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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].

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].

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].

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]. See 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].

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.

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].