Breakout: Pioneers of the Future, Prison Guards of the Past, and the Epic Battle That Will Decide America's Fate

by Newt Gingrich

  American Spectator, 56

  Amsterdam, 103

  Android devices, 9, 39, 175

  Angry Birds, 37

  Ann Arbor, MI, 115

  Annie E. Casey Foundation, 182

  Ansari X Prize, 132–33

  AOL, 8

  APIs, 163

  Apollo 13, 46

  Apollo (space missions), 125–26

  Apple, 8, 10, 162

  Archaeology, 104

  Armendariz, Alfredo, 91

  Armstrong, Neil, 128

  Army Materiel Command, 166–67

  Around the World in Eighty Days, 7–8

  asthma, 49

  Atala, Anthony, 61–66, 68

  Atlanta, GA, 108

  AT&T, 9

  Audi, 112–13, 123

  automobiles, 7–8, 14, 18, 108–9, 112, 116, 122–23

  Avis, 120

  A&W Root Beer, 116

  B

  Bakken Shale, 74–77, 81, 96

  Ballou High School, 173–74

  Bangalore, 10

  Barnett Formation (Barnett Shale), 73–74

  Bayer, 68

  Beacon Hill, MA, 104

  Beaver County, PA, 78

  Ben-Amara, Ridah, 118–19

  Benghazi attacks, 146

  Best Buy, 161

  “big government,” 155–56, 202

  bin Talal, Alwaleed (prince), 79

  Bloomberg, 44

  Bloomberg, Michael, 183–84

  Blow, Charles M., 181

  Blue Diamond (nut company), 69–70

  BMW, 112–13

  Boston, 104, 108, 120

  Bowker, Kent, 74

  Boynton, OK, 137–38

  Branson, Richard, 132

  Bratton, William, 147, 183–84

  breakout

  in cures, 187–92

  in disabilities, 193–99

  in education, 26–48

  in energy, 13–14, 71–84

  in government, 15, 153–168

  in health, 13, 49–70, 187, 192–93

  in materials and manufacturing, 12–13

  opposition to, 5–6, 16–19, 57, 85–105, 117–18, 121–24, 127–31, 141, 152, 165–66, 189–90, 192, 207–9

  the past and, 6–8, 11, 18–19, 103, 154,

  “personal” breakout, 71

  possibility for, 5–6, 8–16, 19–23, 71–72, 133–34, 141, 201–9

  from poverty, 169–186

  in space, 125–33

  in transportation, 14–15, 107–24

  breakout champions, 22–23, 69, 201–6

  breakthroughs, 72, 191–92, 201, 203–5

  as buildup to breakout, 5–6, 9, 16–17, 20, 134–35, 171

  in education 20, 173, 182, 199

  in energy, 14, 20, 72–81

  in government, 152

  green energy and the lack of, 98

  in health, 2, 4, 13, 20, 50–52, 58, 61, 63–66, 68–69, 188–92, 199, 208

  NASA and, 128

  obstacles to, 202–3, 208–9

  in the penal system, 173, 181–83

  potential for, 15–16

  in poverty, 173

  the prize system and, 191

  in public safety, 183–86

  in space, 133

  in transportation, 15, 45, 108, 112

  in welfare policy, 173, 176–78

  Brigham Oil and Gas, 88

  Brin, Sergey, 20

  Brown, Jerry, 126

  bureaucracy

  corruption in the, 15, 151–53

  in education, 26–27, 48, 174–75

  in environmental policy, 87–88

  in health, 50–51, 55–56, 58–60, 66, 192

  NASA and, 128–32

  as obstacle to breakout, 1, 12, 18, 20, 22, 27, 66–67, 72–73, 95, 118–19, 143, 146–49, 152, 156, 159–65, 185, 191, 198, 201–8

  replacement of the, 159–66, 201–6, 208

  size of the, 139–40, 148–49, 155, 159–61

  in transportation, 122–23

  waste in the, 139, 153

  in welfare, 178–79

  Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 82–83

  Burns, Lawrence, 115

  Burroughs, Abigail, 1–5, 64, 68–69

  Bush, George W., 127–28

  C

  C225, 3. See also Erbitux

  California, 15, 46, 98, 125–26, 131, 148, 155–56, 161

  debt of, 142–43

  self-driving cars and, 14, 45, 111–12, 117

  California Faculty Association, 47

  Cambridge, MA, 120

  cancer

  Abigail Burroughs and, 1–2

  cost of, 29

  cures for, 13, 51, 53, 64, 66, 108, 134, 188

  treatments for, 2–4, 68, 192

  candles, 7, 16–18, 152

  Cantor, Eric, 159

  Carnegie Mellon, 110–11, 114

  Carter, Jimmy, 72, 74–75

  Case for Mars, The, 133–34

  Castillo, Braulio, 193–95

  Caterpillar, 14, 114, 166

  Cato Institute, the, 179

  Cavalier Daily, 1

  CBS News, 108

  Center for Health Transformation, 147

  Chaos: Making a New Science, 101–2

  Chicago, IL, 39, 120, 158, 174, 184

  Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 59

  China, Chinese, 12, 15, 21, 97–98, 127, 166, 190

  Chronicle of Higher Education, 33, 47

  Chrysler, 94, 121, 123–24

  Churchill, Winston, 203

  Chu, Steven, 96

  Citizen Cosponsors, 159

  Citizenville, 156, 162

  Citizenville, 155–58, 161–65

  civil service system, the, 146, 165–66

  Cleveland Clinic, 50–51

  Club of Rome, 102

  CNN, 183

  Coburn, Tom, 138–39, 160–61, 164

  Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), 140

  Cogentrix, 100

  CollegePlus, 25

  Collins, Chris, 167

  Colorado, 74, 88, 90–91, 94

  Colson, Charles, 181

  Columbia, 128

  Columbia University, 44, 115

  commutes, commuting, 107–8, 113, 115, 117

  Competitive Enterprise Institute, 140

  CompStat, 147, 183–84

  Congressional Budget Office, 57

  Constitution, the, 165, 168

  Continental Resources, 74, 76, 88

  Contra Costa County, CA, 142

  Cornell University, 44

  corrections systems, 172, 181–83

  Council Hill, OK, 138

  Creative Destruction of Medicine, The, 52

  Crossfire, 183

  Curious George, 38

  Curiosity (Mars rover), 128

  D

  Daily Caller, 95

  Daily Mail, 131

  DARPA Grand Challenge, 109–11

  DARPA Urban Challenge, 110–12

  data.gov, 161

  Dean, Howard, 160

  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 109–12

  Deficit Free American Summit, 166

  Deming, W. Edwards, 166

  Democrats, 94, 155–56, 162, 193

  Detroit Department of Transportation, 144

  Detroit Free Press, 185

  Detroit, MI, 7–8, 143–45, 174, 179, 184–85

  diabetes

  cost of, 49, 63, 188

  cures for, 13, 51, 61–62, 66, 134

  disability and, 196

  Digimorph.com, 58

  Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA), 162

  Disneyland, 116

  District of Columbia, the, 179. See also Washington, D.C.

  District of Columbia Taxicab Commission (DCTC), 119–21

  Dodd-Frank Act, 140

  Dragon (spacecraft), 133

  Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less, 80

  Drucker, Peter, 174

  Duckworth, Tammy, 176, 193–97

 
; dunes sagebrush lizard (sand dune lizard), 85–88

  Duolingo, 175

  Dutch, the, 78, 103

  Dyson, Freeman, 127, 129

  E

  Earning by Learning, 177–78

  Earth Institute (Columbia University), 115

  eBay, 163

  EcoFinder, 159

  Edison, Thomas, 7, 17–18, 171

  Egypt, 15, 159

  Ehrlich, Paul, 102

  Einstein, Albert, 171

  Elk Lake School District, 78

  Energy in Depth, 91–93

  Energy Information Agency, 75–76, 78

  English Channel, the, 131

  environmentalists, 18, 20, 84, 86, 91–93, 148

  Environmental Protection Agency, 89, 91–93, 148–51, 168

  Environmental Protection Agency Region 6, 89

  Erbitux, 3–4

  Escape Artists, The, 96

  Europe, 6–7, 21, 113, 122, 153, 170, 190

  Export-Import Bank, 98

  F

  Facebook, 9, 26, 48, 116, 156, 159, 161–62, 205

  Facemash, 8–9

  Falcon 1 rocket, 133

  Falcon 9 rocket, 133

  Falls Church, VA, 1

  FarmVille, 156–58

  Fate of the States, 142

  Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), 66–67

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 184

  federal government

  breakdown of the, 143–53

  breakout and, 6, 8, 10–11, 15–16, 132, 153–68, 187, 190, 201–9

  bureaucracy and, 22, 48, 51–52, 155–6, 162–66, 201

  corruption in the, 87–89, 95, 98–100, 198

  disability and, 193–96, 198–99

  poverty and the, 175, 178–79

  as prison guard of the past, 9, 48, 52, 54, 57, 80, 82–83, 103, 122–24, 127–31, 189, 193, 207

  reliance on the, 8, 143, 159–60

  state governments and, 15

  subsidies for green technology, 96–100

  waste and the, 134, 137–41

  Federal Register, 140

  FedEx, 114, 141

  Ferrara, Peter, 178, 180–81

  Few, Arvia, 94–95

  Finch, Atticus, 37

  First Amendment, the, 151

  Fish and Wildlife Service, 86–88, 93

  FlightCar, 120

  Florida, 117–18, 138

  Florida’s Virtual Academies (FLVA), 36

  Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 2–4, 20, 50, 55–58, 64–70, 188–90

  Ford, 108, 122–23, 141

  Ford F150, 122–23

  Forgotten Man, The, 155

  for-profit education companies, 39, 42, 44

  Fort Worth, TX, 73

  fossil fuels, 14, 90, 93, 100

  Founding Fathers, 150, 164

  Fox, Josh, 90–91

  FrackNation, 91

  Frank, Barney, 184

  Franklin, Benjamin, 154

  Freedom of Information Act, 161

  Frogue, Jim, 147

  G

  gangs, 172–73, 184

  Gasland, 89–91

  Gasland II, 92

  Gates, Bill, 10, 20, 27, 32–33, 46–47, 103

  Genesis probe, 130

  Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, 118

  George Group, the, 166

  George, Mike, 166–67

  Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), 47

  Giuliani, Rudy, 147, 183–84

  Gleick, James, 101–2

  Glenn, John, 128

  Golden Spike, 133

  Goldman Sachs, 100

  Google, 8–11, 14, 26, 39, 45–46, 109, 111–12, 117, 140,

  Google Lunar X Prize, 132

  Google Maps, 9, 107, 161

  Google Now, 163

  Google Street View, 45, 111

  Gore, Al, 101

  “Gov 2.0,” 162, 165

  Government Accountability Office (GAO), 139

  GPS, 67, 109, 118, 120, 122, 159, 163, 183

  Grassley, Chuck, 149

  Great Depression, the, 8, 97

  Great Recession, the, 181

  “Great Society,” the, 179

  Greece, Greek, 30, 73

  Groupon, 163

  Gulf of Mexico, 76

  H

  “H1ghlander” (self-driving car), 110

  Hahne, Marty, 147–48

  Hailo, 120

  Hale County, AL, 195–97

  Hamm, Harold, 74–76, 84, 96, 140

  Harshal, 30

  Hart-Rudman Commission on National Security, 143

  Harvard Kennedy School of Government, 143

  Harvard Medical School, 39

  Harvard University, 8–9, 39, 43–44, 85

  Hearst, William Randolph, 131

  Henninger, Daniel, 67

  Heritage Foundation, the, 178–81

  Hertz, 120

  High Frontier, The, 125–27

  Hope in the Unseen, A, 173

  horizontal drilling, 14, 74, 81. See also fracking

  Houston, TX, 108, 158

  Hubbert, M. King, 72, 81

  Hudson, Henry, 104

  Hudson River, the, 104

  Huffington Post, the, 33, 90

  Hurricane Katrina, 143

  hydraulic fracturing, 14, 78, 92–93. See also fracking

  I

  IBM, 9–10

  Ignatius, David, 146

  IHOP, 138

  IHS Global Insight, 178

  Illinois, 142–43, 193

  Inconvenient Truth, An, 101

  Independence Hall, 154

  Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), 56

  Independent Petroleum Association of America, 91

  Industrial Revolution, the, 170

  “innobucks,” 158

  Inside Higher Ed, 47

  Institute for Energy Research, 75

  Institute for Policy Studies, 81

  Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 122–23

  internal combustion engine, 7–8, 112, 203

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 50, 129, 147, 150–51

  International Space Station, 127, 130, 132–33

  iPads, 11, 26, 52, 161, 175

  iPhones, 9, 11, 38, 52, 100, 107, 118, 155, 159, 162–63, 175

  J

  Japan, 170, 190

  Jennings, Cedric, 173, 176

  Jobs, Steve, 10, 20, 100, 183

  Joffe-Walt, Chana, 195–97

  Johns Hopkins Hospital, 2

  Johnson, Nancy, 148

  Jones, Van, 183

  Josephson Institute of Ethics, 151

  Journal of Economic Growth, 141

  K

  K12, 37

  Kai Ani, Karim, 33–34

  Kaplan, 39–44, 182, 199

  Kelly, Raymond, 184

  Kemp, Jack, 184–85

  Kennard, Lydia, 94

  Kennedy, John F., 170

  Khan Academy, 27–35, 43, 140, 175, 177, 182–83

  Khan, Salman, 27–38, 44–45, 157, 175

  Kickstarter, 163

  Kindles, 26, 66

  Klerkx, Greg, 126, 129

  Komatsu, 114

  L

  Lance, Mike, 137–38

  Las Vegas, 120

  Las Vegas Strip, the, 17

  Latinos, 172

  Lean Six Sigma, 166–68

  “learning coaches,” 37–38, 177

  learning science, 39–42, 175, 209

  Left, the, 6, 17, 19, 92–93, 95, 100, 103, 208

  lesser prairie chicken, 88

  Library of Congress, 161

  LIDAR sensors, 111

  light bulbs, 7, 18–19, 152

  Limits to Growth, The, 102

  Lincoln, Abraham, 17, 159, 171

  Lindbergh, Charles, 8, 131

  Linton, Ron, 119–21

  Lipitor, 54

  Lockheed Martin, 130

  Los Altos, CA, 29–30

  Losing Ground, 178

  Lost in Space, 126, 130


  Louisiana, 74

  LSAT, the, 40

  Lunar Lion (Penn State), 132

  M

  Machiavelli, Niccolò, 19, 21

  Mad Max, 144–45

  malaria, 13

  Manhattan Institute, the, 67

  Manhattan, NY, 103–5, 115

  Manor Labs, 157–58,

  Manor, TX, 157–58

  Marcellus Shale, 76–77, 79

  Mars, 133–34, 138

  Mars climate orbiter, 130

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 28, 39

  “massively open online courses (MOOCs), 46–47

  Mathis, Otis, 145

  McAleer, Phelim, 90–91

  McCloskey, Deirdre, 171

  McCrea, Jim, 99

  McDonald’s, 56, 116

  “Mechanical Turk” platform, the, 40

  Medicaid, 50, 147, 179, 181, 187–88

  Medicare, 50–51, 56, 147, 187–88, 196

  Mellow Mushroom, 138

  Mercury 6 (space mission), 128

  Microsoft, 8, 10, 132, 141, 176

  Middle East, the, 15, 92, 109

  Migratory Bird Act, 88

  Minerals Management Service, 76, 82

  Mir (Russian space station), 130

  Mitchell Energy, 73–74

  Mitchell, George, 73–75, 80, 140

  Mojave Desert, 109

  moon, the, 21, 125–29, 132–33

  Moore, Stephen, 76, 96

  Morocco, 138

  motion pictures, 7, 92

  Motorola, 8 166

  Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 178

  Murnaghan, Sarah, 58–61, 63

  Murray, Charles, 178

  Musk, Elon, 120, 133

  N

  NASA, 127–34, 138

  National Academy of Engineering, 167

  National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), 121–24

  National Institute for Literacy, 182

  National Institute of Medicine, 167

  National Institutes of Health, the, 191

  National Institute of Standards and Technology, 120

  National Mall, the, 165

  National Public Radio, 195

  National Recovery Administration (NRA), 155

  Naval Warfare Systems Center, 167

  NBC News, 52, 77

  Netflix, 42

  Netherlands, the, 103

  New Deal, the, 155

  Newfield Production Company, 88

  Newsom, Gavin, 15, 155–60, 162–64

  Newton, Isaac, 28

  NewtUniversity.com, 39

  New York, 74, 76, 80, 90, 104, 116, 143, 167, 183

  New York City, NY, 8, 17, 108, 120, 131, 134, 145, 147, 174, 184

  New York Times, the, 90, 93, 126, 181

  Nexavar, 68

  Nike FuelBand, 57

  Nissan, 112

  Nixon, Richard, 150

  Noble Royalties, 83–84

  Noble, Scott, 84

  Nojay, Bill, 144

  Nolan, Pat, 181

  North American Energy Inventory, 75

  North Dakota, 71, 74, 76–77, 81, 88

  Norton, Robert, 121–24

  Norvig, Peter, 45–46

  NRG Energy, 94, 100

  O

  Obama administration, the, 94, 99, 133, 146, 152, 161

  Obama, Barack, 127, 185

  Abound Solar and, 94