by Donald Trump
29 Max Boot, “Frenemies in Pakistan,” Weekly Standard, October 10, 2011, http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/frenemies-pakistan_594669.html.
30 Sara A. Carter, “U.S. confirms attacks by Pakistani military units,” op. cit.
31 Max Boot, “Frenemies in Pakistan,” op. cit.
32 Neil Munro, “Free for all: Up to 20,000 anti-aircraft missiles stolen in Libya,” Daily Caller, September 27, 2011, http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/27/free-for-all-up-to-20000-anti-aircraft-missiles-stolen-in-libya/.
33 Brian Ross and Matthew Cole, “Nightmare in Libya: Thousands of Surface-to-Air Missiles Unaccounted for,” ABCNews.com, September 27, 2011, . http://abcnewsgo.com/Blotter/nightmare-libya-20000-surface-air-missiles-missing/story?id=14610199 .
34 Neil Munro, “Free for all: Up to 20,000 anti-aircraft missiles stolen in Libya,” op. cit.
35 “Iran ‘discreetly aided Libyan rebels,’” AFP, August 28, 2011, http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jj6m9cMuH8ZXj5AgMQLjLVHFDhlA?docId=CNG.9b666507647200654b641466e2317b3d.501. .
Chapter Seven
1 Katherine Bradley, “Confronting the Unsustainable Growth of Welfare Entitlements: Principles of Reform and the Next Steps,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #2427, June 24, 2010, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/06/confronting-the-unsustainable-growth-of-welfare-entitlements-principles-of-reform-and-the-next-steps.
2 Ed Feulner, “A better way to reform welfare,” Washington Times, April 5, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/5/a-better-way-to-reform-welfare/ .
3 Katherine Bradley, “Confronting the Unsustainable Growth of Welfare Entitlements: Principles of Reform and the Next Steps,” op. cit.
4 Jack Dolan, “Welfare recipients get $12,000 from strip club ATMs,” Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2010, http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/01/local/la-me-welfare-20100701.
5 Mark Weaver, “FFX Subsidized Housing Tenants Live Large On Your Dime,” WMAL.com, http://www.wmal.com/Article.asp?id=2225336.
6 Dinesh D’Souza, “10 Great Things,” National Review Online, July 2, 2003, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/207396/10-great-things-dinesh-dsouza.
7 Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield, “Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About America’s Poor,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #2607, September 13, 2011, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/09/understanding-poverty-in-the-united-states-surprising-facts-about-americas-poor.
8 Ibid.
9 Robert Rector, “How Poor Are America’s Poor? Examining the ‘Plague’ of Poverty in America,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #2604, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/08/how-poor-are-americas-poor-examining-the-plague-of-poverty-in-america.
10 “The Father Factor,” National Fatherhood Initiative, http://www.fatherhood.org/media/consequences-of-father-absence-statistics.
11 Information formerly available at http://beta2.tbo.com/news/opinion/2008/apr/04/pa-the-welfare-system-needs-an-exit-plan-ar-132691/.
12 Robert Rector, “Marriage: America’s Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #2465, September 16, 2010, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/09/marriage-america-s-greatest-weapon-against-child-poverty
13 Katherine Bradley, “Confronting the Unsustainable Growth of Welfare Entitlements: Principles of Reform and the Next Steps,” op. cit.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16 Ed Feulner, “A Better Way to Reform Welfare,” Washington Times, April 5, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/5/a-better-way-to-reform-welfare/.
17 Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield, “Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About America’s Poor,” op. cit.
18 James Bovard, “The Food-Stamp Crime Wave,” Wall Street Journal, June 23, 2011, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304657804576401412033504294.html.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid.
22 Jason Stein, “State takes 1,200 Milwaukee County inmates off FoodShare,” JSOn-line. com, September 24, 2011, http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/130511318.html.
23 Dawson Bell, “Michigan wants lotto winner off food stamps,” USA Today, May 19, 2011, http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-05-19-lottery-winner-food-stamps_n.htm.
24 Scott Shifrel, “$8 million food stamp fraud mastermind pleads guilty to scam,” New York Daily News, August 10, 2011, http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-08-10/news/29890597_1_food-stamp-mail-fraud-guilty-plea.
25 Craig Schneider and Tammy Joyner, “Housing crisis reaches full boil in East Point; 62 injured,” AJC.com, August 11, 2010, http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/housing-crisis-reaches-full-589653.html.
26 Katherine Bradley, “Confronting the Unsustainable Growth of Welfare Entitlements: Principles of Reform and the Next Steps,” op. cit.
27 Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield, “Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About America’s Poor,” op. cit.
28 “A Sad Day for Poor Children,” New York Times, August 1, 1996.
29 Ed Feulner, “A Better Way to Reform Welfare,” op. cit.
30 Ibid.
31 “The Welfare Reform Act of 2011,” RSC, http://rsc.jordan.house.gov/Solutions/wra.htm; and Katherine Bradley, “Picking Up Where ’96 Welfare Reform Left Off,” National Review Online, March 17, 2011, http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/262372.
32 “H.R. 1167: Welfare Reform Act of 2011,” Republican Study Committee, March 2011, http://rsc.jordan.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Summary_WelfareReformAct.pdf.
33 Michael Peltier, “Florida to test all welfare recipients for drugs,” Reuters, May 31, 2011, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/31/us-florida-welfare-drugs-idUSTRE74U6W320110531.
34 Ibid.
35 “Florida government defends requiring drug tests for welfare recipients,” CNN News Blogs, June 5, 2011, http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/05/florida-government-defends-requiring-drug-tests-for-welfare-recipients/.
36 Michael Peltier, “Florida to test all welfare recipients for drugs,” op. cit.
Chapter Eight
1 Lydia Saad, “Cost Is Foremost Healthcare Issue for Americans,” Gallup, September 23, 2009, http://www.gallup.com/poll/123149/cost-is-foremost-healthcare-issue-for-americans.aspx.
2 Melissa Allison, “Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz discusses turnaround,” Seattle Times, March 12, 2011,http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2014461881_starbucks13.html.
3 “Great Suppression II,” UBS, September 19, 2011, http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=c968aed0-e358-451b-9f68-c98078f75156.
4 Ibid.
5 Sally Pipes, “The Best Jobs Program? Full Repeal Of ObamaCare,” Forbes, September 19, 2011, http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2011/09/19/the-best-jobs-program-full-repeal-of-obamacare/.
6 Sam Baker, “HHS grants 106 new healthcare waivers,” The Hill Healthwatch, August 19, 2011, http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/177581-hhs-grants-106-new-healthcare-waivers.
7 Milton R. Wolf, “Obamacare waiver corruption must stop,” Washington Times, May 20, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/20/obamacare-waiver-corruption-must-stop/.
8 Grace-Marie Turner, James C. Capretta, Thomas P. Miller, and Robert E. Moffit, Why Obamacare is Wrong for America (New York: Broadside, 2011), 45.
9 Julian Pecquet and Sam Baker, “Spotlight back on healthcare law,” The Hill Healthwatch, September 27, 2011, http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/184293-spotlight-back-onto-health-law.
10 John Merline, “ObamaCare’s Growing List Of Broken Promises,” Investors.com, October 5, 2011, http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/587194/201110051841/ObamaCares-Broken-Promises.aspx.
11 Robert J. Samuelson, “Stuck in a vicious health-care cost circle,” Washington Post, September 29, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/stuck-i
n-a-vicious-health-care-cost-circle/2011/09/29/gIQAPoFd7K_blog.html.
12 “Health Reform Will Create 400,000 Jobs ‘Almost Immediately,’” ReaClearPolitics. com, February 25, 2010, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/02/25/pelosi_health_reform_will_create_400000_jobs_almost_immediately.html.
13 Grace-Marie Turner, “ObamaCare’s job-killing impact is just getting started,” Chicago Tribune, April 1, 2010, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-04-01/news/ct-oped-0402-business-20100401_1_drug-benefits-drug-program-tax-change.
14 Examiner Editorial, “Obamacare would hurt small business,” Washington Examiner , July 12, 2009, http://washingtonexaminer.com/editorials/2009/07/obamacare-would-hurt-small-business.
15 Sally Pipes, “The Best Jobs Program? Full Repeal Of ObamaCare,” op. cit.
16 J. Lester Feder & Kate Nocera, “CBO: Health law to shrink workforce by 800,000,” Politico, February 10, 2011, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49273.html.
17 Kathryn Nix, “House Education and Workforce Committee: Obamacare Is a Job Killer,” Heritage Foundation The Foundry, February 17, 2011, http://blog.heritage.org/2011/02/17/house-education-and-workforce-committee-obamacare-is-a-job-killer/.
18 John Merline, “ObamaCare’s Growing List Of Broken Promises,” op. cit.
19 Marissa Cevallos, “One in three employers may drop health benefits, report says,” Los Angeles Times, June 7, 2011, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/07/news/la-heb-healthcare-employer-20110607.
20 Examiner Editorial, “Scary truth about Obamacare keeps seeping out,” Washington Examiner, September 25, 2011, http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2011/09/scary-truth-about-obamacare-keeps-seeping-out.
21 Jeffrey H. Anderson, “CBO: Obamacare Would Cost Over $2 Trillion,” Weekly Standard, March 18, 2010, http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/blogs/cbo-obamacare-would-cost-over-2-trillion.
22 Editorial, “The Uninsured,” New York Times, August 22, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/opinion/23sun1.html?pagewanted=print.
23 Betsy McCaughey, Obama Health Law: What It Says And How to Overturn It (New York: Encounter Books, 2010), 15.
24 Ibid., 50.
25 The Honorable Tom Feeney, “Interstate Competition and Choice in Health Insurance: The American Way,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #2386, March 16, 2010, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/03/interstate-competition-and-choice-in-health-insurance-the-american-way.
26 Review & Outlook, “The Competition Cure,” Wall Street Journal, August 23, 2009, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574360923109310680.html. .
27 Ed Moirressey, “Tort reform the key to cutting health-care costs?” HotAir.com, July 30, 2009, http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/30/tort-reform-the-key-to-cutting-health-care-costs/.
28 Ibid.
29 Jim Angle, “GOP-Proposed Tort Reform Would Reduce Health Care Costs, Analysts Say,” FoxNews.com, March 3, 2010, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/03/gop-proposed-tort-reform-reduce-health-care-costs-analysts-say/.
Chapter Nine
1 “Border States Deal With more Illegal Immigrant Crime Than Most, Data Suggest,” FoxNews.com, April 30, 2010, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/29/border-states-dealing-illegal-immigrant-crime-data-suggests/ .
2 Jack Martin and Eric Ruark, “The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers,” Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), July 2010 (rev. February 2011), http://www.fairus.org/site/DocServer/USCostStudy_2010.pdf?docID=4921.
3 “Criminal Alien Statistics: Information on Incarcerations, Arrests, and Costs,” United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Requesters, March 2011, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11187.pdf.
4 Solomon Moore, “Study Shows Sharp Rise in Latino Federal Convicts,” New York Times, February 18, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/us/19immig.html.
5 Ibid.
6 Terence P. Jeffrey, “Justice Department: Border Patrol Agents Assaulted Daily, Kidnappings Every 35 Hours in Phoenix, 1 in 5 Teens Using Drugs Predominantly Supplied by Mexican Traffickers,” CNSNews.com, April 28, 2010, http://www.cnsnews.com/node/64910.
7 “Al Qaeda seeks tie to local gangs,” Washington Times, September 28, 2004, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/sep/28/20040928-123346-3928r/.
8 Jana Winter, “Feds Issue Terror Watch for the Texas/Mexico Border,” FoxNews. com, May 26, 2010, http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/26/terror-alert-mexican-border/.
9 Ray Walser, Ph.D., Jena Baker McNeill, and Jessica Zuckerman, “The Human Tragedy of Illegal Immigration: Greater Efforts Needed to Combat Smuggling and Violence,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #2568, June 22, 2011, http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/06/The-Human-Tragedy-of-Illegal-Immigration-Greater-Efforts-Needed-to-Combat-Smuggling-and-Violence.
10 Caroline Black, “Illegal Immigrant Carlos Montano Charged with Killing Nun in Drunk Driving Crash,” CBSNews.com, August 4, 2010, http://www.cbsnewscom/2102-504083_162-20012650.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody. .
11 Jack Martin and Eric Ruark, “The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers,” op. cit.
12 “Study: 70% of Texas’ illegal immigrant families receive welfare,” Chron.com, http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/04/study-70-of-texas-illegalimmigrant-families-receive-welfare/.
13 “Welfare Tab for Children of Illegal Immigrants Estimated at $600M in L.A. County,” FoxNews.com, January 19, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/19/welfare-tab-children-illegal-immigrants-estimated-m-la-county/.
14 “The Debate Over ‘Anchor Babies’ And Citizenship,” NPR Talk of the Nation, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129279863.
15 Nell Henderson, “Effect of Immigration on Jobs, Wages Is Difficult for Economists to Nail Down,” Washington Post, April 15, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401686.html.
16 Ibid.
17 Charles Kadlec, “The Great African-American Depression,” Forbes, September 6, 2011, http://www.forbes.com/sites/charleskadlec/2011/09/06/the-great-african-american-depression/.
18 David Jackson, “Obama’s line about alligators on the border draws fire,” USA Today, May 14, 2011, http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/05/obamas-line-about-alligators-on-the-border-draws-fire/1.
19 “Mexico Sees Record Drop in Remittances,” Associated Press, January 27, 2010, available at CBSNews.com, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/27/world/main6148649.shtml.
20 “Merit-based Permanent Immigration: A Look at Canada’s Point System,” Senate Republican Policy Committee, May 22, 2007, http://rpc.senate.gov/public/_files/052207MeritBasedImmigLookatCanadaPointSystemLB.pdf.
21 “The United States v Canada,” The Economist Democracy in America blog, May 20, 2011, http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/05/immigration.
22 “Merit-based Permanent Immigration: A Look at Canada’s Point System,” Senate Republican Policy Committee, op. cit.
23 Daniel B. Wood, “Where U.S.-Mexico border fence is tall, border crossings fall,” Christian Science Monitor, April 1, 2008, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2008/0401/p01s05-usgn.html.
24 Ibid.
25 David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, “Obama’s illegal move on immigration,” Washington Post, September 2, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-illegal-move-on-immigration/2011/09/01/gIQATKQexJ_story.html.
26 James R. Edwards, Jr., “Obama’s Backdoor Amnesty for 300,000 Immigrants,” Human Events, September 12, 2011, http://www.humanevents.com/articlephp?print=yes&id=46102.
27 Ibid.
28 Amy Woods, “Rep. King Upset With Amnesty for Obama Uncle,” NewsMax.com, September 10, 2011, http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/RepKing-Upset-Amnesty-ObamaUncle/2011/09/10/id/410436.
29 Hans von Spakovsky, “Pampering Illegals, Endangering Americans: The Obama Administration’s Immigration Policy,” Heritage Foundation The Foundry, August 9,
2010, http://blog.heritage.org/2010/08/09/pampering-illegals-endangering-americans-the-obama-administration%E2%80%99s-immigration-policy/. See also, www.iceunion.org/download/250cca-pbnds-letter.pdf .
Chapter Ten
1 Catherine Rampell, “Many With New College Degree Find the Job Market Humbling,” New York Times, May 18, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/business/economy/19grads.html?_r=1.
2 Associated Press, “Americans give record $295B to charity,” USA Today, June 25, 2007, http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-06-25-charitable_N.htm.
Afterword
1 L. Gordon Crovitz, “Steve Jobs’s Advice for Obama,” Wall Street Journal, October 31, 2011, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203687504577003763659779448.html.
2 X-PRIZE Foundation’s official website, see “Who we are” in the “About” section, http://www.xprize.org/about/who-we-are.
INDEX
9-11 terrorist attacks (see also: September 11)
A
ABC
Access Hollywood
Afghanistan
American withdrawal from
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
Ailes, Roger
Al Arabiya
al Qaeda
Al Shabaab
al-Dabbagh, Ali
Algeria
al-Maliki, Nouri
Alcobi, Asher
America We Deserve, The
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American Dream
American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI)
American Medical Association
Anderson, Jeffrey H.
Angola
Antonovich, Michael
Apollo
Apple
Apprentice, The