by Rand Paul
2. http://www.gallup.com/poll/159881/americans-call-term-limits-end-electoral-college.aspx.
3. http://www.factcheck.org/2010/01/lawmaker-loopholes.
4. http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/gao-finds-serious-conflicts-at-the-fed;
5. http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardsalsman/2013/04/02/an-overleveraged-fed-punishes-better-capitalized-banks.
6. http://www.royalbounty.com/famous_quotations.htm.
Chapter 6: Can You Hear Me Now?
1. http://www.constitution.org/bor/otis_against_writs.htm.
2. http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs94th/94intelligence_activities_VI.pdf (p. 617).
3. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/04/the-nsa-refuses-to-deny-spying-on-members-of-congress.
4. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/cia-senate-snooping/cia-accused-spying-senate-intel-committee-breaking-law-n49816.
5. http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs94th/94intelligence_activities_VI.pdf.
6. http://www.wired.com/2012/07/surveillance-spirit-law.
7. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/preemption/churchfisa.html.
8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DjJKYYb5-4.
9. http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs94th/94intelligenceactivitiesV.pdf.
10. The Truong and Humphrey espionage case also played a role in the passage of the intelligence surveillance law and the establishment of the FISA court. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/07/us/david-truong-figure-in-us-wiretap-case-dies-at-68.html.
11. https://www.aclu.org/reform-patriot-act.
12. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/356159/sensenbrenner-nsa-surveillance-abuse-patriot-act-john-fund.
13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vFhXpfEfQg.
14. http://www.cato.org/policy-report/novemberdecember-2013/decoding-summer-snowden.
15. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-snowden.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
16. http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/jul/08/edward-snowden-video-interview.
17. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/ex-nsa-chief-we-kill-people-based-on-metadata.
18. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/us/us-secretly-monitoring-mail-of-thousands.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news.
19. http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/multimedia/timeline-edward-snowden-revelations.html.
20. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests.
21. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/07/technology/internet-giants-erect-barriers-to-spy-agencies.html.
22. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/25/james-comey-apple-encryption_n_5882874.html.
23. http://www.wsj.com/video/government-spy-from-the-sky-program-revealed/4CCE1200-0270-4DDC-8157-DC6DF587FAC0.html.
24. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/united-states-of-secrets/the-frontline-interview-diane-roark.
25. http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/10/jake-tapper/cnns-tapper-obama-has-used-espionage-act-more-all-.
Chapter 7: On the Road
1. http://www.brookings.edu/research/testimony/2012/06/05-poverty-families-haskins.
2. http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet.
3. Mark Hendrickson. “President Obama’s Wealth-Desroying Goal,” Forbes (May 31, 2012).
4. http://iroots.org/2013/09/18/african-american-pastors-shocking-comments-on-rand-paul.
5. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1720240,00.html.
6. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/09/16/police-made-one-marijuana-arrest-every-42-seconds-in-2012.
7. http://www.justice.gov/jmd/2014factsheets/prisons-detention.pdf.
8. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/pew-study-prison-recidivism-rates-remain-high.
9. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Annual Statistical Report. 2007, 2008.
10. US Department of Education, NCES, Digest of Education Statistics, 2007.
11. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/17/national/17sentencing.html.
12. http://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/crime_and_justice/article_27756acf-4a02-5b1e-8ae4-3ca7eb305caa.html.
13. http://www.freep.com/article/20120205/OPINION02/202050442/PUNISHMENT-INSTEAD-OF-TREATMENT-Hundreds-of-Michigan-s-mentally-ill-inmates-languish-in-solitary-confinement-lost-in-a-prison-system-ill-equipped-to-treat-them.
14. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/martin-luther-king-jr-voting-rights-act-102371.html#.U9T3WRZPQds.
15. http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/fd_State_Level_Estimates_of_Felon_Disen_2010.pdf.
16. http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/page.cfm?id=133.
17. http://kff.org/other/poll-finding/kaiser-family-foundationnew-york-timescbs-news-non-employed-poll.
Chapter 8: Waiting for Superman
1. http://www.aecf.org/resources/early-reading-proficiency-in-the-united-states.
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/magazine/so-bill-gates-has-this-idea-for-a-history-class.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSumSmallMediaHigh&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news.
3. http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2011/05/11-class-size-whitehurst-chingos.
4. http://ilpovertyreport.org/sites/default/files/uploads/images/county_pdfs/cook_0.pdf.
Chapter 9: Government Overreach
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/nyregion/suburbs-try-to-hold-onto-young-adults-as-exodus-to-cities-appears-to-grow.html?_r=0.
2. http://www.epi.org/publication/making-ferguson.
3. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/economics-police-militarism.
4. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/us/darren-wilsons-unremarkable-past-offers-few-clues-into-ferguson shooting.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSumSmallMedia&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news.
5. http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-ferguson-missouri-court-fines-budget.html.
6. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/opinion/a-chilling-portrait-of-ferguson.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region.
7. https://news.vice.com/article/vice-on-hbo-debriefs-surveillance-city-the-forgotten-war.
8. http://www.npr.org/2014/05/29/316735545/why-your-right-to-a-public-defender-may-come-with-a-fee.
9. http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/02/05/us-profit-probation-tramples-rights-poor.
10. http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/02/us_department_of_justice_assis.html.
11. http://ago.mo.gov/VehicleStops/2013/reports/161.pdf.
12. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/12/taken.
13. http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20140628/connecticut-police-use-thousands-in-seized-funds-for-training-trips.
14. http://www.krmg.com/news/news/local/tulsa-police-rolls-cadillac-escalade-seized-drug-d/nRJZN.
15. http://books.google.com/books?id=rOAXAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA672&lpg=PA672&dq=example+of+deodan+in+english+common+law&source=bl&ots=oWIN5roitz&sig=8EsB5YWXSOVa0qZPJGIE9JtpJ6c&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kqkAVJyHI5W9ggS3yYKIBA&ved=0CFQQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=example%20of%20deodan%20in%20english%20common%20law&f=false.
16. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/9/caswell-the-covetous-cops-of-motel-caswell/?page=all.
17. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/9/caswell-the-covetous-cops-of-motel-caswell/?page=all.
18. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/us/law-lets-irs-seize-accounts-on-suspicion-no-crime-required.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSum&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news.
19. http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Bal-Harbour-Florida.html.
20. http://ivn.us/2012/10/31/floridas-bal-harbour-police-department-epitomizes-the-perverse-nature-of-civil-asset-forfeiture-laws.
21. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91638378.
&
nbsp; 22. http://www.wsj.com/articles/loretta-lynchs-money-pot-Nov. 21, 2014.
23. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/white_collar/asset-forfeiture.
24. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/us/police-use-department-wish-list-when-deciding-which-assets-to-seize.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0.
25. http://www.auditor.mo.gov/Press/2013-019.pdf.
Chapter 10: Economic Freedom
1. http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/2014/10/20/detroit-dirt-martha-stewart-winner/17618947.
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/07/business/peter-hall-city-planner-who-devised-the-enterprise-zone-dies-at-82.html.
3. The exact quote is: “Do your work the best you can do it, given your level of skill, given your level of knowledge (you cannot do the impossible), and you will raise your self-esteem. And that’s more important than getting more money or a promotion because it’s about who you are.” http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2012/7/v32n2-4.pdf.
4. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/374321/corporate-welfare-queens-stephen-moore.
5. http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/23/47_years_ago_in_detroit_rev.
Chapter 11: The War on Liberty
1. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/michael-brown-eric-garner-other-america-john-lewis/383750.
2. http://www.cato.org/blog/police-militarization-ferguson-nationwide.
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/us/in-washington-second-thoughts-on-arming-police.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LedeSum&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news.
4. https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-free-speech/senator-ervin-no-knock-warrants-and-fight-stop-cops-smashing.
5. https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-free-speech/senator-ervin-no-knock-warrants-and-fight-stop-cops-smashing.
6. 18480 Congressional Record—House, June 7, 1973.
7. http://billmoyers.com/2014/08/13/not-just-ferguson-11-eye-opening-facts-about-americas-militarized-police-forces.
8. http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/sneak-and-peek-warrants.
9. https://www.eff.org/document/2013-delayed-notice-sneak-and-peek-report.
10. http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/events/criminal_justice/Fall2012/Roundtable_WitmerRich_Covert_Searches.authcheckdam.pdf.
11. http://homelandsecurity.ky.gov/suspicious.html.
12. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/books/review/30mosle.html?pagewanted=all.
13. http://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/overkill-rise-paramilitary-police-raids-america.
14. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-08-27/news/os-barbershop-raids-lawsuits-sheriff-20130826_1_strictly-skillz-regional-program-administrator-state-licensing-agency.
15. http://abcnews.go.com/US/family-toddler-injured-swat-grenade-faces-1m-medical/story?id=27671521.
16. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/05/30/heartbreaking-photo-of-baby-boy-tells-story-of-late-night-swat-raid-gone-horribly-wrong.
17. https://www.propublica.org/article/flashbangs.
Chapter 12: The War on Christians
1. http://www.news.va/en/news/asiasyria-maalula-land-of-martyrs-death-in-odium-f.
2. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/05/29/228819/for-2-years-the-priest-aided-christians.html.
3. http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/05/boko-haram-only-kidnapped-the-nigerian-girls-because-they-were-christian.
4. http://www.christianpost.com/news/expert-more-christians-killed-last-year-in-northern-nigeria-than-rest-of-world-combined-108796.
5. http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/01/30/saudi-arabia-christians-arrested-private-prayer.
6. https://www.opendoorsusa.org.
7. http://www.christianpost.com/news/isis-beheads-7-men-and-3-women-in-syria-us-led-airstrikes-hit-stronghold-127367.
8. http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2013/sca/222323.htm.
9. http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/05/16/egyptians-increasingly-glum.
10. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/09/the-u-s-gives-egypt-1-5-billion-a-year-in-aid-heres-what-it-does.
11. https://cmes.uchicago.edu/sites/cmes.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/Global/Excerpts%20from%20Ibn%20Sina’s%20Canon%20of%20Medicine.pdf.
12. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/428267/Omar-Khayyam.
13. http://www.serageldin.com/ancient_Library.htm.
14. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-islamic-inventors-changed-the-world-469452.html.
15. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2764.html.
Chapter 13: Defending America
1. It was actually “avoids errors. You hit singles, you hit doubles.” Either way, he hasn’t accomplished his goal.
2. http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06/03/former-u-s-ambassador-to-syria-i-could-no-longer-defend-the-american-policy-robert-ford.
3. http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE75H01120110618.
4. http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR637.html.
5. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/07/23/204793903/no-fly-zone-in-syria-could-cost-1b-a-month-top-general-says.
6. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/world/middleeast/us-pins-hope-on-syrian-rebels-with-loyalties-all-over-the-map.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSum&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news.
7. http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/content/un-records-show-turkey-shipped-arms-syrian-rebels.
8. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304626304579509401865454762.
9. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/world/middleeast/sending-missiles-to-syrian-rebels-qatar-muscles-in.html?pagewanted=all.
10. http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabia-seeking-pakistan-arms-for-syrian-rebels-1.1294761.
11. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/22/world/africa/in-a-turnabout-syria-rebels-get-libyan-weapons.html?pagewanted=all.
12. The full quote was: “if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” which was told to The New Yorker’s David Remnick for a profile that ran January 27, 2014.
13. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1026.html.
14. http://freebeacon.com/issues/watch-obama-make-the-case-against-his-executive-amnesty.
15. http://www.newsweek.com/2014/09/19/exclusive-how-istanbul-became-recruiting-ground-islamic-state-269247.html.
16. http://www.ibtimes.com/va-stops-releasing-data-injured-vets-total-reaches-grim-milestone-exclusive-1449584.
17. https://news.brown.edu/articles/2011/06/warcosts.
18. http://helpingahero.org/our-heroes/sgt-jd-williams.
19. http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_10effbe4-0859-59a8-b08f-3a2136e22655.html.
20. https://news.brown.edu/articles/2011/06/warcosts.
Chapter 14: Peace Through Diplomacy, Trade, and Financial Solvency
1. http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-capitalist-cure-for-terrorism-1412973796.
Chapter 15: Libya: A Jihadist’s Wonderland
1. http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/176699.pdf.
2. http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/176699.pdf.
3. http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Statement-for-Committee-Lt.-Col.-Wood-.pdf.
4. http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Statement-for-Committee-Lt.-Col.-Wood-.pdf.
5. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/10/u-s-security-official-in-libya-tells-congressional-investigators-about-inappropriately-low-security-at-benghazi-post.
6. http://www.collins.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/81d5e2d9-cc8d-45af-aa8b-b937c55c7208/Flashing%20Red-HSGAC%20Special%20Report%20final.pdf.
7. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/security-dwindled-before-deadly-libyan-consulate-attack.
8. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/hillary-clinton-and-the-aug-16-cable-on-benghazi-security/2013/04/09/675de8f8-a179-11e2-9c03-6952ff305f
35_blog.html.
9. http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/202446.pdf (#2 under subtitle “Findings” and later implicitly stated in report’s recount of events).
10. http://ajrarchive.org/article.asp?id=1579.
11. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1028593490788851400.
12. http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/dec13/default13.asp.
13. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/01/world/study-faults-powell-aides-on-somalia.html.
14. http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/what-defense-secretary does_703133.html.
15. http://www.scribd.com/doc/111001074/West-Point-CTC-s-Al-Qa-ida-s-Foreign-Fighters-in-Iraq.
16. http://articles.southbendtribune.com/2012-05-06/news/31601004_1_mazar-e-sharif-northern-afghan-city.
17. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line.
18. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line.
Chapter 16: Tree Hugger
1. http://realestate.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=24999536.
2. http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml.
3. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444799904578050541251702834.
4. http://www.litteritcostsyou.org/9-interesting-facts-and-statistics-about-littering.
5. http://www.environmentillinoiscenter.org/sites/environment/files/reports/IL_wastingwaterways_scrn%20061814.pdf.
6. http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2012/09/20/rubicon-cuts-corporate-costs-waste.
7. http://www.plunderingappalachia.org/theissue.htm.
8. http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/joel-salatin-interview.aspx?PageId=1#ArticleContent.
9. http://www.logan-aluminum.com.
10. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/new-epa-regs-issued-under-obama-are-38-times-long-bible.
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
1. The Long Stand