Trickle Up Poverty: Stopping Obama’s Attack on Our Borders, Economy, and Security

by Michael Savage

  26 Obama, “Remarks by the President.”

  27 Steven Mufson and David A. Farenthold, “EPA is preparing to regulate emissions in Congress’s stead,” Washington Post, December 8, 2009. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/07/AR2009120701645.html

  28 Gerald Warner, “Copenhagen Climate Summit: ‘Most ImportantPaper in the World’ is a Glorified UN Press Release,” Telegraph.co.uk, December 18, 2009. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100020279/copenhagen-climate-summit-most-important-paper-in-the-world-is-a-glorified-un-press-release/

  29 “The Cap and Tax Fiction,” Wall Street Journal, A12, June 26, 2009. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124588837560750781.html

  30 Cooper, “Cap and Trade Is A Tax and It’s a Great Big One.”

  31 “China Says No Emissions Cap For Now,” AFP news, February 25, 2010. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100225/sc_afp/unclimatewarmingchina_20100225070304

  32 “The Cap and Tax Fiction.”

  33 Rep. Steve Scalise, “Cap and Trade Will Cost American Families Thousands in New Taxes and millions of Jobs,” Townhall.com, April 23, 2009. http://townhall.com/blog/g/3e59448a-4e66-495f-bb4e-9e07cbc3349b

  34 Cooper, “Cap and Trade Is A Tax and It’s a Great Big One.”

  35 “The Cap and Tax Fiction.”

  36 Sindya N. Bhanoo, “Fuel Taxes Must Rise, Harvard Researchers Say,” NYTimes.com, March 2, 2010. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/fuel-taxes-must-rise-harvard-researchers-say/

  37 Cooper, “Cap and Trade Is A Tax and It’s a Great Big One.”

  38 Jerome R. Corsi, “Businesses Hold World Hostage Over Carbon Credits,” WorldNet Daily.com, December 13, 2009. www.wnd.com/index.php/index.php?pageId=118953

  39 “EU’s ‘Carbon Fat Cats’ Get Rich Off Trading Scheme: Study,” Breitbart.com, March 5, 2010. www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.6a237570be4660439e37 1341ae8452d5.a41&show_article=1

  40 Dexter Wright, “Climategate: Is it Criminal?” American Thinker, February 5, 2010. www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/climategate_is_it_criminal_1.html

  41 John M. Broder, “From a Theory to a Consensus on Emissions,” New York Times, May 16, 2009. www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/us/politics/17cap.html

  42 Gene J. Koprowski, “Global Warming Skeptics Lambaste Plan to Increase Funding for Climate Change Research,” FOXNews.com, February 14, 2010.www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/11/obama-spending-increase-global-warming-research/

  43 “Ensign Aims to Prevent Tax Hike on Low and Middle Class Families,” Press Release, U.S. Senator John Ensign, April 1, 2009. http://ensign.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Media.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=6357d5e4-95a7-a482-c827-2e7f745c134a

  44 Barack Obama, “Obama Vows Electricity Rates Would ‘Necessarily Skyrocket’ Under His Plan,” Breitbart.tv, interview with San Francisco Chronicle. www.breitbart.tv/?p=211663

  45 Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce on the draft “American Clean Energy and Security Act,” Myron Ebell, Transcript of speech, provided by Competitive Enterprise Institute, April 22, 2009. Available via PDF.

  46 Ibid.

  47 John P. Foley, ed., The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia (New York: Funk & Wagnells Company, 1900), 663.

  48 Garance Burke, “Stimulus Watch: Weatherizing program slow to start,” Associated Press, March 27, 2010. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100328/D9END8UO0.html

  49 Michael A. Fletcher, “Obama to announce details of ‘cash for caulkers’ program during visit to Savannah,” Washington Post, March 2, 2010. http://voices.washing tonpost.com/44/2010/03/bama-to-announce-details-of-ca.html

  50 Frank Newport, “Americans’ Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop,” Gallup.com, March 11, 2010. www.gallup.com/poll/126560/Americans-Global-Warming-Concerns-Continue-Drop.aspx

  51 Marc Morano, “Flashback April 2009: Democrats Refuse to Allow Skeptic to Testify Alongside Gore At Congressional Hearing,” Climate Depot, April 23, 2009. www.climatedepot.com/a/429/undefined/

  52 Ibid.

  53 Joel Achenbach, “The Tempest,” Washington Post, May 28, 2006. www.washington post.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052301305_pf.html

  54 Ibid.

  55 Dr. Peter Gleick, “The Best Argument Against Global Warming,” SFGate.com, March 11, 2010. www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/gleick/detail?entry_id=58962&tsp=1

  56 Sen. James Inhofe, “2007: Global Warming Alarmism Reaches A ‘Tipping Point,” Speech on the Floor of the Senate, October 26, 2007. http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Speeches&ContentRecord_id=dceb518c-802a-23ad-45bf-894a13435a08&Region_id=&Issue_id=

  57 Gina Cherundolo, “Lake Erie Freezes over,” StarTribune.com, February 15, 2010. www.startribune.com/weather/84400142.html?elr=KArks:DCiUBDEaLDyUiacyKUnciatkEP7DhU

  58 “Start of British Summer Time? Forget it and prepare for ANOTHER wintry blast as snow and freezing temperatures return,” Daily Mail Reporter, DailyMail.co.uk, March 28, 2010. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1261336/British-Summer-Time-Forget-prepare-ANOTHER-wintry-blast-snow-freezing-conditions-return.html

  59 Louise Gray, “Will polar bears make it back to shore?” Telegraph.co.uk, March 2, 2010. www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7078673/Will-polar-bears-make-it-back-to-shore.html

  60 “Noah Wyle PSA Polar Bears.” Video retrieved March 22, 2010 at www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3UkwAXWBYc.

  61 William F. Jasper, “Polar Bears Thrive, Contrary to WWF Claims,” The NewAmerican.com, January 13, 2009. http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/675

  62 Ibid.

  63 Senator James Inhofe, “The Polarizing Politics of the Polar Bear,” Speech on the Floor of the Senate, January 4, 2007. http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Speeches&ContentRecord_id=EF3AD1FF-802A-23AD-496D-DC3B128DB3CE

  64 Martyn Brown, “100 Reasons why Global Warming is Natural,” DailyExpress.co.uk, December 15, 2009. www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/146139

  65 Inhofe, “2007: Global Warming Alarmism Reaches A ‘Tipping Point.”

  66 Cari-Lynn Clough, “Off-Screen Hero,” UKULA TRAVEL, retrieved March 16, 2010. www.ukula.com/TorontoArticle.aspx?SectionID=5&ObjectID = 1779&CityID=3

  67 Leonardo DiCaprio, Excerpt from The 11th Hour, Warner Independent Pictures, October 10, 2007.

  68 “Al Gore sued by over 30,000 Scientists for Global Warming Fraud/John Coleman,” interview with Greg Gutfeld on Red Eye at FoxNews.com. Video available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfHW7KR33IQ

  69 Joe D’Aleo, “Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History,” Mensnewsdaily.com, December 4, 2009. http://mensnewsdaily.com/sexandmetro/2009/12/04/weather-channel-founder-global-warming-greatest-scam-in-history/

  70 Ibid.

  71 “Making Films Is Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘College,” Interview with Leonardo DiCaprio, Starplus.com, January 9, 2007. www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/01/09/making_films_is_leonardo_dicaprio_s_coll

  72 Scott Roxborough, “DiCaprio sheds light on ‘11th Hour,” Hollywood Reporter, May 20, 2007. www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i1f890f625ffdd1903ee8bde055a360d1

  73 Eric Fleming, “Sheryl Crow Says: One Square of Toilet Paper Only!” Associated Content, April 23, 2007. www.associatedcontent.com/article/223399/sheryl_crow_ says_one_square_of_toilet.html?cat=7

  74 Laurie David and Sheryl Crow, “Let’s Wrap it Up,” Huffington Post, April 23, 2007. www.huffingtonpost.com/laurie-david-and-sheryl-crow/lets-wrap-it-up_b_46620.html

  75 Brent Baker, “Actor Danny Glover Blames Global Warming for Haiti Earthquake,” NewsBusters.com, January 16, 2010. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2010/01/16/actor-danny-glover-blames-global-warming-earthquake-haiti

  76 “Simple Things We Can All Do to Help Stop Global Warming,” retrieved from Barbara Streisand’s website, March 22, 2010. www.barbrastreisand.com/us/statement/simple-things-we-can-all-do-help-stop-global-warming

  77 “Name the Liberal Hypocrite�
�� Quiz, taken from Peter Schweizer, Do As I say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy (New York: Doubleday, 2005). Available via PDF at http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:C78UVWHl2XQJ: www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/doasisay/quiz.pdf+streisand+12,000+square+ foot+air+conditioned+barn&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgXbPv_kFO4no2nvir_SDsLlVtUvdMRpBwXqATukDEi7RHUEIrduwHsJuzeBf8wwzf-4mm5 Zpgweu3DzG9USYkjaEy638MtJlY-cO3Q680RIlrC9X5bImnRFD9FIa0yqwt_GoCA&sig=AH IEtbSLe1 gH 2iJwR7-KxUNwSRr0 9qmXSA.

  78 “With five private jets, Travolta still lectures on global warming,” London Evening Standard, March 30, 2007. www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23390848-with-five-private-jets-travolta-still-lectures-on-global-warming.do

  Chapter 7

  1 “President Obama, No One in Arizona is Laughing,” Paid advertisement by Governor Jan Brewer, YouTube, previewed May 10, 2010. Available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLgZ1LWLlko&feature=player_embedded.

  2 Barack Obama, “Obama To Mexican President: ‘We Are Defined Not By Our Borders,” Real Clear Politics Video, May 19, 2010. www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/05/19/obama_to_mexican_president_we_are_defined_not_by_our_borders.html

  3 “After squandering $700 million Janet Napolitano freezes funds for virtual fence,” Seeing Red AZ. http://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/after-squandering-700-million-janet-napolitano-freezes-funds-for-virtual-fence

  4 Obama, “Obama To Mexican President: ‘We Are Defined Not By Our Borders.”

  5 Brian Ross, Richard Esposito, and Asa Eslocker, “Kidnapping Capital of the U.S.A.,” ABC News, February 11, 2009. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6848672&page=1

  6 William La Jeunesse, “Illegal Immigrant Suspected in Murder of Arizona Rancher,” FoxNews.com, March 30, 2010. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/03/30/illegal-immigrant-suspected-murder-arizona-rancher/

  7 Dennis Wagner, “Rancher’s murder fuels firestorm,” The Arizona Republic, March 30, 2010. www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/03/30/20100330krentz.html

  8 Stephen Kaufman, “Obama Calls Arizona Immigration Law ‘Poorly Conceived,” America.gov, April 29, 2010. www.america.gov/st/democracyhr-english/2010/April/20100429125217esnamfuak$.6293146.html?CP.rss=true

  9 Noel Sheppard, “Attorney General Holder Admits He’s Never Read Arizona’s Immigration Law,” Newsbusters, May 13, 2010. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/05/13/attorney-general-holder-admits-never-reading-arizonas-immigration-law

  10 “80,000 violent felons run free on U.S. streets,” WorldNetDaily.com, September 22, 2006. www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52091

  11 Sam Quinones, “A lethal business model targets Middle America,” Los Angeles Times, February 14, 2010. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/14/local/la-me-blacktar 14-2010feb14/2

  12 Jim McTague, “The Underground Economy,” Barron’s, January 6, 2005. www.fair tax.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9317

  13 “Criminal Aliens,” Federation for American Immigration Reform. www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters0b9c

  14 Ben Shapiro, “Paying Off La Raza,” HumanEvents.com, December 17, 2009. www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34861

  15 “What Is MEChA,” Mayorno.com. www.mayorno.com/WhoIsMecha.html

  16 Stephen Lemons, “What is RAZA,” phoenixnewtimes.com, May 29, 2009.

  17 calstatela.edu/orgs/mecha/planphilmecha.htm.

  18 Mike Sunnucks, “La Raza, unions ask Obama to scrap immigration pacts with local cops,” Phoenix Business Journal, August 27, 2009. www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2009/08/24/daily69.html

  19 “Amnesty Remains a Priority for Senate Democrats, New Congress,” Federation For Immigration Reform, January 12, 2009. www.fairus.org/site/News2?page= News Article&id=19721&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1721

  20 Peter Nicholas, “Obama looking to give new life to immigration reform,” latimes.com, March 4, 2010. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/04/nation/la-na-immigration5-2010mar05

  21 Heather MacDonald, “The Bilingual Ban That Worked,” freedompolitics.com, December 18, 2009. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/04/nation/la-na-immigration5-2010mar05

  22 Kathy McKee, “Myths and Lies of Illegal Immigration,” Sonoran News, January 4, 2004. www.theamericanresistance.com/articles/art2004jan04.html

  23 Tom LoBianco, “Lawyers Tag Nominee as ‘Terror on the Bench,” Washington Times, May 29, 2009. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/lawyers-tag-sotomayor-as-terror-on-the-bench/

  24 Rick Moran, “Sotomayor Overturned 60% of the Time by Supremes,” American Thinker.com, May 27, 2009. www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/05/sotomayor_overturned_60_of_the.html

  25 “Good news: Sotomayor confuses ‘eminent’ with ‘imminent’—twice,” HotAir.com, July 15, 2009. http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/15/good-news-sotomayor-confuses-eminent-with-imminent-twice/

  26 Suzanne Sataline, Jess Bravin, and Nathan Koppel, “A Sotomayor Ruling Gets Scrutiny,” Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2009. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124354041637563491.html

  27 “LLANJ Board of Delegates: Cid Wilson,” Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey. www.llanj.org/Cid-Wilson.php

  28 www.disasterhousing.gov/offices/fheo/Assistant-Secretary/index.cfm.

  29 Joe Wolverton, II, “Obama Nominates La Raza Activist as Ambassador,” The NewAmerican.com, December 19, 2009. www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/2595-obama-nominates-la-raza-activist-as-ambassador

  30 Jaxon Van Derbeken, “Slaying suspect once found sanctuary in S.F.,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 20, 2008. http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-07-20/news/17173999_1_immigration-status-el-salvador-illegal-immigrant

  31 Rebecca L. Clark and Scott A. Anderson, “Illegal Aliens in Federal, State, and Local Criminal Justice Systems Summary,” The Urban Institute, June 30, 2000. www.urban.org/publications/410366.html

  32 David Luhnow and Jose de Cordoba, “The Perilous State of Mexico,” Wall Street Journal, February 21, 2009. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123518102536038463.html

  33 “America’s Drug Abuse Profile,” ncjrs.gov/htm/chapter2.htm.

  34 Quinones, “A Lethal Business Model Targets America.”

  35 Jim McTague, “Going Underground: America’s Shadow Economy,” Barron’s, January 6, 2005. http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID = 10024

  36 Robert Justich and Betty Ng, CFA, “The Underground Labor Force Is Rising To The Surface,” January 3, 2005. www.bearstearns.com/bscportal/pdfs/underground.pdf

  37 Lornet Turnbull, “Napolitano Demands Review of ICE Raid at Bellingham Plant,”Seattle Times, February 26, 2009. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008787533_raid26m.html

  38 “Dengue Fever Hits Key West,” John Gever, ABCNews, 5/20/2010. http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=10703442

  39 “Dengue Fever Hits Key West,” John Gever, ABCNews, 5/20/2010. http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=10703442

  40 “Dengue Fever Hits Key West,” John Gever, ABCNews, 5/20/2010. http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=10703442

  41 Steven A. Camarota, “Illegal Immigrants and HR 3200: Estimate of Potential Costs to Taxpayers,” Center For Immigration Studies, September 2009. http://cis.org/IllegalsAndHealthCareHR3200

  42 “Career Lawyers Overruled in Voting Case,” Washington Times, May 29, 2009. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/career-lawyers-overruled-on-voting-case/

  43 Drew Zahn, “Is Obama’s $789 Billion Buying Votes Instead of Jobs?” WorldNet Daily.com, December 19, 2009. www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=119441

  44 Warner Todd Houston, “Census Bureau To Count Illegal Aliens in Census?” Stop The ACLU, October 12, 2009. stoptheaclu.com/2009/10/12/obama_to_count_illegal_aliens_in_census

  45 Kerry Pickett, “2010 Census Lacks Citizenship Question,” Washington Times, January 11, 2010. www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/watercooler/2010/jan/11/no-question-birthplace-asked-census/

  46 Hope Yen, “States Get New Leeway to Tally Prisoners in Census,” NYC Wire, February 11, 2010. www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DPP7L80&show_article=1
/>   47 Jim Kouri, “Rampant Voter Fraud by Illegal Aliens Ignored by Government and Media,” Examiner.com, July 6, 2009. www.renewamerica.com/columns/kouri/080810

  48 Ibid.

  49 James Simpson, “What the Dems Know: Universal Voter Registration,” American Thinker.com, January 6, 2010. www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/what_the_dems _know_universal_v.html

  50 Kouri, “Rampant Voter Fraud by Illegal Aliens Ignored by Government and Media.”

  51 J. D. Longstreet, “Democrats Set to Reintroduce Amnesty for Illegal Aliens,” Right SideNews.com, January 18, 2010. http://newsbyus.com/index.php/article/2969

  52 James Simpson, “Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis,” American Thinker.com, September 28, 2008. www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_ obama_and_the_strategy.html

  53 Abdon M.Pallasch, “Strong, Silent Type,” Chicago Sun Times, December 17, 2007. www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/700499, CST-NWS-Obama-law17.article

  54 “President Obama, No One in Arizona is Laughing,” Paid advertisement by Governor Jan Brewer, YouTube, previewed May 10, 2010. Available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLgZ1 LWLlko&feature=player_embedded

  Chapter 8

  1 “ACORN CEO: Tea Parties a ‘Bowel Movement,’ Future Will Be Worse Than Segregation,” FOXNews.com, April 22, 2010. www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/22/acorn-ceo-socialists-persecution-dwarf-segregation-tea-parties-racist/

  2 Sol Stern, “ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities,” City Journal, Spring 2003. www.city-journal.org/html/13_2_acorns_nutty_regime.html

  3 “Complete List of ACORN Misdeeds,” www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/messagetopic.asp?p=15240392.

  4 Sol Stern, “Inside Obama’s ACORN,” National Review Online, May 29, 2008.http://article.nationalreview.com/358910/inside-obamas-acorn/stanley-kurtz

  5 Toni Foulkes, “Case Study: Chicago—The Barack Obama Campaign,” Social Policy 34, no. 2 (Winter 2003): 49. http://econopundit.com/toni.pdf

  6 Ibid., 50.

  7 Stanley Kurtz, “Inside Obama’s Acorn,” National Review Online, May 29, 2008. http://article.nationalreview.com/358910/inside-obamas-acorn/stanley-kurtz