Liberty and Tyranny

by Mark R. Levin

  16 Ibid.; Gerald and Natalie Sirkin, “Highlights of the Sierra Club’s History,” Sierra Club, www.sierraclub.org/history/timeline.asp; “25 Years After DDT Ban, Bald Eagles, Osprey Numbers Soar,” Environmental Defense Fund, press release, June 13, 1997, www.edf.org/pressrelease.cfm?contentID=2446.

  17 Lauren Neergaad, “WHO Calls for More DDT Use vs. Malaria,” CBS News, Sept. 15, 2006, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/15/ap/health/mainD8K5C8QG1.shtml.

  18 Todd Seavey, “The DDT Ban Turns 30—Millions Dead of Malaria Because of Ban, More Deaths Likely,” American Council on Science and Health, June 1, 2001, http://www.acsh.org/health issues/newsID.442/healthissue_detail.asp.

  19 Ibid.

  20 “No Compromise in Defense of Mother Earth,” Earth First! Journal, http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/section.php?id=1&PHPSES SID=fe1e40acb1646466cd78cf4c8fc90415.

  21 David M. Graber, “Mother Nature as a Hothouse Flower; The End of Nature by Bill McKibben,” book review, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 22, 1989, 9.

  22 Marc Morano, “Flush Toilets Called ‘Environmental Disaster,’” Cybercast News Service, June 12, 2003, http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=5615.

  23 “Greenpeace Exhibits Bulb Innovations for the Climate at the Philips Innovation Centre,” Greenpeace, press release, June 29, 2007, http://www.greenpeace.org/india/press/releases/greenpeace-exhibits-bulb-innov.

  24 Helen Kennedy, “Rumsfeld Goes on the Warpath, Ready to Whip N. Korea, Too,” Daily News (New York), Dec. 24, 2002, 3.

  25 Keith Bradsher, “As Asia Keeps Cool, Scientists Worry About the Ozone Layer,” New York Times, Feb. 23, 2007, C1.

  26 Molly Millett, “Coming Clean; Green Machines—New Washers That Use Less Water and Energy—Get the Guilt Out. But They’re Not Cheap,” Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Nov. 4, 2000, E1.

  27 Laura Snider, “Gas Lawn Mowers Belch Pollution, New Electric Lawn Service Comes to Boulder,” Daily Camera (Boulder, Colo.), July 27, 2007, http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2007/jul/27/gas-lawn-mowers-belch-pollution/; Patricia Monahan, “Mow Down Pollution,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, May 28, 2006, http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/search/s_455613.html; Matthew L. Wald, “Keep the Charcoal Off the Grill, Utilities Say,” New York Times, May 29, 1994.

  28 Editorial, “Dems’ Energy Answer: Snake Oil,” Investor’s Business Daily, Nov. 27, 2006, A19.

  29 Charli E. Coon, “Why the Government’s CAFE Standards for Fuel Efficiency Should Be Repealed, not Increased,” Backgrounder 1458, Heritage Foundation, July 11, 2001, http://www. heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/BG1458.cfm.

  30 Robert W. Crandall and John D. Graham, “The Effect of Fuel Economy Standards on Automobile Safety,” 32 Journal of Law and Economics 97 (Jan. 1989), 118.

  31 Julie DeFalco, “The Deadly Effects of Fuel Economy Standards: CAFE’s Lethal Impact on Auto Safety,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, June 1999, http://cei.org/PDFs/cafe2.pdf.

  32 James R. Healey, “Death by the Gallon,” USA Today, July 2, 1999, B1.

  33 Paul R. Portney et al., Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Aver- age Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards (Washington, D.C.: National Academy, 2002), 3. See also Paul R. Portney et al., “Statement before U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Aug. 2, 2001,” http://www7.nationalacademies.org/ocga/testimony/Fuel_Economy_Standards.asp.

  34 John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, vol. 6 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1851), 9.

  35 Ronald D. Utt, “Will Sprawl Gobble Up America’s Land? Federal Data Reveal Development’s Trivial Impact,” Backgrounder 1556, Heritage Foundation, March 30, 2002, http://www.heritage.org/Research/SmartGrowth/BG1556.cfm.

  36 Ibid.

  37 Victor Cohen, “U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming,” Washington Post, July 9, 1971, A4.

  38 “Another Ice Age,” Time, June 24, 1974. (Professor Reid, who is considered the father of modern climatology, publicly repudiated his “global cooling” predictions and went on to become a leader among scientists critical of man-made global warming fearmongering. See Steven H. Schneider, “Against Instant Books,” Nature, Dec. 22/29, 1977, 650.)

  39 Peter Gwynne, “The Cooling World,” Newsweek, April 28, 1975.

  40 Sharon Begley, “Global Warming Is a Cause of This Year’s Extreme Weather,” Newsweek, July 7, 2008, http://www.newsweek.com/id/143787/output.

  41 Richard Lindzen, “Global Warming Debate Is More Politics Than Science, According to Climate Expert,” Environment & Climate News (Heartland Institute), Nov. 1, 2004, http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=15893.

  42 Alex Massie and Toby Harnden, “World ‘At Tipping Point Over Global Warming,” Daily Telegraph (London), Feb. 17, 2007, 15.

  43 Phil McKenna, “Al Gore Rallies US Congress Over Climate,” New Scientist, March 22, 2007, http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11437.

  44 Scott Shepard, “A Push for ‘Green Conservatism’; Gingrich, Like Kerry, Backs Global Warming Action,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 11, 2007, A9.

  45 Ibid.

  46 David Roach, “Gore Cites Political Will, Claims Scriptural Mandate on Environmental Issues,” Baptist Press, Jan. 31, 2008, http://www.bpnews.net/printerfriendly.asp?ID=27293.

  47 Transcript, Today show, NBC News, Nov. 5, 2007.

  48 Brian Montopoli, “Scott Pelley and Catherine Herrick on Global Warming Coverage,” Public Eye blog, March 23, 2006, CBSNews.com, http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2006/03/22/publiceye/entry1431768.shtml.

  49 Robert James Bidinotto, “Environmentalism: Freedom for the 90s,” Freeman Ideas on Liberty, Nov. 11, 1990.

  50 Ronald Bailey, “Who is Maurice Strong?” National Review, Sept. 1, 1997.

  51 Michael E. Mann, Raymond S. Bradley, and Malcolm K. Hughes, “Northern Hemisphere Temperatures During the Past Millennium: Inferences, Uncertainties, and Limitations,” Geophysical Research Letters 26 (1999), 759–62.

  52 Thomas Hayden, “Science: Fighting Over a Hockey Stick,” U.S. News & World Report, July 14, 2005, http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/050714/14climate.htm; “Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis,” esp. chapter 2, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/pdf/TAR-02.PDF.

  53 Edward J. Wegman, David W. Scott, and Yasmin H. Said, “Ad Hoc Committee Report on the Hockey Stick Global Climate Reconstruction,” July 11, 2006, http://www.climateaudit.org/pdf/others/07142006_Wegman_Report.pdf.

  54 Edward J. Wegman, testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, July 27, 2006, 3, http://www.urbanrenaissance.org/urbanren/publications/Wegman%5B1%5D.pdf.

  55 Lubos Motl, “Vaclav Klaus on Global Warming,” Reference Frame blog, Feb. 10, 2007, (translation of interview in Harspdarske Noviny, Feb. 8, 2007), http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=B6CD77 3-802A-23AD-4AAF-A2D2ADDB287F.

  56 James M. Taylor, “IPCC Author Selection Process Plagued by Bias, Cronyism: Study,” Environment & Climate News, Heartland Institute, Sept. 2008.

  57 Ibid.

  58 “Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report, Summary for Policy-makers,” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Nov. 12/17, 2007.

  59 Ibid.

  60 S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).

  61 Tim Ball and Tom Harris, “New Findings Indicate Today’s Greenhouse Gas Levels Not Unusual,” Canada Free Press, May 14, 2007, http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming051407.htm.

  62 Lawrence Solomon, “Limited role for CO2, The Deniers—Part X,” National Post (Canada), Nov. 28, 2006, http://www.national post.com/story.html?id=069cb5b2-7d81-4a8e-825d-56e0f112aeb 5&k=0.

  63 Dudley J. Hughes, “Carbon Dioxide Levels Are a Blessing, Not a Problem,” Environment & Climate News, Heartland Institute, May 1, 2007, ht
tp://www.heartland.org/policybot/results.html? articleid=20952.

  64 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “Greenhouse Gases Frequently Asked Questions,” Dec. 1, 2005, http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/gases.html; “The Real Inconvenient Truth,” Junkscience.com, Aug. 2007, http://www.junk science.com/Greenhouse/.

  65 Casey Lartigue and Ryan Balis, “The Lieberman-Warner Cap and Trade Bill: Quick Summary and Analysis,” National Policy Analysis No. 570, National Center for Public Policy Research, June 2008, http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA570.html.

  66 See “Earth’s ‘Fever’ Breaks: Global COOLING Currently Under Way,” Inhofe EPW Press blog, Feb. 27, 2008, U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_ id=5CEAEDB7-802A-23AD-4BFE-9E32747616F9.

  67 Phil Chapman, “Sorry to Ruin The Fun, But an Ice Age Cometh,” Australian, April 23, 2008, 14.

  68 James Hansen, “Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near,” June 24, 2008, http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/TwentyYearsLater_20080623.pdf.

  69 Christopher Booker, “The World Has Never Seen Such a Freezing Act,” Telegraph.co.uk, Nov. 16, 2008, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/16/do1610.xml.

  70 William W. Beach et al., “The Economic Costs of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Legislation,” Heritage Center for Data Analysis Report No. 08-02, Heritage Foundation, May 12, 2008.

  71 David Derbyshire, “Every Adult in Britain Should Be Forced to Carry ‘Carbon Ration Cards,’ Say MPs,” Daily Mail (London), May 27, 2008.

  72 California Energy Commission, “2008 Building Energy Efficiency Standards for Residential and Nonresidential Buildings,” Commission Proposed Standards Nov. 2007, http://www.energy.ca.gov/2007publications/CEC-400-2007-017/CEC-400-2007-017-45DAY.PDF.

  73 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under the Clean Air Act,” Advanced Notice of Rulemaking July 30, 2008, http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-AIR/2008/July/Day-30/a16432a.pdf.

  74 John Brignell, “A Complete List of Things Caused by Global Warming,” Numberwatch, July 16, 2008, http://www.number watch.co.uk/warmlist.htm; “Over 500 Things Caused by Global Warming,” Church of Global Warming, http://churchofglobal warming.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id= 50&Itemid=1.

  75 Jonathan H. Adler, “Stand or Deliver: Citizen Suits, Standing, and Environmental Protection,” Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 12 (Fall 2001) 39, 42.

  76 Sierra Club Awards, Sierra Club, http://www.sierraclub.org/awards/descriptions.

  77 Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497 (2007).

  78 Mark P. Mills, “Brownout,” Forbes, June 5, 2008, http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0630/038.html.

  79 Ibid.

  80 Ibid.

  81 Keith Johnson, “Steven Chu: ‘Coal Is My Worst Nightmare,’” online posting, December 11, 2008; Environmental Capital blog, Wall Street Journal, Feb. 2, 2009, http://blogs.wsj.com/environ mentalcapital/2008/12/11/steven-chu-coal-is-my-worst-nightmare/.

  82 Steven Dinan, “Obama Climate Czar Has Socialist Ties,” Washington Times, January 12, 2009, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/12/obama-climate-czar-has-socialist-ties/; Agenda, “XXIII Congress of the Socialist International, Athens Global olidarity: The Courage to Make a Difference,” June 30, 2002–July 2, 2002 (listing Carol Browner as panel speaker and “Member of Socialist International Commission for a Sustainable World Society”), http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm? ArticlePageID=1272.

  83 Thomas Friedman, The Colbert Report, transcript, Comedy Central, Nov. 20, 2008.

  9: ON IMMIGRATION

  1 Edward J. Erler, Thomas G. West, and John Marini, The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration: Principles and Challenges in America (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).

  2 Otis Graham, “A Vast Social Experiment,” forum paper, Negative Population Growth, 2005, http://www.npg.org/forum_series/social exp.html.

  3 William McGowan, “The 1965 Immigration Reforms and the New York Times: Context, Coverage, and Long-Term Consequences,” Center for Immigration Studies, August 2008 (citing Graham; Congressional Digest, May 1965, p. 152), http://www.cis.org/articles/2008/back908.pdf.

  4 Graham (quoting William Miller, New York Times, Sept. 8, 1964, p. 14).

  5 “Three Decades of Mass Immigration,” Center for Immigration Studies, Sept. 1995, http://www.cis.org/articles/1995/back395.html.

  6 Ibid.

  7 Steven Malanga, “How Unskilled Immigrants Hurt Our Economy,” City Journal, Summer 2006, http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_3_immigrants_economy.html.

  8 Edwin Meese, “An Amnesty by Any Other Name…” commentary, Heritage Foundation, May 25, 2006, http://www.heritage.org/press/commentary/ed052406a.cfm.

  9 Theodore H. White, America in Search of Itself: The Making of the President 1956–1980 (New York: Warner, 1982).

  10 David G. Gutierrez, Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).

  11 Steve Sailer, “Cesar Chavez, Minuteman,” American Conservative, Feb. 27, 2006.

  12 Samuel Lubell, The Future of American Politics, 3rd ed. (New York: Harper Colophon, 1965).

  13 See “2004 National Election Pool Exit Polls,” CNN.com, http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html; “2008 National Election Pool Exit Polls,” CNN .com, http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#USP 00p1.

  14 U.S. Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment (emphasis added).

  15 Steven A. Camarota, “Immigrants in the United States, 2007,” Backgrounder 1007, Center for Immigration Studies, Nov. 2007, http://www.cis.org/articles/2007/back1007.pdf.

  16 Jeffrey S. Passel, “Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population,” Pew Hispanic Center, March 21, 2005, http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/44.pdf.

  17 U.S. Census Bureau, “Facts for Features, Hispanic Heritage Month 2008: Sept. 15–Oct. 15,” Sept. 8, 2008, http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/cb08ff-15.pdf.

  18 Robert J. Samuelson, “Importing Poverty,” Washington Post, Sept. 5, 2007, A21.

  19 Ibid.

  20 Heather Mac Donald, “Hispanic Family Values?” City Journal, Autumn 2006, http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_hispanic_ family_values.html.

  21 Camarota, “Immigrants.”

  22 Richard Fry and Felisa Gonzales, “One-in-Five and Growing Fast: A Profile of Hispanic Public School Students,” Pew Hispanic Center, Aug. 26, 2008, http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/92.pdf.

  23 U.S. Census Bureau, “2007 American Community Survey: Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2005–2007,” http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-geo_ id=01000US&-qr_name=ACS_2007_3YR_G00_DP3YR2&-ds _name=ACS_2007_3YR_G00_&-_lang=en&-_sse=on.

  24 Robert J. Samuelson, “Build a Fence—And Amnesty,” Washington Post, March 8, 2006, A19.

  25 Robert Rector, “Amnesty and Continued Low-Skill Immigration Will Substantially Raise Welfare Costs and Poverty,” Backgrounder 1936, Heritage Foundation, May 16, 2006, http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/bg1936.cfm.

  26 Jacob L. Vigdor, “Measuring Immigrant Assimilation in the United States,” Manhattan Institute Civic Report, May 2008, http://www.manhattan-institute.org/pdf/cr_53.pdf.