39. “The Uninsured in America,” Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Chicago, February 27, 2003.
40. “Reaching Eligible but Uninsured Children in Medicaid and SCHIP,” Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, Center for Children and Families, March 2008.
41. Cato Briefing Paper no. 112, June 9, 2009, “Massachusetts Miracle or Massachusetts Miserable.”
42. New Jersey? That’s what the U.S. Commerce Department’s Statistical Abstract of the United States says. But New Jerseyites spent it all on hair styling products. And what’s with Wyoming? Did China buy it?
43. Cato Briefing Paper no. 112.
44. Montecristo no. 3s. There’s a place in Toronto where you can buy them and they’ll take the “Hecho en Cuba” cigar bands off and mail them to me in a box marked “Made in Honduras.” And they’re telling U.S. Customs the truth, the box is made in Honduras.
45. N.B. to those under thirty: a primitive analog address and phone number search engine.
46. The Opening of an Era, 1848: A Historical Symposium, ed. François Fejtö, New York, 1966.
47. New York, 1987.
48. The Terrorism Reader, ed. Walter Laqueur, New York, 1978.
49. Certainly not the first, but I follow the textbook Understanding Terrorism, by James M. Poland, of California State University, Sacramento, 2004.
50. Book I, chapter 26.
51. Book III, chapter 1.
52. The Terrorist Reader.
53. Quoted in Alchemists of Revolution.
54. In the article “Imperialism,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1946.
55. In the previous chapter, talking about how conservative I am, I said, “I think fun is bad.” I was lying. This is called hypocrisy. I said the right thing, while doing the wrong thing, such as taking drugs with Rush Limbaugh—if he had invited me. Politically, it’s a good rule to side with the hypocrites. In matters of right and wrong at least hypocrites know the difference.
56. New York, 1993. Keegan is in turn citing Paul Ratchnevsky, Genghis Khan, Oxford, 1991.
57. Radio interview, WIPX in New York, December 7, 1975.
58. The Penguin History of the United States, London, 1990.
59. Penguin History of the United States.
60. Published in 1909 and very boring.
61. Published by the Eastern Book Concern in New York in 1899 and even more boring.
62. Published in 1908 and more boring yet, if that’s possible.
63. Cato Institute Tax and Budget Bulletin no. 56, April 2009, figures cited from Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 2008.
64. U.S. Department of Justice, FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division, Crime in the United States 2008, table 20, Murder by State, Types of Weapons.
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