After America

September 11, 2006; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/218680/did-it-change-us-nro-symposium.

24. Leslie H. Gelb, “Necessity, Choice, and Common Sense,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2009; available online at http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/64966/leslie-h-gelb/necessity- choice-and-common-sense.

25. The British Museum, “Christopher Wren, Design for the Dome of St Paul’s Catherdral, a drawing in brown ink over pencil”; available online at http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/c/christopher_wren,_design_for_t.asp x.

Chapter Two

1. Interview with David Wigg in London, England, October 8, 1969; available online at: http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1969.10 08.beatles.html.

2. Reuters, “Key Facts About Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” USA Today, July 13, 2008; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2008-07-12-facts-fannie- freddie_N.htm.

3. Matthew Daneman, “Kodak Still a Vital Cog,” Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, February 4, 2008; available online at http://www.rochesterbusinessalliance.com/core/contentmanager/uploads/PDFs/News %20articles/0204%20Kodak%20DANDC.pdf.

4. Michael P. Fleischer, “Why I’m Not Hiring,” Wall Street Journal, August 9, 2010; available online at http://online.wsj.c om/article/SB10001424052748704017904575409733776372738.html.

5. Maria Glod, “Va. Yogis Seek Rapture, Not Regulation,” Washington Post, August 24, 2009; available online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2009/08/23/AR2009082302152.html.

6. Morris M. Kleiner, Licensing Occupations: Ensuring Quality or Restricting Competition? , Upjohn Institute Press, 2006; facts available online at http://www.bizpacreview.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=news.details&ArticleId=19421.

7. Patricia Reaney, “Washington, D.C. favorite area for wealthy young,” Reuters, September 16, 2009; available online at http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/09/16/us-wealth-young- idUSTRE58F3GF20090916.

8. Ibid.

9. “The Richest Counties in America,” Newsweek, November 10, 2010; available online at http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/10/the-richest-counties-in-america.all.html.

10. Laurence J. Kotlikoff and David Rapson, “Does It Pay, at the Margin, to Work and Save? Measuring Effective Marginal Taxes on Americans’ Labor Supply and Saving,” National Bureau of Economic Research, May, 2007; available online at http://www.nber.org/chapters/c0048.pdf?new_window=1.

11. Town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Florida, February 10, 2009; available online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Fort-Myers-Town- Hall/.

12. Peter Nicholas, “Obama’s ‘New Foundation’ gives way — maybe to a catchier catchphrase,” Los Angeles Times, February 9, 2011; available online at http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/09/nation/la-na-new-foundation-20110209.

13. Marion Daily Star, 1899; also see William Safire, Safire’s Political Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2008); available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=c4UoX6- Sv1AC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=Our+various+and+sundry+supplies+of+gray+matter+may+as +well+be+controlled+by+a+central+syndicate.Our+various+and+sundry+supplies+of+gray+matter+may+as +well+be+controlled+by+a+central +syndicate.&source=bl&ots=V1wh3zqsLl&sig=F6A3N2pGsMoneiBYkL1fxzenR20&hl=en&ei =AjmzTb6rBaKD0QGYvdiqCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBsQ6 AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false.

14. Remarks at a fundraiser in San Francisco, California, April 6, 2008; available online at http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0408/Obama_on_sma ll-town_PA_Clinging_religion_guns_xenophobia.html.

15. Remarks at a campaign stop in Muncie, Indiana, April 12, 2008; facts available online at http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/04/12/us-usa-politics- idUSN1116676020080412.

16. Remarks at a campaign stop in Roseburg, Oregon, May 16, 2008; facts available online at http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w.

17. Neil Irwin, “Economic growth slows to 2.4 percent in 2Q,” Washington Post, July 30, 2010; available online at http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political- economy/2010/07/economic_growth_slows_to_24_pe.html.

18. Interview with Don Imus; facts available online at http://washingtonexaminer.com/op- eds/2009/07/douglas-mackinnon-don-t-bother-these-guys-facts.

19. David Brooks, “The Insider’s Crusade,” New York Times, November 21, 2008; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/opinio n/21brooks.html.

20. Jonathan Alter, The Promise: President Obama, Year One (New York: Simon