Unstoppable (35 page)

Texas State Republican Platform, 2002,
12–13

The Theory of Moral Sentiments
(A. Smith),
24

Think tanks,
31

    
and corporate agenda,
9

    
and safety regulations,
28

    
See also specific think tanks

Thomas, Norman,
140

Thurmond, Strom,
18

Time, as convergence obstacle,
122

Time
magazine,
47

TNEC.
See
Temporary National Economic Commission

“Too big to fail” banks,
65
,
78–79

Toplin, Robert Brent,
169

Townsend, Francis,
148

Toxic soil,
114

Transpartisan Alliance,
97–98

Truman, Harry,
185

Turner, Lynn,
105

Union of Concerned Scientists,
2

Unions.
See
Labor unions

United Kingdom,
32

United Mine Workers,
168

University health insurance,
185

Unsafe at Any Speed
(Nader),
185

Unz, Ron,
63

US Bancorp,
79

US Department of Commerce,
127

US Department of Defense,
127
,
178

    
and military budget audit,
65
,
71–72

US Department of Justice,
4
,
101

US Department of the Interior,
127

US Department of the Treasury,
127

US Department of Transportation,
53
,
54

Vanden Heuvel, Katrina,
56

Veblen, Thorstein,
167

Vidal, Gore,
49

Viereck, Peter,
26
,
29–30
,
35
,
111

    
Conservatism Revisited,
29
,
111

Viguerie, Richard A.,
108

Voinovich, George,
52

Volcker, Paul,
105
,
109

Wages

    
government regulation of,
145–146

    
and low-wage policy, of Walmart,
145–146

    
See also
Minimum wage

Wagner, Dave,
56

Walker, Jesse,
56

Wall Street,
140

    
bailout,
5
,
73
,
103
,
148–149
(
see also
Corporate bailouts
)

    
financial crisis, 2008–2009,
101
,
103
,
128
,
148–149
,
158–159

Wall Street Journal,
31
,
32
,
47
,
103
,
116

Wall Street speculation, tax on,
76–77

Wallach, Lori,
19
,
94

Walmart,
75
,
122

    
CEOs,
76

    
low-wage policy of,
145–146

    
workers,
16–17

War, unconstitutional,
33–34
,
66
,
91–93
,
128
,
129

War-declaration authority,
45–46
,
177

War on drugs,
66
,
107–110

War Powers Act,
45–46

War Resolution Act,
130

Warren, Earl,
164

Washington Monthly,
108

Washington Mutual,
103

Washington Post,
30
,
34
,
47
,
125
,
131–132
,
149
,
190

The Wealth of Nations
(A. Smith),
24
,
25

Webb, Jim,
52–53

Weill, Sanford,
156

Wells Fargo,
79

Western Europe,
16
,
32
,
165

Wheat Farming Corporation,
147

Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency
(Buchanan),
34
,
174

Whistle-blowing rights,
51–52

Whitney, Richard,
158

Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence
(ed. Agar and Tate),
139–140
,
150
,
154
,
158
,
159–160

Wilkinson, J. Harvie, III,
32

    
Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance,
32

Will, George,
10
,
31
,
33
,
78
,
79
,
107
,
110

    
“Obama's Lawless War,”
33

Wills, Garry,
171

Wilson, George,
56

Wolfowitz, Paul,
34
,
131

Women,
150

Woods, Thomas E., Jr.,
56

World Trade Organization (WTO),
7
,
18–20
,
61
,
93–95
,
174–175
,
175–176

WTO.
See
World Trade Organization

Wyden, Ron,
43–44

Zakaria, Fareed,
31

Zeese, Kevin,
55
,
56
,
107

Zinni, Anthony,
92
,
177
,
190–191

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