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  65. J. Christian Adams, “Homeland Security Working Overtime to Add ‘New Americans’ by 2016 Election,” PJMedia.com, April 23, 2015, http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2015/04/23/homeland-security-working-overtime-to-add-new-americans-by-2016-election/#ixzz3YEbnp9EV.

  66. Steven A Camarota and Karen Zeigler, “Immigrant Population to Hit Highest Percentage Ever in 8 Years,” Center for Immigration Studies, April 2015, http://cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/immigration-population-highest_0.pdf.

  67. Pew Research Center, “American Values Survey,” April 2015, http://www.people-press.org/values-questions/q40n/more-restrictions-on-people-coming-to-live-in-our-country/#race.

  68. Lydia Saad, “More in U.S. Would Decrease Immigration than Increase,” Gallup, June 27, 2014, http://www.gallup.com/poll/171962/decrease-immigration-increase.aspx.

  69. Alistair Bell, “Americans worry that illegal migrants threaten way of life, economy,” Reuters, August 7, 2014, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/07/us-usa-immigration-worries-idUSKBN0G70BE20140807.

  7. On the Environment

  1. “Ex-EPA official told lawmakers of project to ‘modify the DNA’ of capitalism,” January 22, 2014, Fox News, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/22/ex-epa-official-told-lawmakers-project-to-modify-dna-capitalism/print. John Beale, “Deposition of John C. Beale,” Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, December 19, 2013, http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Beale-Deposition.pdf.

  2. Naomi Klein, “Naomi Klein says climate activists need to get comfortable attacking capitalism,” Grist.org, October 9, 2014, http://grist.org/climate-energy/naomi-klein-says-climate-activists-need-to-get-comfortable-attacking-capitalism/.

  3. Barack Obama, interview with San Francisco Chronicle editorial board, January 17, 2008, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4.

  4. Barack Obama, interview with San Francisco Chronicle editorial board, January 17, 2008, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpTIhyMa-Nw.

  5. Degrowth.org, “Definition,” http://www.degrowth.org/definition-2.

  6. Clubfordegrowth.org, “Our Philosophy,” http://clubfordegrowth.org/our_philosophy/.

  7. Federico Demaria, Fraccios Schneider, Filka Sekulaova, and Joan Martinez-Alier, What Is Degrowth? From Activist Slogan to a Social Movement, Environmental Values 22 (2013): 191–215, White Horse Press.

  8. Id.

  9. Id.

  10. Id.

  11. Id.

  12. Serge Latouche, “The globe downshifted,” Le Monde diplomatique—English edition, January 13, 2006, http://mondediplo.com/2006/01/13degrowth.

  13. Id.

  14. Social PreCOP Preparatory Meeting, “Margarita Declaration on Climate Change,” July 15–18, 2014, http://www.precopsocial.org/sites/default/files/archivos/margarita_declaration_on_climate_change.pdf.

  15. Federico Demaria, Fraccios Schneider, Filka Sekulaova, and Joan Martinez-Alier, What Is Degrowth? From Activist Slogan to a Social Movement, Environmental Values 22 (2013): 191–215, White Horse Press.

  16. Id.

  17. Mackenzie Mount, “Green Biz: Work Less to Live More,” www.sierraclub.org.

  18 Serge Latouche, “The globe downshifted,” Le Monde diplomatique—English edition, January 13, 2006, http://mondediplo.com/2006/01/13degrowth.

  19. Id.

  20. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifest (London: Soho, 2010), p. 21.

  21. Ayn Rand (Peter Schwartz, ed.), Return of the Primitive—The Anti-Industrial Revolution (Meridian [Penguin], 1999), pp. 281, 282.

  22. Id., p. 285.

  23. Id., p. 286.

  24. Id.

  25. Mark J. Perry, “18 spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year,” American Enterprise Institute, April 21, 2014, http://www.aei.org/publication/18-spectacularly-wrong-apocalyptic-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-the-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year/print/.

  26. John Brignell, “A Complete List of Things Caused by Global Warming,” Numberwatch, July 16, 2008, http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm; Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), pp. 140–43.

  27. Executive Order No. 12,291, 46 Fed. Reg. 13,193 (1981).

  28. Regulatory Development and Retrospective Review Tracker, Archived Rulemakings, http://yosemite.epa.gov/opei/RuleGate.nsf/content/archivedrules.html?opendocument. Regulatory Development and Retrospective Review Tracker, Rulemakings by Phase: Final Rule Published, http://yosemite.epa.gov/opei/RuleGate.nsf/content/phasesfinal.html?opendocument.

  29. Id.

  30. James E. McCarthy and Claudia Copeland, “EPA Regulations: Too Much, Too Little, or On Track?” Congressional Research Service, July 8, 2014, https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41561.pdf.

  31. Regulatory Development and Retrospective Review Tracker, Rules by Projected Publication Date, http://yosemite.epa.gov/opei/RuleGate.nsf/content/upcoming.html?opendocument.

  32. Id.

  33. Nicolas Loris and Filip Jolevski, “EPA’s Climate Regulations Will Harm American Manufacturing,” Heritage Foundation, Issue Brief, March 4, 2014, http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2014/pdf/IB4158.pdf.

  34. Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms, A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), p. 1.

  35. Id.

  36. Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield, “Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About America’s Poor,” The Heritage Foundation, September 13, 2011, http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2011/pdf/bg2607.pdf.

  37. Id.

  38. Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000), p. 61. Also see Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms, A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), p. 260.

  39. Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms, A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), p. 260.

  40. Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000), p. 283.

  41. Id., pp. 283–84.

  42. Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms, A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), p. 260.

  43. Id.

  44. Id., p. 272.

  45. Id., p. 260.

  46. Id., p. 277.

  47. Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), pp. 125–26.

  48. Nicolas Loris, “Man’s Contribution to Global Warming” Daily Signal, March 27, 2009, http://dailysignal.com/2009/03/27/man%E2%80%99s-contribution-to-global-warming/.

  49. Statement of Patrick Moore, Ph.D., Before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight, February 25, 2014, http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=415b9cde-e664-4628-8fb5-ae3951197d03.

  50. Diane Bast, “30,000 Scientists Sign Petition on Global Warming,” Heartlander.org, July 1, 2008, http://news.heartland.org/print/23387.

  51. Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, 549 U.S. 497 (2007).

  52. Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions for New Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units, 79 Federal Register 1430.

  53. Eileen O’Grady, “Southern Co. delays advanced coal plant to 2015 amid rising costs,” April 29, 2014, www.Reuters.com.

  54. Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Generating Units, 79 Fed. Reg. 34,830.

  55. Parker Gallant, “Ontario’s Power Trip: Irrational energy planning has tripled power rates under the Liberals’ direction,” Financial Post, June 2, 2014, www.financialpost.com.

  56. Id.

  57. The White House, Office of the Press Secretary. “Administration Takes Steps Forward on Climate Action Plan by Announcing Actions t
o Cut Methane Emissions,” January 14, 2015, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/14/fact-sheet-administration-takes-steps-forward-climate-action-plan-anno-1; Coral Davenport, “Obama Is Planning New Rules on Oil and Gas Industry’s Methane Emissions,” New York Times, January 13, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/us/politics/obama-administration-to-unveil-plans-to-cut-methane-emissions.html?_r=0.

  58. http://www2.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-06/documents/hf_es_erd_jun2015.pdf.

  59. TransitionNetwork.org, “Energy Descent Action Plans,” https://www.transitionnetwork.org/.

  60. TransitionNetwork.org, “Policies for Transition,” https://www.transitionnetwork.org/.

  61. Federal Water Pollution Control Act (the “Clean Water Act”) 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251–1387.

  62. 33 U.S.C. § 1251(b).

  63. Definition of “Waters of the United States” Under the Clean Water Act, 79 Fed. Reg. 22,188.

  64. Ayn Rand (Peter Schwartz, ed.), Return of the Primitive—The Anti-Industrial Revolution (Meridian [Penguin], 1999), pp. 288, 289.

  8. On the Minimum Wage

  1. “Employment Situation Summary,” Economic News Release, Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 3, 2015, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm.

  2. Id.

  3. Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey, “Charting the Labor Market: Data from the Current Population Survey,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 3, 2015, http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cps_charts.pdf.

  4. “Survey of the Unemployed Shows 47% Say They Have ‘Completely Given Up’ Looking for a Job,” Express Employment Professionals (Harris Poll), May 21, 2014, http://www.expresspros.com.

  5. “Employment Situation Summary,” Economic News Release, Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 3, 2015, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm.

  6. Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey, “Charting the Labor Market: Data from the Current Population Survey,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 3, 2015, http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cps_charts.pdf.

  7. “How the Government Measures Unemployment,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov.

  8. United States Senate, Committee on the Budget, “Nearly 1 in 4 Americans in Prime Working Years Are Not Employed,” http://www.budget.senate.gov/republican/public/index.cfm/charts.

  9. “Employment Situation Summary,” Economic News Release, Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 3, 2015, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm.

  10. Id.

  11. Mary Lorenz, “Millennials vs. Baby Boomers: Who ‘Won’ the Recession?” June 9, 2014, http://thehiringsite.careerbuilder.com/2014/06/09/millennials-vs-baby-boomers-won-recession/.

  12. Id.

  13. “Employment Situation Summary,” Economic News Release, Bureau of Labor Statistics, April 3, 2015, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm.

  14. Id.

  15. President Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on Signing of Executive Order,” February 12, 2014, http://www.whitehouse.gov.

  16. President Barack Obama, “Obama slams GOP over minimum wage vote,” CNN Political Ticker (posted by Jim Acosta), April 30, 2014, http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com.

  17. President Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on Signing of Executive Order,” February 12, 2014, http://www.whitehouse.gov.

  18. American Legislative Exchange Council, “Raising the Minimum Wage: The Effects on Employment, Businesses and Consumers,” ALEC.org, March, 2014, http://www.alec.org/wp-content/uploads/Raising_Minimum_wage.pdf.

  19. Id.

  20. David Neumark and William L. Wascher, Minimum Wages (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008), p. 12.

  21. Id.

  22. Id., p. 14.

  23. Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, 261 U.S. 525, 554-556 (1923).

  24. David Neumark and William L. Wascher, Minimum Wages (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008), p. 15.

  25. West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379.

  26. U.S. Department of Labor, Federal Minimum Wage Rates Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, http://www.dol.gov.

  27. Mark Wilson, The Negative Effects of Minimum Wage Laws, Policy Analysis, Cato Institute, June 21, 2012, www.cato.org.

  28. Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian, New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression: A General Equilibrium Analysis, research memo, Department of Economics, UCLA, February 2003.

  29. Id.

  30. U.S. Department of Labor, Federal Minimum Wage Rates Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, http://www.dol.gov.

  31. “Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers,” BLS Reports, 2013, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Report 1048, March 2014, www.bls.gov.

  32. Id.

  33. Id.

  34. Id.

  35. President Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on Signing of Executive Order,” February 12, 2014, http://www.whitehouse.gov.

  36. Id.

  37. David Neumark and William L. Wascher, Minimum Wages (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008), p. 39.

  38. Id.

  39. Id., p. 51.

  40. Mark Wilson, The Negative Effects of Minimum Wage Laws, Policy Analysis, Cato Institute, June 21, 2012, www.cato.org.

  41. Assunta Ng, “Blog: What SeaTac tells us about $15 minimum wage,” Asian Weekly, May 22, 2014, http://wwwnwasianweekly.com.

  42. David Neumark and William L. Wascher, Minimum Wages (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008), p. 289.

  43. Id., p. 287.

  44. Id., p. 291.

  45. Id., p. 290.

  46. Id., p. 291.

  47. Congressional Budget Office, “The Effects of a Minimum-Wage Increase on Employment and Family Income,” February 2014, http://www.cbo.org.

  48. Id.

  9. On National Security

  1. “National Security Strategy of the United States,” White House, January 1987, p. 6, nssarchive.us/NSSR/1987.pdf.

  2. Id.

  3. “National Security Strategy of the United States,” White House, August 1991, p. 1, http://nssarchive.us/NSSR/1991.pdf.

  4. Judah Grunstein, “Russia Annexes Georgian Provinces on the Installment Plan,” World Politics Review, October 29, 2008, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/2838/russia-annexes-georgian-provinces-on-the-installment-plan.

  5. Thomas Frear, Łukasz Kulesa, and Ian Kearns, “Dangerous Brinkmanship: Close Military Encounters Between Russia and the West in 2014,” European Leadership Network, November 2014, p. 1, http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/medialibrary/2014/11/09/6375e3da/Dangerous%20Brinkmanship.pdf.

  6. Damien Sharkov, “ ‘Biggest NATO Reinforcement Since Cold War’ Sets Frontlines Against Russia,” Newsweek, February 5, 2015, http://www.newsweek.com/biggest-nato-reinforcement-cold-war-sets-frontlines-russian-threat-304722.

  7. Frear, Kulesa, and Kearns, p. 1.

  8. Id.

  9. Richard Javad Heydarian, “America’s Next Big Challenge: Countering China’s Diplomatic Blitzkrieg,” The National Interest, November 30, 2014, http://nationalinterest.org/feature/americas-next-big-challenge-countering-china%E2%80%99s-diplomatic-11754?page=2.

  10. Javier Blas, “China still trumps the competition in Africa Inc.,” Financial Times, October 9, 2014, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/87075f26-4eda-11e4-b205-00144feab7de.html#axzz3OorlYpVg; Simon Romero and Alexei Barrionuevo, “Deals Help China Expand Sway in Latin America,” New York Times, April 15, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/world/16chinaloan.html?_r=0.

  11. Max Fisher, “Why China still supports North Korea, in six little words,” New York Times, February 12, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/02/12/why-china-still-supports-north-korea-in-six-little-words/.

  12. Michael Peel, “Iran, Russia and China prop up Assad economy,” Financial Times, June 27, 2013, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/79eca81c-df48-11e2-a9f4-00144feab7de.html#axzz3OorlYpVg.

  13. Merv Mogollon and Chris Kraul, “Venezuela’s president hits road to save ailing economy,�
�� LA Times, January 5, 2015, http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-venezuela-president-economy-20150105-story.html.

  14. Eli Lake, “Iran’s nuclear program helped by China, Russia,” Washington Times, July 5, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/5/irans-nuclear-program-helped-by-china-russia/?page=all.

  15. http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-island-building-poses-dilemma-for-u-s-1433102116.

  16. Tara Murphy, “Security Challenges in the 21st Century Global Commons,” Yale Journal of International Affairs, Spring/Summer 2010, pp. 28, 34.

  17. Id.

  18. Kris Osborn, “China’s Fleet Advancing Faster Than U.S. Expected,” Defense Tech, February 5, 2014, http://defensetech.org/2014/10/29/chinas-submarine-fleet-takes-historic-steps-forward/.

  19. Jesse L. Karotkin, “Trends in China’s Naval Modernization,” Office of Naval Intelligence, Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, January 30, 2014, http://news.usni.org/2014/02/03/document-chinas-naval-modernization.

  20. Id.

  21. Murphy, p. 35.

  22. Id.

  23. Tony Capaccio, “Iran Speaks More Softly But Keeps Building Bigger Sticks,” Bloomberg, August 20, 2014, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-20/iran-speaks-more-softly-but-keeps-building-bigger-sticks.html.

  24. Murphy, p. 35.

  25. Capaccio, op. cit.

  26. James R. Clapper, “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community,” Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, January 29, 2014, p. 6, http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/140129/clapper.pdf.

  27. Id.

  28. James R. Clapper, “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.” Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, February 26, 2015, http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Unclassified_2015_ATA_SFR_-_SASC_FINAL.pdf.

  29. Riyadh Mohammed, “How Iran Is Taking Over the Middle East,” Fiscal Times, March 18, 2015, http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/03/18/How-Iran-Taking-Over-Middle-East.