Unstoppable (33 page)

Hollings, Fritz,
18

Hoover, Herbert,
163

Hoover Institution,
122

The House I Live In
(documentary),
110

How to Think Seriously About the Planet
(Scruton),
173–174

HP,
90

HUD,
127

Human Action
(Mises),
26

Hungary,
168

Hutchinson, Asa,
108

Huxley, Aldous,
16
,
182

Iacocca, Lee,
54

Ideology,
15

IMF.
See
International Monetary Fund

India,
175

Information Awareness Office,
89

Infrastructure, as convergence obstacle,
122–123

Inhofe, James,
111
,
115

Institute for the Advancement of Convergence,
119

International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers,
2

International Monetary Fund (IMF),
7
,
44

Internet,
160

“Invisible hand” metaphor,
24
,
25
,
28

Iraq War,
44
,
59
,
60
,
71
,
72
,
92
,
93
,
123
,
128
,
178

It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong
(Napolitano),
122–123

It's Your Money
(television program),
47

J. P. Morgan,
8

Jackson, Kentucky,
170

Jefferson, Thomas,
17

Job mobility,
123–124

Johnson, Lyndon,
185
,
190

Joint Appeal against Human and Animal Patenting,
105–106

Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy,
1

Joint stock company,
24–25

Jones, Walter,
45–46
,
131

Jones Act,
50

JP Morgan Chase,
79

Justice Safety-Valve Act,
109–110

Kasich, John,
47–49

Kauffman, Bill,
55–56

Kelo v. City of New London,
63

Kerry, John,
20–21

Keynes, John Maynard,
14

Khyber Pass block strategy,
53

Kimbrell, Andrew,
105

Kirk, Russell,
26
,
27
,
29
,
98
,
112–113
,
162
,
171

    
The Conservative Mind,
29

Koupal, Ed,
83–84

Koupal, Joyce,
83–84

Kristof, Nicholas D.,
169

Kucinich, Dennis,
34–35
,
45–46
,
130

Kyl, Jon,
52

Labels, political,
5–6
,
8
,
15–16
,
35–37

    
and changing minds, difficulty of,
38–41

    
fixation on, problem with,
37–38

    
and Walmart workers,
16

Labor unions,
168–169

Land ownership, and farmers,
142
.
See also
Property ownership/rights
;
under
Farmers/farming

Lanier, Lyle H.,
144
,
145–146

    
“Big Business in the Property State,”
144

Laski, Harold,
167

Law enforcement, weak,
9

Leaders,
189–191

Leahy, Patrick,
52
,
109

Legal services, for the poor,
134–136

Legal Services Corporation,
136

Levin, Carl,
52

Levitt, Arthur,
105

Liberal label

    
voters' definitions of,
35
,
36–37

    
See also
Labels, political

Liberal programs, corporate exploitation of,
8–9
.
See also
Social welfare/social welfare programs

Liberals

    
and convergence, obstacles to,
132–133

    
and corporatism,
172

    
political beliefs of,
13–14

    
populist conservatives, and progressives, convergence of,
177–178

    
weaknesses of,
167–170

Libertarian label

    
voters' definitions of,
36

    
See also
Labels, political

Libertarians, political beliefs of,
13–14

Libya,
33
,
130

Lieberman, Joseph,
52

Limbaugh, Rush,
14
,
169

Lincoln, Abraham,
17
,
186

Lind, William,
55–56

Lindsey, Brink,
183

Lockheed Martin,
51
,
72
,
169

Long, Huey,
140
,
148

Love Canal, New York,
114

Lovins, Amory,
115

Lowi, Theodore J.,
87

Luntz, Frank,
30–31

    
“Myths About Conservative Voters,”
31

MacArthur Foundation,
110

Madison, James,
84
,
88

The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist
(Durnil),
173

Mankiw, N. Gregory,
78

Marshall, John,
144

Marx, Karl,
14

McCain, John,
33
,
44
,
52

McCain-Feingold Act,
44

McCarthy, Daniel,
55–56

McCarthy, Joseph,
30
,
168

McConnell, Mitch,
31
,
125
,
172
,
179

McDonald's,
75
,
122

McGovern, James,
45–46

McIntyre, Robert,
48

McKinnon, Ronald,
31

    
“The Conservative Case for a Wealth Tax,”
32

Mead, Margaret,
118

Means, Gardiner,
102

Means, vs. goals,
68
,
124–126

Media,
191–192

    
big media,
50

    
and corporate welfare,
47

Medical malpractice,
18

Meese, Ed,
108

Melville, Herman,
111

Menger, Carl,
26

    
Principles of Economics,
26

Merrill Lynch,
103

Meyer, Frank,
26
,
27
,
29

Michigan Supreme Court,
62–63

Microsoft,
90

Mikulski, Barbara,
52
,
62

Militarism, wars, and the American empire, conference to end,
55–58

Military budget,
50

    
audit,
65
,
71–72

Military financial profligacy,
51

Military-industrial complex,
9
,
34
,
51
,
177

Military policy,
34–35

Military spending,
31

Minimum-income plans,
170

Minimum wage,
122

    
in California,
63

    
and link with inflation,
65
,
75–76

    
See also
Wages

Mises, Ludwig von,
14
,
25
,
26

    
Human Action,
26

    
mischaracterization of,
25–27

Monks, Robert,
24
,
102
,
103
,
104

Monnet, Jean,
119

Monsanto,
106

Morehouse, Ward,
153

Moral sentiments,
9

Morgenson, Gretchen,
77

Motivation,
191

Mountaintop removal,
114

Moynihan, Daniel P.,
170

Muir, John,
112

Murkowski, Lisa,
43–44

“Myths About Conservative Voters” (Luntz),
31

NAACP.
See
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

NAFTA.
See
North American Free Trade Agreement

Napolitano, Andrew,
122–123

    
It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong,
122–123

Nation,
34

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
108

National Audubon Society,
2

National Campaign to Reform State Juvenile Systems,
110

National Commission on Intelligence and Foreign Wars,
93
,
131

National Criminal Justice Commission,
52–53

National Journal,
1

National Resources Defense Council,
2

National Review,
14
,
165

National Rifle Association (NRA),
50

National Security Agency (NSA),
89
,
93

National Taxpayers Union,
2

Natural gas fracking,
114

Neoconservatives

    
versus conservatives,
174–177

    
and Iraq War,
178

    
and war, unconstitutional,
33–34

    
See also
Conservatives

New Deal,
140
,
163
,
171

New England,
84

New Left,
168

New York Stock Exchange,
128

New York Times,
30
,
32
,
47
,
77
,
103
,
109
,
131–132
,
155
,
169
,
175

Nixon, Richard,
1
,
61
,
103
,
108
,
112
,
163
,
165
,
170

Norquist, Grover,
6
,
48
,
129

Norris, Floyd,
77

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),
7
,
61
,
93–95
,
174–175
,
175–176

NRA.
See
National Rifle Association

NSA.
See
National Security Agency

Nuclear power plants,
114

Obama, Barack,
52
,
73
,
79
,
89
,
157

    
and Libya,
130

    
and war-declaration authority,
176

Obama, Michelle,
117

Obama administration,
45
,
91