1. Town hall meeting in Greeley, Colorado, August 21, 2010; available online at http://www.greeleygazette.com/press/?p=5029.
2. Terrence P. Jeffrey, “111th Congress Added More Debt Than First 100 Congresses Combined: $10,429 Per Person in U.S.,” CNSNews.com, December 27, 2010; available online at http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/111th-congress-added-more-debt-first-100.
3. Herbert Stein, “Herb Stein’s Unfamiliar Quotations,” Slate.com, May 16, 1997; available online at http://www.slate.com/id/2561/.
4. Herbert Stein, “Herb Stein’s Unfamiliar Quotations,” Slate.com, May 16, 1997; available online at http://www.slate.com/id/2561/.
5. Remarks to reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, April 8, 2010; available online at http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35546.html.
6. Brian Riedl, “President Obama Set to Exceed President Bush’s Deficits,” The Heritage Foundation, February 11, 2009; available online at http://blog.heritage.org/2009/02/11/president-obama-set-to-exceed-president-bush%E2%80%99s-deficits/.
7. Remarks at Thompson Creek Manufacturing in Landover, Maryland, January 7, 2011; available online at http://m.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/07/remarks-president-december-jobs-report-and-economic-personnel-announceme.
8. White House, “Table 15.3— Total Government Expenditures as Percentages of GDP: 1948-2010”; available online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals.
9. CBO report, “The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2011 to 2021,” January 2011; available online at http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/120xx/doc12039/01-26_FY2011Outlook.pdf.
10. CBO report, “The Long-Term Budget Outlook: Federal Debt Held by the Public Under Two Budget Scenarios,” June 2010; available online at http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/115xx/doc11579/06-30-LTBO.pdf.
11. Niall Ferguson, “Sun could set suddenly on superpower as debt bites,” The Australian, July 29, 2010; available online at http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/sun-could-set-suddenly-on-superpower-as-debt-bites/story-e6frg6zo-1225898187243.
12. CBO report, “The Long-Term Budget Outlook: Federal Debt Held by the Public Under Two Budget Scenarios,” June 2010; available online at http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/115xx/doc11579/06-30-LTBO.pdf.
13. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2011; available online at http://www.rickety.us/2011/01/2009-defense-spending-by-country/.
14. Niall Ferguson, “Sun could set suddenly on superpower as debt bites,” The Australian.
15. US Treasury, “Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities,” March 15, 2001; available online at http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/mfh.txt.
16. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2011; available online at http://www.rickety.us/2011/01/2009-defense-spending-by-country/.
17. US Department of Defense, “Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China,” 2010; available online at http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/2010_CMPR_Final.pdf.
18. Sam Lister, ““NHS is world’s biggest employer after Indian rail and Chinese Army,” March 20, 2004; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article1050197.ece.
19. Lawrence B. Lindsey, “The Fiscal Trap,” The Weekly Standard, December 6, 2010; available online at http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/fiscal-trap_519582.html.
20. Testimony before the House Budget Committee, January 27, 2010; available online at http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/2010BudgetandEconomicOutlook2.
21. The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, “The Moment of Truth,” December 2010; available online at http://www.fiscalcommission.gov/sites/fiscalcommission.gov/files/documents/TheMomentofTruth12_1_2010.pdf.
22. Tax Policy Center, “Historical Federal Receipt and Outlay Summary,” March 25, 2011; available online at http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=200; and the Congressional Budget Office, “Budget and Economic Outlook: Historical Budget Data,” January 2011; available online at http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/120xx/doc12039/HistoricalTables%5B1%5D.pdf.
23. Brian Riedl, “Federal Spending by the Numbers 2010,” June 1, 2010, Heritage Foundation; available online at http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/06/Federal-Spending-by-the-Numbers-2010.
24. Terrence P. Jeffrey, “Conservatives Now Outnumber Liberals in All 50 States, Says Gallup Poll,” CNSNews.com, August 17, 2009; available online at http://www.cnsnews.com/node/52602.
25. Stephen Moore and Stephen Slivinski, “The Return of the Living Dead: Federal Programs That Survived the Republican Revolution,” July 24, 2000, Cato Institute Policy Analysis; available online at http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa375.pdf.
26. Andrew Nagorski, “The Troubles,” Newsweek, March 16, 2010; available online at http://www.newsweek.com/2010/03/15/the-troubles.html.
27. Gregory White, “Bill Gross: Fed To Buy $100 Billion In Government Debt A Month Until It Hits $1.2 Trillion,” Business Insider, October 8, 2010; available online at http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gross-fed-to-buy-100-billion-in-government-securities-a-month-2010-10.
28. John Kitchen and Menzie Chinn, “Financing U.S. Debt: Is There Enough Money in the World – and At What Cost?” University of Wisconsin, August 2010; available online at http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~mchinn/Kitchen_Chinn_apr11.pdf.
29. Christopher S. Johnson, “How Much Ruin is in a Nation?: The Spain of Philip IV,” First Things, March 24, 2011; available online at http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2011/03/how-much-ruin-is-in-a-nation.
30. Samuel P. Huntington, Who Are We?: The Challenges to America’s National Identity (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005).
31. Lawrence Kudlow, “France’s Problem is a Statist-Run Socialist Economy,” RealClearPolitics.com, March 27, 2006; available online at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/03/paddle_the_french_fanny.html.
32. 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://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_43586328_1_1_1_37455,00.html.
33. Edward Luce, “The crisis of middle-class America,” Financial Times, July 30, 2010; available online at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1a8a5cb2-9ab2-11df-87e6-00144feab49a.html.
34. Bureau of the Public Debt, “Commissioner’s Welcome,” 2011; available online at http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/whoweare/welcome.htm.
35. Niall Ferguson, “An Empire at Risk,” Newsweek, November 28, 2009; available online at http://www.newsweek.com/2009/11/27/an-empire-at-risk.html.
36. Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998).
1. University of Toronto Library, “Hughes (Elizabeth) Papers”; available online at http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/hughes_elizabeth.pdf.
2. “Mary Carmichael and Sharon Begley, “Desperately Seeking Cures,” Newsweek, May 15, 2010; available online at http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/15/desperately-seeking-cures.html.
3. Henkles & McCoy, “1969”; available online at http://www.henkels.com/Timeline/Pages/TL1969.aspx.
4. Remarks during Special Joint Session of Congress in Washington, D.C., May 25, 1961; facts available online http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/history/.
5. William Safire, “In Event of Moon Disaster,” memo to President Richard Nixon, July 18, 1969; available online at http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/whitehouse-lost-space-scenarios.
6. Bruce Charlton, “Human capability peaked before 1975 and has since declined,” Bruce Charlton’s Miscellany blog, June 22, 2011; available online at http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2010/06/human-capability-peaked-about-1975-and.html.
7. Remarks on Al Jazeera’s Talk to Al Jazeera, June 30, 2010; available online at http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/talktojazeera/2010/07/201071122234471970.html.
8. The Guardian, “Astronauts Were ‘Trinity of Evil’, Says Banned Cleric,” February 3, 2003; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2003/feb/03/spaceexploration.columbia13.
9. Jeanne Sahadi, “Obama sketches out recovery plan,” CNNMoney.com, January 3, 2009; available online at http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/03/news/economy/obama_stimulus/index.htm?postversion=2009010306.
10. Katrina vanden Heuvel, “A Trillion Dollar Recovery,” The Nation, December 30, 2008; available online at http://www.thenation.com/blog/trillion-dollar-recovery?page=0,0,0,3.
11. Mark I. Pinksy, “Write Now,” The New Republic, December 8, 2008; available online at http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/write-now.
12. Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Address at the Dedication of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam,” September 30, 1935; available online http://books.google.com/books?id=SYeEmU2aW9EC&pg=PA311&lpg=PA311&dq=This+morning+I+came,+I+saw,+and+I+was+conquered,+as+everyone+would+be+who+sees+for+the+first+time+this+great+feat+of+mankind&source=bl&ots=_ei3wFH-9M&sig=zAhdn5KDbUAmQWQM9oNv6-UAN-8&hl=en&ei=3wLUTZOaIej30gGQ1JTYCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=This%20morning%20I%20came%2C%20I%20saw%2C%20and%20I%20was%20conquered%2C%20as%20everyone%20would%20be%20who%20sees%20for%20the%20first%20time%20this%20great%20feat%20of%20mankind&f=false.
13. Remarks made during an Urban Land Institute symposium in Las Vegas, Nevada, December 8-9, 2009; facts available online at http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45376_Page2.html, http://atlincolnhouse.typepad.com/weblog/2009/12/talking-water.html, and http://www.uli.org/sitecore/content/ULI2Home/ResearchAndPublications/CenterfortheWest/WaterSummit.aspx.
14. Mushtaq Yufzai, “Taliban Commanders See Victory in the Sacking of U.S. General,” The Daily Beast, June 25, 2010; available online at http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-25/taliban-mcchrystal-sacking-a-victory/.
15. Remarks during State of the Union Address in Washington, DC, January 20, 2004; available online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/transcripts/bushtext_012004.html. The actual quote is: “I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.”
16. Anthony Tommasini, “Music; The Devil Made Him Do It,” New York Times, September 30, 2001; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/30/arts/music-the-devil-made-him-do-it.html.
17. The Telegraph, “Obituary: Karlheinz Stockhausen,” December 8, 2007; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1571861/Karlheinz-Stockhausen.html.
18. Remarks on WOR radio in New York, New York, February 19, 2010; available online at http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-02-19/local/27056722_1_port-authority-larry-silverstein-world-trade-center.
19. CNN, “38 Years Ago, World Trade Center Opened,” April 4, 2011; available online at http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/04/38-years-ago-world-trade-center-opened/.
20. Jim Yardley, “Chinese Dam Projects Criticized for Their Human Costs,” New York Times, November 19, 2007; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/world/asia/19dam.html.
21. Facts available online at Burj Khalifa’s website; http://www.burjkhalifa.ae/.
22. Henry Mance, “Brazil’s huge river diversion project divides opinion,” BBC News, April 12, 2010; available online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8575010.stm.
23. James Lileks, “NRO Symposium: Did It Change Us?” National Review Online, 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.aspx.
1. Interview with David Wigg in London, England, October 8, 1969; available online at: http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1969.1008.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.com/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=0CBsQ6AEwAQ#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_small-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/opinion/21brooks.html.
20. Jonathan Alter, The Promise: President Obama, Year One (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010); facts available online at http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1764/article_detail.asp.
21. Remarks to the Greater Boson Chamber of Commerce in Boston, Massachusetts, October 28, 2010; facts available online at http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/10/28/kerry_says_democrats_have_been_fixing_gop_problems/.
22. Speech in Boston, Massachusetts, April 22, 2006; available online at http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0604/S00399.htm; Monticello.org, “Spurious Quotes,” available online at http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/spurious-quotes.
23. Jamie Stiehm, “Oval Office Rug Gets History Wrong,” Washington Post, September 4, 2010; available online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090305100.html.
24. Remarks at the Democrat National Gala, September 29, 2002; facts available online at http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.asp and http://www.barbrastreisand.com/us/truth-alert/julius-caesar-quote-used-democratic-national-gala-speech.
25. Michael C. Moynihan, “The Extreme Rhetoric about Extreme Rhetoric (With Bonus Fake Sinclair Lewis Fascism Quote!),” Reason, January 11, 2011; available online at http://reason.com/blog/2011/01/11/the-extreme-rhetoric-about-ext.
26. Michael Young, “Down With Meritocracy,” The Guardian, June 29, 2001; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/jun/29/comment.
27. Associated Press, “Kerry, Bush GPAs At Yale Similar,” CBSNews.com, February 11, 2009; facts available online at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/07/politics/main700170.shtml.
28. Winston Churchill, The Hinge of Fate (Rosetta Stone, LLC edition, 2002); available online at http://books.google.com/books?d=CEK6h9lzK3wC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=mere+advisors+at+large+with+nothing+to+do+but+think+and+talk+churchill&source=bl&ots=4xccE4bJdG&sig=-_O62AUhVhoskUVLRCE38HrBjuA&hl=en&ei=eXezTeyUFILu0gHD4sjMDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false.
29. Tim Shipman, “Barack Obama sends bust of Winston Churchill on its way back to Britain,” UK Telegraph, February 14, 2009; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/4623148/Barack-Obama-sends-bust-of-Winston-Churchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html.
30. Nick Schulz, “Help Wanted, No Private Sector Experience Required,” The Enterprise Blog of the American Enterprise Institute, November 25, 2009; available online at http://blog.american.com/?p=7572.
31. Remarks in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2008; available online at http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D912VD200.
32. Remarks at St. James’s Palace in London, England, July 8, 2009; facts available online at http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/just-96-months-to-save-world-says-prince-charles-1738049.html.
33. Michael Grunwald, “The New Action Heroes,” Time, June 14, 2007; available online at http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1632736,00.html.
34. CBS News New York, “Bloomberg Admits NYC Flubbed Blizzard Response,” December 29, 2010; available online at http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/12/29/bloomberg-admits-nyc-flubbed-blizzard-response/.
35. Charlie LeDuff, “Los Angeles County Weighs Cost of Illegal Immigration,” New York Times, May 21, 2003; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/21/us/los-angeles-county-weighs-cost-of-illegal-immigration.html.
36. Remarks at a campaign event for Martha Coakley, Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, January 17, 2010; available online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-event-with-massachusetts-attorney-general-martha-coakley.
37. Inside Edition, “White House Veggie-Gate,” January 15, 2010; available online at http://www.insideedition.com/news.aspx?storyId=3855.
38. Stephen F. Hayes, “Scott Brown’s Road to Victory,” The Weekly Standard, January 20, 2010; available online at http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/scott-browns-road-victory.
39. MSNBC, “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” January 19, 2010; facts available online at http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/20/olby-massachusetts-suddenly-turned-racist/.
40. Chris Woodyard, “Scott Brown drives his GMC pickup to U.S. Senate victory,” USA Today, January 20, 2010; facts available online at http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2010/01/scott-brown-drives-his-gmc-pickup-truck-to-us-senate-victory/1.
41. Roderick Random, “Kanjorski ponders ‘nuts,’ bolts from blue,” Scranton Times Tribune, October 23, 2010; available online at http://thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/editorials-columns/roderick-random/kanjorski-ponders-nuts-bolts-from-blue-1.1052739#axzz1A4hLabIP.
42. Michael Young, “Down With Meritocracy,” The Guardian, June 29, 2001; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/jun/29/comment.
43. Peter Berkowitz, “The New Dogma of Fairness,” from New Threats to Freedom, ed. Adam Bellow (Templeton Press, May, 2010); available online at http://www.peterberkowitz.com/thenewdogmaoffairness.pdf.
44. Neil Munro, “The Diversity Economy,” National Journal, July 24, 2010; available online at http://nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-diversity-economy-20100724?print=true.
45. Frank Rich, “The Rage is Not About Health Care,” New York Times, March 27, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28rich.html.
46. Karen Brown, “Mass. Health Care Reform Reveals Doctor Shortage,” NPR, November 30, 2008; available online at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97620520.
47. FOX News, “New Rules Coming for Payments Out of Health Savings Accounts,” October 15, 2010; available online at http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/15/new-health-care-rules-require-doctors-note-pay-otc-drugs-fsas/.
48. NPR, “What’s The Role Of Race In Health Care Fracas?” August 14, 2009; available online at http://m.npr.org/news/front/111899507?page=2.
49. Remarks to the Atlanta Press Club in Atlanta, Georgia, October 21, 2010; facts available online at http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/10/21/130728202/npr-ceo-williams-views-of-muslims-should-stay-between-himself-and-his-psychiatrist.
50. Comments posted on “JournoList”, November 7, 2008; facts available online at http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/21/obama-wins-and-journolisters-rejoice/2/ and http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/07/on-eric-altermans-fucking-nascar-retards/60556/.
51. Greg Bluestein, “Firefighters stuck in Ga. awaiting orders,” Associated Press, September 7, 2005; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-09-07-firefighters-ga-katrina_x.htm.
52. David Warren, “Two Solitudes,” Ottawa Citizen, October 5, 2008; available online http://davidwarrenonline.com/index.php?id=927.
53. John Tierney, “Nader Searches for His Roots,” New York Times, February 15, 2004; facts available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/politics/campaign/15POIN.html.
54. David Warren, “Two Solitudes,” Ottawa Citizen.
55. Jeanne Sahadi, “47% will pay no federal income tax,” CNNMoney.com, October 3, 2009; available online at http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/30/pf/taxes/who_pays_taxes/index.htm.
56. Benjamin Niolet, “Stimulus funds pay for monkey research in N.C.,” The Raleigh News & Observer, March 8, 2010; available online at http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/08/89974/stimulus-funds-pay-for-monkey.html.
57. Interview with WJR in Detroit, Michigan on October 7, 2009; facts available online at http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_100809/content/01125107.guest.html.
58. Christopher Caldwell, “Islam on the Outskirts of the Welfare State,” New York Times, February 5, 2006; available online at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/full-page.html?res=9C01E1DA1E3FF936A35751C0A9609C8B63&pagewanted=1.
59. “The ‘Shameless’ generation of benefit addicts: Almost five million adults live in jobless homes,” UK Daily Mail, August 26, 2009; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209072/Five-million-job-Labour—raising-fears-Shameless-generation-benefit-addicts.html.
60. Remarks to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, March 31, 2010; available online at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150147642760012.
61. Pew Research Center, “A Balance Sheet at 30 Months: How the Great Recession Has Changed Life in America,” June 30, 2010; available online at http://pewsocialtrends.org/files/2010/11/759-recession.pdf.
62. Interview with Robert Costa of National Review in New York, New York, September 2, 2010; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/245438/caddell-midterm-elections-robert-costa.
63. Remarks during first inaugural address in Washington, D.C., January 20, 1981; available online at http://www.reaganfoundation.org/pdf/Inaugural_Address_012081.pdf.
64. Dennis Cauchon, “For Feds, More Get 6-Figure Salaries,” USA Today, December 11, 2009; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-10-federal-pay-salaries_N.htm.
65. Ibid.
66. Veronique de Rugy, “Interesting Data on Increasing Public Employment,” National Review, July 22, 2010; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/233524/interesting-data-increasing-public-employment-veronique-de-rugy.
67. The Bureau of Public Debt, “Careers With Us,” United States Department of the Treasury; available online at http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/careers/careers_with_us.htm.
68. Dennis Cauchon, “Federal workers earning double their private counterparts,” USA Today, August 13, 2010; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/income/2010-08-10-1Afedpay10_ST_N.htm.
69. Ibid.
70. “Charlie’s Ways and Means,” New York Post, September 19, 2008; available online at http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/item_snml5IwUtfFmW-Wzs2g2BMK.
71. Kerry Picket, “Rangel to TWT: I don’t deal in average American citizens,” Washington Times, December 3, 2010; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/income/2010-08-10-1Afedpay10_ST_N.htm.
72. Remarks at a town hall meeting in Hayward, California, August 2, 2010; available online at http://www.breitbart.tv/congressman-at-town-hall-the-federal-government-can-do-most-anything-in-this-country/.
73. Remarks to the National Press Club at a luncheon, July 24, 2009; facts available online at http://www.cnsnews.com/node/51610 and http://press.org/speakers/speakers-press-club/luncheon-archive.
74. Allahpundit, “Aw: John Conyers openly reading Playboy on airplanes now,” HotAir.com, November 24, 2010; facts available online at http://hotair.com/archives/2010/11/24/aw-john-conyers-openly-reading-playboy-on-airplanes-now/.
75. Charles Hurt and Yoav Gonen, “Teachers union gets a pass on ObamaCare rule,” New York Post, October 8, 2010; available online at http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/teachers_union_gets_pass_on_obamacare_dhoJQgXRKLwbYtp6Nam7LK.
76. Todd J. Gillman, “Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson repays Congressional Black Caucus Foundation for scholarships,” Dallas Morning News, September 2, 2010; available online at http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/national-politics/20100901-Rep-Eddie-Bernice-Johnson-repays-6732.ece.
77. Remarks at a press conference, July 4, 2005; facts available online at http://spectator.org/archives/2005/07/05/nullification-nancy and http://eminentdomain.blogspot.com/2005/07/pelosi-supreme-court-is-god.html.
78. Remarks during first inaugural address, March 4, 1861; available online at http://www.nationalcenter.org/LincolnFirstInaugural.html.
79. Theodore Lowi, The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States (New York: W. W. Norton, 1979).
80. Remarks to the Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties, March 9, 2010; available online at http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/pelosi-health-care-039we-have-pass-bill-so-you-can-find-out-what-it039.
81. Terence P. Jeffrey, “Obama Doesn’t Rule Out Bypassing Congress and Using EPA Regulations to Cap Carbon Emissions,” CNSNews.com, November 4, 2011; available online at http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-doesn-t-rule-bypassing-congress-an.
82. Robert Pear, “Obama Returns to End-of-Life Plan That Caused Stir,” New York Times, December 26, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/us/politics/26death.html; and Jay Solomon, “Medicare Will Pay for End-of-Life Talks,” Wall Street Journal, December 27, 2010; available online at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203568004576043970989095748.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama.
83. Philip Klein, “The Empress of ObamaCare,” American Spectator, June 2010; available online at http://spectator.org/archives/2010/06/04/the-empress-of-obamacare.
84. Reuven Fenton and Jennifer Fermino, “Extra Tax for Slicing,” New York Post, August 25, 2010; available online at http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ny_cut_of_bagel_dough_YEhNdwO7ZwlUO555GQ4rNN.
85. Cardwell, Diane, “A New Team Helps Steer Restaurateurs Through a Thicket of Red Tape,” New York Times, December 27, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/nyregion/28permits.html.
86. Danny Hakim, “Albany’s Two Payrolls: One Is Anybody’s Guess,” New York Times, July 27, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/nyregion/28payroll.html
87. Tom Cohen, “White House: $98 billion in bad payments,” CNNMoney.com, November 18, 2009; available online at http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/18/news/improper_payments.cnnw/index.htm.
88. Jack Shafer, “Fannie Mae and the Vast Bipartisan Conspiracy,” Slate.com, September 16, 2008; available online at http://www.slate.com/id/2200160/.
89. Clyde Wayne Crews, “Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Regulatory State,” Competitive Enterprise Institute report, June 28, 2006; available online at http://cei.org/studies-issue-analysis/ten-thousand-commandments-annual-snapshot-regulatory-state.
90. Joel Salatin, Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front, Polyface, 2007; available online at http://acresusa.com/books/closeup.asp?prodid=1601&catid=13&pcid=2.
91. Interview during a Tea Party in Chicago, Illinois, April 15, 2009; available online at http://newsbusters.org/blogs/julia-seymour/2009/04/15/cnn-correspondent-claims-tea-parties-anti-government-anti-cnn.
92. Kris Maher, “Pennsylvania Pie Fight: State Cracks Down on Baked Goods,” Wall Street Journal, April 10, 2009; available online at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123932034907406927.html.
93. Helen Jung, “Portland lemonade stand runs into health inspectors, needs $120 license to operate,” The Oregonian, August 4, 2010; available online at http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/08/portland_lemonade_stand_runs_i.html.
94. State of the Union address in Washington, D.C., January 23, 1996; available online at http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/New/other/sotu.html.
95. Mark Storer, “County pulls plug on free coffee, doughnuts at Camarillo store,” Ventura County Star, February 24, 2010; available online at http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/feb/24/county-pulls-plug-on-free-coffee-doughnuts-at/?print=1.
96. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Gross-Domestic-Product-by-Industry Accounts, 1947-2010, “Value Added by Industry as a Percentage of Gross Domestic Product,” (Historical table); available online at http://www.bea.gov.
97. David Streitfeld, “Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, Analysts Say,” (alternate headline online) New York Times, August 22, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/business/economy/23decline.html.
98. Ibid.
99. David P. Goldman, “Demographics & Depression,” First Things, May 2009; available online at http://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/05/demographics-depression-1243457089.
100. David Streitfeld, “Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, Analysts Say,” New York Times.
101. Simon Johnson, “The Quiet Coup,” the Atlantic Monthly, May, 2009; available online at http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/7364/.
102. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, “OCC’s Quarterly Report on Bank Trading and Derivatives Activities Fourth Quarter 2010,” 2011; available online at http://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/capital-markets/financial-markets/trading/derivatives/dq410.pdf.
103. “Taleb’s ‘Black Swan’ Investors Post Gains as Markets Take Dive,” Bloomberg News, October 14, 2008; available online at http://marketpipeline.blogspot.com/2008/10/talebs-black-swan-investors-post-gains.html.
104. Jay Currie, “2008 Adieu,” JayCurrie.info-syn.com, December 31, 2008; available online at http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/2008-adieu/.
105. Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Income and Products Accounts Table, 1982-2010, “Table 2.1: Personal Income and Its Disposition,” (Historical table); available online at http://www.bea.gov.
106. Justin Lahart and Mark Whitehouse, “Families Slice Debt to Lowest in 6 Years,” Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2011; available online at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704823004576192602754071800.html.
107. Ann Zimmerman, Jennifer Saranow and Miguel Bustillo, “Retail Sales Plummet,” Wall Street Journal, December 26, 2008; available online at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123025036865134309.html.
108. Remarks at a campaign stop in Roseburg, Oregon, May 16, 2008; facts available online at http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w.
109. Martin Wolf, “Keynes offers us the best way to think about the financial crisis,” Financial Times, December 23, 2008; available online at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/be2dbf2c-d113-11dd-8cc3-000077b07658.html#axzz1MYZ4Ba8m.
110. US Census Bureau, “International Data Base (IDB): Country Rankings,” 2011; available online at http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/rank.php.
111. Federal Reserve Bank of New York, “Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit,” (page 27) February, 2011; available online at http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/national_economy/householdcredit/DistrictReport_Q42010.pdf.
112. Fortune, “Global 500,” CNNMoney.com, July 26, 2010; available online at http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2010/snapshots/11384.html.
113. Ibid.
114. Press release, “Minmetals & Jiangxi Copper Successfully Acquire Northern Peru Copper,” China Minmetals Corporation, January 29, 2008; available online at http://www.minmetals.com/english/detail.jsp?article_millseconds=1201592566219.
115. Press release, “Minmetals Succeeds in OZ Minerals Deal,” Minmetals Australia Pty. Ltd., June 11, 2008; available online at http://australia.minmetals.com.cn/news_1.jsp?article_millseconds=1248748749312.
116. Press release, “Minmetals Seals Bauxite Agreement with Jamaica.Premier Wen and Jamaican Prime Minister Attend the Ceremony,” China Minmetals Corporation, June 23, 2005; available online at http://www.minmetals.com/english/detail.jsp?article_millseconds=200512150159.
117. Chris Nicholson, “Sinopec to Buy Addax Petroleum for $7.2 Billion,” New York Times, June 24, 2009; available online at http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/sinopec-to-buy-addax-for-7-billion/.
118. Shawn McCarthy, “China’s big move into Alberta,” Globe and Mail, April 12, 2010; available online at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/chinas-big-move-into-alberta/article1532062/.
119. Press release, “Sinochem Completed the Acquisition of Emerald,” Sinochem Group, November 13, 2009; available online at http://www.sinochem.com/tabid/696/InfoID/10994/Default.aspx.
120. Ahmed Rasheed, “Iraq inaugurates oil deal with China’s CNPC,” Reuters, March 11, 2009; available online at http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/03/11/iraq-oil-ahdab-idUSLB36965920090311.
121. Ezra Levant, “Collecting the weak,” Calgary Sun, November 28, 2010; available at http://www.calgarysun.com/comment/columnists/ezra_levant/2010/11/26/16332861.html; and Shrikesh Laxmidas and Kevin Yao, “China offers to help Portugal, but silent on debt,” Reuters, November 7, 2010; available at http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/07/us-china-portugal-hu-idUS-TRE6A616R20101107.
122. “GM’s IPO Included Selling Holding of $500 Million to Chinese Partner SAIC,” Bloomberg News, November 18, 2010; available at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-18/gm-sells-500-million-stake-to-chinese-partner-saic-as-part-of-stock-offer.html; and “China’s SAIC close to GM IPO stake buy-sources,” Reuters, November 10, 2010; available at http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/10/gm-saic-idUSWEN287720101110.
123. Remarks at a conference in Montreal, Quebec, February 7, 2008; available online at http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=290513.
124. Quoted by Local Transport Today, December 2007; available online at http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/007646.html.
125. James Hansen, “The Price of Change,” South China Morning Post, November 3, 2010; available online at http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2010/20101122_ChinaOpEd.pdf.
126. Remarks on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” May 23, 2010; available online at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37279599/ns/meet_the_press/.
127. Thomas L. Friedman, “Our One-Party Democracy,” New York Times, September 8, 2009; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/opinion/09friedman.html.
1. Philip Pangalos, “Greece on brink of abyss as three bank workers killed in riots,” The Times, May 6, 2010; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7117546.ece.
2. Emily Ford and David Charter, “Q&A: The Greek Crisis,” The Times, May 4, 2010; available online at http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article7115701.ece.
3. Interview with Thames TV, London, England, February 5, 1976; available online at http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102953.
4. United Nations, “Total Fertility Rate (children per woman),” UNData; available online at http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=PopDiv&f=variableID%3A54.
5. Alan S. Blinder, “The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Keynesian Economics,” Library of Economics and Liberty; available online at http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/KeynesianEconomics.html.
6. Remarks during state of the state address in Sacramento, California, January 9, 2007; available online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/09/AR2007010901427.html.
7. Jeff Gottlieb and Ruben Vives, “Benefits push Bell ex-manager’s compensation to more than $1.5 million,” Los Angeles Times, August 8, 2010; available online at http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/08/local/la-me-bell-benefits-20100808.
8. Christopher Palmeri, “California Official’s $800,000 Salary in City of 38,000 Triggers Protests,” Bloomberg, July 20, 2010; available online at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-20/california-official-s-800-000-salary-in-city-of-38-000-triggers-protests.html.
9. Nicole Gelinas, “Bell’s Debt Tolls,” City Journal, August 6, 2010; available online at http://www.city-journal.org/2010/eon0806ng.html.
10. Peter S. Green and Martin Z. Braun, “NYC Snow ‘Overwhelmed’ Emergency System, Mayor Says,” Bloomberg, December 31, 2010; available online at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-29/new-york-city-s-emergency-response-overwhelmed-by-blizzard-mayor-says.html.
11. Ibid.
12. Sally Goldenberg, Larry Celona and Josh Margolin, “Sanitation Department’s slow snow cleanup was a budget protest,” New York Post, December 30, 2010; available online at http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/sanit_filthy_snow_slow_mo_qH57MZwC53QKOJlekSSDJK.
13. Edgar Sandoval and Larry McShane, “Sanitation boss John Doherty’s street plowed clean, but nearby streets remain winter blunderland,” New York Daily News, December 29, 2010; available online at http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-12-29/local/27085710_1_clean-street-winter-blunderland-east-side.
14. Ray Long and Michelle Manchir, “Thousands rally at Illinois Capitol—for a tax increase,” Chicago Tribune, April 21, 2010; available online at http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-04-21/news/ct-met-state-capitol-rally-tax-increase-020100421_1_sales-tax-tax-increase-income-tax.
15. Landon Thomas Jr., “Patchwork Pension Plan Adds to Greek Debt Woes,” New York Times, Mary 11, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/business/global/12pension.html.
16. Ibid.
17. BBC, “Greek Officials Strike Over Cuts,” February 4, 2010; available online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8497912.stm.
18. CNN, “Greek PM slams European Union amid crisis,” February 14, 2010; available online at http://articles.cnn.com/2010-02-14/world/greece.eu.crisis_1_european-union-van-rompuy-greece?_s=PM:WORLD.
19. Ian Traynor and Katie Allen, “Austerity Europe: Who Faces the Cuts,” The Guardian, June 11, 2010; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jun/11/europe-deficit-crisis-austerity-budgets.
20. Ibid.
21. Robert Samuelson, “The Welfare State’s Death Spiral,” syndicated column, May 10, 2010; available online at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/05/10/the_welfare_states_death_spiral_105503.html.
22. Remarks to the New York Times, Berlin, Germany, March 29, 2009; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/world/europe/30merkel.html?hp.
23. Luke Harding, “Germany agonises over 30% childless women,” The Guardian, January 27, 2006; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/jan/27/germany.lukeharding.
24. Tristana Moore, “Baby Gap: Germany’s Birth Rate Hits Historic Low,” Time, May 23, 2010; available online at http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1991216,00.html.
25. Sacha Molitorisz, “Mama Mia: Won’t You Leave Home, Big Baby?” The Age, January 23, 2010; available online at http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/mama-mia-wont-you-leave-home-big-baby-20100122-mqqa.html.
26. Ibid.
27. Statistics Canada, “2006 Census,” September 12, 2007; links to purchase report available online at http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/070912/dq070912a-eng.htm.
28. Rachel Donadio, “Europe’s Young Grow Agitated Over Future Prospects,” New York Times, January 1, 2011; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/world/europe/02youth.html.
29. Carl Mortished, “What do cars and cows have in common? No, not horns,” The Times, March 10, 2009; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5877416.ece.
30. Ibid.
31. Theodore Dalrymple, “Know Thyself,” City Journal, May 7, 2010; available online at http://www.city-journal.org/2010/eon0507td.html.
32. “G20 summit: Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel demand tough market regulations,” The Telegraph, May 17, 2011; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/g20-summit/5090442/G20-summit-Nicolas-Sarkozy-and-Angela-Merkel-demand-tough-market-regulations.html.
33. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, “OECD Family database,” 2010; available online at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/50/61/42294015.xls.
34. Ibid.
35. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, “OECD Family database,” 2010; facts available line at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/52/26/41920005.pdf.
36. Russell Shorto, “No Babies?” New York Times, June 29, 2008; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29Birth-t.html?pagewanted=all.
37. Douglas A. McIntyre, “Memo To Congress: ‘Buy Land, They Ain’t Making Any More Of It,’” Time, January 28, 2009; available online at http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1874407,00.html.
38. International Monetary Fund, “World Economic Outlook,” (Chapter IV: Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions: Why Reforms Pay Off) April 2003; available online at http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2003/01/pdf/chapter4.pdf.
39. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, “OECD Economic Outlook No. 88 Annex Tables,” 2011; available online at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/5/51/2483816.xls.
40. Abul Taher, “ ‘Soviet’ Britain Swells Amid the Recession,” Sunday Times, January 25, 2009; available online at http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article5581225.ece.
41. “Islam and Phobias,” The Economist, January 10, 2008; available online at http://www.economist.com/node/10499144?story_id=10499144.
42. Steven Erlanger, “Europeans Fear Crisis Threatens Liberal Benefits,” New York Times, May 22, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/world/europe/23europe.html.
43. Dan Bilefsky and Landon Thomas Jr., “The Bitter Pills in the Plan to Rescue Greece,” New York Times, April 30, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/business/global/01euro.html.
44. Paul Krugman, “The Comeback Continent,” New York Times, January 11, 2008; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/opinion/11krugman.html.
45. Post-election panel at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, November 3, 2008; available online at http://strictlyright.com/2010/11/video-post-election-panel-with-mark-steyn-howard-dean-fred-thompson/.
46. Remarks during a press conference in Brussels, Belgium, November 21, 2009; available online at http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100017487/herman-van-rompuy-today-the-eu-tomorrow-the-world/.
47. Vicki Needham, “Obama adviser Volcker says record deficits could lead to new VAT tax,” The Hill, April 7, 2010; available online at http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/90991-volcker-suggests-raising-taxes-possibly-adding-a-value-added-tax.
48. Panel Study of Income Dynamics, University of Michigan, 2001.
49. Remarks during the 2009 Irving Kristol Lecture at the annual AEI Annual Dinner in Washington, D.C., March 11, 2009; available online at http://www.aei.org/speech/100023.
50. Tom Wolfe, “The ‘Me’ Decade and the Third Great Awakening,” New York Magazine, August 23, 1976; available online at http://nymag.com/news/features/45938/.
51. Remarks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 7, 2009; available online at http://www.securityconference.de/index.php?id=242&zic=1117_1.
52. Andreas Tzortzis, “One Wall Down, Thousands to Paint,” New York Times, March 2, 2008; available online at http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/travel/02headsup.html.
1. Richard Wolffe, Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House (New York: Crown, 2010); facts available online at http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/how_the_nanny_president_sees_himself_Rz5QE1GoCFaiwCJvR9mrdP.
2. Dan Jones, “A WEIRD View of Human Nature Skews Psychologists’ Studies,” Science, June 24, 2010; available online at http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/pdfs/WEIRD%20in%20Science.pdf.
3. Andrew Malcolm, “Michelle Obama serves food to D.C. poor and homeless, but…” Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2009; available online at http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/03/michelle-obama.html.
4. Nicholas Timmins, “No worker in one-sixth of UK households,” Financial Times, August 26, 2009; available online at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0e1abd04-9221-11de-b63b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1MqD08fIT.
5. Victor Davis Hanson, “Dronism,” PajamasMedia.com, March 3, 2010; available online at http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/dronism/.
6. Remarks made on Al-Rahma TV, June 6, 2010; available online at http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2503.htm.
7. Associated Press, “Israel pounds Luxembourg in World Cup qualifier,” September 9, 2009; facts available online at http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/2009-09-09-1359674765_x.htm.
8. Charles Murray, In Our Hands (AEI Press, 2006).
9. New Threats to Freedom, ed. Adam Bellow (Templeton Press, 2010).
10. John F. Burns, “Bill Millin, Scottish D-Day Piper, Dies at 88,” New York Times, August 19, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/world/europe/20millin.html.
11. Bruce Bawer, “A Plague of Poets,” The Hudson Review, Winter 2004; available online at http://www.hudsonreview.com/BawerWi04.html.
12. Remarks made on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, July 27, 2004; available online at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5537671/42928946.
13. Remarks made during a Q&A at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, May 23, 2010; available online at http://lukeford.net/blog/?page_id=24561.
14. Bill Minutaglio, “School For Homosexuals An Ongoing Controversy,” The Dallas Morning News, October 22, 1985; available online at http://articles.sunsentinel.com/1985-10-22/features/8502160307_1_harvey-milk-school-school-system-school-officials/3.
15. Rick Salutin, “Here’s the Real Obama Question,” The Globe and Mail, January 16, 2009; available online at http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?current_row=89&tf=tgam/columnists/FullColumn.html&cf=tgam/columnists/FullColumn.cfg&configFileLoc=tgam/config&date=&dateOffset=&hub=rickSalutin&title=Rick_Salutin&cache_key=rickSalutin&start_row=89&num_rows=1.
16. John Wildermuth, “Many Obama supporters also backed Prop. 8,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 6, 2008; available online at http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-11-06/news/17128024_1_uncounted-field-poll-same-sex-marriage.
17. Iain Murray, “Boris Hacking Again,” National Review Online, January 20, 2009; available online http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/176006/boris-hacking-again/iain-murray.
18. Remarks made during a speech in Berlin, Germany, July 24, 2008; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/us/politics/24text-obama.html.
19. Michael Ignatieff, The Rights Revolution (Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2007).
20. John Robson, “Media insult us with leadership coverage overkill,” The Ottawa Citizen, October 6, 2006; available online at http://www.thejohnrobson.com/2006/10/06/media-insult-us-with-leadership-coverage-overkill/.
21. Remarks to National Review Online, September 23, 2009; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/187591/bolton-post-american-speech-our-first-post-american-president/robert-costa.
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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.
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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.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/764fosie.asp and http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4f9af_obama_news.
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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/011678.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://www.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/C2CBriefingPaperRemedialEd.pdf.
56. Scott Waldman, “State standards tweaks target early learners,” The Albany Times Union, January 13, 2011; available online at http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/State-standards-tweaks-target-early-learners-953033.php.
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62. Paul Bedard, “Help for Obama’s Shack-Living Brother,” US News & World Report, September 10, 2008; available online at http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2008/09/10/help-for-obamas-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/0404/17/pitn.00.html.
67. Andrew Sullivan, “Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters,” The Atlantic Monthly, December, 2007; available online at http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/12/goodbye-to-all-that-why-obama-matters/6445/1/.
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 CBS Evening News, May 3, 2010; available online at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/03/eveningnews/main6457014.shtml.
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/nyregion/04mosque.html.
75. Hendrik Hertzberg, “Zero Grounds,” The New Yorker, August 16, 2010; available online at http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/08/16/100816taco_talk_hertzberg.
76. Vince Veneziani, “Oh Please: CNN Anchors Wonder If Times Square Bombing Suspect Was Stressed From Being Foreclosed On,” Business Insider, May 4, 2010; available online at http://www.businessinsider.com/faisal-shahzad-foreclosed-2010-5.
77. James Gordon Meek, “Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad mumbles his way through ‘suicide attack’ video,” New York Daily News, July 14, 2010; available online at http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-07-14/news/27069966_1_bomb-plotter-pakistani-taliban-al-qaeda.
78. Paul Berman, The Flight of the Intellectuals: The Controversy Over Islamism and the Press (Melville House, 2011).
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/.
82. Associated Press, “Some recognized Fort Hood Army psychiatrist was troubled,” November 8, 2009; available online at http://www.tampabay.com/incoming/article1050288.ece.
83. Barry Rubin, “Why I Murdered 13 American Soldiers at Ford Hood: Nidal Hassan Explains It All To You,” The Rubin Report, November 14, 2009; available online at http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-i-murdered-13-american-soldiers-at.html.
84. Daniel Zwerdling and Steve Inskeep, “Former Colleagues Say Hasan Was Detached,” NPR, November 10, 2009; available online at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120266836.
85. Philip Sherwell, “Fort Hood shooting: Nidal Malik Hasan ‘said Muslims should rise up’,” The Telegraph, November 6, 2009; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6511591/Fort-Hood-shooting-Nidal-Malik-Hasan-said-Muslims-should-rise-up.html.
86. Remarks made during an interview with FOX News, November 5, 2009; available online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPrT0T3371Q.
87. Associated Press, “Napolitano Warns Against Anti-Muslim Backlash,” FoxNews.com, November 8, 2009; available online at http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/08/napolitano-warns-anti-muslim-backlash/.
88. Andrew Bast, “Is Fort Hood a Harbinger? Nidal Malik Hasan May Be a Symptom of a Military on the Brink,” Newsweek, November 6, 2009; available online at http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-human-condition/2009/11/06/is-fort-hood-a-harbinger-nidal-malik-hasan-may-be-a-symptom-of-a-military-onthe-brink.html.
89. Editorial, “In Plain Sight?” Washington Post, November 12, 2009; available online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/11/AR2009111123438.html.
90. Frank Gaffney, “Connect the Dots on CAIR’s Foreign Funding and Lobbying at CAIRObservatory.org,” BigGovernment.com, April 3, 2010; available online http://biggovernment.com/fgaffney/2010/04/03/connect-the-dots-on-cairs-foreign-funding-and-lobbying-at-cairobservatory-org/.
91. Chris Ayers, “Barack Obama ‘insensitive’ over his handling of Fort Hood shooting,” The Times, November 9, 2009; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6908849.ece.
92. Sharon Weinberger, “Fort Hood Shooting Puts Focus on ‘Internal Threat’,” AolNews.com, August 20, 2010; available online at http://www.aolnews.com/2010/08/20/fort-hood-shooting-prompts-focus-on-internal-threat/ and http://www.defense.gov/news/d20100820FortHoodFollowon.pdf.
93. Adam Sternbergh, “Up With Grups,” New York, March 26, 2006; available online at http://nymag.com/news/features/16529/.
94. Remarks made during a town hall in Strongsville, Ohio, March 15, 2010; available online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-healthcare-reform-strongsville-ohio.
95. Tim Craig, “D.C. to begin using more-expensive Trojan condoms in HIV prevention program,” Washington Post, May 21, 2010; available online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/20/AR2010052003980.html.
96.
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97. Kimi Yoshino, “For the ‘funemployed,’ unemployment is welcome,” Los Angeles Times, June 4, 2009; available online at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-funemployment4-2009jun04,0,7581684.story.
98. Victor Davis Hanson, “Ten Random, Politically Incorrect Thoughts,” PajamasMedia.com, November 21, 2008; available online at http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/ten-random-politicially-incorrect-thoughts/.
99. Jessica Reaves, “Gore’s Political ‘Promiscuities’,” Time, November 1, 1999; available online at http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,33529,00.html.
100. Interview with Ross Robertson of Enlightenment, August-October 2008; available online at http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j41/mansfield.asp?page=1.
101. Remarks at a press conference in Beverly Hills, California, August 8, 2010; available online at http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20408849,00.html.
102. Elizabeth Marquardt, Norval D. Glenn, and Karen Clark, “My Daddy’s Name is Donor: New Study of Young Adults Conceived Through Sperm Donation,” Institute for American Values, 2010; available online at http://www.familyscholars.org/assets/Donor_FINAL.pdf.
103. Kristin Boehm, “Alexis Stewart Continues Fertility Treatments,” People, October 9, 2007; available online at http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20151378,00.html.
104. Mark Dagostino, “My Struggle to Have a Baby,” People, August 13, 2007; available online at http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20059186,00.html.
105. John F. Harris and Beth Frerking, “Clinton aides: Palin treatment sexist,” Politico, September 3, 2008; available online at http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13129.html.
106. Cherry Norton, “Maternal instinct ‘is extinct for one woman in five’,” The Independent, October 27, 1999; available online at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/maternal-instinct-is-extinct-for-one-woman-infive-743042.html.
107. Christina Hoff Summers, The War Against Boys (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001).
108. Interview with Ross Robertson of Enlightenment, August-October 2008; available online at http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j41/mansfield.asp?page=1.
109. Dennis Cauchon, “Women Gain as Men Lose Jobs,” USA Today, September 3, 2009; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-02-womenwork_N.htm.
110. Sara Murray, “Grads Head to College In Record Numbers,” Wall Street Journal, April 28, 2010; available online at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703832204575210244203411342.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond.
111. National Center for Education Statistics, “Digest of Education Statistics 2009,” Table 275, p. 400, April 2010; http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010013.pdf.
112. George F. Will, “The Basement Boys,” Newsweek, March 8, 2010; available online at http://www.newsweek.com/2010/03/07/the-basement-boys.html.
113. Ibid.
114. Keturah Gray, “Quarterlife Crisis Hits Many in Late 20s,” ABC News, April 21, 2005; available online at http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Careers/story?id=688240&page=1.
115. George F. Will, “The Basement Boys,” Newsweek.
116. Kay Hymowitz, “Child-Man in the Promised Land,” City Journal, Winter 2008; available online at http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_1_single_young_men.html.
117. Ibid.
118. Ibid.
119. Peg Tyre, “Bringing Up Adultolescents,” Newsweek, March 25, 2002; available online at http://www.newsweek.com/2002/03/24/bringing-up-adultolescents.html and http://www.hyper-parenting.com/newsweek5.htm.
120. Tom W. Smith, “The Emerging 21st Century American Family,” National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago, November 24, 1999; available online at http://cloud9.norc.uchicago.edu/dlib/sc-42.htm.
121. Gary Cross, Men To Boys: The Making Of Modern Immaturity (Columbia University Press, 2010).
122. Jenny Hope, “Concern as sperm count falls,” Daily Mail, (no date given); available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-205209/Concern-sperm-count-falls.html.
123. Liz Hunt, “Sperm count drops 25% in younger men,” The Independent, February 23, 1996; available online at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sperm-count-drops-25-in-younger-men-1320456.html.
124. Lester Haines, “Swedish lesbians suck sperm banks dry,” The Register, July 24, 2009; available online at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/24/swedish_shortage/.
125. “Hero students leap into river to save drowning woman… as police officers refuse to help,” Daily Mail, May 12, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1277480/3-students-leap-River-Clyde-save-drowning-woman-police-REFUSE.html.
126. Richard Savill and Andy Bloxham, “Police unable to save girl from icy river because of health and safety,” The Telegraph, February 13, 2010; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7224051/Police-unable-to-save-girl-from-icy-river-because-of-health-and-safety.html.
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128. David Lister, “Fireman faces punishment for risking his life in rescue,” The Times, March 26, 2007; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1567322.ece.
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13. Ibid.
14. Gordon G. Chang, “China’s Illicit Nuclear Transfers to Iran,” Hudson New York, April 12, 2010; available online at http://www.hudson-ny.org/1141/chinas-illicit-nuclear-transfers-to-iran.
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16. Remarks made to the House of Lords in London, England, March 5, 2010; available online at http://www.geertwilders.nl/index.php?option=com_content&ta sk=view&id=1662&Itemid=1.
17. Tim Shipman, “Barack Obama sends bust of Winston Churchill on its way back to Britain,” The Telegraph, February 14, 2009; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/4623148/Barack-Obama-sends-bust-of-Winston-Churchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html.
18. “Cambridge University college renames ‘distasteful’ Empire Ball,” The Telegraph, February 12, 2009; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/4604461/Cambridge-University-college-renames-distasteful-Empire-Ball.html.
19. “London bomber video aired on TV,” BBC, September 2, 2005; available online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4206708.stm.
20. Tim Shipman and Gerri Peev, “‘They were lucky not to be shot’: Police chief says armed officers showed ‘enormous restraint’ as mob attacked Charles and Camilla,” The Daily Mail, December 10, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337088/ROYAL-CAR-ATTACK-Mob-attacking-Charles-Camillas-car-lucky-shot.html.
21. “Charlie Gilmour pleads guilty to student protest disorder charges,” The Guardian, May 6, 2011; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/may/06/charlie-gilmour-pleads-guilty-protest.
22. Julie Burchill, “Spare us these pampered protesters who riot in defence of their privilege,” The Independent, December 16, 2010; available online at http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/julie-burchill/julie-burchill-spare-us-these-pampered-protesters-who-riot-in-defence-of-their-privilege-2161489.html.
23. Rebecca Atwood, “Brown Targets Work Skills,” The Higher Education, July 6, 2007; available online at http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=209524§ioncode=26.
24. All data available online via http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/charts.html.
25. Social Analysis & Reporting Division, National Statistics Quality Review Series, Report #31 (Office for National Statistics, London 2004).
26. James Tozer, “Christian preacher vows to fight after he’s arrested for ‘public order’ offences after saying homosexuality is a sin,” The Daily Mail, May 3, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1270650/Christian-preacher-trial-public-order-offences-saying-homosexuality-sin.html.
27. “Nursery alert for racist toddlers,” BBC, July 7, 2008; available online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7493654.stm.
28. Luke Salkeld, “Flipping madness! Police offer free flip-flops to binge drinkers who keep falling over in heels,” The Daily Mail, November 27, 2008; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1089919/Flipping-madness-Police-offer-free-flip-flops-binge-drinkers-falling-heels.html.
29. Nick Allen, “Man escapes jail for punching war veteran, 96,” The Telegraph, October 22, 2007; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1566972/Man-escapes-jail-for-punching-war-veteran-96.html.
30. George Jonas, “The Evil Men Do Lives After Them,” The National Post, October 16, 2000; available online at http://jeanchretien.libertyca.net/html/0072.html.
31. David Millward, “Traffic wardens get head cameras,” The Telegraph, December 21, 2009; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/6840937/Traffic-wardens-get-head-cameras.html.
32. Maxine Frith, “How average Briton is caught on camera 300 times a day,” The Independent, January 12, 2004; available online at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/how-average-briton-is-caught-on-camera-300-times-a-day-572781.html.
33. John Steele, “Britain has worst drug addiction rate in Europe,” The Telegraph, April 19, 2007; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1549028/Britain-has-worst-drug-addiction-rate-in-Europe.html.
34. Steve Doughty, “Most teenage pregnancies now end with an abortion,” The Daily Mail, May 11, 2009; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180262/Most-teenage-pregnancies-end-abortion.html.
35. Steve Doughty, “Single mother Britain: U.K. has most lone parents of any major European nation,” The Daily Mail, April 1, 2011; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372533/Britain-lone-parents-major-Euro-nation.html.
36. Helen Weathers, “Why does Britain have record levels of abortion and an unprecedented need for IVF?,” The Daily Mail, June 30, 2006; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-393236/Why-does-Britain-record-levels-abortion-unprecedented-need-IVF.html.
37. Jack Grimston, “Children wear body armour school uniform,” The Times, September 9, 2007; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2414704.ece
38. “The plan for social security: full outline,” The Guardian, December 2, 1942; available online at http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,,127564,00.html.
39. Patrick Wintour, “Brown: Remembrance Sunday should become ‘British Day’,” The Guardian, January 14, 2006; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jan/14/britishidentity.labour.
40. John Carvel, “Brown urged to create holiday on birthday of health service,” The Guardian, January 1, 2008; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jan/01/uk.publicservices.
41. Jason Groves, “’Shameless’ generation grows as seven million now live in households where no one works,” The Daily Mail, September 14, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1310220/7-million-live-jobless-households-works.html.
42. Tim Shipman, “More than 900,000 have been off sick for a DECADE–costing taxpayer £4bn a year,” The Daily Mail, August 16, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303320/4bn-year-900-000-whove-decade-sick.html.
43. Paul Sims, “Councils pay for disabled to visit prostitutes and lap-dancing clubs from £520m taxpayer fund,” The Daily Mail, August 16, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303273/Councils-pay-disabled-visit-prostitutes-lap-dancing-clubs.html.
44. Abul Taher, “‘Soviet’ Britain swells amid the recession,” The Times, January 25, 2009; available online at http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article5581225.ece.
45. House of Commons, “A Century of Change: Trends in UK statistics since 1900,” December 21, 1999; available online at http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf.
46. Alison Little, “20,000 Families to be put under 24/7 CCTV surveillance in their own homes ‘to change their bad behaviour’,” The Daily Express, July 29, 2009; available online at http://justgetthere.us/blog/archives/20,000-Families-to-be-put-under-247-CCTV-surveillance-in-their-own-homes-to-change-their-bad-behaviour.html.
1. Michael Snyder, “The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove it,” The Business Insider, July 15, 2010; available online at http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/the-u.s.-middle-class-is-being-wiped-out-here’s-the-stats-to-prove-it-520657.html?tickers=%5EDJI,%5EGSPC,SPY,MCD,WMT,XRT,DIA.
2. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Data Retrieval: Labor Force Statistics (CPS)”; available online at http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab13.htm.
3. Carolyn Dimitri, Anne Effland, and Neilson Conklin, “The 20th Century Transformation of U.S. Agriculture and Farm Policy,” US Department of Agriculture, June 3, 2005; available online at http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/eib3/eib3.htm#changes and http://www.agclassroom.org/gan/timeline/farmers_land.htm.
4. Remarks by the Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack before US House Committee on Agriculture in Washington, DC, May 12, 2011; available online at http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2011/05/0208.xml&contentidonly=true.
5. Aaron E. Cobet and Gregory A. Wilson, “Comparing 50 years of labor productivity in U.S. and foreign manufacturing,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2002; available online at http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2002/06/art4full.pdf.
6. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Employment Situation Summary,” May 6, 2011; available online at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm.
7. Dennis Cauchon, “Summer jobs hit all-time low for youths,” USA Today, September 3, 2010; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2010-09-03-youth-unemployment_N.htm.
8. Susan Page, “Married? Single? Status affects how women vote,” USA Today, August 25, 2004; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselec-tions/nation/polls/2004-08-25-female-vote_x.htm.
9. US Department of Commerce, “Projections of the Number of Households and Families in the United States: 1995 to 2010,” 2010; available online at http://www.census.gov/prod/1/pop/p25-1129.pdf.
10. U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2008 Annual Social and Economic Supplement.
11. “Busy Not Running GM,” Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2009; available online at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124389952143874411.html.
12. John Tamny, “Memo To Washington: Let GM Fail,” Forbes, July 10, 2008; available online at http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/gm-washington-detroit-oped-cx_jt_0710tamny.html.
13. Robert W. Crandall and Clifford Winston, “Detroit Needs a Selloff, Not a Bailout,” Wall Street Journal, November 28, 2008; available online at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122783248646663009.html.
14. Testimony of Rick Wagoner (CEO of the General Motors Corporation) to the United States Senate in Washington, D.C., November 18, 2008; available online at http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/WSJ_WagonerTestimony-081118.pdf.
15. Associated Press, “Detroit Three erasing productivity gap,” June 5, 2008; available online at http://www.rrstar.com/archive/x142951738/Detroit-Three-erasing-productivity-gap.
16. Jennifer Harper, “Kerry aims to rescue newspapers,” The Washington Times, April 22, 2009; available online at http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/22/kerry-aims-to-rescue-newspaper-industry/.
17. Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, The Ruins of Detroit (London: Steidl, 2011).
18. John Huey, “Assignment Detroit: Why Time Inc. Is in Motown,” Time, September 24, 2009; available online at http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1925681,00.html.
19. Jonathan Oosting, “Detroit school board president struggles to write a coherent sentence; does it matter?” MLive.com, March 4, 2010; available online at http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/03/detroit_school_board_president.html.
20. Anthony Daniels, “Britain, benign & proud,” Speech reprinted in The New Criterion, January 2011; available online at http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Britain—benign—-proud-6752.
21. Laura Berman, “Does DPS leader’s writing send wrong message?” The Detroit News, March 4, 2010; available online at http://detnews.com/article/20100304/OPINION03/3040437/Does-DPS-leader-s-writing-send-wrong-message.
22. Michelle Malkin, “Diplomas Won’t Make Jihadis Go Away, Barack,” Human Events, July 16, 2008; available online at http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27552.
23. Laura Berman, “Does DPS leader’s writing send wrong message?” The Detroit News.
24. “Detroit: Now a Ghost Town,” Time, 2009; available online at http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,1925735,00.html.
25. Henry Payne, “Unions of Urban Decay,” National Review Online, August 6, 2007; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/221777/unions-urban-decay/henry-payne.
26. Steven Gray, “In Detroit, Nearly 50% Unemployment Rate?” Time, December 16, 2009; available online at http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2009/12/16/in-detroit-nearly-50-unemployment-rate/.
27. Ibid.
28. John Huey, “Assignment Detroit: Why Time Inc. is in Motown,” Time, September 24, 2009; available online at http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1925681,00.html.
29. Niall Ferguson, “Empire Falls,” Vanity Fair, October 2006; available online at http://fnf.org.ph/downloadables/Empire_Falls_as_published_in_Vanity_Fair_Oct_06.pdf.
30. Centers for Disease Control, “Prevalence of overweight, obesity and extreme obesity among adults: United States, trends 1960-62 through 2005-2006”; available online at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/overweight/overweight_adult.htm.
31. John G. Spangler, “Childhood Obesity: Attacking a Crushing Epidemic,” ABCNews.com, May 13, 2010; available online at http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/childhood-obesity-white-house-task-force-childhood-obesity/story?id=10631915.
32. “Not grrrreat: After five decades, anti-obesity Bill could ban cartoon Tony the tiger from TV,” The Daily Mail, May 19, 2008; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1015879/Not-grrrreat-After-50-years-anti-obesity-Bill-ban-Tony-tiger-TV.html.
33. Sharon Bernstein, “San Francisco bans Happy Meals,” Los Angeles Times, November 2, 2010; available online at http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/02/business/la-fi-happy-meals-20101103.
34. Public Health Agency of Canada, “Preconception Health and Folic Acid,” 2005; available online at http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/fa-af/backgrounder-eng.php.
35. Steven Reinberg, “Folic Acid Fortification Might Boost Cancer Risk,” ABCNews.com, November 18, 2009; available online at http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Healthday/folic-acid-fortification-boost-cancer-risk/story?id=9109220.
36. Senator Richard Lugar, “Lugar praises passage of child nutrition bill,” press release, August 5, 2010; available online at http://lugar.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=327017&.
37. Madison Park, “Ex-military leaders: Young adults ‘too fat to fight’,” CNN, April 20, 2010; available online at http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/20/military.fat.fight/index.html.
38. Viktoria Lapko, “Family Becomes Extinct, To Be Replaced with Feminism and Gender Equality,” Pravda, August 19, 2010; available online at http://english.pravda.ru/history/19-08-2010/114665-family_feminism_gender_equality-0/.
39. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar,” August 31, 1837.
40. “Follow the Leader,” The Economist, July 8, 2010; available online at http://www.economist.com/node/16542808.
41. Paul A. Rahe, Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift (Yale University Press, 2010).
42. Kenneth Minogue, “The New Epicureans,” The New Criterion, September 2001; available online at http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-new-Epicureans-2131.
43. “Millionaire gay fathers celebrate arrival of twins with triple christening ceremony,” The Daily Mail, July 3, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1291664/Millionaire-gay-fathers-Barrie-Tony-Drewitt-Barlow-celebrate-arrival-twins-triple-christening-ceremony.html.
44. James Bone, “‘Pregnant man’ Thomas Beatie gives birth to baby girl,” The Times, July 4, 2008; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4265368.ece.
45. Julia Steinecke, “Border skirmishes,” The Toronto Star, August 15, 2009; available online at http://www.thestar.com/travel/article/680107.
46. Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (New York: Harper, 2010).
47. Jared Diamond, “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race,” Discover, May 1987; available online at http://www.scribd.com/doc/2100251/Jared-Diamond-The-Worst-Mistake-in-the-History-of-the-Human-Race.
48. Roger Scruton, The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope (Oxford University Press, 2010).
49. George F. Will, “Why Mike Pence catches conservatives’ eyes,” The Washington Post, December 8, 2010; available online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/08/AR2010120805110.html.
50. Centers for Disease Control, “National Vital Statistics Report,” August 9, 2010; available online at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr58/nvsr58_24.pdf.
51. Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose: A Personal Statement (New York: Harcourt, 1979).
52. Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa, “Sen. John Kerry skips town on sails tax,” The Boston Herald, July 23, 2010; available online at http://www.bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view.bg?articleid=1269698.
53. International Court of Justice, “Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Respect of Kosovo, “ July 22, 2010; available online at http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/141/15987.pdf.
54. “Kosovo independence move not illegal, says UN court,” BBC, July 22, 2010; available online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10730573.
55. Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore, The Size of Nations (The MIT Press, 2005).
56. Remarks made before the United States Congress in Washington, D.C., November 7, 2007; available online at http://www.nysun.com/national/speech-by-president-sarkozy-before-congress/66054/.
57. Joe Klein, “Yes, It’s Racism… but it’s Complicated,” Time, September 16, 2009; available online at http://swampland.time.com/2009/09/16/yes-its-racism-but-its-complicated/.
58. Jonah Goldberg, “Joe Klein Loves Diversity,” National Review Online, September 17, 2009; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/187380/joe-klein-loves-diversity/jonah-goldberg.
59. Jared Taylor, “Jared Taylor Remembers Joe Sobran,” VDare.com, October 1, 2010; available online at http://vdare.com/taylor/101001_sobran.htm.
60. Philippe Legrain, Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them (Princeton University Press, 2007).
61. Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe (New York: Anchor, 2010).
62. Giovanni di Lorenzo, “Drinnen vor der Tür,” Die Zeit No. 41, 2004.
63. Chistopher Caldwell, “Think Tank: New Ideas For The 21st Century: Immigration and welfare: a bad mix,” The Times, April 26, 2009; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6168821.ece.
64. “Somali Refugees Settle in Maine Town,” ABC News; available online at http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=130098&page=1.
65. Federation for American Immigration Reform, “Birthright Citizenship,” August 2010; available online at http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16535&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1007.
66. “Stockton School Trustee Used District Credit Card For Personal Purchases,” CBS Sacramento, February 10, 2011; available online at http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/02/10/stockton-school-trustee-used-district-credit-card-for-personal-purchases/.
67. Sherry Jacobson, “Across Texas, 60,000 babies of noncitizens get U.S. birthright,” Dallas News, August 8, 2010; available online at http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20100807-Across-Texas-60-000-babies-3859.ece.
68. Ronald J. Hansen, “Arizona children becoming more diverse, census report says,” The Arizona Republic, April 7, 2011; available online at http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/04/07/20110407arizona-census-results-diverse-kids.html.
69. Brian Montopoli, “Obama Criticizes ‘Misguided’ Arizona Immigration Bill,” CBS News, April 23, 2010; available online at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20003274-503544.html.
70. RealityUncovered.net forum; comment available online at http://www.realityuncovered.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1088&start=45.
71. Note to Marquis de Lafayette, May 1807; available online at http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/napoleon/jefferson/c_jefferson3.html.
72. Tami Luhby, “Maywood, Calif., to city cops and employees: You’re fired,” CNN, July 1, 2010; available online at http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/29/news/economy/city_fires_employees/index.htm.
73. “Town creates sanctuary for illegal immigrants,” MSNBC, March 27, 2006; available online at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11964275/.
74. Heather Scroope, “Suspect Pleads Not Guilty in New Jersey Students’ Execution-Style Deaths,” FOX News, August 10, 2007; available online at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292717,00.html.
75. George P. Hassett, “Feds raid local shop; arrest one, The Somerville News, August 28, 2007; available online at http://www.thesomervillenews.com/archives/2934.
76. Michelle Malkin, “Sanctuary Nation or Sovereign Nation?” MichelleMalkin.com, August 15, 2007; available online at http://michellemalkin.com/2007/08/15/sanctuary-nation-or-sovereign-nation-its-your-choice/.
77. “Mexican Drugs, U.S. Markets,” NPR, April 17, 2009; available online at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103224933.
78. Ken Ellingwood, “A side of Cancun not seen during spring break,” Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2009; available online at http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-world/world/la-fg-mexico-cancun-drugs2-2009mar02,0,3441309.story.
79. “6 bodies found in cave, 3 with hearts cut out,” Associated Press, June 7, 2010; available online at http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/7039966.html.
80. Alfredo Corchado and Lauren Villagran, “Drug violence in Mexico hit new level of brutality in 2010,” The Dallas Morning News, January 1, 2011; available online at http://www.dallasnews.com/news/nation-world/mexico/20110101-drug-violence-in-mexico-hit-new-level-of-brutality-in-2010.ece.
81. “Ciudad Juárez Hits 3,000 Murders in 2010,” FOX News, December 15, 2010; available online at http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2010/12/15/border-city-hits-dead/.
82. “Timeline: Toronto 18: Key events in the case,” CBC, June 2, 2008; available online at http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2008/06/02/f-toronto-timeline.html.
83. Jim Benning, “In Tijuana, the Real ‘Nacho Libre’,” Washington Post, July 9, 2006; available online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/07/AR2006070700419.html.
84. “Headless, mutilated bodies hung from Mexico bridge,” Reuters, August 22, 2010; available online at http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/22/us-mexico-drugs-idUSTRE67L1Y620100822.
85. “Mexico arrests 14-year-old ‘drug hitman’,” BBC, December 3, 2010; available online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11913976.
86. Gustavo Ruiz, “Small-Town Mayor Stoned to Death in Western Mexico,” Associated Press, September 27, 2010; available online at http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=11739050.
87. David Frum, “Mexico drug war a nightmare scenario,” CNN, January 3, 2011; available online at http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-03/opinion/frum.mexico.risk_1_drug-violence-mexico-drug-war-mexican-born-people?_s=PM:OPINION
88. Jason DeParle, “Struggling to Rise in Suburbs Where Failing Means Fitting In,” New York Times, April 18, 2009; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/us/19immig.html?_r=1&ref=us&pagewanted=all.
89. Mickey Kaus, “JournoList Revealed! Inside the Secret Liberal Media Email Cabal,” Slate.com, March 26, 2009; available online at http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2009/03/26/journolist-revealed-inside-the-liberal-media-email-cabal.aspx.
90. Martin Peretz, “No Special Envoy, No Crisis,” The New Republic, March 23, 2009; available online at http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-spine/no-special-envoy-no-crisis.
91. NAACP Urges Hallmark to Pull ‘Racist’ Card From Shelves,” FOX News, June 11, 2010; available online at http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/11/naacp-urges-hallmark-pull-racist-card-shelves/.
92. Jon Richards, editorial cartoon, The Albuquerque Journal, August 4, 2010; available online at http://web.mac.com/moviecritic1/Site/Cartoons.html.
93. B. F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom & Dignity (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 2002).
94. Graeme Wilson, “Tories face fury over air travel taxes,” The Telegraph, March 12, 2007; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1545262/Tories-face-fury-over-air-travel-taxes.html.
95. Pew Hispanic Center, “Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2010,” February 1, 2011; available online at http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=133.
96. Victor Davis Hanson, “Two Californias,” National Review Online, December 16, 2010; available online at http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson121610.html.
97. “Politicians narrate Peter and the Wolf,” BBC, February 5, 2003; available online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2730119.stm.
98. “Sharks in Shallow Water,” New York Times, July 27, 2001; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/27/opinion/sharks-in-shallow-water.html.
99. “Woman killed by cougar identified,” CBC, January 3, 2001; available online at http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2001/01/03/frost030101.html.
100. Cory Ruf, “Coyote in Nova Scotia attacks sleeping girl, bites her head,” The National Post, August 10, 2010; available online at http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/08/10/coyote-in-nova-scotia-attacks-sleeping-girl-bites-her-on-head/.
101. Craig Medred,”Wildlife author killed, eaten by bears he loved,” Anchorage Daily News, February 5, 2003; available online at http://www.alaska.net/~jlanders/Fatal/Treadwell%20Huguenard%2010-05-03.htm.
102. Ibid.
103. “Flashdance for Boycott of Israeli Hummus Hits West Philly Supermarket,” PhillyIMC.org, October 26, 2010; available online at http://www.phillyimc.org/en/flashdance-boycott-israeli-hummus-hits-west-philly-supermarket.
104. Jonathan Kay, “War within Pride leaves anti-Israel group on the outside,” The National Post, May 25, 2010; available online at http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/05/25/war-within-pride-leaves-quaia-on-the-outside/.
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