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18
. Lawrence Solomon, "Limited role for C02,"
National Post
(Canada), February 2, 2007,
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=069cb5b2-7d8l-4a8e-825d-56e0f112aeb5&k=0
.
19
. Phil Chapman, "Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh,"
Austra
lian
, April 23, 2008,
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0.25197.23583376-7583.00.html
.
20
. Piper Fogg, "Saving the Planet, by Degrees,"
Chronicle of Higher Education
, October 20, 2006.
21
. Jennifer Weeks, "Planet Earth 101: Why more and more campuses are seeing green in going green,"
Boston Globe Magazine
, October 5, 2008.
22
. "What Is a Sustainable University,"
Chronicle of Higher Education
, October 20, 2006.
23
. Lisa W. Foderaro, "Without Cafeteria Trays, Colleges Find Savings,"
New York Times
, April 29, 2009.
24
. Ibid.
25
. Richard Monastersky, "Colleges Strain to Reach Climate-Friendly Future,"
Chronicle of Higher Education
, December 14, 2007.
26
. Will Potter, "The First Certified 'Green' Dormitory,"
Chronicle of Higher Education
, March 26, 2004.
27
. Monastersky, "Colleges Strain to Reach Climate-Friendly Future."
28
. Richard Monastersky, "Truth in Advertising: Middlebury College's Biomass Plant,"
Chronicle of Higher Education
, October 20, 2006.
29
. Ibid.
30
. Ibid.
31
. Monastersky, "Colleges Strain to Reach Climate-Friendly Future."
32
. Scott Carlson, "In Search of the Sustainable Campus: With eyes on the future, universities try to clean up their acts,"
Chronicle of Higher Education
, October 20, 2006.
33
. Ibid.
34
. Ibid.
35
. Monastersky, "Colleges Strain to Reach Climate-Friendly Future."
36
. Ibid.
37
. Ibid.
38
. Editorial, "Wind ($23.37) v. Gas (25 Cents),"
Wall Street Journal
, May 12, 2008.
39
. Ibid.
40
. Ibid.
41
. Monastersky, "Colleges Strain to Reach Climate-Friendly Future."
42
. Marc Morano, "Celebs Ignore Death, Poverty on MTV Enviro Series,"
CNSNews.com, April 25, 2005, http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/2005-04-28/celebs.htm.
43
. Ned Martel, "Eco-Lessons Taught in a Surfer-Girl Patois,"
New York Times,
March 28, 2005.
44
. Morano, "Celebs Ignore Death, Poverty on MTV Enviro Series."
45
. Alessandra Stanley, "Sounding the Global-Warming Alarm Without Upsetting the Fans,"
New York Times
, July 9, 2007.
46
. Ibid.
47
. "Live Earth is promoting green to save the planet--what planet are they on?"
Daily Mail
(London), July 7, 2007,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-466775/Live-Earth-promoting-green-save-planet--planet-on.html
.
48
. "Cameron Diaz's Potty Mouth,"
Radar Online
, May 9, 2009,
http://www.radarmagazine.com/exclusives/2009/05/cameron-diazs-potty-mouth
.
49
. "More Than 700 (Previously 650) International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims," U.S. Senate Minority Report, December 11, 2008, http://epw.senate.gov//files/13/87/40/f138740/public/index.cfm? FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=d6d95751 -802a-23ad-4496-7ec7e1641f2f.
50
. Erika Lovely, "Scientists urge caution on global warming," Politico
,
November 25, 2008, http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid= D0C4924D-18FE-70B2-A808D77A9C1FFFD3.
51
. Comment on Grist.org by Andy Revkin, March 8, 2008,
http://www.grist.org/member/view-all/comments/2231
.
52
. Andrew C. Revkin, "In Debate on Climate Change, Exaggeration Is a Common Pitfall,"
New York Times
, February 25, 2009.
53
. Steven Milloy, "The
Real
Inconvenient Truth: Some facts about greenhouse and global warming," Junk Science, August 2007,
http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/
.
54
. Dudley J. Hughes, "Carbon Dioxide Levels Are a Blessing, Not a Problem,"
Environment & Climate News
, Heartland Institute, May 1, 2007,
http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results/20952/Carbon_Dioxide
_Levels_Are_a_Blessing_Not_a_Problem.html
.
55
. Michael Asher, "Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling," Daily Tech
,
February 26, 2008, http://www.dailytech.com/
Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article 10866.htm.
56
. Michael Asher, "Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data,"
Daily Tech,
August 9, 2007,
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=8383
.
57
. "Green fuels produce twice as much carbon as fossil fuels," Tele graph.Co.Uk, April, 14, 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenertransport/5153781/Green-fuels-produce-twice-as-much-car bon-as-fossil-fuels.html.
58
. "Think twice about 'green' transport, say scientists," Breitbart.com, June 7, 2009, http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.243153c6a091a3b942a75077729e8c92.c51&show_article=1.
59
. Ian Murray, "Time to recycle recycling," Competitive Enterprise Institute, June 6, 2008, http://cei.org/articles/time-recycle-recy cling.

Chapter 6: Health-Care Hypnosis

1
. "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008," Congressional Budget Office, September 2009, http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/news_con ferences/014226.html.
2
. Michael D. Tanner, "Who are the uninsured?"
Philadelphia Inquirer
, August 20, 2009.
3
. "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008."
4
. "Obama's mother of all political lies and the town hall mayhem it caused,"
Naked Emperor News,
August 10, 2009, http://www.breitbart.tv/naked-emperor-news-obamas-mother-of-all-political-lies -and-the-town-hall-mayhem-it-caused/.
5
. "White House releases list of health executive visitors," Associated Press, July 23, 2009, http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-healthcare-talks23-2009jul23.0.220833.story.
6
. David Espo, "Drug firms cut secret deal with Obama, Congress," Cap
itol Hill Blue, June 21, 2009,
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/18223
.
7
. "The truth about health insurance,"
Wall Street Journal
, August 12, 2009.
8
. Hilton Friedman, "How to Cure Health Care," Hoover Digest, 2001, http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3459466.html.
9
. Devon Herrick and Ariel House, "Competition, Deregulation Can Make Health Insurance Affordable," Heartland Institute, http://www.heartland.org/publications/health%20care/article/24019/Com petition_Deregulation_Can_Make_Health_Insurance_Affordable.html.
10
. Ann Coulter, "Liberal Lies About National Health Care: First In a Series,"
Human Events
Online, August 19, 2009, http://www.hu manevents.com/article.php?id=33213.
11
. Natalie Morales, "Importance of youth vote," NBC
Today
show, February 4, 2008.
12
. Barack Obama, Northwestern University Commencement Address, June 16, 2006, http://www.obamaspeeches.com/079-Northwestern -University-Commencement-Address-Obama-Speech.htm.
13
. Lois Romano, "Generation Y: Ready to rock the 2008 election,"
Washington Post
, January 10, 2008.
14
. Michael Pollan, "Big food vs. big insurance,"
New York Times
, September 9, 2009.
15
. Jim Geraghty, "A Long and Contradictory Laundry List of Promises,"
National Review Online
's The Campaign Spot, http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2UzZWO2YTAxNmRmMDk2ZDE4ZDB1ZTEyMTA1ZDFmNDI=.
16
. Ed Morrissey, "A brief lesson on markets and rationing," HotAir.com, July 21, 2009, http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/21/a-brief-les son-on-markets-and-rationing/.
17
. Erica Williams, "For Young Americans, Health Care Reform Is Our Fight," Huffington Post
,
August 6, 2009, http://www.huffington post.com/erica-williams/for-young-americans-healt_b_252858.html, accessed October 27, 2009.
18
. David Walker, "Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: Action Is Needed to Avoid the Possibility of a Serious Economic Disruption in the Future," testimony before the Senate Budge Committee, General Accounting Office, January 29, 2008, http://gao.gov/new.items/d08411t.pdf.
19
. Ibid.
20
. Shawn Tully, "5 freedoms you'd lose in health care reform," CNNMoney.com, July 24, 2009, http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/24/news/economy/health_
care_reform_obama.fortune/.
21
. Robert Book, "Who Will Make Your Health Care 'Choices'?" Heritage Foundation's Foundry blog, July 29, 2009, http://blog.heritage.org/2009/07/29/who-will-make-your-health-care-choices/.
22
. "Young people the biggest losers in health care reform?" Rock the Vote press release, July 28, 2009, http://www.rockthevote.com/about/press-room/press-releases/wall-street-journal.html.
23
. Karyn Schwartz and Tanya Schwartz, "Uninsured young adults: A profile and overview of coverage options," Kaiser Family Foundation, June 2008.

Chapter 7: The Economic Igor

1
. Paul R. La Monica, "Behind the minimum wage debate," CNNMoney.com, September 5, 2008, http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/05/markets/thebuzz/index.htm.
2
. Ben Adler, "Democrats try to get hip to young voters," Politico
,
September 26, 2007,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/6015.html
.
3
. Barack Obama speech at the AFL-CIO Labor Day Picnic in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 7, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Labor -Day-Reform-and-the-Fight-for-Whats-Right/.
4
. James Sherk, "Raising the minimum wage will not reduce poverty," Heritage Foundation, January 8, 2007,
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Labor/bg1994.cfm
.
5
. Scott Mayerowitz, "Relief for Workers at Bottom: Minimum Wage Goes Up," ABC News, July 24, 2009, http://a.abcnews.com/Business/Story?id=8159485&page=1.
6
. David Neumark, "Delay the Minimum-Wage Hike,"
Wall Street Journal
, June 12, 2009.
7
. Tim Kane, "Minimizing Economic Opportunity by Raising the Minimum Wage," Heritage Foundation, March 4, 2005,
http://www.heritage.org/research/economy/wm676.cfm
.
8
. "The Young and the Jobless,"
Wall Street Journal
, October 3, 2009.
9
. Diane Stafford, "Unemployment rate hits record low for young people in July,"
Kansas City Star
, August 27, 2009,
http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1409954.html
.
10
. Fred Lucas, "Obama's for Equal Pay, Yet Pays Female Staffers Less Than Males," CNSNews.com, June 30, 2008,
http://www.cnsnews.com/Public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=32005
.
11
. Cait Murphy, "Obama Flunks Econ 101," CNNMoney.com, June 6, 2007, http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/04/magazines/fortune/muphy_pay act.fortune/index.htm.
12
. James Sherk, "Paycheck Fairness Act Unfairly Burdens Employees and Employers," Heritage Foundation, July 30, 2008.
13
. Rachel Breitman, "Young women earn more than men in big U.S. cities," Reuters, August 3, 2007,
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0334472920070803
.
14
. Wendy McElroy, "Why Men Earn More," Fox News, February 24, 2005,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0.2933.148407.00.html
.
15
. Fred Lucas, "Obama Pays Women Only 78 Percent of What He Pays Men," CNSNews.com September 18, 2008,
http://www.cnsnews.com//files/13/87/40/f138740/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=35972
.

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