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16. “Report: Antarctic Ice Growing, Not Shrinking,” FoxNews.com, April 18, 2009, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517035,00.html.
17. Manfred Wenzel, Jens Schröter, “Reconstruction of Regional Mean Sea Level Anomalies from Tide Gauges Using Neural Networks,” Journal of Geophysical Research 115 (2010), http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2010/2009JC005630.shtml.
18. Cass Sunstein, “Conspiracy Theories,” January 25, 2008, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 08–03 Abstract, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1084585.
19. Carol D. Leonnig and Steven Mufson, “Obama Green-Tech Program That Backed Solyndra Struggles to Create Jobs,” Washington Post, September 14, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-green-tech-program-that-backed-solyndra-struggles-to-create-jobs/2011/09/07/gIQA9Zs3SK_story.html.
20. Ivanpah Solar Generating System website, http://ivanpahsolar.com/.
21. John Upton, “Is Solar Power Too Risky a Bet for the Federal Government? Solyndra’s Closure Raises Questions about Multibillion-Dollar Loan Guarantee,” The Bay Citizen, September 2, 2011, http://www.baycitizen.org/energy/story/solar-power-risky-bet-federal-government/.
22. Scott Martelle, “Utility Infielder. On Obama’s Commerce Department Pick, Business and Environmentalists Both Say Meh,” American Prospect, June 6, 2011, http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=utility_infielder.
23. T. J. Glauthier, Advisory Board, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, http://www.lbl.gov/LBL-PID/Advisory_Board/members.html.
24. Executive Profile: T. J. Gauthier, Union Drilling, Inc., BusinessWeek.com, http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=22430751&ticker=UDRL:US&previousCapId=7670016&previousTitle=EnerNOC%2C%20Inc.
25. “Deployment, Fueled by $100 Million in Stimulus. Demonstrating Smart Charging 3.0 at Plug-In 2009 Conference,” GridPoint.com, August 10, 2009, http://www.gridpoint.com/news/PressReleaseShare/09-08-10/GridPoint%E2%80%99s_Next-Generation_Smart_Charging_Software_to_Support_Largest_U_S_Electric_Vehicle_Deployment_Fueled_by_100_Million_in_Stimulus.aspx.
26. “GridPoint to Provide Solutions for KCP&L’s Smart Grid Demonstration Project,” GridPoint.com, December 1, 2009, http://www.gridpoint.com/news/PressReleaseShare/09-12-01/GridPoint_to_Provide_Solutions_for_KCP_L_s_Smart_Grid_Demonstration_Project.aspx.
27. “GridPoint to Provide Software Solutions for SMUD’s Smart Grid Solar Project,” GridPoint.com, November 3, 2009, http://www.gridpoint.com/news/PressReleaseShare/09-11-03/GridPoint_to_Provide_Software_Solutions_for_SMUD%E2%80%99s_Smart_Grid_Solar_Project.aspx.
28. Associated Press, “Argonne National Laboratory Gets $99 Million Boost From Stimulus,” Huffington Post, May 1, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/31/argonne-national-laborato_n_181483.html.
29. “GridPoint Enables U.S. Postal Service to Reduce Energy Costs in Facilities Nationwide with Energy Management Systems. Supports USPS Goal to Achieve 30 Percent Reduction in Facility Energy Usage,” GridPoint.com, May 24, 2010, http://www.gridpoint.com/news/PressReleaseShare/10-05-24/GridPoint_Enables_U_S_Postal_Service_to_Reduce_Energy_Costs_in_Facilities_Nationwide_with_Energy_Management_Systems.aspx.
30. Barack Obama Inauguration Donors 2008 (Top Donors Only), OpenSecrets.org, http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/inaug_all.php.
31. J. E. Dyer, “Navy Buys Biofuel for $16 a Gallon,” HotAir.com, December 10, 2011, http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/12/10/navy-buys-biofuel-for-16-a-gallon/.
32. Edgar A. Gunther, “Top 10 Solar 1603 Treasury Grant Awards,” GuntherPortfolio.com, December 10, 2010, http://guntherportfolio.com/2010/12/top-10-solar-1603-treasury-grant-awards/.
33. “New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s Live in Girlfriend Owns the Park That Wall Street Protesters Occupy and She Won’t Ask Them to Go,” Shutking.blogspot.com, October 7, 2011, http://shutking.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-york-city-mayor-bloombergs-live-in.html.
34. Cassandra Sweet, “DOE Guarantees Loans For Several Renewable-Energy Projects,” Dow Jones Newswires, September 23, 2011, http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2011/09/23/doe-guarantees-loans-for-several-renewable-energy-projects/. Editorial: “A NH Solyndra?” Union Leader (Manchester, NH), September 28, 2011, http://unionleader.com/article/20110928/OPINION01/709289961.
35. 2011 Lobbying Report: Heather Podesta + Partners, LLC, Senate.gov, http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=C FD1F386-79B8-4CAE-91E0-7DB4F1D82512.
36. Aaron Metha, “Top 5 Lobbyist Bundlers; Power Couple Tony and Heather Podesta Top the List,” iWatchNews.org, July 28, 2011, http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/07/28/5402/top-5-lobbyist-bundlers-power-couple-tony-and-heather-podesta-top-list.
37. Timothy P. Carver, “Obama’s Revolving Door Always Open to Podestas,” Washington Examiner, November 4, 2009, reported in http://romanticpoet.wordpress.com/tag/podesta-obama-relationship-white-house-visits/.
38. “New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s Live in Girlfriend Owns the Park That Wall Street Protesters Occupy and She Won’t Ask Them to Go,” October 7, 2011.
39. Blueprint for Legislative Action, United States Climate Action Partnership, January 2009, http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/USCAP-legislative-blueprint.pdf.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid.
42. William Greider, “The AIG Bailout Scandal,” Nation, August 6, 2010, http://www.thenation.com/article/153929/aig-bailout-scandal.
43. Michael Luo, “In Banking, Emanuel Made Money and Connections,” New York Times, December 3, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/us/politics/04emanuel.html?_r=3&hp=&pagewanted=all.
44. “Barack (Obama) has one of his biggest supporters in terms of funding, the Exelon Corporation, which has spent millions of dollars trying to make Yucca Mountain the waste depository,” PolitiFact.com, January 15, 2008, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/jan/18/hillary-clinton/exelon-staff-supports-obama/.
45. “Nation’s largest nuclear fleet,” ExelonCorp.com, http://www.exeloncorp.com/energy/generation/nuclear.aspx.
46. Power Plants, Duke Energy, http://www.duke-energy.com/power-plants/nuclear.asp.
47. Timothy P. Carney, “The power company underwriting the DNC for $10M,” Washington Examiner, February 20, 2012, http://campaign 2012.washington examiner.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/power-company-underwriting-dnc-10m/384866. Wynton Hall, “DNC Co-Chairman’s Company Landed $230.4M in Obama Stimulus Money,” Big Government, February 21, 2012, http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/02/21/dnc-co-chairmans-company-landed-230-4m-in-obama-stimulus-money.
48. Juliana Goldman and Rachel Layne, “Obama Asks GE’s Immelt to Head Economic Advisory Panel, Replacing Volcker,” Bloomberg.com, January 21, 2011, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-21/obama-taps-ges-immelt-for-economy-panel-replace-volcker.html. Shahien Nasiripour, “Obama Picks Jeffrey Immelt, GE CEO, to Run New Jobs-Focused Panel as GE Sends Jobs Overseas, Pays Little In Taxes,” Huffington Post, January 21, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/21/obama-picks-jeffrey-immel-ge-jobs-overseas_n_812502.html.
49. Chris Woodward, “Ford drops out of USCAP,” OneNewsNow.com, January 27, 2012, http://onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=1523872.
50. Free Enterprise Education Institute, “SEC Should Require Companies to Disclose Risk of Global Warming Regulation, Study Says; Companies Risk Earnings While Keeping Shareholders in the Dark, Reports Free Enterprise Education Institute,” PRNewswire.com, [date unknown], http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sec-should-require-companies-to-disclose-risk-of-global-warming-regulation-study-says-companies-risk-earnings-while-keeping-sharehold ers-in-the-dark-reports-free-enterprise-education-institute-58250537.html.
51. Chris Woodward, “Ford drops out of USCAP,” January 27, 2012.
52. “Business Roundtable CEOs Provide Blueprint for U.S. Energy Future,” TDWorld.com, June 7, 2007: http://tdworld.com/business/business-roundtable-energy-plan/.
53. Members, Business Roundtable, http://businessroundtable.org/about-us/members/.
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sp; 54. “Climate Change: Business Roundtable Supports Actions to Address Global Warming,” Business Roundtable, September 1, 2007, http://businessroundtable.org/studies-and-reports/climate-change/.
55. “Climate 2030: A National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy,” Union of Concerned Scientists, May 2009, http://www.pace-cleanenergy.org/articles/climate-2030-report.pdf.
56. Profile: Union of Concerned Scientists, Discover the Networks, http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6631.
57. Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh, “Power Grab for Natural Gas – New Executive Order,” Canada Free Press, April 14, 2012, http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/45984.
58. “Obama’s energy blueprint pushes natural gas to forefront,” WordCng.com, March 31, 2011, http://www.worldcng.com/obama%E2%80%99s-energy-blueprint-pushes-natural-gas-to-forefront/.
59. Greg Pollowitz, “How George Soros Profits from Natural Gas Subsidies,” National Review Online, July 25, 2011, http:/www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/272628 how-george-soros-profits-natural-gas-subsidies-greg-pollowitz.
60. Ibid.
61. Robert Bradley Jr., “A Consumerist, Not ‘All of the Above’ Energy Policy,” Forbes.com, April 9, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbradley/2012/04/09/a-consumerist-not-all-of-the-above-energy-policy/.
62. Ibid.
63. Ibid.
64. Ibid.
65. Brad Johnson, “Greenhouse Goal Has Disappeared From Obama’s ‘Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future,’” Think Progress, March 12, 2012, http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/03/12/443112/greenhouse-goal-has-disappeared-from-obamas-blueprint-for-a-secure-energy-future/.
66. Ibid.
67. Ibid.
68. Ibid.
69. Ibid.
Chapter Three: Open Borders, Amnesty for Illegals
1. David Jackson, “Obama: I’ve Got Five Years to Revamp Immigration,” USA Today, February 20, 2012, http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/02/obama-ive-got-five-years-to-do-immigration-reform/1?csp=34news#.T2tId9lkO1h.
2. Transcript: NPR Democratic Candidates’ Debate, npr.org, December 4, 2007, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16898435.
3. NPR, Democratic Candidates’ Debate, December 4, 2007. Alex Newman, “Obama’s Plan for Immigration ‘Reform’,” New American, December 1, 2008, http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/560.
4. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Memorandum #306·112·0026, June 17, 2011, http://www.ice.gov/doclib/secure-communities/pdf/prosecutorial-discretion-memo.pdf.
5. “Immigration Update: Maximizing Public Safety and Better Focusing Resources,” The White House blog; August 18, 2011; http://www.white house.gov/blog/2011/08/18/immigration-update-maximizing-public-safety-and-better-focusing-resources.
6. “Obama to Deport Illegals by ‘Priority,’” Washington Times, August 18, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/18/new-dhs-rules-cancel-deportations/?page=all.
7. “Obama Amnesty: Deportations at Record Low,” JudicialWatch.org, February 7, 2012, http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/02/obama-amnesty-deportations-at-record-low/.
8. Aaron Klein, “Obama’s New Czar Tied to Occupy, ACORN, MoveOn,” WND; January 10, 2012, http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/obamas-new-czar-tied-to-occupy-acorn-moveon/.
9. “Overview—Illegal Aliens in the United States,” TheAmericanResistance.com, undated; with up-to-date estimate; http://www.theamericanresistance.com/ref/illegal_alien_numbers.html. Letter from Sen. John McCain can be read here: http://www.theamericanresistance.com/ref/letter_mccain_2004feb10.html.
10. “A Brief History of Illegal Immigration in the United States,” EndIllegalImmigration.com, http://www.endillegalimmigration.com/History_of_Illegal_Immigration_in_US/index.shtml.
11. Ibid. Rachel L. Swarns, “Failed Amnesty Legislation of 1986 Haunts the Current Immigration Bills in Congress,” New York Times, May 23, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/23/washington/23amnesty.html.
12. “A Brief History of Illegal Immigration in the United States,” EndIllegalImmigration.com.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. “Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of 2009,” accessed March 29, 2012, available in full at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr4321ih/pdf/BILLS-111hr4321ih.pdf.
16. Border Patrol Sectors, Customs and Border Patrol, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/border_security/border_patrol/border_patrol_sectors/.
17. “Apprehensions by the U.S. Border Patrol: 2005—2010,” Department of Homeland Security Fact Sheet, June 2011, http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ois-apprehensions-fs-2005-2010.pdf.
18. Randal C. Archibold, “Border Plan Will Address Harm Done at Fence Site,” New York Times, January 16, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/us/17border.html?_r=2.
19. Marshall Fitz, “Immigration for Innovation: How to Attract the World’s Best Talent While Ensuring America Remains the Land of Opportunity for All,” Center for American Progress, January 2012, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/01/pdf/dwwsp_immigration.pdf.
20. “Latinos Pin Hopes of Immigration Reform on Obama. After Helping Barack Obama Win the Election, Latinos Seek to Remind Him to Enact Comprehensive Immigration Reform,” McClatchy Newspapers, November 24, 2008, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/24/latinos-immigration-reform-obama; “Patricia Madrid Named to Obama’s National Latino Advisory Council,” RootsWire, August 22, 2008, http://rootswire.org/conventionblog/patricia-madrid-named-obamas-national-latino-advisory-council.
21. “Eliseo Medina Speaks on Immigrants for Votes [June 2, 2009],” YouTube, added January 25, 2010, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK7K0itgQt0.
22. Ibid.
23. Tova Andrea Wang, Youjin B. Kim, “From Citizenship to Voting: Improving Registration for New Americans,” Demos, December 19, 2011, http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/fromcitizenshipto voting_demos_2.pdf.
Chapter 4: A Jobs Plan for America
1. Transcript of President Barack Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address, House of Representatives, U.S. Capitol, January 24, 2012, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/01/24/transcript_of_president_obamas_2012_state_of_the_union_address_112893.html.
2. Mark Landler, “Obama Challenges Congress on Job Plan,” New York Times, September 8, 2011, https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/us/politics/09payroll.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all.
3. “The Progressive Promise,” Congressional Progressive Caucus, http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=63§iontree=2,63. Among those principles are: economic justice; access to affordable, high-quality health care for all; guaranteed Social Security benefits for all; and environmental justice, including increasing construction of “green” buildings and renewable and “green” energy, with at least three million new jobs.
4. About, Socialist International, http://www.socialistinternational.org/about.cfm. Members, Socialist International, http://www.socialistinterna tional.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticlePageID=931.
5. “What is Democratic Socialism? Questions and Answers from the Democratic Socialists of America,” Democratic Socialists of America, http://www.dsausa.org/pdf/widemsoc.pdf.
6. “Stand Up to Wall Street. We Want Jobs, Not Budget Cuts,” Democratic Socialists of America, 2011, http://www.dsausa.org/docs/Jobs.html.
7. Ibid.
8. Profile: Demos, “Discover the Networks,” http://www.discoverthenet works.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7690.
9. David Callahan and Tamara Draut, Help Wanted. America Needs a Better Jobs Plan. A Response to the Obama Jobs Speech, Demos, September 8, 2011, http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/HelpWanted_ResponseToObamasJobsPlan_Demos.pdf.
10. Steven Greenhouse, “The Challenge of Creating Good Jobs,” Economix/New York Times, September 7, 2011, http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/the-challenge-of-creating-good-jobs/.
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p; 11. Ibid.
12. Bill Baden, “The Ranks of the Underemployed Continue to Grow,” Money/USNews.com, October 19, 2011, http://money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2011/10/19/the-ranks-of-the-underemployed-continue-to-grow.
13. Ben Peck and Amy Traub, Worth Working For: Strategies for Turning Bad Jobs into Quality Employment, Demos, October 2011, http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/worthworkingfor_goodjobs_Demos.pdf.
14. H.R.3192 Paid Family and Medical Leave Act of 2005, introduced June 30, 2005, by sponsor Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA), http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-3192.
15. Peck and Traub, Worth Working For.
16. Steven Greenhouse, “The Challenge of Creating Good Jobs,” September 7, 2011. H.R.283 Living American Wage (LAW) Act of 2011 introduced January 12, 2011, sponsored by Rep. Al Green (D-TX), http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.283. The bill asks for the minimum wage to be calculated based on the federal poverty threshold for a family of 2, as determined by the Census Bureau. At a minimum, the minimum wage would be adjusted every four years “so that a person working for such a wage may earn an annual income that is not less than 15 percent higher than the Federal poverty threshold for a family of 2, as determined by the Census Bureau,” and the minimum wage “should be set at a level high enough to allow 2 full-time minimum wage workers to earn an income above the national housing wage.”
17. Donald R. Stabile, The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought (Northampton, MA.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2008), 109.
18. Steven Malanga, “How the ‘Living Wage’ Sneaks Socialism into Cities,” City Journal, Winter 2003, http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_1_how_the_living_wage.html.
19. “ACORN People’s Platform,” 1990, http://web.archive.org/web/20010615002306/www.acorn.org/people%27s_platform.html.
20. Profile: Wade Rathke, ChiefOrganizer.org, http://chieforganizer.org/biography/.
21. “The Rebranding of ACORN,” Judicial Watch, August 22, 2011, http://www.judicialwatch.org/files/documents/2011/acornspecialreport 08222011.pdf.