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ignatieff.aspx'>http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/05/18/matt-gurney-untitled- ignatieff.aspx.

27. Remarks made on FOX News’ The O’Reilly Factor, September 22, 2010; available online at http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/23/stewart-saddened-by-obama/.

28. Glenn Reynolds, “Jon Stewart on Obama,” Instapundit.com, September 23, 2010; available online at http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/106718/.

29. National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Adult Literacy; available online at http://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp#enrollment.

30. National Center for Education Statistics, “Digest of Education Statistics 2009,” page 269, April 2010; available online at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010013.pdf.

31. National Center for Education Statistics, “Digest of Education Statistics 2009,” Table 64, April 2010; http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010013.pdf.

32. National Center for Education Statistics, “Digest of Education Statistics 2009,” Tables 33, 34 and 80, April 2010; facts available online at http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/grigori-rasputin-bailout/.

33. Howard Blume, “Annual test scores rise in L.A. Unified schools,” Los Angeles Times, August 17, 2010; available online at http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/17/local/la-me-0817-star-tests-20100817.

34. National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Adult Literacy”; available online at http://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp#illiteracy.

35. Jim Hoft, “Photo of the Day: Commie Students Protest Campus Budget Cuts,” GatewayPundit.com, March 4, 2010; available online at http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2010/03/photo-of-the-day- commie-students-protest-campus-budget-cuts/.

36. Keith O’Brien, “The Test Has Been Cancelled,” The Boston Globe, October 3, 2010; facts available online http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2010/10/only-23-of-.html.

37. Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay, eds., The Fat Studies Reader (NYU Press, November 2009); available online at http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=4528.

38. National Science Foundation, “First-Time, Full-Time Graduate Student Enrollment in Science and Engineering Increases in 2006, Especially Among Foreign Students,” December, 2007; available online at http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf08302/.

39. Remarks at a campaign stop in Madison, Wisconsin, February 17, 2008; facts available online at http://www.weeklyst andard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/764fosie.asp and http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4f9af_obam a_news.

40. Remarks made on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, November 12, 2007; available online at http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2007/11/12/michelle-obama-inferiority- complex-blocks-blacks-backing-barack.

41. Michelle LaVaugh Robinson, “Princeton-Educated Blacks and The Community: A Thesis,” Princeton University, Department of Sociology, 1985; available online at http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_1-251.pdf.

42. Thomas J. Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life (Princeton University Press, 2009).

43. Kate McMillan, “What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?” SmallDeadAnimals.com, June 23, 2009; available online at http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/01 1678.html.

44. Angelo M. Codevilla, “America’s Ruling Class— And the Perils of Revolution,” The American Spectator, July-August, 2010; available online at http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/print#.

45. Remarks at a campaign stop in Powder Springs, Georgia, July 8, 2008; available online at http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/bellantoni/2008/Jul/08/que-obama-says-nations-kids- should-be-bilingual/.

46. National Center for Education Statistics, “Digest of Education Statistics 2009,” Table 29, page 59, April 2010; available online at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010013.pdf.

47. David Wright, “Los Angeles Public School Named After Robert Kennedy Costs $578 Million,” ABCNews.com, August 23, 2010; available online at http://abcnews.go.com/WN/public-school-los- angeles-named-robert-kennedy-expensive/story?id=11462095.

48. Remarks at a campaign stop in Zanesville, Ohio, February 28, 2008; facts available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/159678/michelle-obama-dont-go-corporate-america/byron- york.

49. The University of Chicago Medical Center, “Press Release: Michelle Obama appointed vice president for community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals,” May 9, 2005; available online at http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/2005/20050509-obama.html.

50. Remarks made to The New Yorker, March 10, 2008; available online at http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/10/080310fa_fact_collins? currentPage=all.

51. Byron York, “Michelle’s Struggle,” National Review Online, February 29, 2008; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/223808/michelles-struggle/byron-york.

52. Peter Baker and David M. Herszenhorn, “Obama Signs Overhaul of Student Loan Program,” New York Times, March 30, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/us/ politics/31obama.html.

53. U.S. Census Bureau Annual Survey of Government Employment.

54. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, “Education at a Glance 2009: OECD Indicators,” (Indicator B1 How much is spent per student?), 2009; available online at http://w ww.oecd.org/document/24/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_43586328_1_1_1_37455,00.html.

55. National Governor’s Association, “Return on Investment: Strategies for Improv-ing Remedial Education,” 2011; available online at http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/C2CBriefing