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41. John Perry Barlow, Closing Keynote Address at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, June 8, 2013.
42. Jim Newell, “Thousand Gather in Washington for Anti-NSA ‘Stop Watching Us’ Rally,” Guardian, October 26, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/26/nsa-rally-stop-watching-washington-snowden (accessed November 6, 2013).
Chapter 8: Twelve Steps
1. “David Brooks Warns About ‘the Rise of Ted Cruz-ism,’ ” Real Clear Politics, video, September 15, 2013, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/09/14/david_brooks_warns_about_the_rise_of_ted_cruz-ism.html (accessed September 30, 2013).
2. Daniel Politi, “Harry Reid: ‘The American People Will Not Be Extorted by Tea Party Anarchists,’ ” Slate, September 28, 2013, http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/09/28/harry_reid_on_shutdown_american_people_will_not_be_extorted_by_tea_party.html (accessed September 30, 2013).
3. Sam Baker, “Baucus Warns of ‘Huge Train Wreck’ Enacting ObamaCare Provisions,” The Hill, April 17, 2013, http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/294501-baucus-warns-of-huge-train-wreck-in-obamacare-implementation (accessed September 30, 2013).
4. Barbara Hagenbaugh and Sue Kirchhoff, “Timothy Geithner Says He Regrets Tax Mistakes,” USA Today, January 22, 2009, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/economy/2009-01-21-geithner-hearing_N.htm (accessed October 9, 2013).
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6. S. 2038 (112th): STOCK Act, http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s2038 (accessed September 23, 2013).
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8. Elise Viebeck, “GOP Bill Hits Alleged ObamaCare Exemption Talks,” The Hill, April 26, 2013, http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/296489-gop-bill-hits-alleged-obamacare-exemption-talks#ixzz2RbQ3O72J (accessed September 23, 2013).
9. Matt Kibbe, Hostile Takeover (New York: HarperCollins, 2012), 1.
10. S. J. Res. 1 (113th): Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Requiring That the Federal Budget Be Balanced, http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.J.RES.1.IS: (accessed September 24, 2013).
11. Congressional Budget Office, “The 2013 Long-Term Budget Outlook,” http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44521 (accessed September 27, 2013).
12. “Sen. Ted Cruz Leading the Charge on Abolishing the IRS,” Fox News, video, June 3, 2013, http://video.foxnews.com/v/2429567001001/sen-ted-cruz-leading-the-charge-on-abolishing-the-irs (accessed September 23, 2013).
13. National Center for Policy Analysis, “The Medicare/Social Security Trustees Spring Report: A Bleak Future,” http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/A_Bleak_Future.pdf (accessed September 30, 2013).
14. Joseph Lawler, “Economist Laurence Kotlikoff: U.S. $222 Trillion in Debt,” Real Clear Policy, December 1, 2013, http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/12/01/economist_laurence_kotlikoff_us_222_trillion_in_debt_363.html (accessed September 27, 2013).
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19. “Hensarling Re-Introduces Legislation to End Taxpayer Funded Bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” March 18, 2011, http://hensarling.house.gov/news/press-releases/2011/03/hensarling-re-introduces-legislation-to-end-taxpayer-funded-bailout-of-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac.shtml (accessed September 23, 2013).
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21. Katrina Trinko, “The Phone Lines Melt,” National Review, September 6, 2013, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/357771/phone-lines-melt-katrina-trinko (accessed December 15, 2013).
22. CNN Wire Staff, “Mullen: Debt Is Top National Security Threat,” CNN, August 27, 2010, http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/27/debt.security.mullen/index.html?_s=PM:US (accessed December 5, 2013).
23. Susette Kelo, et al., Petitioners v. City of New London, Connecticut, et al., 04-108 U.S. (2005), available at http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=000&invol=04-108 (accessed September 30, 2013).
24. Bob Ewing, “Taken: Federal Lawsuit in Michigan Challenges Forfeiture Abuse,” Institute for Justice, September 25, 2013, http://www.ij.org/michigan-civil-forfeiture-release-9-25-2013 (accessed October 1, 2013).
25. Joel Brinkley, “What Tyrants Fear Most: Social Media,” Chicago Tribune, November 27, 2012, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-11-27/opinion/sns-201211271500—tms—amvoicesctnav-c20121127-20121127_1_social-media-bloggers-president-alexander-lukashenko (accessed December 16, 2013).
26. Scott Gottlieb, “Suit Alleges IRS Improperly Seized 60 Million Personal Medical Records,” Forbes, May 15, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgottlieb/2013/05/15/the-irs-raids-60-million-personal-medical-records (accessed October 3, 2013).
27. Declan McCullagh, “IRS Claims It Can Read Your E-mail without a Warrant,” CNET, April 10, 2013, http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57578839-38/irs-claims-it-can-read-your-e-mail-without-a-warrant/ (accessed October 3, 2013).
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Chapter 9: Not a One-Night Stand
1. George Jean Nathan and Ho Lo Mencken, “Repetition Generals,” The Smart Set, December 1919, p.71.
2. Jill Lawrence, “Former House Leaders Say the Current Group Has It Rough,” National Journal, September 23, 2013, http://www.nationaljournal.com/daily/former-house-leaders-say-the-current-group-has-it-rough-20130923 (accessed November 4, 2013).
3. Peter Schweizer, Throw Them All Out (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011).
4. Grace Wyler and Z
eke Miller, “Beyond Insider Training: Here’s How Members of Congress Get Rich off Earmarks,” November 15, 2011, http://www.businessinsider.com/congress-insider-trading-earmarks-real-estate-nancy-pelosi-rich-tax-payer-money-2011-11?op=1#ixzz2jPlZMcXW (accessed November 4, 2013).
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9. Benjamin Franklin in a pseudonymous letter published in the Pennsylvania Journal on December 27, 1775.
INDEX
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accountability:
and health care, 84
and monetary policy, 185, 191, 192
as personal responsibility, 13, 84
and public knowledge, 152, 168, 185, 212
of public officials, 24–25, 64, 193, 194
secrecy as barrier to, 24–25, 136
and war powers, 193, 194
Acton, Lord, 5, 23
Adams, Samuel, 26, 148, 223
Affordable Care Act (ACA), see ObamaCare
Alexander, Lamar, 176
Alinsky, Saul, Rules for Radicals, 4–5, 40
Amadeus (movie), 31
Amash, Justin, 148, 190, 211
author’s interviews with, 152, 155–56, 163–65
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 149, 162, 201
American dream, 107
Anthem Entertainment Group Inc., 45
Atwater, Lee, 214
Auschwitz concentration camp, 39–42
Axelrod, David, 56, 64
bailouts, 69, 184–87, 213, 216
Barlow, John Perry, 126, 146
Bastiat, Frédéric, 153
Baucus, Max, 67, 172
Beatles, 43
beautiful chaos, 125
Belsom, Dianne, 61
Bill of Rights, 132–36, 196
bin Laden, Osama, 145
Boettke, Peter, 36–37
Boston Marathon, 2013 bombing, 133–34
Boston Tea Party (1773), 56, 148
Brennan, John, 138
Bridenstine, Jim, 157
Brinkley, Joel, 200
British Petroleum (BP), 77
Brooks, David, 171
Brown, Scott, 208
Brown, Sherrod, 68
Brown v. Board of Education, 141
Buchanan, James, 101, 102
budget:
balancing, 175–77, 215
and entitlements, 181
Bull Moose Party, 120
“Burn Your ObamaCare Card,” 110–12
Bush, George W., 22, 67, 129, 155, 209, 215
Bush, Jeb, 144
campaign finance laws, 78, 211
Camp, Dave, 70, 175
capitalism, 19
Captain & Tennille, 29, 30
Carney, Tim, 68
censorship, 129, 203–4
Center for the Study of Market Processes, 37
central bank, 191–92
Chambliss, Saxby, 130
Christie, Chris, 144
Churchill, Winston, 168–69
Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), 37–38
civil forfeitures, 198–99
civilization, 21
civil liberties, curtailment of, 122, 128, 129–32, 134, 137, 203, 213
civil rights, protection of, 129, 132, 142–43
Civil Rights Act (1957), 142
civil servants, 71–73
and ambiguous rules, 177
and health care, 83, 87–89, 93, 174–75
job protection for, 72
meaningless security clearances of, 95, 96–97
power of, 127
tenure of, 91
Civil War, U.S., and taxes, 80
Clapper, James, 131
classical liberals, 120
Clean Air Act, 82
Clinton, Bill, 67, 112
Clinton, Hillary, 4, 167–68
CNN, 119
Coca-Cola, 77
Code Pink, 149
coercion, 76
Color of Change, 149
Coltrane, John, 31, 44, 125
Committee to Protect Journalists, 116
community, cohesion of, 14, 16
community service, 13, 22
compassionate conservatism, 22
complexity, 76–78
of federal tax code, 79–83, 177
of ObamaCare, 77, 85, 92–93, 94, 97
“Complexity Industrial Complex,” 77
compromise, 47, 48–49
compulsion, 76, 82
Congress, U.S.:
and acts of war, 193–94
and broken promises, 210–11
and the Constitution, 136
and federal budget, 175–77
political will missing from, 204
spending favors to members of, 215
conservatives:
as IRS targets, 60, 72
and libertarians, 164, 217–18
and progressives, 24
usage of term, 120
Constitution, U.S., 129, 205
and Bill of Rights, 132–36, 196
and Congress, 136
copyright clause, 202–3
and presidential powers, 209–10
and property, 196–98
contracts, 11
control, 76, 84
copyright protection, 202–3
Cox, Stephen, 42
creative disruption, 30, 31–32, 125
Cruz, Ted, 148, 171, 178, 211
author’s interviews with, 152, 153, 157–58, 164, 165, 169
Cummings, Elijah, 78
Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), 203–4
Daily Kos, 149
Davis, Danielle, 222–23
Davis, Joel, 222–23
Davis, Miles, 30–31, 44, 125
“death panels,” 86
debt ceiling, 176
Debt Commission, 176
Defense Department, U.S., 93
Delta Air Lines, 77
Democratic Party, 121–22, 213
Douglas, Michael, 162
drone strikes, 135, 137–41, 144
due process, right to, 9, 135, 143
Durbin, Dick, 67–68
EBay, 199
education:
costs of, 106–7
parental control of, 187–89
Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), 201
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 126, 146, 204
Ellis, Joseph J., 55
Emanuel, Rahm, 132
eminent domain, 197
Enlightenment, 124
entitlements, 181–83
entrepreneurship, 17–18, 125
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 82
Evans, William, 149
fair use doctrine, 203
faith-based initiative, 22
Fannie Mae, 186–87
Farmer, Robert, 45
Federal Advisory Council, 106
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 51–53, 65, 100, 226
Federal Data Services Hub, 93–97
Federal Elections Commission (FEC), 67, 68
Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), 70, 71, 88, 183<
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Federalist, The, 12, 143
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), 191
Federal Reserve Act, amendment (1977), 191
Federal Reserve System, 190–93
federal sugar program, 81
Feinstein, Dianne, 130
Ferguson, Andrew, 124
Fifth Amendment:
due process clause, 135
and privacy, 189
and self-incrimination, 135
takings clause, 196
filibuster:
Paul’s use of, 137–40, 143–45, 146, 147
Thurmond’s use of, 141–42, 143
First Amendment:
freedom of the press, 133
free speech, 63, 74, 78, 100, 128, 133, 204
on redress of grievances, 17, 52
religious freedom, 133
right of assembly, 63
flat tax, 178
Forbes, Steve, 173
Ford, Gerald R., 218
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 9, 135–36, 190, 215
Foundation for Economic Education, 37
Founders, 18, 55, 80, 198, 202
Fourth Amendment:
and privacy, 75, 134, 201
searches and seizures, 133, 189
Frank, Barney, 16
Franklin, Benjamin, 9, 223–24, 225
Freddie Mac, 186–87
freedom:
and community, 148
free society, 123
of the individual, 55, 128, 129
and information, 126, 146, 148
and music, 32, 33–35, 38
not free, 43, 49
power vs., 54
principle of, 18
protection of, 129
responsibility of, 58
and social intelligence, 123
FreedomWorks, 38, 149, 157
and “Burn Your ObamaCare Card,” 110–12
critics of, 46–47, 212
and federal budget, 176
polling by, 108
star tattoo, 223
Free Enterprise Institute, 153
Friedman, Milton, 153
Game of Thrones, 172
Gandhi, Mohandas K. (Mahatma), 26
Garcia, Jerry, 44
Garrow, David J., 52
Geithner, Timothy, 174
General Motors bailout, 185
George Mason University (GMU), 37–38, 148
Gerritson, Becky, 72–73
Getty, J. Paul, 65
Gibb, Andy, 29, 30
Gillespie, Nick, 114
Gingrich, Newt, 100
Golden Rule, 23
gold standard, 192
government: