6 Robert Mendick, “‘Climategate’ professor Phil Jones awarded £13 million in research grants,” Telegraph, December 5, 2009; available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-changeconfe/6735846/Climategate-professor-Phil-Jones-awarded-13-million-in-research-grants.html.
7 Email exchange available at “East Anglia Confirmed Emails from the Climate Research Unit,” released November 20, 2009: http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=1041.
8 Stuart Miller, Robert Muir-Wood, and Auguste Boissonnade, “An exploration of trends in normalized weather-related catastrophe losses,” p. 225; available at: http://www.rms.com/Publications/Trends_in_Weather_Related_Cat_loss_Miller_RMW.pdf.
Chapter 9
1 Resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, February 8, 2002; available at: http://www.nyo.unep.org/pdfs/56151.pdf, p. 3.
2 Resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, February 8, 2002; available at: http://www.nyo.unep.org/pdfs/56151.pdf, p. 4.
3 “Fifth Committee Recommends 2008-2009 Budget of $4.17 Billion,” General Assembly, December 21, 2007; available at: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/gaab3835.doc.htm.
4 Claudia Rosett, “The U.N. Kicks Off Another Season Of Bedlam,” Forbes, August 20, 2009; available at: http://forbeslife.nl/2009/08/19/united-nations-bribery-muammar-gaddafi-opinions-columnists-claudia-rosett. html?partner=contextstory.
5 Ken Dilanian, “Report: U.N. spent U.S. funds on shoddy projects,” USA Today, April 15, 2009; available at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-04-14-un-probe_N.htm.
6 “UN wasted $10 mln in Sudan peace mission - audit,” Sudan Tribune, February 11, 2008; available at: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article25909.
7 “Capital Master Plan to Renovate the UN Headquarters,” Dialogue on Globalization, October 2008; available at: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/usa/05771.pdf.
8 “UN Renovation and Construction: Issues for Congressional Oversight?” The Heritage Foundation, January 13, 2010; available at: http://blog.heritage.org/2010/01/13/un-renovation-and-construction-issues-for-congressional-oversight/.
9 Information available at Brett Schaefer, “Suspend UNDP Activities in North Korea, Again,” The Heritage Foundation, April 8, 2009; available at: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2009/04/Suspend-UNDP-Activities-in-North-Korea-Again.
10 For information, see Brett Schaefer, “United Nations Peacekeeping: The U.S. Must Press for Reform,” The Heritage Foundation, September 18, 2008; available at: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2008/09/United-Nations-Peacekeeping-The-US-Must-Press-for-Reform.
11 Martin Plaut, “Un troops ‘armed DR Congo rebels,’” BBC, April 28, 2008; available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/7331077.stm.
12 “DR Congo: Civilian Cost of Military Operation is Unacceptable,” Human Rights Watch, October 13, 2009; available at: http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/10/12/dr-congo-civilian-cost-military-operation-unacceptable.
Chapter 11
1 Alvin and Heidi Toffler, The Third Wave (NY: Bantam, 1984).
Chapter 12
1 Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous, The End of Prosperity (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008).
2 Ibid.
3 John Taylor, Getting Off Track (Stanford: Hoover Institute Press, 2009).
Chapter 14
1 Ron Haskins, Work Over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2006), 334.
2 Ibid., 335.
Chapter 15
1 See e.g., “Cash and Counseling Moves into the Mainstream,” Alliance for Health Reform, April 2006; available at: http://www.allhealth.org/publications/pub_21.doc.
2 Jack Wennberg, The Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare 2006, Dartmouth Atlas Project; available at: http://www.dartmouthatlas.org
3 Proposal available at: http://intermountainhealthcare.org/About/News/Documents/deliveryreform.pdf.
Chapter 16
1 Thomson Reuters, “Waste in the U.S. Healthcare System Pegged at $700 Billion in Report from Thomson Reuters,” October 26, 2009; available at: http://thomsonreuters.com/content/press_room/tsh/waste_US_healthcare_system.
2 Government Accountability Office, “High-Risk Series: An Update,” January 2009.
3 Congressional Research Service, “Improper Payments Information Act of 2002: Background, Implementation, and Assessment,” October 8, 2009.
4 Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General, “MSIS Data Usefulness for Detecting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse,” OEI-04-0-00240, August 26, 2009.
5 Hope Yen, “Report details billions lost in Medicare fraud,” Washington Post, November 16, 2009; available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/15/AR2009111502488.html.
6 “Medicare Fraud: A $60 Billion Crime,” CBS News 60 Minutes, October 25, 2009; video and transcript available at: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/23/60minutes/main5414390.shtml.
7 Associated Press, “Mafia, violent criminals turn to Medicare fraud,” October 6, 2009.
8 Associated Press, “32 accused of $60M in Medicare fraud in 3 states,” December 15, 2009.
9 Jay Weaver, “Medicare fraud rampant in South Florida,” Miami Herald , August 3, 2008; available at: http://www.miamiherald.com/2008/08/03/627480/medicare-fraud-rampant-in-south.html.
10 Associated Press, “32 accused of $60M in Medicare fraud in 3 states,” December 15, 2009.
11 Jay Weaver, “Fraud suspected in Miami-Dade diabetes care,” Miami Herald, December 8, 2009; available at: http://www.miamiherald.com/2009/12/07/1370812/fraud-suspected-in-miami-dade.html.
12 Matt Coker, “Dr. George Steven Kooshian Gets Prison, Restitution for AIDS Dosing, Billing Scam,” OC Weekly blog, February 23, 2010; available at: http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/a-clockwork-orange/dr-george-steven-kooshian-sent/.
13 Jay Weaver, “Miami-Dade clinic owner held on Medicare fraud charges,” Miami Herald, January 5, 2010; available at: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/01/05/1409485/miami-dade-clinic-owner-held-on.html.
14 Robert Moran, “Couple charged in leading Medicare equipment fraud,” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 11, 2009; available at: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20091211_Couple_charged_in_leading_Medicare_equipment_fraud.html.
15 “Businessman pleads guilty to $18.4M Medicare scam,” Chicago Tribune, September 29, 2009; available at: http://archives.chicagotribune.com/ 2009/sep/29/health/chi-ap-mimedicarefraud-mic.
16 “Feds want Corvette, Harley that they say were bought with Medicare, Medicaid fraud,” Nashville Business Journal, December 7, 2009; available at: http://www.nashvillefiles.com/Latest/Feds-want-Corvette-Harley-that-they-say-were-bought-with-Medicare-Medicaid-fraud.html .
17 Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Press Release, “Coleman, Levin Investigate Millions in Medicare Payments for Claims Tied to Deceased Doctors,” July 8, 2008; available at: http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=300288.
18 Cara Mia DiMassa, Richard Winton, and Rich Connell, “3 Southern California hospitals accused of using homeless for fraud,” Los Angeles Times, August 7, 2008; available at: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/07/local/me-skidrow7.
19 Clifford J. Levy and Michael Luo, “New York Medicaid Fraud May Reach Into Billions,” New York Times, July 18, 2005; available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/18/nyregion/18medicaid.html.
20 “Effective Care,” Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, a Dartmouth Atlas Project Topic Brief, available at: http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/topics/effective_care.pdf
21 Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, “Dual Eligibles: Medicaid Enrollment and Spending for Medicare Beneficiaries in 2005,” February 2009; available at: http://www.kff.org/medicaid/7846.cfm.
22 Mark D. Birdwhistell, “The Medicare to Medicaid Crossover: An Open Door to Waste and Fraud,” in Stop Paying the Crooks (Washington, D.C.: CHT Press, 2009), 149.
23 Government Accountability Office, “Medicaid Third-Party Liability: Federal Guidance Needed to Help States Address Continuing Problems,” September 2006; available at: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06862.pdf.
24 Craig H. Smith, “South Florida, Ground Zero for Healthcare Fraud,” in Stop Paying the Crooks (Washington, D.C.: DC CHT Press, 2009), 47.
25 Letter to Congressman Nathan Deal dated February 26, 2010 from Charlene Frizzera, Acting Adminstrator of CMS, in response to a request dated June 17, 2009.
26 Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, “Report to the Congress: Reforming the Delivery System,” June 2008; available at: http://www.medpac.gov/documents/Jun08_EntireReport.pdf.
27 The National Supplier Clearinghouse, the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank, the OIG Exclusion List, and CMS’s Medicare Exclusion Database, etc.
28 Gina Kolata, “Patients in Florida Lining Up For All That Medicare Covers,” New York Times, September 13, 2003; available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/13/us/patients-in-florida-lining-up-for-all-that-medicare-covers.html?pagewanted=1.
Chapter 17
1 Newt Gingrich and Terry Maple, A Contract with the Earth (NY: Plume, 2008), 186.
2 Stuart Butler, “Nuclear power is true ‘green’ energy,” The Washington Times, January 29, 2009; available at: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/29/nuclear-power-is-true-green-energy/.
3 Kevin Trenberth, “More knowledge, less certainty,” Nature Reports: Climate Change, Vol. 4, February, pp. 20-21; available at: http://www.nature.com/climate/2010/1002/full/climate.2010.06.html.
4 Nigel Lawson, An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look At Global Warming (London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd, 2008), 116.
Chapter 18
1 “About Oil Shale,” Oil Shale & Tar Sands Programmatic EIS Information Center; available at: http://ostseis.anl.gov/guide/oilshale/index.cfm.
2 “BP reports giant oil discovery in Gulf of Mexico,” Dallas Morning News, September 3, 2009; available at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/080309dnbusgulfoil.a1444d.html.
3 Elwin Green, “Natural Gas locked in the Marcellus Shale has companies rushing to cash in on possibilities,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 6, 2009; available at: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09340/1018586-28.stm.
4 “Secretary Chu Announces $3 Billion Investment for Carbon Capture and Sequestration,” Department of Energy - National Energy Technology Laboratory, December 4, 2009; available at: http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/press/2009/09081-Secretary_Chu_Announces_CCS_Invest.html.
5 “James Hansen: Prosecute oil companies, top scientist says,” UK Telegraph , June 23, 2008; available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2177572/James-Hansen-Prosecute-oil-companies-top-scientist-says.html; see also Andrew C. Revkin, “Hansen of NASA Arrested in Coal Country,” New York Times Dot Earth, June 23, 2009; available at: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/hansen-of-nasaarrested-in-coal-country/.
6 “Rep. Waxman Introduces the ‘Moratorium on Uncontrolled Power Plants Act,’” House Oversight Committee, March 11, 2008; available at: http://oversight.house.gov/images/stories/documents/20080311104934.pdf.
7 Otis Port, “Power from the Sunbaked Desert,” Business Week, September 12, 2005; available at: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_37/b3950067_mz018.htm.
8 Todd Woody, “Judge Halts Wind Farm Over Bats,” New York Times Green Inc, December 10, 2009: available at: http://greeninc. blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/judge-halts-wind-farm-over-bats/.
9 “A Clash of Environmental Ideals in the Mojave Desert: Solar-Energy Project vs. Endangered Desert Tortoises,” Los Angeles Times, January 4, 2010; available at: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2010/01/clash-of-environmental-ideals-in-the-mojave-desertsolarenergy-project-vs-endangered-desert-tortoise.html.
10 “RFA Resource Center - Ethanol Facts,” Renewable Fuels Association; available at: http://www.ethanolrfa.org/resource/facts/economy/.
11 Adam Waldeck, “Turning Trash into Fuel? It’s Happening,” American Solutions, June 18, 2009; available at: http://www.americansolutions.com/energy/2009/06/turning-trash-into-fuel-its-happening.php.
Chapter 22
1 Clayton Christiansen, The Innovator’s Dilemma (NY: HarperCollins, 2000).
2 “Nuke over U.S. could unleash electromagnetic tsunami,” World Tribune , December 7, 2005; available at: http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/front2453711.9284722223.html.
3 William R. Forstchen, One Second After (NY: Forge Books, 2009).
4 See e.g., Gerald Posner, “China’s Secret Cyberterrorism,” The Daily Beast; available at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-13/chinas-secret-cyber-terrorism/.
5 See e.g., Joshua Davis, “Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe,” Wired magazine, August 21, 2007; available at: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia?currentPage=all.
Chapter 23
1 “Rick Santelli and the ‘Rant of the Year,’” CNBC; video available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEZB4taSEoA. <
Index
A
AA. See Alcoholics Anonymous
ABC News
abolitionism
abortion
academia. See also education
ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union
ACORN Housing Corporation (AHC)
ACT. See America Coming Together
Acton, Lord
Adams, John
AFDC. See Aid to Families with Dependent Children
Afghanistan
AFL-CIO
African-Americans
AHC. See ACORN Housing Corporation
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
AIDS
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
AIG
Air America
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
Alexander, Lamar
Alinsky. David
Alinsky, Saul
Alliance Defense Fund
al Qaeda
America; China vs.; Cuba and; democracy and; energy reserves in; saving; traditional vs. secular-socialist view of; war on terrorism and
America Coming Together (ACT)
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
American Council on Science and Health
American Dream
American exceptionalism
American people: corruption and; government and; history of; Obama, Barack and; secular-socialist threat to; traditions of
American Revolution
American Solutions
American values: conflict resolution and; elected representation and; energy development and; government and; honesty and; localism and; private property and; productivity and; religious freedom and; secular-socialism vs.; taxation and; work ethic and
Amnesty International
anti-Americanism
AP. See Associated Press
An Appeal to Reason (Lawson)
AR4. See Fourth Assessment Report
The Argument (Bai)
Army Corps of Engineers
Asbell, Fred
Associated Press (AP)
Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN)
Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Australia
autism
automobile industry
Ayers, Bill
B
Bai, Matt
balanced budgets
Ban Ki Moon
Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model (Horowitz)
Barr, Bob
Barron’s magazine
Barthold, Thomas
Bartlett, Roscoe
Baucus, Max
BBC. See British Broadcasting Corporation
Bear Stearns
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bible
big business: Democratic Party, Democrats and; food safety bill (2009) and; government and; Left and; Obama, Barack and; political mach
ine and; secular-socialist machine and
big government. See government
Bill of Rights
Bing, Stephen
bin Laden, Osama
biological warfare
bipartisanship
Blagojevich, Rod
Bloomberg, Michael
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Bolton, John
Boston Globe
Boys Scouts
Braun, Carol Moseley
bravery
bribery and payoffs; Cornhusker Kickback; Gator Aid; Handout Montana; healthcare bill and; Louisiana Purchase; U-Con
Britain; healthcare in; Labour Party of
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Brookings Institution
Brown, Scott
Brown, Willie
Buffett, Warren
Bunning, Jim
bureaucracy: big government and; civil service; corruption and; in education; elected representation and; energy development and; environment and; EPA; EU and; Founding Fathers and; green energy projects and; healthcare; job creation and; secular-socialist machine and; UN and
Bureau of Land Management
Burlingame, Debra
Burnett, Diane
Bush, George W.
Bush, Jeb
Bush administration
business: secular-socialist machine and; socialism and. See also big business; small business
C
California
Cameron, David
Camus, Albert
Canada
cap-and-trade energy tax bill
capitalism
Capital Research Center
Carney, Timothy
Carper, Tom
Carter, Jimmy
“Cash for Clunkers”
Castro, Fidel
Catholic Church, Catholicism
Cato Institute
CBO. See Congressional Budget Office
CBS News
CDBGs. See Community Development Block Grants