Table of Contents Title Page Foreword Introduction HOW BARACK OBAMA IS ENDANGERING OUR NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY KEY ISSUES IN THE SOVEREIGNTY DEBATE DURING THE OBAMA ERA IMMINENT THREATS TO U.S. SOVEREIGNTY AND CONTINUING EROSIONS PROTECTING AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY IN THE AGE OF OBAMA GOVERNMENT UNIONS AND THE BANKRUPTING OF AMERICA THE TAKEOFF THE GOVERNMENT-UNION ADVANTAGE THE TAXPAYER’S BURDEN REDUCING GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE THE WAY OUT WHY PROGRESSIVE INSTITUTIONS ARE UNSUSTAINABLE CLASSICAL LIBERAL VS. MODERN PROGRESSIVE THE DOWNWARD PROGRESSIVE CYCLE THE STABILITY OF THE CLASSICAL LIBERAL MODEL CONCLUSION PRESIDENT OBAMA’S TAX PIRACY TAX RATES AND INCENTIVES MULTIPLE TAXATION OF CAPITAL PRESIDENT OBAMA’S TAX WELFARE JUST TAXING THE RICH? KENNEDY AND REAGAN: WHAT WORKED PEAK OBAMA PRESIDENT OBAMA’S REVENUE GAP TAX PIRACY TAXES AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM HOW THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THREATENS TO UNDERMINE OUR ELECTIONS JUSTICE LETS THE NEW BLACK PANTHERS WALK PLAYING WITH THE NUMBERS: THE 2010 CENSUS NULLIFYING THE LAW BULLYING A SMALL TOWN FOR PARTISAN PROFIT BLOCKING VOTER ID BY ALL MEANS AVAILABLE FOR THEY ARE JOLLY GOOD FELONS CONCLUSION HOW THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THREATENS OUR NATIONAL SECURITY FROM WORD TO DEED? THE MIDDLE EAST IRAN “GOOD” AND “BAD” WARS RADICAL ISLAM EUROPE RUSSIA LATIN AMERICA AMERICA’S ENEMIES CZARS AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE BASHING OF GEORGE W. BUSH CARTER OR CLINTON? A 2012 POSTSCRIPT HOW THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS POLITICIZED JUSTICE FOREWORD REAL POLITICIZATION OF JUSTICE PAST IS PROLOGUE WHICH SIDE ARE WE ON? THE RECKONING OBAMA HEALTH LAW: WHAT IT SAYS AND HOW TO OVERTURN IT THE OBAMA HEALTH LAW: DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH AND FREEDOM TREATING SENIORS LIKE CLUNKERS RIPPING UP YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS DEFICIT REDUCTION IS A SHELL GAME U.S. HEALTH CARE STILL TOPS THE DANGEROUS IDEAS OF THE PRESIDENT’S MEDICAL ADVISER IN CHIEF MEDICARE’S PROPOSED RATIONER IN CHIEF DONALD BERWICK SECOND OPINIONS FROM AMERICA’S LEADING PHYSICIANS A 20-PAGE BILL IN PLAIN ENGLISH TO REDUCE PREMIUMS AND HELP LAID-Off AMERICANS HOW BARACK OBAMA IS BANKRUPTING THE U.S. ECONOMY CASH FOR POLICY CLUNKERS GOVERNMENT MOTORS A DEBTFARE STATE THE SOAK-THE-RICH FALLACY BARACK OBAMA, MEET CHRISTINA ROMER MIDDLE-CLASS TAX BOMB THE ROAD FROM SERFDOM HOW OBAMA HAS MISHANDLED THE WAR ON TERROR FOREWORD THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE I. THE PROBLEM IN A NUTSHELL II. HOW WE GOT HERE III. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE BUBBLE BURSTS? IV. WHAT TO DO V. POLITICS CONCLUSION HOW THE EPA’S GREEN TYRANNY IS STIFLING AMERICA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN AMERICA: A BRIEF HISTORY A RADICAL SHIFT AT THE EPA AN UNPARALLELED RECORD OF EXTREMISM ECONOMICALLY DISASTROUS REVISIONS OF THE OZONE STANDARD PLAYING HARDBALL OVER GREENHOUSE GASES THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG THE DEPENDENCY AGENDA LBJ AND THE GREAT CONUNDRUM THE NEW DEAL AND THE POLITICS OF CONTROL A PROGRAM FOR THE POOR IS A POOR PROGRAM 21ST-CENTURY LEVIATHAN ABOUT THE AUTHORS INDEX Copyright Page FOREWORD THIS BOOK is a double-barreled blast – using blast in two senses. One meaning of that word is a forceful, indeed explosive, discharge. The second meaning, a colloquialism, is a party tending to happy raucousness. What you hold in your hand is a compendium of constructive explosions from men and women intelligently exasperated by current tendencies in American politics and culture – but also exuberantly combative against those tendencies. Early in the Obama administration, the clearheaded people at Encounter Books had a splendid idea. They would invite accomplished writers with expertise in particular fields to distill their discontents into 5,000 or so words. These distillations would be called Broadsides. The results, as you will see, are both efficient and exhilarating. In the Oxford English Dictionary, one definition of the word broadside is “a strongly worded critical attack: broadsides against political correctness.” Each of the chapters in this volume is such a broadside. Another definition, however, is “a nearly simultaneous firing of all the guns from one side of a warship.” The book itself is a broadside in this sense. In these pages, the right side – in two senses – of the ship of American politics is heard from, resoundingly. Blaise Pascal once wrote to a correspondent, “I have made this [letter] longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” A columnist who must compact his thoughts on any subject into 750 words knows exactly what Pascal meant: Brevity is a challenge. But not an insuperable one, as every chapter in this book demonstrates. Each of these essays is a bright, gemlike bead. All of these beads are threaded on the sturdy string of a shared understanding of the importance – and danger – of this moment in American history. The temperature of American politics just now is unusually high – unusually but not excessively. The temperature of