Leadership and Crisis (37 page)

14
Sarah Carr, “Higher LEAP scores add fuel to debate over charter schools,”
New Orleans Times Picayune
, May 30, 2009; available at:
http://www.nola. come/news/index.ssf/2009/05/higher_leap_scores_ add_fuel_to [accessed September 23, 2010]
. See also Brian Thevenot, “New Orleans Charter Schools Operator Plans Expansion,”
nola.com
July 24, 2009; available at:
http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2009/07/kipp_schools_a_leading_charter.html
[accessed September 14, 2010]; and Lesli A. Maxwell, “In New Orleans, University’s Charter School Makes Gains,”
Education Week
, May 21, 2008; available at:
http://edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/05/21/39wrightcharter_web.h27.html
[accessed September 23, 2010] .

15
Bernie Pinsonat, “Louisiana, Baton Rouge Public Schools Need Discipline for Success”; available at:
http://www.bayoubuzz.com/News/Louisiana/Business/Louisiana_Baton_Rouge_Public_Schools_Need_Discipline_For_Success__8031.asp
[accessed September 14, 2010].

1
John Coyne and John Fund,
Cleaning House: America’s Campaign for Term Limits
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 1992).

2
David Morgan, “Bayh: No Chance I’ll Switch parties,” CBSNews. com, February 16, 2010; available at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-6212208-503544.html
[accessed September 14, 2010].

3
Dan Greenburg, “Cutting Congress Down to Size: How a Part-Time Congress would work,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, 1009, November 2, 1994; available at:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/1994/11/Cutting-Congress-Down-to-Size-How-a-Part-Time-Congress-Would-Work
[accessed September 14, 2010].

4
Walter Mondale, S. Hrg. 103-158, p. 7; available at:
http://www.archive.org/stream/testimonyofhonwa00unit/testimonyofhonwa00unit_djvu.txt[accessedSeptember14,2010]
.

5
See Budget of the United States Government, fiscal year 2000; available at:
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy00/pdf/budget.pdf
[accessed September 14, 2010]; Mark Knoller, “National Debt to Top 100 Percent of GDP,” CBS News, Political Hotsheet, July 23, 2010; available at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20011546-503544
. html [accessed September 14, 2010];
2010 Budget Chart Book: The Federal Budget in Pictures
, Heritage Foundation,
http://www.heritage.org/BudgetChartbook/PDF/All-Budget-chart-book-2010 pdf [accessed September 14, 2010]
..

6
Bruce Bartlett, “The 81% Tax Increase,” Forbes, May 15, 2009; available at:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/14/taxes-social-security-opinions-columnists-medicare
. html [accessed September 14, 2010].

7
Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Robert D. Tollison, “The Length of Legislative Sessions and the Growth of Government,”
Rationality and Society
, Vol. 7, No. 2, April 1995.

8
Michael Ferguson and Hugh Douglas Witte, “Congress and the Stock Market,” Social Science Research Network, Working Paper Series, 2005.

9
See House of Representatives, Conference Report, 1st Session, 111th Congress; available at:
http://www.house.gov/billtext/hr1_legtext_cr.pdf
[accessed September 14, 2010]; and “1,073 Pages,”
Wall Street Journal
Review & Outlook, February 15, 2009; available at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123456958734386181.html
[accessed September 14, 2010]. See also, “Cutting Congress Down to Size: How a Part-Time Congress Would Work,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, November 2, 1994; available at:
http://s3.amazonaws. com/thf_media/1994/pdf/bg1009.pdf [accessed September 23, 2010]
.

10
Joseph Russell, “GOP Congressman: Not Enough Time To Read Health Care Reform Bill,” Talk Media News, July 17, 2009; available at:
http://www.talkradionews.com/news/2009/7/17/gop-congressman-not-enough-time-to-read-health-care-reform-b
. html [accessed September 27, 2010].

11
Senator Stevens’ conviction was overturned by the courts, but the fundamental facts of the case were not challenged.

12
David Kocieniewski, “For Rangel, Four Rent-Stabilized Apartments,”
New York Times
, July 11, 2008; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/nyregion/11rangel.html?_r=2
[accessed September 14, 2010]; and Jennifer Fermino and Carl Campanile, “Rep. Charlie Rangel defends himself again, says he wants to ‘get back to work,’”
New York Post
, August 12, 2010; available at:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/work_charlie_rangel_defends_himself_eLZIkIlwC3iqTAs1WOVkAK
[accessed September 14, 2010].

13
Lobbying Database,
OpenSecrets.org
,
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/index.php
[accessed September 27, 2010].

14
Raquel Meyer Alexander, Stephen W. Mazza, and Susan Scholz, “Measuring Rates of Return for Lobbying Expenditures: An Empirical Analysis under the American Jobs Creation Act,” Social Science Research Network, Working Paper, May 26, 2009.

1
See the Coast Guard release here:
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/425/119926/
[accessed September 21, 2010].

2
Amanda Ripley, “In Case of Emergency,”
The Atlantic Monthly
, September 2009; available at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/in-case-of-emergency/7604/
[accessed September 14, 2010].

1
George Washington, “Address to the Members of the Volunteer Association and Other Inhabitants of the Kingdom of Ireland Who Have Lately Arrived in the City of New York,” PBS,
Rediscovering George Washington
, December 2, 1783; available at:
http://www.pbs.org/
georgewashington/collection/other_1788dec2.html [accessed September 14, 2010].

2
Quoted in Thomas Ricento,
Ideology, Politics, and Language Policies
(Impact, 2000).

3
Marshall Smelser, “George Washington and the Alien and Sedition Acts,”
American Historical Review
, January 1954.

4
David M. Kennedy, “Can We Still Afford to be a Nation of Immigrants?”
The Atlantic
, November 1996; available at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/11/can-we-still-afford-to-be-a-nation-of-immigrants/4835/
[accessed September 14, 2010].

5
Matt Richtel, “Tech Recruiting Clashes with Immigration Rules,”
New York Times
, April 11, 2009; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/business/12immig.html
[accessed September 14, 2010].

6
Ibid. See also, Paul Kedrosky and Brad Feld “Start-up Visas Can Jump-Start the Economy,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 2, 2009; available at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704402404574525772299940870.html
[accessed September 14, 2010].

7
Philip Martin and Peter Duignan,
Making and Remaking America: Immigration into the United States
(Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2003).

8
Robert Rector and Christine Kim, “The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to the U.S. Taxpayer,” Heritage Foundation Special Report, May 21, 2007; available at:
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/05/the-fiscal-cost-of-low-skill-immigrants-to-the-us-taxpayer
[accessed September 14, 2010].

9
Charles A. Ferguson and Shirley Brice Heath, eds.,
Language in the USA
(NY: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 15.

1
William Ivy Hair,
The Kingfish and His Realm: The Life and Times of Huey P. Long
(Louisiana State University Press, January 1997).

2
Harnett Thomas Kane,
Huey Long’s Louisiana Hayride: The American Rehearsal for Dictatorship: 1928-1940
(LA: Pelican, 1971).

3
Caitlin Ginley, “Louisiana, Mississippi Movin’ Up; 20 States Still Flunk,” The Center for Public Integrity, States of Disclosure, June 24, 2009;
available at:
http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/states_of_disclosure/
articles/entry/1428 [accessed September 15, 2010].

4
“2008 BGA-Alper Integrity Index shows New Jersey, Louisiana have strongest ethics and transparency laws; Vermont, South Dakota at the bottom,” Better Government Association, October 27, 2008; available at:
http://www.bettergov.org/IntegrityIndexRelease.aspx
[accessed September 15, 2010].

1
Quoted in Peter Schweizer,
Makers and Takers
(NY: Doubleday, 2008).

2
Quoted in Howell V. Williams, “Benjamin Franklin and the Poor Laws,”
The Social Service Review
, March 1944.

3
Jeremy Schaap,
Cinderella Man: James Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005).

4
Paul Johnson,
Intellectuals
(NY: Harper Perennial, 1988), 340.

5
Pamela Villarreal, “Social Security and Medicare Projections,” National Center for Policy Analysis, June 11, 2009; available at:
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/ba662.pdf
[accessed September 15, 2010].

6
FDR, quoted by David M. Kennedy in Cynthia M. Koch, “Historians, Teachers, Authors Take a Fresh, Sometimes Critical, Look at Roosevelt,” The National Archives,
Prologue
, Winter 2006, Vol. 38, No. 4.

7
“Health Costs and History,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 20, 2009; available at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703746604574461610985243066.html
[accessed September 15, 2010]; and Chris Edwards, “Government Schemes Cost More than Promised,” Cato Institute
Tax & Budget Bulletin
, No. 17, 2003; available at:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/tbb/tbb-0309-17.pdf
[accessed September 15, 2010].

8
Michael Novak, “Tocqueville at 200,”
National Review,
December 21, 2005; available at:
http://old.nationalreview.com/novak2005/22/0809.asp
[accessed September 23, 2010].

9
Milton Friedman,
Capitalism and Freedom
(University of Chicago Press, 2002), 9.

10
Mark Steyn, “It’s the Demography, Stupid,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 4, 2006.

11
Barack Obama,
Dreams from My Father
: “Eventually a consulting house to a multinational corporation agreed to hire me as a research assistant. Like a spy behind enemy lines, I arrived every day at my mid-Manhattan office and sat at my computer terminal.”

12
The data come from Michael Cembalest, the chief investment officer at J.P. Morgan bank, “Obama’s Business Blind Spot,”
Forbes.com
, November 24, 2009; available at:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/ 11/24/michael-cembalest-obama-business-beltway-cabinet. html
[accessed September 15, 2010].

13
Steve Montgomery and Steve Farrell, “Politically Correct Butchers of the 20th Century,”
newsmax.com
, September 24, 2001; available at:
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/23/235930.shtml
[accessed September 23, 2010].

14
Arthur C. Brooks,
Who Really Cares
(Basic Books, 2006); and James T. Lindgren, “Testing Social Dominance: Is Support for Capitalism and Opposition to Income Redistribution Driven by Racism and Intolerance?” Northwestern Law and Economics Research Paper, no. 6-10.

15
Jerry Bruce Thomas,
An Appalachian New Deal
(The University Press of Kentucky, 1998).

16
See Paul R. Ehrlich,
The Population Bomb
(Sierra Club/Ballantine, 1968); and Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich,
The End of Affluence: A Blueprint for Your Future
(NY: Ballantine Books, 1974). See also, Gary Demar, “The 40th Anniversary of Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb,” American Vision, June 30, 2008; available at:
http://americanvision.org/1702/the-anniversary-of-paul-ehrlichs-population-bomb/
[accessed September 23, 2010].

17
From Reagan’s First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981.

1
Associated Press, “Almost $50 billion in ‘Questionable’ Medicare,”
New York Post
, November 14, 2009; available at:
http://www.nypost. com/p/news/politics/medicare_fraud_almost_billion_growing_lA6Gt 32D5rrvbAV0Z3ljpO
[accessed September 15, 2010].

2
David Doyle, “Hope in Sight for Richard,”
Ealing Times
(UK), May 29, 2007; available at:
http://www.ealingtimes.co.uk/archive/
2007/05/29/Health 1 %28news_health%29/1433305.Hope_in_sight_ for_Richard/ [accessed September 15, 2010].

3
Sarah Boseley, “Patients Pull Own Teeth As Dental Contract Falters,”
The Guardian
(UK), October 15, 2007; available at:
http://www.guardian. co.uk/uk/2007/oct/15/health.healthandwellbeing
; “I Rip Out My Teeth With Pliers,” BBC News, October 15, 2007; available at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7045143.stm
; Jenny Hope,“Patients Turn to DIY Dentistry as the Crisis in NHS Deepens,”
Daily Mail
(UK), October 15, 2007; available at:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-487621/Patients-turn-DIY-dentistry-crisis-NHS-care-deepens.html
; “Brits Resort to Pulling Own Teeth,” CNN, October 15, 2007; available at:
http://edition. cnn.com/ 2007/WORLD/europe/10/15/england. dentists/
; and Jo Willey, “The Patients Forced to Pull Out Their Own Teeth,”
Daily Express
(UK), October 15, 2007; available at:
http://www.express.co. uk/posts/view/22071/The-patients-forced-to-pull-out-their-own-teeth
[accessed September 15, 2010]. See also,“I took my teeth out with pliers,” BBC, September 8, 2004; available at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3696758.stm
[accessed September 23, 2010]; and Laura Barton,“Grin and bare it,”
The Guardian
, March 2, 2006; available at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2006/mar/02/healthandwellbeing.health
[accessed September 23, 2010].