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40
. Justin Sturken and Mary Dore, “Remembering the Waco Siege,” ABC News, February 28, 2007.

Chapter Twenty-three: Hell in a Handbasket

1
.   “His Holiness John Paul II, Short Biography,” Holy See Press Office, March 6, 2005,
http://www.vatican.va
.

2
.   John Paul II, “Letter to Families,” February 2, 1994,
http://www.vatican.va
.

3
.   Mary M’Cord Brown, “Garb for Defense a Wardrobe Must” and “War-Time Easter Parade,”
Rocky Mountain News
(CO), Sunday April 5, 1942.

4
.   Richard L. Franklin, “101 Peculiarities Surrounding the Death of Vincent Foster,”
Progressive Review
,
http://www.prorev.com/foster.htm
. “Hillarycare” was the nickname given to the Clinton health-care plan, introduced in 1993. Information about the plan and its defeat: Paul Starr, “The Hillarycare Mythology,”
American Prospect
, September 13, 2007,
http://prospect.org
.

5
.   Edward Klein,
The Truth about Hillary
(New York: Penguin, 2005), 51–65.

6
.   Catechism of the Catholic Church, part 3, section 2, chapter 2, article 6, St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church website,
http://www.scborromeo.org
.

7
.   Gregory M. Herek, “Facts About Homosexuality and Mental Health,”
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu
.

8
.   Howard Chua-Eoan et al., “That’s Not a Scarecrow,”
Time
, October 19, 1998.

9
.   Tom Morton, “Matthew Shepard Funeral Put Westboro Baptist Church on the Map,”
Billings (MT) Gazette
, March 2, 2011,
http://www.billingsgazette.com
.

10
. Michelle Goldberg,
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2006), 50–60.

11
. Ibid., 54.

12
.
John F. McManus, “Homosexuals in the Military?,”
Birch Log
, December 10, 1992,
http://www.scribd.com
.

13
. Michael Sean Winters,
God’s Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right
(New York: Harper One, 2012), 322.

14
. Jean Hardisty,
Mobilizing Resentment: Conservative Resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise Keepers
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1989), 103.

15
. See Fred Clarkson, “Impeachment Rally in Georgia,” Political Research Associates, 2010,
http://www.publiceye.org
.

16
. “John Birch Society Seeks Clinton Impeachment,”
Reading (PA) Eagle
, November 16, 1977,
http://readingeagle.com
.

17
. Clarkson, “Impeachment Rally in Georgia.”

18
. Ibid.

19
. Ibid.

20
. Ibid.; Melinda Henneberger, “The Georgia Republican Who Uses the I-Word,”
New York Times
, May 5, 1998.

21
. John McManus, “The JBS: Alive, Well, and Growing,”
New American
, September 23, 2002,
http://www.scribd.com
.

22
. Roy Rivenburg, “Conservative Camp Roasts More Than Just Weenies: Birch Society Summer Target Liberals, Plots,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 1996.

23
. Ibid.

24
. Ibid.

25
. “Articles of Impeachment and Judiciary Committee Roll Call Votes,”
Washington Post
, December 19, 1998.

26
. Thomas B. Edsall, “From the Fringe to the Center of the Debate,”
Washington Post
, December 15, 1998.

27
. Thomas A. Burzynski, “David Shippers Goes Public,”
American Opinion
, 1999, retrieved from
Studies in Reformed Theology
,
http://www.reformed-theology.org
.

28
. Ibid.

29
. Clifford Orwin, “Compassionate Conservatism: A Primer,”
Defining Ideas: A Hoover Institution Journal
(March 1, 2011),
http://www.hoover.org
.

30
. “Election 2000 Florida, Florida, Florida,” from NBC-TV’s coverage of Election Night 2000, YouTube.com.

31
. Jeffrey Toobin, “Precedent and Prologue,”
New Yorker
, December 6, 2000.

32
. “2000 Presidential General Election Results,”
Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
,
http://www.uselectionatlas.org
.

33
. George W. Bush, “Inaugural Address,” January 20, 2001, American Presidency Project,
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu
.

34
. “Protesters Line Inaugural Parade Route,”
CNN Reports
, January 20, 2001,
http://www.cnn.com
.

35
. John F. McManus,
The Insiders: Architects of the New World Order
(Appleton, WI: John Birch Society, 2004), 110.

36
. Ibid., 10.

37
. Ibid., 121.

38
. David Armstrong, “Dick Cheney’s Song of America: Drafting a Plan for Global Dominance,”
Harper’s
, October 2002,
http://harpers.org
.

39
. McManus,
The Insiders
, 125.

40
. “Iraq’s Goals Are Not Our Goals,”
New American
, December 12, 2005,
http://www.scribd.com
.

41
.
See Washington National Cathedral website,
http://www.nationalcathedral.org
.

42
. Tyler Drumheller,
On the Brink: An Insider’s Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligenc
e (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006), 35–40.

43
. Thomas E. Ricks,
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
(New York: Penguin, 2006), 377–78.

44
. Paul Steinhauser, “More Disapprove of Bush Than Any Other President,”
CNN Politics
, May 1, 2008,
http://www.cnn.com
.

Chapter Twenty-four: Bedtime Story

1
.   Michael Sean Winters,
God’s Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right
(New York: Harper One, 2012), 342.

2
.   Pat Robertson, “Robertson’s Statement Regarding Terrorist Attack on America,” press release, Official Site of Pat Robertson,
http://www.patrobertson.com
.

3
.   “The United Nations: The Growing Threat, A Special Report,”
New American
, October 22, 2001.

4
.   William Norman Grigg, “The UN Is NOT Your Friend,” in ibid.

5
.   Ibid.

6
.   Arthur R. Thompson, “Exposing Terrorism: Inside the Terror Triangle,” 2009,
YouTube.com
.

Index

Please note that page numbers are not accurate for the e-book edition
.

Allen, Gary,
36
.
See also
Insiders

American Fact-Finding Committee,
115
.
See also
Weissman, Bernard

American Independent Party,
161

Americanists,
47–48
,
180

American Opinion
(JBS magazine): circulation of,
124
; as
New American
,
213
; Revilo Oliver as contributor to,
41
,
42

American Party,
63
,
161–63
.
See also
Schmitz, John
;
Wallace, George

Americans for Prosperity, xi,
50

The Assassination Story
,
116

Atlas Shrugged
(Rand),
137–38

Barr, Bob,
206
,
207

Bay of Pigs invasion,
93
,
95
,
112

Birch, John,
32–33

The Birch Reports
,
150

Black Like Me
(Griffin),
75–76
,
79

Blood and Politics
(Zeskind),
43

The Blue Book of the John Birch Society
,
31
,
61–62
,
138

Bogus, Carl,
124

Bozell, Brent,
139
,
165

Brady Bill,
195

Buchanan, Patrick,
139

Buckley, William F., Jr.: CASE ad,
46
; and criticism of JBS,
121
,
124–25
,
151
; dispute with Robert Welch,
70
,
117
; and
God and Man at Yale
,
121
; on Barry Goldwater candidacy,
141
,
150
; as JBS ally,
122–23
; and Willmoore Kendall,
122
,
128–29
; and
National Review
praise of Robert Welch,
150
; and Revilo Oliver,
41
,
122
; and
The Politician
,
57
; on racial integration,
120
; on Ayn Rand,
138
; on Edwin Walker,
73
; and Robert Welch,
122
,
123–24
. See also
National Review
;
specific publications

Bush, George H. W.,
193

Bush, George W., ix,
209
,
210
,
211–12

Cain, Thomas,
131–33

Carter, Dan,
154

Carter, Jimmy,
5
,
36
,
88–89
,
180
,
183

CASE.
See
Committee Against Summit Entanglements (CASE)

Castro, Fidel,
43
,
53
,
93
,
112

Cheney, Dick,
210
,
211

Chicago Daily News
(newspaper).
See
Mabley, Jack

Chicago Tribune
(newspaper),
68
,
148

A Child Is Born
(Nilsson),
172

Clinton, Bill: Laurene Conner view of,
203
; impeachment of,
206–8
; JBS view of,
193–95
,
205

Clinton, Hillary,
194
,
203–4

Committee Against Summit Entanglements (CASE),
45–46

Conner, Stillwell (SC) and Laurene (LC): and American Party,
161–62
; on William F. Buckley Jr.,
120
,
121–25
; LC on Bill Clinton,
193–94
,
203
,
206
,
207
; LC on feminism,
135
; LC on JBS National Council,
57
; LC and MOTOREDE,
157
; LC on Oklahoma City bombing,
199
; LC as pro-Confederacy,
118–19
; LC as religious crusader,
134–35
; LC on saving Christmas,
47
; LC and Phyllis Schlafly,
28
; LC and textbook wars,
22–31
; SC as Chicago JBS point man,
33–34
,
71
; SC and death of Larry McDonald,
185
; SC on JBS National Council, x,
33
,
48–49
,
52–53
,
57
; SC obituary,
190
; SC and
The Politician
,
53–57
; SC in World War II,
6–7
; on Cuban Missile Crisis,
93–96
; on Francisco Franco,
18–19
; on Barry Goldwater,
95–96
,
120
; on the Illuminati and New World Order,
34–36
,
193–94
; on John F. Kennedy,
2
,
51
,
63
,
95
; and Laetrile,
187–88
; and
Life
article,
64–67
,
72
; on Joseph McCarthy,
9–10
; on Richard Nixon,
62–63
; and Revilo Oliver,
40–43
,
99
; on race,
78
,
120
; on Ronald Reagan,
87–88
,
180–81
; on John Schmitz,
159–62
,
166
; on UN,
9
,
82–84
; on George Wallace,
152
,
154
; and Wanderer Forum Foundation, x,
134
,
190
; on Earl Warren,
78–79
; and Robert Welch, ix,
14
,
60–61
,
64
.
See also
John Birch Society; Wanderer Foundation
;
Welch, Robert

The Conscience of a Conservative
(Goldwater),
95–96
,
139

Council on Foreign Relations,
36
,
193
,
210–11
,
214

Courtney, Kent,
68
,
122–23

Crazy for God
(Frank Schaeffer),
136

Critchlow, Donald,
28
,
30
,
150

Cruising Speed
(Buckley),
73

Cuban Missile Crisis,
3
,
93–96
,
112

Dallas Morning News
(newspaper): on John F. Kennedy,
112
,
114
,
116

Dealey, Ted,
114

Dobson, James,
176–77

Dussman, John,
52–53

Eisenhower, Dwight,
5
,
73
,
122
,
203
; as alleged Communist,
14
,
54–57
,
64
,
69
,
122
; alleged Communists in, administration,
9
,
10
; and liberal Republicanism,
139
; and school desegregation,
77
; and summit with Soviets,
45–46
. See also
The Politician
(Welch)

Emerson, Steven,
196

Exposing Terrorism
(JBS video),
215

Falwell, Jerry: against homosexuality,
205–6
; and Larry McDonald,
184
; and Moral Majority,
177
,
180
; on
9
/11,
213
; and pro-life movement,
176

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