80 three recommendations for reducing childhood obesity: Misti Crane, “Study: Family Routines Cut the Risk of Childhood Obesity,” Columbus Dispatch , February 8, 2010.
81 It’s even having an impact on the military: “Too Fat to Fight: Retired Military Leaders Want Junk Food Out of America’s Schools,” Mission: Readiness, April 20, 2010.
84 “No one but Mr. Romney disagrees”: Joseph Rago, “The Massachusetts Health-Care ‘Train Wreck,’” Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2010.
85 “will soon have affordable health insurance”: Mitt Romney, “Health Care for Everyone?” Wall Street Journal, April 11, 2006.
85 Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation stepped into the lab: Robert J. Samuelson, “As Massachusetts Health ‘Reform’ Goes, So Could Go Obamacare,” Washington Post, July 19, 2010.
85 premiums in Massachusetts under RomneyCare are rising: Joan Vennochi, “The Forbidding Arithmetic of Healthcare Reform,” Boston Globe, June 28, 2009.
86 “The decision is not whether or not we will ration care”: Dr. Donald Berwick, quoted by Katherine T. Adams, “Rethinking Comparative Effectiveness Research,” Biotechnology Healthcare, June 2009, 6(2): 35–36, 38.
87 “Limited resources require decisions”: Donald Berwick, “A Shared Statement of Ethical Principles for Those Who Shape and Give Health Care,” Annals of Internal Medicine, January 19, 1999, vol. 130 no. 2, 143–47.
CHAPTER SIX: If You Don’t Hear the School Bell Ring, Class Never Starts
90 Yet about one-third: Jason Amos, “Dropouts, Diplomas, and Dollars: U.S. High Schools and the Nation’s Economy,” Alliance for Excellent Education, August 2008.
91 A dropout can expect to earn: Ibid.
91 At City College of San Francisco: David Moltz, “Competing Principles,” Inside Higher Ed, June 28, 2010 (available at www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/28/remediation).
92 $25,000 median income: http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=77.
93 initial group of students: op-ed by Adam B. Schaeffer, “Florida’s Unheralded School Revolution,” Wall Street Journal, May 1, 2010.
93 the results of national reading tests: Sam Dillon, “Stagnant National Reading Scores Lag Behind Math,” New York Times, March 24, 2010.
94 There are more than five thousand: Number of US Charter Schools Grows by 9 percent in 2010,” Center for Education Reform, http://www.edreform.com/Home/?Number_of_US_Charter_Schools_Grows_By_9_Percent_in_2010, accessed November 13, 2010. (http://www.uscharterschools.org), last updated February 28, 2010.
94 A 2009 study by Margaret Raymond: Margaret Raymond, “Multiple Choice: Charter School Performance in 16 States,” Stanford University, 2009.
95 “As a former teacher”: Timothy Knowles, “The Trouble with Teacher Tenure,” Wall Street Journal, June 18, 2010.
96 “When I first came here ”: Michelle Rhee, quoted by Stephen Brill, “The Teachers’ Unions’ Last Stand,” New York Times Magazine, May 17, 2010.
96 While more than half the states: Stuart Buck and Jay P. Greene, “Blocking, Diluting, and Co-Opting Merit Pay” (presented at PEPG Conference: Merit Pay: Will It Work? Is It Politically Viable?, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, June 2010).
98 Supreme Court of Arkansas: http://www.schoolfunding.info/states/ar/11-21-02supremecourt.php3.
CHAPTER SEVEN: Leave Your Campsite in Better Shape Than You Found It
105 one story in particular: Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (New York: Macmillan Company, 1913), 17–18.
107 Lyndon Johnson once put it: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/l/lyndonbjo144728.html.
108 “To waste”: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/eight/trconserv.htm.
108 “What is a conservative but one”: Ronald Reagan, “Remarks at Dedication of National Geographic Society New Headquarters Building” (June 19, 1984).
108 “Man is treated as if he were”: Ayn Rand, Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (New York: Plume, 1999), 277.
109 some 60 percent of us live: American Lung Association, “New American Lung Association Report Finds 60 Percent of Americans Live in Areas Where Air Is Dirty Enough to Endanger Lives,” April 29, 2009 (available at www.lungusa.org/press-room/press-releases/10th-annual-state-of-the-air.html).
111 worrisome emissions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation.
111 about 70 percent of our states have renewable: U.S. Department of Energy, “States with Renewable Portfolio Standards,” May 2009 (available at www.apps1.eere.energy.gov/states/maps/renewable_portfolio_states.cfm).
111 clever little gizmos: http://www.srpnet.com/newsroom/releases/051810.aspx.
111 Only about one in ten American households: Steve Hargreaves, “Millions of Homes to Get Smart Meters,” www.CNNMoney.com, October 27, 2009.
113 If, as the Department of Energy predicts: Joel Kirkland and Climatewire, “Global Emissions Predicted to Grow Through 2035,” Scientific American, May 26, 2010.
113 “Expanding nuclear energy makes both environmental”: Christine Todd Whitman, “The Case for Nuclear Power,” Bloomberg BusinessWeek, September 17, 2007.
115 burning the city’s nonrecyclable garbage: Norman Steisel and Benjamin Miller, “Power from Trash,” New York Times, April 27, 2010.
115 almost 350,000 households: op-ed by Rose George, “. . . And Sewage, Too,” New York Times, April 28, 2010. The article says 340,000 households, which I rounded to “almost 350,000,” and it says 430,000 cars, which I rounded to “almost half a million.”
115 “The role of government”: http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45475/.
116 The Minerals Management Service (MMS): Patrick Jonsson, “Gulf Oil Spill: Is MMS So Corrupt It Must Be Abolished?” Christian Science Monitor, May 26, 2010.
117 According to Thad Allen, whom Obama: Jennifer Lebovich and Carol Rosenberg, “Oil Seeps into Florida Waterways,” Miami Herald, January 11, 2010.
118 “Never let a serious crisis go to waste”: Rahm Emanuel, quoted by Jeff Zeleny, “Obama Weighs Quick Undoing of Bush Policy,” New York Times, November 9, 2008.
119 That’s exactly what I did: Thomas L. Friedman, “We’re Gonna Be Sorry,” New York Times, July 24, 2010.
122 five-trillion-dollar market: “Captains of Subsidy,” Wall Street Journal, June 16, 2010.
122 sixty thousand barrels of oil: Mark P. Mills, “Notes from Underground,” Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2010.
122 At nineteen million barrels a day: CIA World Factbook, https://www.ccia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2174rank.html; Spencer Swartz and Shai Oster, “China Tops U. S. in Energy,” Wall Street Journal, July 20, 2010.
123 “There are many guesses as to what”: Stuart Butler and Kim R. Holmes, “Twelve Principles to Guide U.S. Energy Policy,” Heritage Foundation, June 26, 2007.
124 “There is little doubt that China’s growing”: David Pumphrey, quoted by Spencer Swartz and Shai Oster, “China Tops U.S. in Energy Use,” Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2010.
125 This milestone: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703720504575376712353150310.html.
126 “These efforts to dominate renewable energy”: Keith Bradsher, “China Leading Global Race to Make Clean Energy,” New York Times, January 30, 2010.
126 In 1999, the country produced: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/business/energy-environment/31renew.html; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/business/global/09trade.html.
127 “OPEC sets oil’s price ”: R. James Woolsey, “How to End America’s Addiction to Oil,” Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2010.
127 the projection of American gas reserves: http://www.naturalgas.org/overview/resources.asp.
128 For all of these reasons: Matthew L. Wald, “Study Says Natural Gas Use Likely to Double,” New York Times, June 25, 2010.
CHAPTER EIGHT: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
132 almost half of Silicon Valley’s: http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/01/engineerstudy.html.
132 “We cannot build a unified country”: George W. Bush, “Address to the Nation on Immigration Reform,” the White House, Washington, DC (May 15, 2006).
133 case Tom Brokaw documented of a family: Tom Brokaw, “The 21st Century Immigrant Story,” NBC News, December 27, 2006.
133 “If we didn’t have immigrant labor”: Thomas Green, quoted by Christopher Helman, “Labor Pains,” Forbes, June 28, 2010.
134 “Unfortunately, reform has been held”: Barack Obama, “Remarks on Immigration,” American University, Washington, DC (July 1, 2010).
135 But it pushed the same poison: Charles E. Schumer and Lindsey O. Graham, “The Right Way to Mend Immigration,” Washington Post, March 19, 2010.
135 comprehensive immigration reform: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/21/kyl-obama-wont-secure-border-lawmakers-immigration-package/.
136 “have been more than patient”: Jan Brewer, quoted by Peter Slevin, “Both Sides in Immigration Debate Blame Congressional Inaction for Arizona Law,” Washington Post, April 27, 2010.
136 “completely unacceptable”: Gabrielle Giffords, “Giffords: Bipartisanship on Border Security Is Possible,” www.giffords.house.gov, October 13, 2010.
137 “Our failure to act”: http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0410/w_h_watching_arizona_ae7a3dff-98b5-40e2-a702-1eacf15518e1.html .
137 2010 National Drug Control Strategy: Office of National Drug Control Policy, “2010 National Strategy,” October 30, 2010 (available at www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/strategy/).
137 The 2009 National Survey of Drug Use: http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/NSDUH/2k9NSDUH/2k9Results.htm#1.1.
138 they’d not bothered to actually read: “Napolitano Admits She Hasn’t Read Arizona Immigration Law in ‘Detail,’” www.FOXNews.com, May 18, 2010.
138 “a misdirected expression of frustration”: Barack Obama, quoted by Jonathan Weisman, “Obama Gets an Earful from Mexico’s Calderón,” Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2010.
139 Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner: Kirit Radia, “US Cites AZ Immigration Law During Human Rights Talks with China, Conservatives Call It an Apology,” ABC News, May 17, 2010.
139 “The Mexican government condemns the approval”: Jonathan J. Cooper, “Arizona Immigration Law Target of Protest,” Associated Press, April 26, 2010.
139 In fact, a recent New York Times/CBS News poll: Randal C. Archibold and Megan Thee-Brenan, “Poll Shows Most in U.S. Want Overhaul of Immigration Laws,” New York Times, May 3, 2010.
141 workplace arrests: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/23/company-audits-illegal-worker-arrests-way/.
141 About 60 percent of illegals: Hans von Spakovsky, “A Broken Immigration Court System,” Heritage Foundation, June 18, 2010. He says 59 percent don’t show up; I rounded that up to say “about 60 percent.” He says that “only 9 percent” appeal; I said that “almost 90 percent . . . don’t appeal.”
141 1.2 million illegal Mexican immigrants went home: Stephen A. Camorota and Karen Jensenius, “A Shifting Tide: Recent Trends in the Illegal Immigrant Population,” Center for Immigration Studies, July 2009.
141 Mexican immigration in 2008–9 was one-fourth: Jeffrey S. Passel and D’Vera Cohn, “Mexican Immigrants: How Many Come? How Many Leave?” Pew Hispanic Center, July 22, 2009.
142 immigrants started one-quarter of all new: Kauffman Foundation, “America’s Loss Is the World’s Gain: America’s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part IV,” March 2009.
142 “except of useful mechanics”: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21626.
142 Hispanic students remain: http://www.cis.org/california-education.
142 illegal immigration costs all of us $113 billion: Jack Martin, “The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers,” Federation for American Immigration Reform, July 2010.
CHAPTER NINE: Bullies on the Playground Understand Only One Thing
145 it was Rick Rescorla: Amanda Ripley, “A Survival Guide to Catastrophe,” Time, May 29, 2008.
148 the president spoke at the Fort Hood: Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President at Memorial Service at Fort Hood,” Fort Hood, Texas (November 10, 2009).
148 excerpt from the congressional hearing: Eric Holder, testimony before House Judiciary Committee, Oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice, May 13, 2010, http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Holder100513.pdf.
149 “I don’t know why”: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/14/holder-balks-at-blaming-radical-islam/.
150 “A Muslim has no nationality except his belief”: Sayyid Qutb, “A Muslim’s Nationality and His Belief.”
151 “jihad against America is binding upon myself”: Anwar al-Awlaki, quoted by Cynthia Johnson, “Yemen Preacher Urges Jihad on United States: Tape,” Reuters, March 18, 2010.
151 “one of its own citizens far from a combat zone”: Scott Shane, “U.S. Approval of Killing of Cleric Causes Unease,” New York Times, May 13, 2010.
151 “Must I shoot”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Constitution_is_not_a_suicide_pact.
152 “If the court does not temper”: Robert Jackson, dissent, Terminiello v. City of Chicago, 337 U.S. 1 (1949).
154 “an unnecessarily protracted, risk-averse process”: Ray Kelly, quoted in “Ray Kelly’s Wiretap Alarm,” Wall Street Journal, December 8, 2008.
154 “We didn’t know they had progressed”: John Brennan, “Briefing by Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano, Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security Brennan, and Press Secretary Gibbs,” Washington, DC (January 7, 2010).
157 A man who bought a condo: James Barron and Michael S. Schmidt, “From Suburban Father to a Terrorism Suspect,” New York Times, May 4, 2010.
157 the unclassified summary of a report: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, “Unclassified Executive Summary of the Committee Report on the Attempted Terrorist Attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253,” 111th Congr., 2d sess., May 18, 2010.
160 Charles Faddis has written, there is: Charles S. Faddis, Willful Neglect (Guildford, CT: Lyons Press, 2010).
160 Clarke predicts: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1275001/U-S-prepare-cyber-attack-ruin-country-just-15-MINUTES-expert-warns.html.
162 In a survey taken there in April 2010: Richard A. Opel Jr. and Taimoor Shah, “A Killing Further Erodes Afghan Faith in Leaders,” New York Times, April 20, 2010.
163 “not an adequate partner”: Karl Eikenberry, quoted by Thomas L. Friedman, “This Time We Really Mean It,” New York Times, March 30, 2010.
165 “The ideology of global jihad”: Bruce Riedel, quoted by David E. Sanger, “U.S. Pressure Helps Militants Overseas Focus Efforts,” New York Times, May 8, 2010.
CHAPTER TEN: When the Bullets Are Real, There Aren’t Any Toy Soldiers
169 20 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan vets: RAND, “Invisible Wounds: Mental Health and Cognitive Care Needs of America’s Returning Veterans,” 2008.
169 Stanford University study concluded it was likely: Allen G. Breed, “In Tide of PTSD Cases, Fear of Fraud Growing,” Associated Press, May 3, 2010.
169 Soldiers serving the multiple deployments: Mary Susan Littlepage, “Multiple Deployments Lead to Major Increase in PTSD Cases, New Study Says,” Truthout, January 5, 2010 (available at www.truth-out.org/105098).
169 traumatic brain injury (TBI): Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America 2010 Legislative Agenda, published in January 2010. The TBI stat is from page 14 (it says 19 percent, and I rounded that up to “almost 20 percent”).
169 Mental health problems: Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America 2010 Legislative Agenda, published in January 2010. The mental health problems stat is from page 14 (it says “more than 227,000,” and I rounded that up to “almost 250,000”).
170 the rate of foreclosure: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=awj2TMDLnwsU.
171 about 130,000 of these men and women: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/06/bassuk-ending-home
lessness-returning-war-veterans/.
172 20 percent of its disability ratings: Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America 2010 Legislative Agenda, published in January 2010. The 20 percent disability ratings stat is from page 4 (it says “about 17%,” and I rounded that up to “almost 20 percent”).
172 “Our goal is to give them the best”: Joe Villalobos, quoted by Michelle Roberts, “New Program Rebuilds Faces of Soldiers, Vets,” Associated Press, July 31, 2010.
177 “military life is fundamentally”: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/10/654.html.
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