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John Kitchen and Menzie Chinn, “Financing U.S. Debt: Is There Enough Money in the World – and At What Cost?” University of Wisconsin, August 2010; available online at http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~mchinn/Kitchen_Chinn_apr11.pdf.

29.

Christopher S. Johnson, “How Much Ruin is in a Nation?: The Spain of Philip IV,”
First Things
, March 24, 2011; available online at http://www.firstthings.com/

onthesquare/2011/03/how-much-ruin-is-in-a-nation.

30.

Samuel P. Huntington,
Who Are We?: The Challenges to America’s National Identity
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005).

31.

Lawrence Kudlow, “France’s Problem is a Statist-Run Socialist Economy,”

RealClearPolitics.com, March 27, 2006; available online at http://www.

realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/03/paddle_the_french_fanny.html.

32.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, “Education at a Glance 2009: OECD Indicators,” (Indicator B1 How much is spent per student?), 2009; available online at http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,3343

,en_2649_39263238_43586328_1_1_1_37455,00.html.

33.

Edward Luce, “The crisis of middle-class America,”
Financial Times
, July 30, 2010; available online at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1a8a5cb2-9ab2-11df-87e6-00144feab49a.html.

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34.

Bureau of the Public Debt, “Commissioner’s Welcome,” 2011; available online at http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/whoweare/welcome.htm.

35.

Niall Ferguson, “An Empire at Risk,”
Newsweek
, November 28, 2009; available online at http://www.newsweek.com/2009/11/27/an-empire-at-risk.html.

36.

Samuel P. Huntington,
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998).

Chapter one

1.

University of Toronto Library, “Hughes (Elizabeth) Papers”; available online at http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/hughes_elizabeth.

pdf.

2.

“Mary Carmichael and Sharon Begley, “Desperately Seeking Cures,”
Newsweek
, May 15, 2010; available online at http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/15/

desperately-seeking-cures.html.

3.

Henkles & McCoy, “1969”; available online at http://www.henkels.com/Timeline/

Pages/TL1969.aspx.

4.

Remarks during Special Joint Session of Congress in Washington, D.C., May 25, 1961; facts available online http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/history/.

5.

William Safire, “In Event of Moon Disaster,” memo to President Richard Nixon, July 18, 1969; available online at http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/whitehouse-lost-space-scenarios.

6.

Bruce Charlton, “Human capability peaked before 1975 and has since declined,”

Bruce Charlton’s Miscellany blog, June 22, 2011; available online at http://

charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2010/06/human-capability-peaked-about-1975-and.html.

7.

Remarks on Al Jazeera’s Talk to Al Jazeera, June 30, 2010; available online at http://

english.aljazeera.net/programmes/talktojazeera/2010/07/201071122234471970.

html.

8.

The Guardian
, “Astronauts Were ‘Trinity of Evil’, Says Banned Cleric,” February 3, 2003; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2003/feb/03/

spaceexploration.columbia13.

9.

Jeanne Sahadi, “Obama sketches out recovery plan,” CNNMoney.com, January 3, 2009; available online at http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/03/news/economy/

obama_stimulus/index.htm?postversion=2009010306.

10.

Katrina vanden Heuvel, “A Trillion Dollar Recovery,”
The Nation
, December 30, 2008; available online at http://www.thenation.com/blog/trillion-dollar-recovery?page=0,0,0,3.

notes

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11.

Mark I. Pinksy, “Write Now,”
The New Republic
, December 8, 2008; available online at http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/write-now.

12.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Address at the Dedication of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam,”

September 30, 1935; available online http://books.google.com/books?id=SYeE

mU2aW9EC&pg=PA311&lpg=PA311&dq=This+morning+I+came,+I+saw,+

and+I+was+conquered,+as+everyone+would+be+who+sees+for+the+first+

time+this+great+feat+of+mankind&source=bl&ots=_ei3wFH-9M&sig=zAhdn5KDbUAmQWQM9oNv6-UAN-8&hl=en&ei=3wLUTZOaIej 30gGQ1JTYCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6

AEwAA#v=onepage&q=This%20morning%20I%20came%2C%20I%20

saw%2C%20and%20I%20was%20conquered%2C%20as%20everyone%20

would%20be%20who%20sees%20for%20the%20first%20time%20this%20

great%20feat%20of%20mankind&f=false.

13.

Remarks made during an Urban Land Institute symposium in Las Vegas, Nevada, December 8-9, 2009; facts available online at http://www.politico.com/news/

stories/1110/45376_Page2.html, http://atlincolnhouse.typepad.com/

weblog/2009/12/talking-water.html, and http://www.uli.org/sitecore/content/

ULI2Home/ResearchAndPublications/CenterfortheWest/WaterSummit.aspx.

14.

Mushtaq Yufzai, “Taliban Commanders See Victory in the Sacking of U.S. General,”
The Daily Beast
, June 25, 2010; available online at http://www.thedailybeast.

com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-25/taliban-mcchrystal-sacking-a-victory/.

15.

Remarks during State of the Union Address in Washington, DC, January 20, 2004; available online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/

transcripts/bushtext_012004.html. The actual quote is: “I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.”

16.

Anthony Tommasini, “Music; The Devil Made Him Do It,”
New York Times
, September 30, 2001; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/30/

arts/music-the-devil-made-him-do-it.html.

17.

The Telegraph
, “Obituary: Karlheinz Stockhausen,” December 8, 2007; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1571861/Karlheinz-Stockhausen.html.

18.

Remarks on WOR radio in New York, New York, February 19, 2010; available online at http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-02-19/local/27056722_1_port-authority-larry-silverstein-world-trade-center.

19.

CNN, “38 Years Ago, World Trade Center Opened,” April 4, 2011; available online at http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/04/38-years-ago-world-trade-center-opened/.

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20.

Jim Yardley, “Chinese Dam Projects Criticized for Their Human Costs,”
New York
Times
, November 19, 2007; available online at http://www.nytimes.

com/2007/11/19/world/asia/19dam.html.

21.

Facts available online at Burj Khalifa’s website; http://www.burjkhalifa.ae/.

22.

Henry Mance, “Brazil’s huge river diversion project divides opinion,” BBC News, April 12, 2010; available online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8575010.stm.

23.

James Lileks, “NRO Symposium: Did It Change Us?”
National Review
Online, September 11, 2006; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/

articles/218680/did-it-change-us-nro-symposium.

24.

Leslie H. Gelb, “Necessity, Choice, and Common Sense,”
Foreign Affairs
, May/

June 2009; available online at http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/64966/

leslie-h-gelb/necessity-choice-and-common-sense.

25.

The British Museum, “Christopher Wren, Design for the Dome of St Paul’s Catherdral, a drawing in brown ink over pencil”; available online at http://www.

britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/c/christopher_

wren,_design_for_t.aspx.

Chapter two

1.

Interview with David Wigg in London, England, October 8, 1969; available online at: http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1969.1008.beatles.html.

2.

Reuters, “Key Facts About Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,”
USA Today
, July 13, 2008; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/

housing/2008-07-12-facts-fannie-freddie_N.htm.

3.

Matthew Daneman, “Kodak Still a Vital Cog,”
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
, February 4, 2008; available online at http://www.rochesterbusinessalliance.com/

core/contentmanager/uploads/PDFs/News%20articles/0204%20Kodak%20

DANDC.pdf.

4.

Michael P. Fleischer, “Why I’m Not Hiring,”
Wall Street Journal
, August 9, 2010; available online at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704017904

575409733776372738.html.

5.

Maria Glod, “Va. Yogis Seek Rapture, Not Regulation,”
Washington Post
, August 24, 2009; available online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/

article/2009/08/23/AR2009082302152.html.

6.

Morris M. Kleiner,
Licensing Occupations: Ensuring Quality or Restricting Competition?
, Upjohn Institute Press, 2006; facts available online at http://www.

bizpacreview.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.details&ArticleId=19421.

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7.

Patricia Reaney, “Washington, D.C. favorite area for wealthy young,” Reuters, September 16, 2009; available online at http://www.reuters.com/

article/2009/09/16/us-wealth-young-idUSTRE58F3GF20090916.

8.

Ibid.

9.

“The Richest Counties in America,”
Newsweek
, November 10, 2010; available online at http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/10/the-richest-counties-in-america.all.html.

10.

Laurence J. Kotlikoff and David Rapson, “Does It Pay, at the Margin, to Work and Save? Measuring Effective Marginal Taxes on Americans’ Labor Supply and Saving,” National Bureau of Economic Research, May, 2007; available online at http://www.nber.org/chapters/c0048.pdf?new_window=1.

11.

Town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Florida, February 10, 2009; available online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Fort-Myers-Town-Hall/.

12.

Peter Nicholas, “Obama’s ‘New Foundation’ gives way – maybe to a catchier catchphrase,”
Los Angeles Times
, February 9, 2011; available online at http://

articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/09/nation/la-na-new-foundation-20110209.

13.

Marion Daily Star
, 1899; also see William Safire,
Safire’s Political Dictionary
(Oxford University Press, 2008); available online at http://books.google.com/

books?id=c4UoX6-Sv1AC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=Our+various+and+sun dry+supplies+of+gray+matter+may+as+well+be+controlled+by+a+central+

syndicate.Our+various+and+sundry+supplies+of+gray+matter+may+as+we ll+be+controlled+by+a+central+syndicate.&source=bl&ots=V1wh3zqsLl&sig

=F6A3N2pGsMoneiBYkL1fxzenR20&hl=en&ei=AjmzTb6rBaKD0QGYvdiqC

Q&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAQ#v=o nepage&q&f=false.

14.

Remarks at a fundraiser in San Francisco, California, April 6, 2008; available online at http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0408/Obama_on_small-town_PA_Clinging_religion_guns_xenophobia.html.

15.

Remarks at a campaign stop in Muncie, Indiana, April 12, 2008; facts available online at http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/04/12/us-usa-politics-idUSN1116676020080412.

16.

Remarks at a campaign stop in Roseburg, Oregon, May 16, 2008; facts available online at http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w.

17.

Neil Irwin, “Economic growth slows to 2.4 percent in 2Q,”
Washington Post
, July 30, 2010; available online at http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-economy/2010/07/economic_growth_slows_to_24_pe.html.

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18.

Interview with Don Imus; facts available online at http://washingtonexaminer.

com/op-eds/2009/07/douglas-mackinnon-don-t-bother-these-guys-facts.

19.

David Brooks, “The Insider’s Crusade,”
New York Times
, November 21, 2008; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/opinion/21brooks.html.

20.

Jonathan Alter,
The Promise: President Obama, Year One
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010); facts available online at http://www.claremont.org/publications/

crb/id.1764/article_detail.asp.

21.

Remarks to the Greater Boson Chamber of Commerce in Boston, Massachusetts, October 28, 2010; facts available online at http://www.boston.com/news/local/

massachusetts/articles/2010/10/28/kerry_says_democrats_have_been_fixing_

gop_problems/.

22.

Speech in Boston, Massachusetts, April 22, 2006; available online at http://www.

scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0604/S00399.htm; Monticello.org, “Spurious Quotes,”

available online at http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/

spurious-quotes.

23.

Jamie Stiehm, “Oval Office Rug Gets History Wrong,”
Washington Post
, September 4, 2010; available online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con tent/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090305100.html.

24.

Remarks at the Democrat National Gala, September 29, 2002; facts available online at http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.asp and http://www.barbrastreisand.com/

us/truth-alert/julius-caesar-quote-used-democratic-national-gala-speech.

25.

Michael C. Moynihan, “The Extreme Rhetoric about Extreme Rhetoric (With Bonus Fake Sinclair Lewis Fascism Quote!),”
Reason
, January 11, 2011; available online at http://reason.com/blog/2011/01/11/the-extreme-rhetoric-about-ext.

26.

Michael Young, “Down With Meritocracy,”
The Guardian
, June 29, 2001; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/jun/29/comment.