56. Scott Waldman, “State standards tweaks target early learners,”
57. Lillian G. Katz, “Reading, Writing and Narcissism,”
58. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, “Student Learning: Attitudes, Engagement and Strategies,” Figure 3.6, p. 134, 2003; available online at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/58/37/33918006.pdf .
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60. Charles Savage, “Scouring Obama’s Past for Clues on Judiciary,”
61. Obama for America, “American Stories, American Solutions,” October 29, 2008; available online at http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=GtREqAmLsoA.
62. Paul Bedard, “Help for Obama’s Shack-Living Brother,”
63. Remarks made during interview with Cathleen Falsani in Chicago, Illinois, March 27, 2004; available online at http://blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/2008/11/obamas-interview-with- cathleen.html.
64. Remarks made in video address aired in Berlin, Germany, November 9, 2009; available online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8351471.stm.
65. Remarks to Planned Parenthood in Washington, D.C., July 17, 2007; available online at http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2007/07/17/4439758-obama-on-judges-supreme-court.
66. Interview with Paula Zahn, “People in the News,” CNN, April 17, 2004; transcript available online at http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0404/1 7/pitn.00.html.
67. Andrew Sullivan, “Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters,”
68. “Al Qaeda leader mocks Obama in Web posting,” CNN, November 19, 2008; available online at http://articles.cnn.com/2008-11-19/us/obama.alqaeda_1_al-zawahiri-barack-obama-obama-s- muslim?_s=PM:US.
69. Remarks during a Department of Defense news briefing in Washington, D.C., February 12, 2002; available online at http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=jtkUO8NpI84.
70. Remarks during 9/11 anniversary observance in Boston, Massachusetts, September 11, 2007; available online at http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/11/video-911-was-a-failure-of-human-understanding- says-mass-governor/.
71. Remarks made on
72. Remarks at a press conference in New York, New York, May 4, 2010; available online at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-05-03/new-york-city-plans-to-deploy-more-cameras-mayor- says.html.
73. Bobby Cuza, “Bloomberg Repeatedly Defends Mosque By WTC Site,” NY1 News, July 16, 2010; available online at http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_stories/122239/bloomberg-repeatedly-defends- mosque-by-wtc-site.
74. Remarks made in New York, New York, August 3, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/nyr egion/04mosque.html.
75. Hendrik Hertzberg, “Zero Grounds,”
76. Vince Veneziani, “Oh Please: CNN Anchors Wonder If Times Square Bombing Suspect Was Stressed From Being Foreclosed On,”
77. James Gordon Meek, “Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad mumbles his way through ‘suicide attack’ video,”
78. Paul Berman,
79. All headlines available online at http://www.navy.mil/swf/index.asp.
80. Richard Esposito, Mary-Rose Abraham, and Rhonda Schwartz, “Major Hasan: Soldier of Allah; Many Ties to Jihad Web Sites,” ABCNews.com, November 12, 2009; available online at http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/hasan-multiple-mail-accounts-officials/story?id=9065692.
81. Associated Press, “Clear warning signs, Hasan’s colleagues say,” November 7, 2009; available online at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33753461/ns/us_news-tragedy_at_fort_hood/t/clear- warning-signs-hasans-colleagues-say/.
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