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4 Scott Edmonds, “Tories Hit Emotional Health Issue,” Portage Daily Graphic (Canada) May 23, 2003.
5 Unnati Gandhi, “Twins, Times Two, Born To Calgary Mother,” Globe and Mail (Canada), August 17, 2007; and Amy Ridenour and Ryan Balis, Shattered Lives: 100 Victims of Government Health Care (Washington, D.C.: National Center for Public Policy Research, 2009).
6 “MRI Wait for Son Too Long, Mother Says,” CBC News (Canada), January 13, 2005.
7 Lisa Priest, “Long wait forces cancer patient to buy operation in land he fled,” Globe and Mail (Canada), January 31, 2007; available at: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article76725.ece [accessed September 15, 2010].
8 Jennifer LaRue Huget, “Canadian official has heart surgery - in the U.S.,” Washington Post, February 25, 2010; available at: http:// voices.washingtonpost.com/checkup/2010/02/canadian_premier_has_heart_sur.html [accessed September 15, 2010].
9 Fact Sheet on Older Americans, Civic Ventures, http://www.civicventures.org/publications/articles/fact_sheet_on_older_americans.cfm [accessed September 15, 2010].
10 Janice Lloyd, “Doctor Shortage Looms as Primary Care Loses its Pull,” USA Today, August 18, 2009; available at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-08-17-doctor-gp-shortage_N.htm [accessed September 15, 2010].
11 Maggie Mahar, “The state of the nation’s health,” Dartmouth Medicine, Spring 2007; available at: http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/spring07/html/atlas.php [accessed September 15, 2010].
12 Carla Engle, “Feds to review Medicare and Medicaid error rate data,” Healthcare Finance News, December 11, 2009; available at: http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/blog/ feds- review- medicare-and-medicaid-error-rate-data[accessed September 15, 2010].
13 Stuart L. Weinstein,“The Cost of Defensive Medicine,” American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons Now, November 2008; available at: http://www.aaos.org/news/aaosnow/nov08/managing7.asp [accessed September 15, 2010].
14 “Proposition 12 Produces Healthy Benefits,” Texas Medical Association, January 19, 2010; available at: http://www.texmed.org/Template. aspx?id=5238 [accessed September 22, 2010].
15 “Health Savings Accounts and Preventive Care,” Council for Affordable Healthcare Issues & Answers, April 2009.
16 See for example Jennifer Gill, “Cut Your Health Care Costs Now,” Inc., April 1, 2005; available at: http://www.inc.com/magazine/ 20050401/ health-care.html [accessed September 15, 2010].
CHAPTER 12
1 “The Role of National Oil Companies in International Energy Markets,” The Baker Institute Energy Forum, April 2007; available at: http://www.rice.edu/energy/publications/nocs.html, p. 1.
2 James L. Sweeney, “An Energy Policy for the Twenty-first Century,” Hoover Digest, no. 1, 2005; available at: http://www.hoover.org/ publications /digest/2993911.html [accessed September 15, 2010].
3 http://www.house.gov/pelosi/press/releases/July05/energy.html
4 U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly, September 2010 edition, http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/epm_sum.html [accessed September 21, 2010]. See also, David Frum, The Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again (NY: Double Day, 2008), 120-21.
5 “Wind,” Institute for Energy Research, http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/energy-overview/wind/ [accessed September 23, 2010].
6 Jay Lindsay, “Gov’t OKs 1st US offshore wind farm, off Mass.,” Associated Press, May 3, 2010.
7 “Facts on Energy: Solar,” Institute for Energy Research, June 11, 2009; available at: http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/06/11/facts-on-energy-solar/ [accessed September 23, 2010].
8 Gregory Murphy, “The Non-Science of Wind Energy,” http://portbayny.org/files/Download/The%20Non-Science%20of%20Wind%20Energy.pdf [accessed September 23, 2010].
9 American Nuclear Society, Frequently Asked Questions—Three Mile Island Accident—March 28, 1979, http://www.ans.org/pi/resources/sptopics/tmi/faq.html [accessed September 15, 2010].
10 Sam Youngman, “Obama announces $8.3 billion program for two nuclear power plants,” The Hill, February 16, 2010; available at: http: //thehill. com/homenews/administration/81183-obama-announces -30-billion-for-new-nuke-plants [accessed September 15, 2010].
11 Data from the Institute for Energy Research, http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/ [accessed September 21, 2010].
12 Al Gore, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (New York: Plume, 1993).
13 Ben Cassleman, “U.S. Gas Fields Go From Bust to Boom,” Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2009; available at: http://online.wsj.com/ article /SB124104549891270585.html [accessed September 15, 2010].
14 Paul R. LaMonica, “In defense of oil companies,” CNN Money, April 29, 2008; available at: http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/29/markets/thebuzz/ [accessed September 15, 2010].
15 U.S. Energy Information administration, Petroleum Basic Statistics, September 2008, http://www.eia.doe.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=oil_home#tab2 (October 28, 2008). See also, “U.S. Crude Oil Production,” US Energy Information Administration, http://tonto.eia. doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS2&f=A [accessed September 23, 2010].
16 Russian Military Budget, http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/mo-budget.htm [accessed September 15, 2010].
17 Institute for Energy Research, Issue Focus: Oil and Gas Leasing on Federal Lands, June 25, 2008, http://www.institutefor energyresearch. org/2008/06/25/truth-about-ocs/ [accessed September 15, 2010].
18 Jonah Goldberg, “The horror of ‘ANWR,’ the American elite’s favorite hellhole,” National Review, March 18, 2005; available at: http://old.nationalreview.com/ flashback/goldberg200503180758.asp[accessed September 15, 2010]. See also, “Drill here. Drill now. Drill ANWR.” anwr.org; available at: http://www.anwr.org/Latest-News/Drill-here.-Drill-now.-Drill-ANWR.php [accessed September 23, 2010].
19 Michael Janofsky, “Cuba Plans Offshore Wells Banned in U. S. Waters,” New York Times, May 9, 2006; available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/washington/09drill.html [accessed September 15, 2010].
20 Ben Geman, “Report: Oil-and-gas drilling bans will cut GDP by $2.36 trillion,” The Hill, February 15, 2010; available at: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/81091-oil-and-gas-drilling-bans-will-cut-gdp-by-236-trillion-report [accessed September 15, 2010].
CHAPTER 13
1 Richard Weikart, “Does Darwinism devalue human life?” The Human Life Review, March 1, 2004; available at: http://www.discovery.org/a/2172 [accessed September 15, 2010].
2 Ibid.
3 “Internet predators, privacy, porn: Are parents concerned?” University of Michigan Health Care System, November 19, 2009; available at: http: //www2. med. umich. edu/prmc/media/newsroom/ details. cfm?I D=1382 [accessed September 15, 2010].
4 See, e.g.: Daniel Lee Carter, Robert Alan Prentky, Raymond Knight, Penny Vanderveer, and Richard Boucher, “Use of Pornography in the Criminal and Developmental Histories of Sexual Offenders,” Journal of Interpersonal Violence, vol. 2, no. 2; Eileen Alexy, Ann Burgess, and Robert Prentky, “Pornography Use as a Risk Marker for an Aggressive Pattern of Behavior Among Sexually Reactive Children and Adolescents,” Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Vol. 14, no. 6; Michele Elliott, Kevin Browne, and Jennifer Kilcoyne, “Child sexual abuse prevention: What offenders tell us,” Child Abuse and Neglect, Vol. 19, No. 5; and W. L. Marshall, “The Use of Sexually Explicit Stimuli by Rapists, Child Molesters, and Nonoffenders,” The Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 25, No. 2.
5 Kennedy v. Louisiana, Supreme Court, June 25, 2008, http://Iwww.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-343.ZO.html [accessed September 15, 2010].
6 Jeff Sharlet, “Why Are We Afraid of Peter Singer?” Chronicle of Higher Education, March 10, 2000; available at: http://chronicle.com/ article /Why-Are-We-Afraid-of-Peter/11979; and Peter Berkowitz,“Other People’s Mothers,” New Republic, January 10, 2000; available at: http://www.peterberkowitz.com/otherpeoplesmothers.htm [accessed September 15, 2010]. S
ee also, Donald Demarco, “Peter Singer: Architect of the Culture of Death,” Catholic Education Resource Center, 2003, http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0049.html [accessed September 23, 2010].
7 Lydia Saad, “More Americans ‘Pro-Life’ Than ‘Pro-Choice’ for First Time,” Gallup, May 15, 2009; available at: http://www.gallup.com/poll/ 118399 /more-americans-pro-life-than-pro-choice-first-time. aspx; see also: Associated Press, “Majority of Americans now pro-life, poll says,” MSNBC.com, May 15, 2009; available at: http://www.msnbc. msn.com/id/30771408/ [accessed September 15, 2010].
CHAPTER 14
1 “Entitlement Spending Will More than Double by 2050,” Heritage Foundation 2010 Budget Chart Book, http://www.heritage.org/ budgetchartbook /entitlement-spending-double [accessed September 16, 2010] .
2 “Clinton Proposes Drug Coverage in Medicare Plan,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch , June 30, 1999.
3 J. D. Foster, “Medicare Reform: Setting Attainable Goals for Sustainability,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, no. 2251, March 18, 2009; available at: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2009/03/Medicare-Reform-Setting-Attainable-Goals-for-Sustainability [accessed September 16, 2010].
4 “Chairman’s Recommendations, National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare,” p. 27.
5 “Jindal right person to reform Medicare,” American Press, March 5, 1998
6 “The President’s New Clothes,” Wall Street Journal, March 18, 1999.
7 “Monica, or Medicare?” Wall Street Journal, January 15, 1999.
CHAPTER 15
1 Al Gore, “A Commentary on the War Against Terror: Our Larger Tasks,” Remarks at the Council on Foreign Relations, February 12, 2002; transcript available at: http://www.cfr.org/publication/4343/commentary_on_the_war_against_terror.html?id=4343 [accessed September 16, 2010].
2 Bret Baier, “Terrorism Is a ‘Man-Caused Disaster’?” Fox News, March 17, 2009; available at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/ 0,2933,509597, 00.html [accessed September 16, 2010].
3 Robert Bazell, “A Human Life Is a Human Life: At U.S. military field hospitals, care and compassion for wounded enemies,” NBC News, March 2, 2007; available at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17406009/ [accessed September 16, 2010].
4 “Congress and Terror Trials,” Wall Street Journal, January 29, 2010; available at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703906204575027320751100574.html [accessed September 16, 2010].
5 Robert Gordon Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson:A Life in Politics (WA: University of Washington Press, 2000), 184.
6 “Analysis: What has Barack Obama’s First Foreign Tour Really Achieved?” Daily Telegraph, April 7, 2009; available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5120797/Analysis-What-has-Barack-Obamas-first-foreign-tour-really-achieved. html [accessed September 16, 2010].
7 Quoted in Glen E. Thurow, Abraham Lincoln and American Political Religion (State University of New York Press, 1976), 49.
8 John Lewis Gaddis, Surprise, Security and the American Experience (Harvard University Press, 2004).
9 John Quincy Adams, Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives on Foreign Policy (July 4, 1821); transcript available at: http://millercenter. org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3484 [accessed September 27, 2010] .
10 Hyde Park Herald, September 19, 2001.
11 See Obama’s July 15, 2008 speech, “Senator Barack Obama’s New Strategy for a New World,” http://my.barackobama.com/page/ content /newstrategy [accessed September 16, 2010].
12 Susan Rice and Corinne Graff, “Can ‘Freedom Only’ Secure Our Future?” McGill International Review, Fall 2005.
13 Marc Sageman, Understanding Terror Networks (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). See also, Marc Sageman, “Understanding Terror Networks,” Foreign Policy Research Institute, November 1, 2004; available at: http://www.fpri.org/enotes/20041101.middleeast.sageman. understandingterrornetworks. html [accessed September 23, 2010].
14 Peter Bergen and Swati Pandey, “The Madrassa Myth,” NewYork Times, June 14, 2005; available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/14/opinion/14bergen.html [accessed September 16, 2010].
15 Michael Rubin and Suzanne Gershowitz, “Political Strategies to Counterterrorism,” Middle East Forum, July 12, 2006; available at: http://www.meforum.org/974/political-strategies-to-counterterrorism [accessed September 16, 2010].
16 Scott Atran, “Discover Dialogue: Anthropologist Scott Atran,” Discover, October 2003; available at: http://discovermagazine.com/2003/ oct/featdialogue [accessed September 16, 2010]. See also, Scott Atran, “Understanding How the Priveleged Become Violent Fanatics,” The Huffington Post, May 7, 2010; available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-atran/how-to-even-the-privelege_b_568489.html [accessed September 28, 2010].
17 Quoted in Joe Lieberman, “Democrats and Our Enemies,” Wall Street Journal, May 21, 2008.
CHAPTER 16
1 Floyd Norris, “There Can Be Nothing More Toxic,” New York Times, June 4, 2009; available at: http://norris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/there-can-be-nothing-more-toxic/ [accessed September 16, 2010].
2 Ben Stein, “The Long and Short of It at Goldman Sachs,” New York Times, December 2, 2007; available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/business/02every.html [accessed September 16, 2010]. See also, “How Goldman profited by the subprime meltdown,” MSN Money, December 17, 2007; available at: http://articles.moneycentral. msn.com/Investing/Extra/HowGoldmanProfitedFromSubprimeMeltdown.aspx [accessed September 23, 2010]; and Kate Kelly, “How Goldman Won Big on Mortgage Meltdown,” Wall Street Journal, December 14, 2007; available at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119759714037228585.html [accessed September 23, 2010].
3 “25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis,” Time; available at: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877327,00.html [accessed September 16, 2010].
4 Prmia.org Case Studies, Washington Mutual, Christopher Whalen and the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association, http://www.prmia.org/pdf/Case_Studies/WaMu_-_090911.pdf,p.3; see also, Anne Coulter, “Can’t we at least get a toaster?” World Net Daily, January 27, 2010; available at: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=123377 [accessed September 16, 2010].
5 Andrew Cuomo Press conference, April 6, 1998, CSPAN; excerpts available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivmL-lXNy64&feature=player_ embedded [accessed September 16, 2010].
6 Kyle Drennen, “MSNBC’s Brewer: GOP Should Abandon ‘Morals and Values,’” NewsBusters.org, June 15, 2009; available at: http:// news-busters. org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/06/15/msnbcs-brewer-gopshould-abandon-morals-values[accessed September 16, 2010].
7 Robert Rector, Kirk Johnson, and Patrick Fagan, “The Effect of Marriage on Child Poverty,” Heritage Foundation, April 15, 2002; available at: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2002/04/The-Effect-of-Marriage-on-Child-Poverty [accessed September 16, 2010].
8 Child Poverty, National Center for Children in Poverty, http://www.nccp.org/topics/childpoverty.html [accessed September 16, 2010] .
9 Alexis de Tocqueville, “Religion Considered as a Political Institution Which Powerfully Contributes to the Maintenance of a Democratic Republic among the Americans,” chapter XVII, Democracy in America; chapter available at: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/religion/ch1_17.htm [accessed September 16, 2010].
10 Michael Ledeen, Tocqueville on American Character: Why Tocqueville’s Brilliant Exploration of the American Spirit Is as Vital and Important Today as It Was Nearly Two Hundred Years Ago (Truman Talley Books, 2000).
11 Samuel P. Huntington, Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity (New York : Simon & Schuster, 2004), 20.
12 Quoted in “Review: Community without Politics,” Harvard Law Review, February 1989, p. 913.
13 Ibid.
14 “Annuit Coeptis—Origin and Meaning of the Motto Above the Eye,” http://www.greatseal.com/mottoes/coeptis.html [accessed September 16, 2010].
15
Quoted in J. Clifford Wallace, “Resolving Judicial Corruption While Preserving Judicial Independence: Comparative Perspectives,” California Western International Law Journal, Spring 1998.
INDEX
1984
A
Adams, John
Affluent Society, The
Air Force One
Ali, Muhammad
American Dream, the
American Federation of Teachers
Anderson, Curt
apartheid system
Atlantic Monthly
B
Balanced Budget Amendment
Barbour, Haley
Barkley, Charles
Bartlett, Bruce
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Bayh, Evan
Bell, Ashley
Besh, John
Better Government Association
Bhagavad Gita
big government
Blade Dynamics
Blanco, Kathleen
“Bloody Monday,”
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boudreaux’s Butt Paste
Braddock, James J.
Brady Bunch, The
Brady, Bobby
Brave New World
Brin, Sergey
British healthcare
Brooks, Arthur C.
Brooks, David
Brouillette, Dan
Brown University
Brown, Michael
Buckley, William F.
bureaucracy
Bush, George W.