Unstoppable (34 page)

“Obama's Lawless War” (Will),
33

Occupational Safety and Health Administration,
113

Occupy Wall Street,
191

OCM.
See
Organization for Competitive Markets

O'Connor, Sandra Day,
134–137

Odom, Howard,
92

Oglesby, Carl,
55–56

“On Buyouts, There Ought to Be a Law” (B. Stein),
103–104

O'Neill, George D., Jr.,
55
,
56–57

Open minds,
17

Open Society Foundations,
108

Opportunism,
8–9

O'Reilly, Bill,
100

Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM),
10–11

Organizations, convergence-only,
134
,
184

OSHA,
110

Ostrolenk, Michael,
98

Outsourcing,
174–175

Owner-shareholders, empowerment of,
66
,
102–105

Pacific Gas and Electric case,
96–97

Packers and Stockyards Act,
11

Parenting.com
,
96

Patents, on life forms,
66
,
105–106

PATRIOT Act,
5
,
12
,
88–89
,
127
,
129

Patriotism, corporate,
175

Paul, Rand,
43
,
92
,
109

Paul, Ron,
4
,
50
,
107
,
116
,
177

Paulson, Henry,
73
,
149

Paulucci, Jeno F.,
82

Pentagon,
51

Perle, Richard,
34

Perry, Rick,
109

Pfizer corporation,
63

Phillips, John,
3–4

Pinchot, Gifford,
112

Pioneers, criticism of,
68

Pitiless abstractness,
10
,
17

Pizza Hut,
122

Planned Parenthood,
31

Plutocracy,
140–141

Poletown, Detroit,
62

Political beliefs,
13–16

Pollin, Robert,
55–56
,
75

Populist conservatives,
174

    
liberals, and progressives, convergence of,
177–178

    
See also
Buchanan, Patrick J
.;
Conservatives

Populists,
147

“A Positive Program for Laissez Faire” (Simons),
162–163

Powell, Colin,
132

Powell, Lewis,
96–97

Powerlessness,
xii

    
and Walmart workers,
17

Preventive war,
176–177

Price Anderson Act,
154–155

Principles of Economics
(Menger),
26

Prins, Nomi,
102

Prison-industrial complex,
52–53

Prison reform,
52–53
,
107–110

Pro-Israeli government lobby,
34

Procedural agreements,
60–63

Procedural convergence,
66–67

Progressive Policy Institute,
47
,
48
,
134

Progressives,
168–169

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

Property ownership/rights

    
versus control,
144–145
,
154

    
individual versus corporate,
147

    
See also
Land ownership, and farmers

Property redistribution,
150–151

Proposition
103
(California),
85

Pryor, Mark,
52

Public Citizen,
47

Public Citizen's Congress Watch,
2

Public commons,
66
,
99–100

Public sentiment,
17

Public treasury, fraud against,
3–4

Public Welfare Foundation,
108

Rand, Ayn,
14

Rationalism,
15

Rawe, John C.,
142–143

Raytheon,
51
,
72

Reagan, Ronald,
1
,
10
,
33
,
38
,
39–40
,
54
,
108
,
124
,
134
,
170
,
174
,
176
,
177
,
189

    
and air bag installation,
40

    
and Clinch River Breeder Reactor project,
2

    
and conservative label,
6
,
76

    
and corporate welfare,
49–50

Reagan administration,
55

Reassessing the Presidency,
27

Reformers, contemporary, and lack of action,
152–154

Regulatory capture,
24

Rehnquist, William,
96–97

Reid, Harry,
125

Rejectionists,
xi

Republican Party,
12–13
,
178–179

    
hijacking of,
177

    
libertarian-conservative wing of,
13

Review of Austrian Economics,
162

Ricardo, David,
26

Rifkin, Jeremy,
105

Robbins, Lionel,
26

Rogers, Will,
53

Romania,
4

Romney, Mitt,
76

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
7
,
140
,
158
,
159
,
164
,
167
,
168
,
171

    
and New Deal,
140
,
163

Roosevelt, Theodore,
111–112

Röpke, Wilhelm,
26
,
27–28

Rosen, Jeffrey,
32

Rosenfield, Harvey,
84–85

Ross, Donald K.,
110

Rothbard, Murray N.,
26–27

Rubin, Robert,
156–157

Rumsfeld, Donald,
131

Rural Electrification Administration,
142

Rusher, William A.,
165

Ryan, Paul,
162

Safety regulations,
28
,
39–40
.
See also
Air bag installation

Samuelson, Paul,
176

Sanger, Margaret,
31

Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company,
96

Santorum, Rick,
75–76

Savage, Michael,
169

Savings and loans crisis,
157

Scaife, Richard,
31

Schmoke, Kurt,
107

Scholastic News,
41

Schumer, Chuck,
20–21

Schweizer, Peter,
8

Science,
15

Scowcroft, Brent,
92

Scruton, Roger,
173–174

    
How to Think Seriously About the Planet,
173–174

Securities and Exchange Commission,
104–105

Self-reliance, community,
66
,
85–86

Sessions, Jeff,
52

Shallal, Andy,
183

Shapiro, Edward S.,
139–140
,
141
,
158
,
159

Sheehan, Cindy,
55–56

Shultz, George P.,
78

Simons, Henry Calvert,
162–163

    
“A Positive Program for Laissez Faire,”
162–163

Simpson, Alan,
31
,
96

Sixty Minutes
(television program),
47

Skeptics,
xi–xii

Sloan, Alfred P.,
145

Smith, Adam,
6
,
9
,
14
,
101
,
142
,
162
,
163

    
and “invisible hand” metaphor,
24
,
25
,
28

    
mischaracterization of,
24–25

    
The Theory of Moral Sentiments,
24

    
The Wealth of Nations,
24
,
25

Smith, Fred,
3
,
62
,
124–125

Snowden, Edward,
89
,
131

Social life,
123

Social media,
192

Social welfare/social welfare programs,
28–29
,
32
,
169–170
.
See also
Liberal programs, corporate exploitation of

Socialism, corporate,
49

Solar energy,
74–75

Soros, George,
93

Sovereignty, and free-trade agreements,
5
,
19
,
61

Soviet Union,
51
,
140
,
165
,
168
,
170

Speculation tax,
76–77

Sports stadiums,
13
,
63
,
129

“Spread of wealth” movements,
140

Standing to sue,
81–83

States' rights,
18

Steffens, Lincoln,
14

Stein, Ben,
103–104

    
“On Buyouts, There Ought to Be a Law,”
103–104

Stein, Herbert,
103

Stereotyping,
x
,
12–13
,
20
,
34
,
40
,
54–55
,
77
,
119

Stifling Political Competition: How Government Has Rigged the System to Benefit Demopublicans and Exclude Third Parties
(Bennett),
88

Stigler, George,
24
,
155

Stock market crash of 1929,
158

Stock markets,
86

Stock ownership, versus direct ownership,
142

Stockman, David,
33
,
76–77

Stokes, Fred,
10

Substantive convergence,
66–67

Summers, Larry,
176

Sunstein, Cass,
190

Switzerland,
94

Taft, Robert,
163–165
,
169
,
174
,
177

Taft, William Howard,
163

Taft-Hartley Act,
164–165

Taleb, Nassim,
157

Target (retailing company),
76

Tate, Alan,
139
,
141
,
145

Taxation reform,
65
,
68
,
76–78

Taxes, uncollected,
65
,
78

Taxpayers Coalition Against Clinch River,
2

Tayler, Jeffrey,
56

Tea Party,
14
,
191

Teamsters,
168

Tech Freedom,
90

Technocracy,
151

Temporary National Economic Commission (TNEC),
7

Tester, Jon,
52