Liberty and Tyranny (25 page)

35
Conrad F. Meier, “Politicians Using Flawed Data of Uninsured Population,” Heartland Institute, Dec. 2004, http://www.heart land.org/policybot/results.html?artId=16014.

36
Daniel Martin, “A&E Patients Left in Ambulances for up to Five Hours ‘So Trusts Can Meet Government Targets,’”
Daily Mail
(London), Feb. 18, 2008.

37
Ibid.

38
Celia Hall, “Patients Wait Year for Hip Surgery,”
Daily Telegraph
(London), Dec. 21, 2006.

39
Ibid.

40
Tom Leonard, “British Cancer Boy Needs £375,000 for Pioneering US Care,”
Daily Telegraph
(London), Jan. 23, 2007.

41
Sarah-Kate Templeton, “NHS Dentists Play as Patients Wait,”
Times of London
, March 30, 2008.

42
Sarah Lyall, “In a Dentist Shortage, British (Ouch) Do It Themselves,”
New York Times
, May 7, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/world/europe/07teeth.html.

43
Laura Donnelly, “Don’t Treat the Old and Unhealthy, Say Doctors,”
Daily Telegraph
(London), Sept. 26, 2008, http://www.tele graph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576704Don’t-treat-the-old-and-un healthy,-say-doctors.html.

44
Steve Brusk, “Clinton Drops Hospital Story From Stump Speech,”
CNN.com, April 6, 2008, http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/06/clinton.hospital/.

45
Editorial, “State Denies Cancer Treatment, Offers Suicide Instead,”
WorldNetDaily
, June 19, 2008, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67565; Editorial, “Fix This Medical Ethics Glitch,”
Oregonian
, July 29, 2008.

46
Ibid.

47
Edmund Burke and Edward John Payne,
Burke, Select Works
(Clark, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2005), 71.

48
Jeffery M. Jones, “Majority of Americans Satisfied With Their Healthcare Plans,” Gallup, Nov. 29, 2007, http://www.gallup.com/poll/102934/Majority-Americans-Satisfied-Their-Own-Healthcare.aspx.

49
Tom Daschle,
Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis
(New York: St. Martin’s, 2008).

50
Tony Blankley, “Daschle-Obama Health Care Possibilities” (citing Daschle, 179), Townhall.com, Nov. 26, 2008, http://town hall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2008/11/26/daschle-obama_ health_care_possibilities.

51
Blankley, “Daschle-Obama,” (citing Daschle, 125).

8: O
N
E
NVIRO
-S
TATISM

1
George Reisman,
Capitalism: A Treatise On Economics
(Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson, 1998), 81.

2
Gerald and Natalie Sirkin, “DDT, Fraud, and Tragedy,”
American Spectator
, Feb. 25, 2005, http://www.spectator.org/archives/2005/02/25/ddt-fraud-and-tragedy.

3
“The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1948,” Nobel Foun
dation, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1948.

4
J. Gordon Edwards, “A Case Study in Scientific Fraud,”
Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
, 9.3 (2004).

5
Malcolm Gladwell, “The Mosquito Killer,”
New Yorker
, July 2, 2001, 48.

6
Tina Rosenberg, “What the World Needs Now is DDT,”
New York Times
, April 11, 2004.

7
National Academy of Sciences,
The Life Sciences
, (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences Press, 1970).

8
Rachel Carson,
Silent Spring
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962).

9
Ronald Bailey, “
Silent Spring
at 40: Rachel Carson’s Classic is not Aging Well,”
Reason,
June 12, 2002, www.reason.com/news/show/34823.html.

10
Rosenberg, “What the World Needs Now.”

11
Gladwell, “The Mosquito Killer,” 42.

12
David Brown, “WHO Urges Use of DDT in Africa,”
Washington Post
, Sept. 16, 2006, A9, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/15/AR2006091501012.html.

13
Marjorie Mazel Hecht, “In Africa, DDT Makes a Comeback to Save Lives,”
Executive Intelligence Review
, June 18, 2004, http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/sci_techs/3124ddt_africa.html.

14
Steven Milloy, “Day of Reckoning for DDT Foes?”
Washington Times
, Sept. 24, 2006, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/sep/24/20060924-085112-7380r/quoting
In the Matter of Stevens Industries, Inc., et al., L.F. & R. Docket Nos. 63, et al. (Consolidated DDT Hearings) Hearing Examiner’s Recommended Findings, Conclusions, and Orders,
April 25, 1972: 93, 94.

15
Milloy, “Day of Reckoning.”

16
Ibid.; Gerald and Natalie Sirkin, “Highlights of the Sierra Club’s History,” Sierra Club, www.sierraclub.org/history/timeline.asp; “25 Years After DDT Ban, Bald Eagles, Osprey Numbers Soar,” Environmental Defense Fund, press release, June 13, 1997, www.edf.org/pressrelease.cfm?contentID=2446.

17
Lauren Neergaad, “WHO Calls for More DDT Use vs. Malaria,” CBS News, Sept. 15, 2006, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/15/ap/health/mainD8K5C8QG1.shtml.

18
Todd Seavey, “The DDT Ban Turns 30—Millions Dead of Malaria Because of Ban, More Deaths Likely,” American Council on Science and Health, June 1, 2001, http://www.acsh.org/health issues/newsID.442/healthissue_detail.asp.

19
Ibid.

20
“No Compromise in Defense of Mother Earth,”
Earth First! Journal
, http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/section.php?id=1&PHPSES SID=fe1e40acb1646466cd78cf4c8fc90415.

21
David M. Graber, “Mother Nature as a Hothouse Flower; The End of Nature by Bill McKibben,” book review,
Los Angeles Times
, Oct. 22, 1989, 9.

22
Marc Morano, “Flush Toilets Called ‘Environmental Disaster,’” Cybercast News Service, June 12, 2003, http://www.cnsnews.com//files/01/77/84/f017784/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=5615.

23
“Greenpeace Exhibits Bulb Innovations for the Climate at the Philips Innovation Centre,” Greenpeace, press release, June 29, 2007, http://www.greenpeace.org/india/press/releases/greenpeace-exhibits-bulb-innov.

24
Helen Kennedy, “Rumsfeld Goes on the Warpath, Ready to Whip N. Korea, Too,”
Daily News
(New York), Dec. 24, 2002, 3.

25
Keith Bradsher, “As Asia Keeps Cool, Scientists Worry About the Ozone Layer,”
New York Times
, Feb. 23, 2007, C1.

26
Molly Millett, “Coming Clean; Green Machines—New Washers That Use Less Water and Energy—Get the Guilt Out. But They’re Not Cheap,”
Saint Paul Pioneer Press
, Nov. 4, 2000, E1.

27
Laura Snider, “Gas Lawn Mowers Belch Pollution, New Electric Lawn Service Comes to Boulder,”
Daily Camera
(Boulder, Colo.), July 27, 2007, http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2007/jul/27/gas-lawn-mowers-belch-pollution/; Patricia Monahan, “Mow Down Pollution,”
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
, May 28, 2006, http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/search/s_455613.html; Matthew L. Wald, “Keep the Charcoal Off the Grill, Utilities Say,”
New York Times
, May 29, 1994.

28
Editorial, “Dems’ Energy Answer: Snake Oil,”
Investor’s Business Daily
, Nov. 27, 2006, A19.

29
Charli E. Coon, “Why the Government’s CAFE Standards for Fuel Efficiency Should Be Repealed, not Increased,” Backgrounder 1458, Heritage Foundation, July 11, 2001, http://www. heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/BG1458.cfm.

30
Robert W. Crandall and John D. Graham, “The Effect of Fuel Economy Standards on Automobile Safety,” 32
Journal of Law and Economics
97 (Jan. 1989), 118.

31
Julie DeFalco, “The Deadly Effects of Fuel Economy Standards: CAFE’s Lethal Impact on Auto Safety,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, June 1999, http://cei.org/PDFs/cafe2.pdf.

32
James R. Healey, “Death by the Gallon,”
USA Today
, July 2, 1999, B1.

33
Paul R. Portney et al.,
Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Aver-
age Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards
(Washington, D.C.: National Academy, 2002), 3. See also Paul R. Portney et al., “Statement before U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Aug. 2, 2001,” http://www7.nationalacademies.org/ocga/testimony/Fuel_Economy_Standards.asp.

34
John Adams,
The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations,
vol. 6 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1851), 9.

35
Ronald D. Utt, “Will Sprawl Gobble Up America’s Land? Federal Data Reveal Development’s Trivial Impact,” Backgrounder 1556, Heritage Foundation, March 30, 2002, http://www.heritage.org/Research/SmartGrowth/BG1556.cfm.

36
Ibid.

37
Victor Cohen, “U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming,”
Washington Post
, July 9, 1971, A4.

38
“Another Ice Age,”
Time
, June 24, 1974. (Professor Reid, who is considered the father of modern climatology, publicly repudiated his “global cooling” predictions and went on to become a leader among scientists critical of man-made global warming fearmongering. See Steven H. Schneider, “Against Instant Books,”
Nature
, Dec. 22/29, 1977, 650.)

39
Peter Gwynne, “The Cooling World,”
Newsweek
, April 28, 1975.

40
Sharon Begley, “Global Warming Is a Cause of This Year’s Extreme Weather,”
Newsweek
, July 7, 2008, http://www.newsweek.com/id/143787/output.

41
Richard Lindzen, “Global Warming Debate Is More Politics Than Science, According to Climate Expert,”
Environment & Climate
News
(Heartland Institute), Nov. 1, 2004, http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=15893.

42
Alex Massie and Toby Harnden, “World ‘At Tipping Point Over Global Warming,”
Daily Telegraph
(London), Feb. 17, 2007, 15.