Brussels, Belgium, November 21, 2009; available online at http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100017487/

herman-van-rompuy-today-the-eu-tomorrow-the-world/.

47.

Vicki Needham, “Obama adviser Volcker says record deficits could lead to new VAT tax,”
The Hill
, April 7, 2010; available online at http://thehill.com/blogs/

on-the-money/domestic-taxes/90991-volcker-suggests-raising-taxes-possibly-adding-a-value-added-tax.

48.

Panel Study of Income Dynamics, University of Michigan, 2001.

49.

Remarks during the 2009 Irving Kristol Lecture at the annual AEI Annual Dinner in Washington, D.C., March 11, 2009; available online at http://www.aei.org/

speech/100023.

50.

Tom Wolfe, “The ‘Me’ Decade and the Third Great Awakening,”
New York Magazine
, August 23, 1976; available online at http://nymag.com/news/

features/45938/.

51.

Remarks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 7, 2009; available online at http://www.securityconference.de/index.

php?id=242&zic=1117_1.

52.

Andreas Tzortzis, “One Wall Down, Thousands to Paint,”
New York Times
, March 2, 2008; available online at http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/

travel/02headsup.html.

Chapter four

1.

Richard Wolffe,
Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House
(New York: Crown, 2010); facts available online at http://www.nypost.com/p/

news/opinion/opedcolumnists/how_the_nanny_president_sees_himself_

Rz5QE1GoCFaiwCJvR9mrdP.

2.

Dan Jones, “A WEIRD View of Human Nature Skews Psychologists’ Studies,”

Science
, June 24, 2010; available online at http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/

pdfs/WEIRD%20in%20Science.pdf.

3.

Andrew Malcolm, “Michelle Obama serves food to D.C. poor and homeless, but . . . ”
Los Angeles Times
, March 6, 2009; available online at http://latimesblogs.

latimes.com/washington/2009/03/michelle-obama.html.

4.

Nicholas Timmins, “No worker in one-sixth of UK households,”
Financial Times
, August 26, 2009; available online at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/

0e1abd04-9221-11de-b63b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1MqD08fIT.

notes

375

5.

Victor Davis Hanson, “Dronism,” PajamasMedia.com, March 3, 2010; available online at http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/dronism/.

6.

Remarks made on Al-Rahma TV, June 6, 2010; available online at http://www.

memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2503.htm.

7.

Associated Press, “Israel pounds Luxembourg in World Cup qualifier,” September 9, 2009; facts available online at http://www.usatoday.com/sports/

soccer/2009-09-09-1359674765_x.htm.

8.

Charles Murray,
In Our Hands
(AEI Press, 2006).

9.

New Threats to Freedom
, ed. Adam Bellow (Templeton Press, 2010).

10.

John F. Burns, “Bill Millin, Scottish D-Day Piper, Dies at 88,”
New York Times
, August 19, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/world/

europe/20millin.html.

11.

Bruce Bawer, “A Plague of Poets,”
The Hudson Review
, Winter 2004; available online at http://www.hudsonreview.com/BawerWi04.html.

12.

Remarks made on MSNBC’s
Hardball with Chris Matthews
, July 27, 2004; available online at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5537671/42928946.

13.

Remarks made during a Q&A at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, May 23, 2010; available online at http://lukeford.net/blog/?page_id=24561.

14.

Bill Minutaglio, “School For Homosexuals An Ongoing Controversy,” The
Dallas Morning News
, October 22, 1985; available online at http://articles.sun sentinel.com/1985-10-22/features/8502160307_1_harvey-milk-school-school-system-school-officials/3.

15.

Rick Salutin, “Here’s the Real Obama Question,”
The Globe and Mail
, January 16, 2009; available online at http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.

HTMLTemplate?current_row=89&tf=tgam/columnists/FullColumn.

html&cf=tgam/columnists/FullColumn.cfg&configFileLoc=tgam/config&date

=&dateOffset=&hub=r ickSalutin&title=Rick_Salutin&cache_

key=rickSalutin&start_row=89&num_rows=1.

16.

John Wildermuth, “Many Obama supporters also backed Prop. 8,”
San Francisco
Chronicle
, November 6, 2008; available online at http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-11-06/news/17128024_1_uncounted-field-poll-same-sex-marriage.

17.

Iain Murray, “Boris Hacking Again,” National Review Online, January 20, 2009; available online http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/176006/boris-hacking-again/iain-murray.

18.

Remarks made during a speech in Berlin, Germany, July 24, 2008; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/us/politics/24text-obama.html.

19.

Michael Ignatieff,
The Rights Revolution
(Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2007).

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20.

John Robson, “Media insult us with leadership coverage overkill,”
The Ottawa
Citizen
, October 6, 2006; available online at http://www.thejohnrobson.

com/2006/10/06/media-insult-us-with-leadership-coverage-overkill/.

21.

Remarks to National Review Online, September 23, 2009; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/187591/bolton-post-american-speech-our-first-post-american-president/robert-costa.

22.

Dinesh D’Souza,
The Roots of Obama’s Rage
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2010).

23.

James Gordon Meek, “America is strong enough to withstand another 9/11, President Obama tells author Bob Woodward,”
New York Daily News
, September 22, 2010; available online at http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-09-22/

news/27076084_1_president-obama-terror-threat-terrorist-attack.

24.

“Northern Ireland: Acceptable Violence?”
Time
, December 27, 1971; available online at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,905596-2,00.html.

25.

Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago, “Election Results, November 2004 General”; facts available online at http://www.chicagoelections.com/.

26.

Remarks during a Liberal Party fundraiser in Toronto, Ontario, May 17, 2010; facts available online at http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/

fullcomment/archive/2010/05/18/matt-gurney-untitled-ignatieff.aspx.

27.

Remarks made on FOX News’
The O’Reilly Factor
, September 22, 2010; available online at http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/23/stewart-saddened-by-obama/.

28.

Glenn Reynolds, “Jon Stewart on Obama,” Instapundit.com, September 23, 2010; available online at http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/106718/.

29.

National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Adult Literacy; available online at http://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp#enrollment.

30.

National Center for Education Statistics, “Digest of Education Statistics 2009,”

page 269, April 2010; available online at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010013.

pdf.

31.

National Center for Education Statistics, “Digest of Education Statistics 2009,”

Table 64, April 2010; http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010013.pdf.

32.

National Center for Education Statistics, “Digest of Education Statistics 2009,”

Tables 33, 34 and 80, April 2010; facts available online at http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/grigori-rasputin-bailout/.

33.

Howard Blume, “Annual test scores rise in L.A. Unified schools,”
Los Angeles
Times
, August 17, 2010; available online at http://articles.latimes.com/2010/

aug/17/local/la-me-0817-star-tests-20100817.

34.

National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Adult Literacy”; available online at http://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp#illiteracy.

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35.

Jim Hoft, “Photo of the Day: Commie Students Protest Campus Budget Cuts,”

GatewayPundit.com, March 4, 2010; available online at http://gatewaypundit.

rightnetwork.com/2010/03/photo-of-the-day-commie-students-protest-campus-budget-cuts/.

36.

Keith O’Brien, “The Test Has Been Cancelled,”
The Boston Globe
, October 3, 2010; facts available online http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2010/10/only-23-of-.html.

37.

Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay, eds.,
The Fat Studies Reader
(NYU Press, November 2009); available online at http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.

aspx?bookId=4528.

38.

National Science Foundation, “First-Time, Full-Time Graduate Student Enrollment in Science and Engineering Increases in 2006, Especially Among Foreign Students,” December, 2007; available online at http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/

infbrief/nsf08302/.

39.

Remarks at a campaign stop in Madison, Wisconsin, February 17, 2008; facts available online at http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/

Articles/000/000/014/764fosie.asp and http://www.dailymotion.com/video/

x4f9af_obama_news.

40.

Remarks made on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, November 12, 2007; available online at http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2007/11/12/michelle-obama-inferiority-complex-blocks-blacks-backing-barack.

41.

Michelle LaVaugh Robinson, “Princeton-Educated Blacks and The Community: A Thesis,” Princeton University, Department of Sociology, 1985; available online at http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_1-251.pdf.

42.

Thomas J. Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford,
No Longer Separate, Not
Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life
(Princeton University Press, 2009).

43.

Kate McMillan, “What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?” SmallDeadAnimals.com, June 23, 2009; available online at http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/