Unstoppable (28 page)

2
. Aaron Bernstein, Michael Arndt, Wendy Zellner, and Peter Coy, “Too Much Corporate Power?”
Bloomberg Businessweek
, September 11, 2000.

Chapter 1

1
. Michael Ganley, “Both Sides Seeking Final Votes on Clinch River,”
Environmental and Energy Study Conference Update
, September 27, 1983, 8,
http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=430733
.

2
. Paul Tsongas, “Deep-Sixing Clinch River,”
Christian Science Monitor
, March 18, 1983,
http://www.csmonitor.com/1983/0318/031830.html/(pag)/e2
.

3
. Michael Ganley, “Both Sides Seeking Final Votes on Clinch River,” Environmental and Energy Study Conference Update, September 27, 1983, 8,
http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=430733
; Congress Watch and Rural America are accounted for in “On Behalf of the Taxpayers Coalition Against Clinch River,” letter to Committee on Science and Technology, “Fiscal Year 1984 Department of
Energy Authorization: Nuclear Fission R&D and Waste Management,” US House of Representatives, 1984.

4
. The sources for the $8.8 billion figure are Judith Miller, “Report Doubles Estimate of Breeder Reactor's Cost,”
New York Times
, September 24, 1982, and
Interim Report on GAO's Review of the Total Cost Estimate for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project
, General Accounting Office, EMD-82-131, September 23, 1982; the source for the $5.3 billion to $9 billion range is “Energy and Environment,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 16, 1982, SD2.

5
. “Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project Dies in Congress,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 27, 1983.

6
. Henry Scammell,
Giantkillers: The Team and the Law That Help Whistle-Blowers Recover America's Stolen Billions
(New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004), 278.

7
. Fraud Statistics – Overview, October 1, 1987–September 30, 2011,” Civil Division, US Department of Justice,
http://www.taf.org/DoJ-fraud-stats-FY2011.pdf
.

8
. Interview with Bruce Fein on October 31, 2013, verifying facts.

9
. Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies,” April 29, 1938,
The American Presidency Project
,
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15637
.

10
. Peter Schweizer interview on
The Sean Hannity Show
, Fox News, April 4, 2013,
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/2013/04/08/boomtown-2-business-food-stamps
.

11
. George F. Will, “Rending Steel and Siren Cry Accompany Today's Song,”
The Sun
, A19, April 14, 1977.

12
. “Nader Says Gaming Targets Children,”
Las Vegas Review-Journal
, June 13, 1998; “Making Parents Irrelevant,”
Nader Page
, October 27, 1999,
http://nader.org/1999/10/27/making-parents-irrelevant
.

13
. Republican Party of Texas Platform, 2002, 16,
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/RPTPlatform2002.pdf
.

14
. Aldous Huxley, “A Note on Dogma,” in
Proper Studies
(London: Chatto & Windus, 1927).

15
. Mike Duke's pay was $23.15 million in 2012. Scott DeCarlo, “Gravity-Defying CEO Pay,”
Forbes
, April 4, 2012,
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2012/12/ceo-compensation-12_land.html
.

16
. Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza,
Whose Trade Organization? Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy
, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, October 1999,
http://www.citizen.org/publications/publicationredirect.cfm?ID=7081
.

Chapter 2

1
. Robert A. G. Monks,
The Emperor's Nightingale: Restoring the Integrity of the Corporation
(Oxford: Capstone, 1998), 13,
http://www.ragm.com/libraryFiles/57.pdf
.

2
. Adam Smith,
The Wealth of Nations
(New York: Bantam, 2003), 110–111.

3
. Ibid., 257.

4
. Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, and Jeffrey O. Nelson, eds.,
American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia
(Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2006); Murray N. Rothbard, “Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973),” The Ludwig von Mises Institute, July 27, 2005,
http://mises.org/daily/1876
.

5
. Murray N. Rothbard, “Biography of Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973),” The Ludwig von Mises Institute,
http://mises.org/page/1468/Biography-of-Ludwig-von-Mises-18811973
.

6
. Rothbard, “Ludwig von Mises.”

7
. Shawn Ritenour, “Biography of Wilhelm Röpke (1899–1966),” The Ludwig von Mises Institute,
http://mises.org/page/1461/Biography-of-Wilhelm-Ropke-18991966-Humane-Economist
.

8
. Wilhelm Röpke,
A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market
(Chicago: Regnery, 1960), 137, 141,
http://library.mises.org/books/Wilhelm%20R246pke/A%20Humane%20Economy.pdf
.

9
. George Carlin once said, “The invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people.” Gavin Kennedy, “Saturday Snippets,”
Adam Smith's Lost Legacy
(blog), January 3, 2009,
http://adamsmithslostlegacy.blogspot.com/2009/01/saturday-snippets.html
.

10
. Friedrich Hayek,
The Road to Serfdom
(New York: Routledge Classics, 2005), 125.

11
. Frank S. Meyer,
In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Credo
, (Chicago: Regnery, 1962), 9.

12
. Russell Kirk,
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
, 7th rev. ed. (Washington, DC: Regnery, 1986), 490.

13
. Peter Viereck,
Conservatism Revisited: The Revolt Against Ideology, 1815–1949
(New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2005), 82.

14
. Ibid., 142.

15
. David Brooks, “Going Home Again,”
New York Times
, December 29, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/opinion/going-home-again.html
; Michael Gerson, “Why Reform Conservatism Deserves a Chance,”
Washington Post
, April 30, 2012,
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-04-30/opinions/35450887_1_tea-party-entitlement-reform-premium-support-system
.

16
. Frank I. Luntz, “Five Myths About Conservative Voters,”
Washington Post
, April 27, 2012.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-conservative-voters/2012/04/27/glQAFxr0IT_story.html
.

17
. Richard M. Scaife, “An Open Letter to Fellow Conservatives: Why Conservatives Should Oppose Efforts to Defund Planned Parenthood,” n.d.,
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM153_aaa_040311.html
; Marjorie Dannenfelser, “Scaife's Planned Parenthood Arguments Fall on Deaf Ears,”
http://www.redstate.com/mdannenfelser/2011/04/05/scaifes-planned-parenthood-arguments-fall-on-deaf-ears
.

18
. Alan Simpson, “Why the GOP Should Support Publicly Funded Campaigns,”
Washington Post
, May 05, 2011,
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-05-05/opinions/35233097_1_campaign-finance-public-funds-campaign-money
; Ryan Grim, “Alan Simpson Attacks AARP, Says Social Security Is ‘Not a Retirement Program,'”
Huffington Post
, May 9, 2006,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/06/alan-simpson-aarp-social-security-retirement-program_n_858738.html
.

19
. Fareed Zakaria, “Why Defense Spending Should Be Cut,”
Washington Post
, August 3, 2011,
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-08-03/opinions/35270749_1_defense-budget-defense-cuts-defense-expenditures
.

20
. Ronald McKinnon, “The Conservative Case for a Wealth Tax,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 9, 2012,
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203462304577139232881346686
.

21
. Jeffrey Rosen, “Review of ‘Against Interpretation: Cosmic Constitutional Theory,' by J. Harvie Wilkinson III,”
New York Times
, March 18, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/books/review/cosmic-constitutional-theory-by-j-harvie-wilkinson-iii.html
.

22
. David Brooks, “The Big Society,”
New York Times
, May 19, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/opinion/20brooks.html
.

23
. David Brooks, “The Road Not Taken,”
New York Times
, July 18, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/opinion/19brooks.html
.

24
. Melanie Mason and Matea Gold, “Bachmann's Had Her Share of Government Aid,”
Los Angeles Times
, June 26, 2011,
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/26/nation/la-na-bachmann-20110626
.

25
. David Stockman,
The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
(New York: PublicAffairs, 2013); Stephen Moore, “Bow to Our Malefactors,”
Wall Street Journal
, April 17, 2013,
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324695104578415263903796402
.

26
. George Will, “John McCain's Never-Ending War,”
Washington Post
, June 22, 2011,
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-06-22/opinions/35236055_1_libya-moammar-gaddafi-isolationists
; George Will, “Obama's Lawless War,”
Washington Post
, June 19, 2011, editorial, p. A21.

27
. Patrick Buchanan,
Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency
(New York: Thomas Dunne / St. Martin's, 2004).

28
. David A. Fahrenthold, “‘Peace' May Never Get a Chance in House,”
Washington Post
, May 20, 2012, A06.

29
. Peter Viereck,
Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals: Babbitt Jr. Vs. the Rediscovery of Values
(New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1965), 18.

30
. Howard Gardner,
Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Press), 2004.

Chapter 3

1
. H. Con. Res. 107, 112th Congress (2011-2012),
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.CON.RES.107
:.

2
. See US Senate, Official Declarations of War by Congress,
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/h_multi_sections_and_teasers/WarDeclarationsbyCongress.htm
.

3
. Gore Vidal,
Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1969), 136.

4
. Lee Ferran, “The $77 Billion Fighter Jets That Have Never Gone to War,” ABC News, April 8, 2011,
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/77-billion-raptor-22-fighter-jets-war/story?id=13322450
; Graham Smith, “The Osprey: Good Reviews, But a Costly Program,” National Public Radio, October 24, 2011,
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/24/141589693/the-osprey-good-reviews-but-a-costly-program
; Lee Ferran, “Multi-Billion Dollar F-35 Fleet Grounded,” ABC News, Feb 22, 2013,
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/multi-billion-dollar-f-35-fleet-grounded
.

5
. “‘Blow the Whistle' Project: On the Media & GAP Team Up to Identify the ‘Secret Hold' Senator,” Government Accountability Project, n.d.,
http://www.whistleblower.org/action-center/secret-hold-campaign
.

6
. Kevin Zeese, “After Seven Years of War in Iraq, 8 Years in Afghanistan, Opposition to War Crosses the U.S. Political Spectrum,” thepeoples
voice.org
, March 17, 2010,
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/03/17/after-seven-years-of-war-in-iraq-8-years
.

7
.
ComeHomeAmerica.us
: Historic and Current Opposition to U.S. Wars and How a Coalition of Citizens from the Political Right and Left Can End American Empire
, ed. George D. O'Neill Jr., Paul Buhle, Bill Kauffman, and Kevin Zeese (Lake Wales, FL: Titan, 2010).

8
. “ABA Policy and Report on Domestic Surveillance in the Fight Against Terrorism,” American Bar Association, February 13, 2006,
http://apps.americanbar.org/op/greco/memos/aba_house302-0206.pdf
;
“ABA Policy and Report on Presidential Signing Statements and the Separation of Powers Doctrine,” American Bar Association, August 7–8, 2006,
http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/leadership/2006/annual/dailyjournal/20060823144113.authcheckdam.pdf
.

9
. George Corsetti, “Poletown Revisited,”
Counterpunch
, September 18–20, 2004,
http://www.counterpunch.org/2004/09/18/poletown-revisited
; Ralph Nader and Alan Hirsch, “Making Eminent Domain Humane,”
Villa-nova Law Review
49, no. 1 (2004): 207.

Chapter 5

1
. “Overview: FY2014 Defense Budget,” Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, April 2012, 1-1,
http://comptroller.defense.gov/defbudget/fy2014/FY2014_Budget_Request_Overview_Book.pdf
.