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dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372533/Britain-lone-parents-major-Euro-nation.

html.

36.

Helen Weathers, “Why does Britain have record levels of abortion and an unprecedented need for IVF?,”
The Daily Mail
, June 30, 2006; available online at http://

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-393236/Why-does-Britain-record-levels-abortion-unprecedented-need-IVF.html.

37.

Jack Grimston, “Children wear body armour school uniform,”
The Times
, September 9, 2007; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/

article2414704.ece

38.

“The plan for social security: full outline,”
The Guardian
, December 2, 1942; available online at http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,,127564,00.

html.

39.

Patrick Wintour, “Brown: Remembrance Sunday should become ‘British Day’,”

The Guardian
, January 14, 2006; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/

uk/2006/jan/14/britishidentity.labour.

40.

John Carvel, “Brown urged to create holiday on birthday of health service,”
The
Guardian
, January 1, 2008; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/

politics/2008/jan/01/uk.publicservices.

41.

Jason Groves, “’Shameless’ generation grows as seven million now live in households where no one works,”
The Daily Mail
, September 14, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1310220/7-million-live-jobless-households-works.html.

42.

Tim Shipman, “More than 900,000 have been off sick for a DECADE–costing taxpayer £4bn a year,”
The Daily Mail
, August 16, 2010; available online at http://

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303320/4bn-year-900-000-whove-decade-sick.html.

43.

Paul Sims, “Councils pay for disabled to visit prostitutes and lap-dancing clubs from £520m taxpayer fund,”
The Daily Mail
, August 16, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303273/Councils-pay-disabled-visit-prostitutes-lap-dancing-clubs.html.

44.

Abul Taher, “‘Soviet’ Britain swells amid the recession,”
The Times
, January 25, 2009; available online at http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/

economics/article5581225.ece.

45.

House of Commons, “A Century of Change: Trends in UK statistics since 1900,”

December 21, 1999; available online at http://www.parliament.uk/documents/

commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf.

46.

Alison Little, “20,000 Families to be put under 24/7 CCTV surveillance in their own homes ‘to change their bad behaviour’,”
The Daily Express
, July 29, 2009; available online at http://justgetthere.us/blog/archives/20,000-Families-to-be-put-under-247-CCTV-surveillance-in-their-own-homes-to-change-their-bad-behaviour.html.

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Chapter Six

1.

Michael Snyder, “The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove it,”
The Business Insider
, July 15, 2010; available online at http://

finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/the-u.s.-middle-class-is-being-wiped-out-here’s-the-stats-to-prove-it-520657.html?tickers=%5EDJI,%5EGSPC,SPY,MC

D,WMT,XRT,DIA.

2.

Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Data Retrieval: Labor Force Statistics (CPS)”; available online at http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab13.htm.

3.

Carolyn Dimitri, Anne Effland, and Neilson Conklin, “The 20th Century Transformation of U.S. Agriculture and Farm Policy,” US Department of Agriculture, June 3, 2005; available online at http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/eib3/eib3.

htm#changes and http://www.agclassroom.org/gan/timeline/farmers_land.htm.

4.

Remarks by the Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack before US House Committee on Agriculture in Washington, DC, May 12, 2011; available online at http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2011/05/0208.

xml&contentidonly=true.

5.

Aaron E. Cobet and Gregory A. Wilson, “Comparing 50 years of labor productivity in U.S. and foreign manufacturing,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2002; available online at http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2002/06/art4full.pdf.

6.

Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Employment Situation Summary,” May 6, 2011; available online at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm.

7.

Dennis Cauchon, “Summer jobs hit all-time low for youths,”
USA Today
, September 3, 2010; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/

employment/2010-09-03-youth-unemployment_N.htm.

8.

Susan Page, “Married? Single? Status affects how women vote,”
USA Today
, August 25, 2004; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselec-tions/nation/polls/2004-08-25-female-vote_x.htm.

9.

US Department of Commerce, “Projections of the Number of Households and Families in the United States: 1995 to 2010,” 2010; available online at http://www.

census.gov/prod/1/pop/p25-1129.pdf.

10.

U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2008 Annual Social and Economic Supplement.

11.

“Busy Not Running GM,”
Wall Street Journal
, June 3, 2009; available online at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124389952143874411.html.

12.

John Tamny, “Memo To Washington: Let GM Fail,”
Forbes
, July 10, 2008; available online at http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/gm-washington-detroit-oped-cx_jt_0710tamny.html.

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13.

Robert W. Crandall and Clifford Winston, “Detroit Needs a Selloff, Not a Bailout,”
Wall Street Journal
, November 28, 2008; available online at http://online.

wsj.com/article/SB122783248646663009.html.

14.

Testimony of Rick Wagoner (CEO of the General Motors Corporation) to the United States Senate in Washington, D.C., November 18, 2008; available online at http://s.wsj.net//files/03/40/51/f034051/public/resources/documents/WSJ_WagonerTestimony-081118.pdf.

15.

Associated Press, “Detroit Three erasing productivity gap,” June 5, 2008; available online at http://www.rrstar.com/archive/x142951738/Detroit-Three-erasing-productivity-gap.

16.

Jennifer Harper, “Kerry aims to rescue newspapers,”
The Washington Times
, April 22, 2009; available online at http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/

apr/22/kerry-aims-to-rescue-newspaper-industry/.

17.

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre,
The Ruins of Detroit
(London: Steidl, 2011).

18.

John Huey, “Assignment Detroit: Why Time Inc. Is in Motown,”
Time
, September 24, 2009; available online at http://www.time.com/time/nation/

article/0,8599,1925681,00.html.

19.

Jonathan Oosting, “Detroit school board president struggles to write a coherent sentence; does it matter?” MLive.com, March 4, 2010; available online at http://

www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/03/detroit_school_board_president.

html.

20.

Anthony Daniels, “Britain, benign & proud,” Speech reprinted in
The New Criterion
, January 2011; available online at http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.

cfm/Britain--benign---proud-6752.

21.

Laura Berman, “Does DPS leader’s writing send wrong message?”
The Detroit
News
, March 4, 2010; available online at http://detnews.com/article/20100304/

OPINION03/3040437/Does-DPS-leader-s-writing-send-wrong-message.

22.

Michelle Malkin, “Diplomas Won’t Make Jihadis Go Away, Barack,”
Human
Events
, July 16, 2008; available online at http://www.humanevents.com/article.

php?id=27552.

23.

Laura Berman, “Does DPS leader’s writing send wrong message?”
The Detroit
News
.

24.

“Detroit: Now a Ghost Town,”
Time
, 2009; available online at http://www.time.

com/time/interactive/0,31813,1925735,00.html.

25.

Henry Payne, “Unions of Urban Decay,”
National Review
Online, August 6, 2007; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/221777/unions-urban-decay/henry-payne.

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26.

Steven Gray, “In Detroit, Nearly 50% Unemployment Rate?”
Time
, December 16, 2009; available online at http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2009/12/16/in-detroit-nearly-50-unemployment-rate/.

27.

Ibid.

28.

John Huey, “Assignment Detroit: Why Time Inc. is in Motown,”
Time
, September 24, 2009; available online at http://www.time.com/time/nation/

article/0,8599,1925681,00.html.

29.

Niall Ferguson, “Empire Falls,”
Vanity Fair
, October 2006; available online at http://fnf.org.ph/downloadables/Empire_Falls_as_published_in_Vanity_Fair_

Oct_06.pdf.

30.

Centers for Disease Control, “Prevalence of overweight, obesity and extreme obesity among adults: United States, trends 1960-62 through 2005-2006”; available online at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/overweight/overweight_

adult.htm.

31.

John G. Spangler, “Childhood Obesity: Attacking a Crushing Epidemic,”

ABCNews.com, May 13, 2010; available online at http://abcnews.go.com/Health/

Wellness/childhood-obesity-white-house-task-force-childhood-obesity/

story?id=10631915.

32.

“Not grrrreat: After five decades, anti-obesity Bill could ban cartoon Tony the tiger from TV,”
The Daily Mail
, May 19, 2008; available online at http://www.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1015879/Not-grrrreat-After-50-years-anti-obesity-Bill-ban-Tony-tiger-TV.html.

33.

Sharon Bernstein, “San Francisco bans Happy Meals,”
Los Angeles Times
, November 2, 2010; available online at http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/02/business/

la-fi-happy-meals-20101103.

34.

Public Health Agency of Canada, “Preconception Health and Folic Acid,” 2005; available online at http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/fa-af/backgrounder-eng.php.

35.

Steven Reinberg, “Folic Acid Fortification Might Boost Cancer Risk,” ABCNews.

com, November 18, 2009; available online at http://abcnews.go.com/Health/

Healthday/folic-acid-fortification-boost-cancer-risk/story?id=9109220.

36.

Senator Richard Lugar, “Lugar praises passage of child nutrition bill,” press release, August 5, 2010; available online at http://lugar.senate.gov/record.

cfm?id=327017&.

37.

Madison Park, “Ex-military leaders: Young adults ‘too fat to fight’,” CNN, April 20, 2010; available online at http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/20/military.

fat.fight/index.html.

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38.

Viktoria Lapko, “Family Becomes Extinct, To Be Replaced with Feminism and Gender Equality,” Pravda, August 19, 2010; available online at http://english.

pravda.ru/history/19-08-2010/114665-family_feminism_gender_equality-0/.

39.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar,” August 31, 1837.

40.

“Follow the Leader,”
The Economist
, July 8, 2010; available online at http://www.

economist.com/node/16542808.

41.

Paul A. Rahe,
Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift
(Yale University Press, 2010).

42.

Kenneth Minogue, “The New Epicureans,”
The New Criterion
, September 2001; available online at http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-new-Epicureans-2131.

43.

“Millionaire gay fathers celebrate arrival of twins with triple christening ceremony,”
The Daily Mail
, July 3, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.

co.uk/news/article-1291664/Millionaire-gay-fathers-Barrie-Tony-Drewitt-Barlow-celebrate-arrival-twins-triple-christening-ceremony.html.

44.

James Bone, “‘Pregnant man’ Thomas Beatie gives birth to baby girl,”
The Times
, July 4, 2008; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/

us_and_americas/article4265368.ece.

45.

Julia Steinecke, “Border skirmishes,”
The Toronto Star
, August 15, 2009; available online at http://www.thestar.com/travel/article/680107.

46.

Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha,
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of
Modern Sexuality
(New York: Harper, 2010).

47.

Jared Diamond, “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race,”
Discover
, May 1987; available online at http://www.scribd.com/doc/2100251/Jared-Diamond-The-Worst-Mistake-in-the-History-of-the-Human-Race.

48.

Roger Scruton,
The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope
(Oxford University Press, 2010).

49.

George F. Will, “Why Mike Pence catches conservatives’ eyes,” The
Washington
Post
, December 8, 2010; available online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/

wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/08/AR2010120805110.html.

50.

Centers for Disease Control, “National Vital Statistics Report,” August 9, 2010; available online at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr58/nvsr58_24.pdf.

51.

Milton and Rose Friedman,
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
(New York: Harcourt, 1979).

52.

Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa, “Sen. John Kerry skips town on sails tax,”
The
Boston Herald
, July 23, 2010; available online at http://www.bostonherald.com/

track/inside_track/view.bg?articleid=1269698.