Liars (44 page)

“form of pork for Senate Democrats”
Ramesh Ponnuru, “The Stimulus Revisited,”
The Corner
(blog),
National Review
, January 24, 2012,
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/289106/stimulus-revisited-ramesh-ponnuru
.

“the 594,754 jobs allegedly ‘created or saved,' ”
“Harvard Economist Says Stimulus Was Designed to Reward Democrat Constituencies,”
WinteryKnight.com
, November 2, 2010,
https://winteryknight.com/2010/11/02/harvard-economist-says-stimulus-was-designed-to-reward-democrat-constituencies/
.

“forestalled one million private-sector jobs”
John Hinderaker, “A Verdict on Obama's ‘Stimulus' Plan,”
PowerlineBlog.com
, May 15, 2011,
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/05/029042.php
.

“The IRS's ‘slow-walking' ”
Paul L. Caron, “The Media Ignores IRS Scandal: Column,”
USA Today
, May 16, 2014,
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/05/12/president-obama-irs-scandal-watergate-column/8968317/
.

“including taking executive action”
Everett Rosenfeld, “Obama Announces Gun Control Plans: ‘I believe in the Second Amendment,' ”
CNBC.com
, January 5, 2016,
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/05/obama-announces-gun-control-plans-i-believe-in-the-second-amendment.html
.

“ ‘gun violence' ”
Quinn Ford and Jeremy Gorner, “Chicago's Gun Violence Up from a Year Ago, Topping 1,000 Victims Earlier,”
Chicago Tribune
, May 30, 2016,
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-one-thousand-shootings-met-20150608-story.html
.

“ ‘more guns equal less crime' ”
John R. Lott Jr.,
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
(Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998).

“authorized gun dealers to sell two thousand weapons”
Ian Tuttle, “El Chapo's Capture Puts ‘Operation Fast and Furious' Back in the Headlines,”
National Review
, January 21, 2016,
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430153/fast-furious-obama-first-scandal
.

“ ‘offensive' language”
“Stephen Coughlin on Fox and Friends 6.13.15,” YouTube video, 2:42, from Fox and Friends, televised on Fox News, June 3, 2015, posted by “Javelin DC,” June 3, 2015,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuL3_fCqMfw
.

“al Qaeda's connection to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing”
“JW Report: ‘U.S. Government Purges of Law Enforcement Training Material Deemed “Offensive” to Muslims' ”
Press Room
(blog), Judicial Watch, December 9, 2013,
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-releases-new-special-report-u-s-government-purges-of-law-enforcement-training-material-deemed-offensive-to-muslims/
.

“ ‘nihilistic' ”
Barack Obama, “Remarks on the Execution of Journalist James Foley by Islamic State,” (remarks, Martha's Vineyard, MA, August 20, 2014),
The Washington Post
,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-president-obamas-remarks-on-the-execution-of-journalist-james-foley-by-islamic-state/2014/08/20/f5a63802-2884-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html
.

“ ‘counter violent extremism'
”
Benjamin Wein­garten, “10 Troubling Aspects of President Obama's ‘Countering Violent Extremism' Summit,” TheBlaze, February 28, 2015,
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/10-troubling-aspects-of-president-obamas-countering-violent-extremism-summit/
.

“hostile speech toward Muslims by Americans”
John Stanton, “Loretta Lynch: ‘Actions Predicated on Violent Talk' Toward Muslims Will Be Prosecuted,” Buzzfeed, December 3, 2015,
https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/loretta-lynch-actions-predicated-on-violent-talk-toward-musl?utm_term=.xl4Aa6zNG#.poXEQG8Wb
.

“global warming is the greatest threat to the planet”
Jerome Hudson, “22 Times Obama Admin Declared Climate Change a Greater Threat Than Terrorism,” Breitbart, November 14, 2015,
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/14/22-times-obama-admin-declared-climate-change-greater-threat-terrorism/
.

“billions of public dollars”
Larry Bell, “In Their Own Words: Climate Alarmists Debunk Their ‘Science,' ”
Forbes
, February 15, 2013,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/02/05/in-their-own-words-climate-alarmists-debunk-their-science/#4fa6022476fb
.

“citing environmental concerns”
Juliet Eilperin and Katie Zezima, “Obama Vetoes Keystone
XL Bill,”
The Washington Post
, February 24, 2015,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/02/24/keystone-xl-bill-a-k-a-veto-bait-heads-to-presidents-desk/
.

“funding to back ‘green jobs' ”
Hans Bader, “More Failed Stimulus Spending: Green Jobs Boondoggles Promoted by Obama Fail, Go Bankrupt, but Obama Wants More,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, September 2, 2011,
https://cei.org/blog/more-failed-stimulus-spending-green-jobs-boondoggles-promoted-obama-fail-go-bankrupt-obama
.

“would reduce its emissions by between twenty-six percent and twenty-eight percent”
William Mauldin and Colleen McCain Nelson, “U.S., China Build on Plan to Cut Emissions,”
The Wall Street Journal
, September 15, 2015,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-china-build-on-climate-accord-1442342194
.

“create a GDP loss of $650 billion”
Matt Vespa, “Obama's War on Coal Is Projected to Cost Us 125,800 Jobs and $650 Billion,”
HotAir.com
, November 25, 2015,
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/11/25/obamas-war-on-coal-is-projected-to-cost-us-125800-jobs-and-650-billion/
.

“in the service of their ideological agenda”
Erica Martinson, “Uttered in 2008, Still Haunting Obama,”
Politico
, April 5, 2012,
http://www.politico.com/story/2012/04/uttered-in-2008-still-haunting-obama-in-2012-074892
.

“entitlement, now cast as a civil rights issue”
Nia-Malika Henderson, “Obama Links Civil Rights, Health Care,”
Politico
, September 26, 2009,
http://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/obama-links-civil-rights-health-care-027613
.

“ ‘big f*cking deal' ”
“Joe Biden to Obama: ‘This is a Big Fucking Deal,' ” YouTube video, :49, from when President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, March 23, 2010, posted by “FaceBook Day,” March 23, 2010,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHKq9tt50O8
.

“socialized medicine down the road”
Charles Kesler,
I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism
(New York: Broadside Books, 2012), p. 13.

“partnerships between industry and government”
Charles Kesler,
I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism
(New York: Broadside Books, 2012), p. 233.

“ ‘enlightened technocrats' ”
Charles Kesler,
I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism
(New York: Broadside Books, 2012), pp. 206–7.

“a living constitution”
Charles Kesler,
I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism
(New York: Broadside Books, 2012), p. 207.

“without any Republican votes”
Guy Benson, “Three Years Ago, Today: Democrats Ram Through Obamacare,”
TownHall.com
, March 21, 2013,
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2013/03/21/three-years-ago-today-democrats-ram-through-obamacare-n1544594
.

“shun the checks and balances”
“Obama's Deal: Chronology,” Frontline,
PBS.org
, accessed May 29, 2016,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamasdeal/etc/cron.html
.

“Jonathan Gruber, an architect of the legislation”
Marc Thiessen, “Thanks to Jonathan Gruber for Revealing Obamacare Deception,”
The Washington Post
, November 17, 2014,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marc-thiessen-thanks-to-jonathan-gruber-for-revealing-obamacare-deception/2014/11/17/356514b2-6e72-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html
.

“ ‘we're going to get health care reform passed' ”
David M. Herszenhorn and Robert Pear, “While Confident Health Care Will Pass This Year, Democrats Still Search for a Plan,”
The New York Times,
January 28, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/health/policy/29health.html

“ ‘Are you serious?' ”
Geoffrey Dickens, “Flashback: Pelosi Responds with ‘Are You Serious?' to Question about ObamaCare's Constitutionality,”
NewsBusters.org
, March 26, 2012,
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2012/03/26/flashback-pelosi-responds-are-you-serious-question-about-obamacare
.

“Using recess appointment power”
Adam Liptak, “Supreme Court Rebukes Obama on Right of Appointment,”
The New York Times
, June 26, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/us/supreme-court-president-recess-appointments.html?_r=0
.

“ ‘fairness' and ‘justice' ”
“Education Experts Blast DOJ's Apparent Call for Race-Based System of Punishment of Schoolkids,”
FoxNews.com
, January 10, 2014,
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/01/10/education-experts-blast-obama-administration-call-for-race-based-punishment.html
.

“strip protections from college students”
Caroline Kitchens, “Overreaching on Campus Rape,”
National Review
, May 13, 2014,
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/377878/overreaching-campus-rape-caroline-kitchens
.

“give thirty days' notice to Congress”
Josh Hicks, “Guantanamo Prisoner Transfer for Bowe Bergdahl Violated Laws, Review Finds,”
The Washington Post
, August 21, 2014,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2014/08/21/gao-pentagon-broke-law-with-guantanamo-transfer-for-bowe-bergdahl/
.

“unconstitutional nationwide speech code”
David Bernstein, “Two Cheers for President Obama's Support for Free Speech on Campus,”
The Washington Post
, November 18, 2015,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/11/18/two-cheers-for-president-obamas-support-for-free-speech-on-campus/
.

“risen to 45.8 million
”
United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation and Costs,” fns.usda.gov, May 6, 2016,
http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/pd/SNAPsummary.pdf
.

“now fallen to five percent”
Benjamin Weingarten, “Everything You Though You Knew About the Unemployment Rate Is Wrong,”
GenFKD.com
, December 26, 2015,
http://www.genfkd.com/everything-you-knew-about-unemployment-rate-wrong
.

“Obama's ‘recovery' ”
Stephen Moore, “The Obama Recovery That Wasn't,”
The Washington Times
, January 3, 2016,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/3/stephen-moore-the-obama-economic-recovery-that-was/
.

“have been hit particularly hard”
United States Department of Labor “Labor Force Statistic from the Current Population Survey,” bls.gov, May 31, 2016,
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
.

“forty-nine states seeing premium hikes in 2016”
Ali Meyer, “Forty-Nine of 50 States Will See Premium Hikes in 2016,” The Washington Free Beacon, January 11, 2016,
http://freebeacon.com/issues/49-of-50-states-will-see-premium-hikes-2016/
.

“at least a thousand ongoing investigations”
Adam Kredo, “Rise in U.S. Terror Plots Tied to ‘Unprecedented' Spike in Immigration,”
The Washington Free Beacon
, January 14, 2016,
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/rise-in-u-s-terror-plots-tied-to-unprecedented-spike-in-immigration/
.

“debt rose from $10.6 trillion”
Phillip Bump, “The Story Behind Obama and the National Debt, in 7 Charts,”
The Washington Post
, January 7, 2015,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/01/07/the-story-behind-obama-and-the-national-debt-in-7-charts/
.

“more than $19 trillion as of February 2016”
Romina Boccia, “The US Debt Just Exceeded $19 Trillion. Here's How We Got Here,”
The Daily Signal
, February 2, 2016,
http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/02/the-us-debt-just-exceeded-19-trillion-heres-how-we-got-here/
.

“$20 trillion by the end of his presidency”
Dave Boyer, “$20 Trillion Man: National Debt Nearly Doubles During Obama Presidency,”
The Washington Times
, November 1, 2015,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/1/obama-presidency-to-end-with-20-trillion-national-/?page=all
.

“rejected unanimously by the Supreme Court
”
David Bernstein,
Lawless: The Obama Administration's Unprecedented Assault on the Con
stitution and the Rule of Law
(New York: Encounter Books, 2015), pp. 58–64.