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9 . Stanford v. Texas, 379 U.S. 476 (1965).
10 . http://www.pen.org/printmedia.php/prmMediaID/64.
11 . Ibid.
12 . Section 213 amending 18 U.S.C. 3103(a).
13 . “Sneak and Peek Search Warrants and the Patriot Act,” Georgia Defender, 1, http://www.lawsch.uga.edu/academics/profiles/dwilkes_more/37patriot.html (Sept. 2002).
14 . United States v. Freitas, 800 F. 2d 1451, 1458 (9th Cir. 1986) (Poole, J., dissenting).
15 . ACLU v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, 265 F. Supp. 2d 20 (D.D.C. 2003).
16 . http://www.pen.org/printmedia.php/prmMediaID/64.
17 . Kim Zetter, “Bush Grabs New Power for FBI,” Wired.com, http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2004/01/61792 (Jan. 6, 2004).
18 . 31 U.S.C. §5312.
19 . The bodega was rationalized on the basis that some provided money-wiring services.
20 . Speech of Hon. Mark Udall of Colorado in the House of Representatives, November 20, 2003, at congressional record page E2399.
21 . Pen American Center – Analysis of Section 215—available at http://www.pen.org/printmedia.php/prmMediaID/63.
22 . Ibid.
23 . Ron Paul, “The Police State: A Report,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul265.html ( Jul. 26, 2005).
24 . Ron Paul, “Domestic Surveillance and the Patriot Act,” LewRockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul295.html (Dec. 27, 2005).
25 . Ron Paul, “The Police State: A Report.”
Lie #17
1 . George Reisman, “The Myth That Laissez Faire is responsible for Our Present Crisis,” Ludvig von Mises Institute, http://mises.org/story/3165 (Oct. 23, 2008).
2 . Thomas Sowell, The Housing Boom and Bust (New York: Basic Books, 2009) (inspired the chapter).
3 . Reisman, “The Myth That Laissez Faire is responsible for Our Present Crisis.”
4 . Ibid.
5 . Sowell, The Housing Boom and Bust, 5.
6 . Mark Skousen, “Why the U.S. Economy is Not Depression Proof, Review of Austrian Economics, 3, 81.
7 . Llewellyn H. Rockwell, “Don’t Bail Them Out,” Ludvig von Mises Institute, http:// mises.org/story/3104 (Sept. 10, 2008).
8 . Annelena Lobb, “Looking Back at Black Monday: A Discussion with Richard Sylla,” Wall Street Journal (Oct. 15, 2007).
9 . Skousen, “Why the U.S. Economy is Not Depression Proof,” 80.
10 . Rockwell, “Don’t Bail Them Out.”
11 . Arthur Laffer, “A Warning from Reagan’s Economist,” Daily Beast, http://www .thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-24/reagans-economist-bashes-obama/ 1/ (Nov. 24, 2008).
12 . “Timeline: AIG Developments Since US Bailout,” Insurance Journal, http://www .insurancejournal.com/news/national/2009/03/16/98729.htm (Mar. 16, 2009).
13 . Jennifer Levitz and Philip Shishkin, “Stimulus Brings Out City Wish Lists: Neon for Vegas, Harleys for Shreveport,” Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123369271403544637.html (Feb. 4, 2009).
14 . Frank Shostak, “The Rescue Package Will Delay Recovery,” Ludvig von Mises Institute, http://www.mises.org/story/3131 (Sept. 29, 2008).
15 . Edmund L. Andrews and Peter Barker, “AIG Planning Huge Bonuses After $170 Billion Bailout,” New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/business/15AIG.html (Mar. 15, 2009).
16 . Murray Rothbard, For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (San Francisco: Fox &Wilkes, 1996), 195.
17 . Joseph Vranich, and Edward L. Hudgins, “Help Passenger Rail by Privatizing Amtrak,” Cato Institute, Policy Analysis, http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa419.pdf (Nov. 1, 2001), 6.
18 . Ibid., 25.
19 . Ibid., 13.
20 . Ibid., 29.
21 . Ibid., 6.
22 . Andrea Fuller, “Increasing Postal Deficits Intensify Talks on Solution,” Wall Street Journal ( July 30, 2009).
23 . Michael Billy, Lysander Spooner and the United States Postal Monopoly, “Digital Journal”, http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/271139 (Apr. 18, 2009).
24 . “‘Father of 3-cent Stamp’ Spooner Fought Post Office,” Linn’s Weekly Stamp News, Feb.–Mar. 1983, http://www.lysanderspooner.org/STAMP2.htm.
25 . Billy, “Lysander Spooner and the United States Postal Monopoly.”
About the Author
Andrew P. Napolitano joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in January 1998 and currently serves as the Senior Judicial Analyst. He provides on-air legal analysis throughout the day weekdays on both FNC and Fox Business Network (FBN) daily. He is the host of FreedomWatch on Foxnews.com weekdays and on FBN on weekends, and he is the regular fill-in host on The Glenn Beck Program.
Judge Napolitano is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the State of New Jersey. While on the bench from 1987 to 1995, Judge Napolitano tried more than 150 jury trials and sat in all parts of the Superior Court—criminal, civil, general equity, and family. He has handled thousands of sentencings, motions, hearings, and divorces. For eleven years, he served as an adjunct professor of constitutional law at Seton Hall Law School, where he provided instruction in constitutional law and jurisprudence. Judge Napolitano returned to private law practice in 1995 and began television broadcasting in the same year.
Judge Napolitano is the author of five books on the U.S. Constitution: Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws; a New York Times bestseller, The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land; A Nation of Sheep; Dred Scott’s Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America; and Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History. His writings have also been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The New York Sun, The Baltimore Sun, The (New London) Day, The Seton Hall Law Review, The New Jersey Law Journal, and The Newark Star-Ledger. He is a nationally recognized expert on the U.S. Constitution, and he lectures nationally on the Constitution and human freedom.
Judge Napolitano received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1972, and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Notre Dame in 1975.
Index
A
“actual innocence,” ♣–♦, ♥
Adams, John, ♣–♦, ♥, ♠–†
affirmative action, ♣–♦, ♥
Afghanistan. See War in Afghanistan
alcohol, ♣, ♦, ♥–♠, †
American Civil War, ♣–♦, ♥, ♠
antitrust laws, ♣–♦
Articles (of U.S. Constitution): ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠–†, ‡–Δ, ∇, Ο, ◊, [L11]; [L12], [L13], [L14]–[L15]; [L16], [L17], [L18]
assault weapons, ♣, ♦–♥, ♠–†.
assisted suicide, ♣
Authorization for the Use of Military Force, ♣
B
bailouts, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠–†, ‡
bankruptcies, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠
“beyond a reasonable doubt,” ♣, ♦, ♥–♠, †, ‡–Δ
Big Government, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡, Δ, ∇, Ο–◊, [L11], [L12]
bioterrorism, ♣–♦
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, ♣
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ♣, ♦
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF), ♣, ♦, ♥–♠, †
Bush, George H. W., ♣, ♦, ♥
Bush, George W., ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡–Δ, ∇, Ο, ◊, [L11], [L12], [L13]–[L14], [L15]–[L16], [L17]–[L18], [L19]–[L20], [L21]–[L22], [L23], [L24], [L25], [L26], [L27], [L28]–[L29], [L30], [L31], [L32]
C
Carter, Jimmy, ♣, ♦, ♥
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠
central bank, ♣, ♦–♥, ♠, †, ‡
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), ♣, ♦, ♥–♠, †–‡, Δ–∇, Ο
Cheney, Dick, ♣�
�♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡
CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency civil rights movement, ♣, ♦
Civil War (American). See American Civil War
clinical trials, ♣–♦, ♥, ♠
Clinton, Bill (William Jefferson), ♣, ♦
Commerce Clause (Article 1, U.S. Constitution), ♣–♦, ♥–♠
Communism, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡–Δ, ∇
constitutional activism, ♣, ♦, ♥–♠
Contract Clause (U.S. Constitution), ♣–♦
Controlled Substances Act, ♣–♦
crime (and gun control), ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠–†, ‡, Δ–∇
curfews, ♣, ♦, ♥–♠
D
DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), ♣, ♦, ♥
Declaration of Independence, ♣–♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡, Δ, ∇, Ο, ◊
Department of Education (U.S.), ♣
Department of Health and Human Services, ♣
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), ♣, ♦
Department of Justice (U.S.), ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡, Δ, ∇, Ο, ◊–[L11], [L12], [L13]
Department of the Treasury (U.S.), ♣, ♦, ♥
Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, ♣
Disaster Accountability Project, ♣, ♦
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), ♣, ♦, ♥
Drug Policy Alliance, ♣
due process, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡, Δ, ∇–Ο, ◊, [L11], [L12], [L13], [L14]–[L15], [L16], [L17], [L18], [L19]–[L20], [L21]
E
education, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠
Eighteenth Amendment, ♣
Eisenhower, Dwight D., ♣, ♦
eminent domain, ♣–♦, ♥, ♠, †
Equal Protection Clause (Fourteenth Amendment), ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡, Δ
Emergency Price Control Act (EPCA), ♣
F
Fairness Doctrine, ♣–♦
Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, ♣, ♦
Fannie Mae, ♣, ♦
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations), ♣, ♦, ♥–♠, †
FCC. See Federal Communications Commission
FDA (Food and Drug Administration), ♣–♦, ♥–♠, †, ‡–Δ
Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB), ♣, ♦
Federal Bureau of Investigations, ♣, ♦, ♥–♠, †
federal income tax, ♣, ♦–♥, ♠
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), ♣–♦
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), ♣, ♦–♥
Federal Reserve (System), ♣, ♦–♥, ♠: parts of, †
Federal Reserve Act of 1913, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †
FEMA. See Federal Emergency Management Agency
fiat money, ♣, ♦–♥, ♠, †
Fifteenth Amendment, ♣, ♦, ♥–♠
Fifth Amendment, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡, Δ, ∇, Ο
First Amendment, ♣–♦, ♥, ♠–†, ‡–Δ, ∇, Ο, ◊, [L11], [L12]
FISA, ♣–♦, ♥–♠, †–‡
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ♣–♦, ♥–♠, †, ‡–Δ
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. See FISA
Fourteenth Amendment, ♣–♦, ♥–♠, †, ‡, Δ–∇, Ο, ◊, [L11], [L12], [L13]–[L14], [L15]
Fourth Amendment, ♣, ♦–♥, ♠, †, ‡, Δ, ∇
fractional-reserve banking, ♣–♦
Franklin, Benjamin, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †
Freddie Mac, ♣, ♦
freedom: of contract, ♣–♦, ♥. See also right to contract; of expression, ♠, †, ‡; of religion, Δ, ∇, Ο, ◊, [L11]; of speech, viii, [L12], [L13], [L14]–[L15], [L16], [L17]
Freedom of Information Act, ♣, ♦
Friedman, Milton, ♣, ♦, ♥–♠, †
fundamental rights, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †–‡, Δ, ∇, Ο
G
gold, ♣–♦, ♥–♠, †, ‡–Δ
Goldwater, Barry, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠–†
Gore, Al, ♣, ♦, ♥–♠, †
Great Depression, ♣, ♦, ♥–♠
Greenspan, Alan, ♣, ♦
Guantánamo Bay (Cuba), ♣–♦, ♥, ♠–†, ‡, Δ
gun control, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠–†, ‡, Δ, ∇–Ο, ◊.
Gun Control Act, ♣
H
habeas corpus, ♣–♦. See also writ of habeas corpus
Hamilton, Alexander, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡, Δ
handguns, ♣, ♦, ♥– ♠, †
Hate Crimes Prevention Act, ♣–♦
health care, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †
Heller, Dick, ♣–♦, ♥–♠, †
HUD. See Department of Housing and Urban Development
Hussein, Saddam, ♣–♦, ♥
I
inalienable rights, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠–†, ‡, Δ. See also unalienable rights
income tax withholding, ♣, ♦
inflation, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠–†, ‡, Δ, ∇, Ο
insanity (and innocence), ♣–♦
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004, ♣
interest rates, ♣–♦
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), ♣
interrogation techniques, ♣–♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡–Δ, ∇
Iraq War, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠–†
J
Jackson, Andrew, ♣, ♦, ♥
Jefferson, Thomas, ♣, ♦–♥, ♠, †, ‡, Δ, ∇, Ο, ◊, [L11], [L12], [L13], [L14], [L15], [L16], [L17], [L18], [L19], [L20]
Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ), ♣, ♦, ♥–♠, †, ‡–Δ
judicial activism, ♣–♦, ♥–♠, †
judicial power: limits on, ♣
judicial review, ♣, ♦, ♥
K–L
Kelo v. New London, ♣, ♦–♥, ♠–†
Kennedy, John F., ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡, Δ
“lender of last resort,” ♣, ♦, ♥
Lincoln, Abraham, ♣, ♦–♥, ♠–†, ‡
M
Madison, James, ♣, ♦, ♥–♠, †, ‡–Δ, ∇, Ο
Marbury v. Madison, ♣–♦, ♥
marijuana, vii, viii, ♣, ♦–♥, ♠
“marketplace of ideas,” ♣, ♦
McCain, John (senator), ♣, ♦–♥
Medicaid and Medicare, ♣, ♦
medicine, ♣, ♦–♥, ♠–†
military tribunals, ♣–♦
Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA), ♣, ♦, ♥
Monetary Control Act of 1980, ♣
monopolies, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †–‡, Δ, ∇–Ο
Morgan, J. P., ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠
mortgage-backed securities, ♣
Moussaoui, Zacarias, ♣
movies, ♣, ♦, ♥
music, ♣, ♦
N
national defense, ♣–♦, ♥, ♠
National Firearms Act of 1934, ♣–♦, ♥, ♠
National Security Agency (NSA), ♣, ♦, ♥
National Security Letter (NSL), ♣–♦
Natural Law, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠–†, ‡, Δ, ∇, Ο, ◊, [L11], [L12], [L13], [L14], [L15], [L16], [L17], [L18], [L19]
natural rights, vii, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †–‡, Δ, ∇, Ο, ◊, [L11], [L12], [L13], [L14], [L15], [L16], [L17], [L18], [L19], [L20]–[L21], [L22], [L23], [L24], [L25], [L26], [L27], [L28]
Necessary and Proper Clause (Constitution), ♣, ♦
New Deal, ♣, ♦, ♥ 9/11. See September 11, 2001
Nineteenth Amendment, ♣
Nixon, Richard, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †
NSA (National Security Agency), ♣, ♦, ♥
O
Obama, Barack, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡, Δ–∇, Ο, ◊, [L11], [L12], [L13], [L14], [L15], [L16]–[L17], [L18], [L19], [L20]
Office of Legal Counsel (of Justice Department). See OLC
OLC (Office of Legal Counsel), ♣, ♦, ♥–♠, †–�
�
organized crime, ♣, ♦, ♥
P–Q
Patriot Act, ♣, ♦, ♥–♠, †–‡, Δ
Paul, Ron, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠
Pearl Harbor (HI), ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠–†, ‡, Δ–∇
Pfizer Incorporated, ♣, ♦
Plessy v. Ferguson, ♣, ♦–♥, ♠
police power, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠
Powell, Colin, ♣, ♦
presidential election: of 1992, ♣; of 2000, ♦, ♥–♠, †, ‡, Δ–∇; of 2008, Ο, ◊–[L11], [L12]
presumption of innocence, ♣–♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡
“probable cause,” ♣, ♦–♥, ♠, †
Prohibition, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †
“public use,” ♣, ♦–♥,
♣–♦, ♥–♠
R
racial: discrimination, ♣–♦, ♥, ♠, †;
gerrymandering, ♣–♦; profiling, ♥
racism, ♣, ♦–♥, ♠, †, ‡, Δ–∇
racketeering, ♣–♦
radio broadcasting, ♣–♦
recalls, 178: drug, ♣–♦; food, ♥–♠
recession of July 1981–November 1982, ♣
rent control, ♣, ♦–♥, ♠
retirement, ♣, ♦–♥
RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act, ♣–♦
right of control over one’s own body, ♣
right to contract, ♣–♦
Right to Financial Privacy Act, ♣
right to life, ♣, ♦–♥, ♠
right to travel, ♣
Rockefeller, John D., ♣, ♦
Roe v. Wade (1973), ♣–♦, ♥
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (FDR), ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡, Δ–∇, Ο, ◊, [L11], [L12]–[L13], [L14], [L15], [L16], [L17], [L18]
Roosevelt, Theodore (Teddy), ♣, ♦
Rothbard, Murray, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠–†
Rumsfeld, Donald, ♣, ♦
S
Second Amendment, ♣–♦, ♥
segregation (racial), ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠–†, ‡, Δ, ∇, Ο
self-defense, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡, Δ
senators: election of, ♣–♦, ♥, ♠
September 11, 2001 (terrorist attacks), ♣, ♦–♥, ♠, †–‡, Δ–∇, Ο, ◊, [L11], [L12], [L13]
Seventeenth Amendment, ♣, ♦, ♥, ♠, †
silver, ♣–♦, ♥
slavery, ♣–♦, ♥, ♠, †, ‡, Δ, ∇–Ο, ◊
Sixteenth Amendment, ♣, ♦, ♥
Sixth Amendment, ♣