10 Ibid., II, 4.6
11 Arthur Brooks, Gross National Happiness (New York: Basic Books, 2008), 190; and Brooks, “Philanthropy and the Non-Profit Sector,” in Understanding America, ed. James Wilson and Peter Schuck (PublicAffairs, 2008), 542. Brooks says that giving remains steady at between 1.5 and 2% of GDP annually. 2010 GDP exceeded $14 trillion.
12 Brooks, Who Really Cares (New York: Basic Books, 2006), 117–18.
13 “About Our Founder,” Carnegie Corporation of New York, http://carnegie.org/about-us/foundation-history/about-andrew-carnegie/ (accessed April 28, 2011); and “A Tribute: Colonel James Anderson,” Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/anderson.html (accessed April 28, 2011).
14 Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic: 1776-1787 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), 120.
15 Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” April 16, 1963.
16 United States Foreign-Born Population, Data Tables, http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign/datatbls.html (accessed April 28, 2011).
17 Marisa Schor, “A Comparative Study of Russian Jewish Immigrants Based on Absorption Strategies,” Dissertation American Jewish University, 2005; available at: http://academics.ajula.edu/Content/ContentUnit.asp?CID=1639&u=5971&t=0 (accessed April 25, 2011).
18 Ibid.
19 George Rupp, “1975: The Largest Refugee Resettlement in American History,” International Rescue Committee, June 27, 2008; available at: http://www.rescue.org/blog/1975-largest-refugee-resettlement-effort-americanhistory-irc-75 (accessed April 25, 2011).
20 Joseph Cao, “Interview with Brian Lamb,” C-SPAN Q and A, January 11, 2009; available at: http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1213 (accessed April 28, 2011).
21 The hallmark legislative accomplishment that addressed welfare reform was H.R.3734, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996; available at: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c104:H.R.3734.ENR: (accessed April 28, 2011).
22 Yuval Levin, “Beyond the Welfare State,” National Affairs No. 7, Spring 2011; available at: http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/beyond-the-welfare-state (accessed April 25, 2011).
23 Ibid.
24 Charles Murray, The Happiness of the American People, Irving Kristol Lecture, AEI, March 2009; text of speech available at: http://www.aei.org/speech/100023 (accessed April 25, 2011).
25 Ibid.
26 Howard S. Miller, The Legal Foundations of American Philanthropy, 1776–1844 (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1961).
27 Patrick Fagan, “How the Death Tax Kills Small Businesses, Communities, and Civil Society,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, No. 2438, July 26, 2010; available at: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/07/howthe-death-tax-kills-small-businesses-communities-and-civil-society (accessed April 25, 2011).
28 Heather Higgins, “The ‘Diversity’ Threat to California Charity,” Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2008; available at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121210971023331419.html (accessed April 25, 2011).
29 Katherine Mangu-Ward, “The Politics of Giving,” Reason Foundation, February 23, 2010; available at: http://reason.org/news/show/the-politicsof-giving (accessed April 25, 2011).
30 Caroline Preston, “Fla. Adopts Legislation to Protect Foundations’ Autonomy,” Chronicle of Philanthropy, Philanthropy.org, June 1, 2010; available at: http://philanthropy.com/blogs/government-and-politics/fla-adopts-legislation-to-protect-foundations-autonomy/24434 (accessed April 25, 2011).
31 Bradley Olson, “City puts a stop to homeless outreach,” Houston Chronicle , January 13, 2011; available at: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7381016.html (accessed April 25, 2011).
32 Thomas Korosec, “Dallas law cracks down on feeding the homeless,” Houston Chronicle, August 7, 2005; available at: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3299402.html (accessed April 25, 2011).
33 Talking Points of Ryan Messmore, “Obama’s Latest Proposal to Reduce Charitable Deductions Would Crowd Out Civil Society,” Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #2538, March 29, 2011; available at: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/03/obamas-latest-proposal-to-reduce-charitable-deductions-would-crowd-out-civil-society (accessed April 25, 2011).
34 “Diploma Count: 2009,” Education Week, June 11, 2009; available at: http://www.edweek.org/ew/toc/2009/06/11/index.html (accessed April 28, 2011).
35 RiShawn Liddle, “Return of the One-Room Schoolhouse,” The American Spectator, March 28, 2011; available at: http://spectator.org/archives/2011/03/29/return-of-the-one-room-schoolh (accessed April 25, 2011).
36 Jennifer Medina, “At California School, Parents Force an Overhaul,” New York Times, December 10, 2010; available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/education/08teacher.html (accessed April 25, 2011).
37 Jim Newton, “Education Battle at Compton Unified School,” LA Times, April 18, 2011; available at: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-newton-compton-20110418,0,5430463.column (accessed April 25, 2011).
38 Ohio Liberty Council and Ohio Project, “2011 Ballot Initiative on Healthcare passes 300,000 Signatures,” April 22, 2011; available at: http://www.ohiolibertycouncil.org/?p=3440 (accessed April 28, 2011).
CHAPTER SEVEN
1 Marc Fisher, “In Tunisia, act of one fruit vendor unleashes wave of revolution through Arab world,” Washington Post, March 26, 2011; available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-tunisia-act-of-one-fruit-vendorsparks-wave-of-revolution-through-arab-world/2011/03/16/AFjfsueB_print.html (accessed April 26, 2011).
2 Ibid.
3 Hernando de Soto, “Egypt’s Economic Apartheid,” Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2011; available at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704358704576118683913032882.html (accessed April 28, 2011).
4 Hernando de Soto, “Assessing the Success of Capitalism,” Commanding Heights; available at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/int_hernandodesoto.html#6 (accessed April 26, 2011).
5 Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic (NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1969), 33.
6 Ibid., 32.
7 John J. Wallis, “The Concept of Systematic Corruption in American History,” University of Maryland & National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2005; available at: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/apworkshop/wallis05.pdf (accessed April 26, 2011).
8 Ibid.
9 Center for Health Transformation, Wall Charts–2010 Health Reform Law, http://www.healthtransformation.net/cs/wallcharts (accessed April 28, 2011).
10 Richard Epstein, “Government By Waiver: The Breakdown Of Public Administration,” Forbes, November 23, 2010; available at: http://blogs.forbes.com/richardepstein/2010/11/23/government-by-waiver-the-breakdown-of-public-administration/?boxes=opinionschannellatest (accessed April 26, 2011).
11 Thomas Jefferson, letter to Mr. Jarvis, September 1820.
12 Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., 501 U.S. 560, 569 (1991).
13 Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620, 635 (1996).
14 Ibid., 578.
15 Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 582 (O’Connor, J., concurring).
16 Ibid., 599.
17 Williams v. Morgan, 478 F.3d 1316, 1322 (11th Cir. 2007).
18 United States v. Extreme Associates, Inc., 352 F.Supp.2d 578 (W.D. Pa. 2005), rev’d 431 F.3d 150 (3d Cir. 2005), and Reliable Consultants, Inc. v. Earle, 517 F.3d 738 (5th Cir. 2008).
19 Reliable Consultants, Inc. v. Earle, 538 F.3d 355, 362 (5th Cir. 2008) (Garza, J., dissenting from denial of rehearing).
20 See the letter here: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/February/11-ag-223.html (accessed April 26, 2011).
21 Ibid.
22 Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope (New York: Random House, 2006), 223.
CHAPTER EIGHT
1 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat 17, “On an Unlimited National Emergency,” May 27, 1941.
2 Ronald Reagan, Firs
t Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981.
3 Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1974).
4 Ronald Reagan, Acceptance of the Republican Nomination for President, July 17, 1980.
5 Ibid.
6 Office of Management and Budget, “Table 3.1—Outlays by Superfunction and Function: 1940–2016,” Historical Tables, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2012, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2011; available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2012/assets/hist.pdf (accessed April 28, 2011).
7 Ronald Reagan, “Evil Empire Speech,” March 8, 1983.
8 Bruce Parrott, “The Soviet Debate on Missile Defense,” Bullet of the Atomic Scientists, April 1987, pg. 9.
9 Erick Stakelbeck, The Terrorist Next Door (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2011), 57–58, 197.
10 Kerry Picket, “(Audio) CBC Congressman: KKK bigger threat than Muslims,” Washington Times, March 10, 2011; available at: http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/mar/10/audio-cbc-congressman-twt-terror-hearing-your-pape/ (accessed April 27, 2011).
11 Representative Benny Thompson, quoted in Robert Spencer, “Congressman says King hearings should be scrapped because they will provoke jihadists,” JihadWatch.org, March 11, 2011; available at: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/03/congressman-says-king-hearings-should-be-scrapped-becausethey-will-provoke-jihadists.html (accessed April 27, 2011).
12 Statement by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the Iranian Election, White-House. gov, June 13, 2009; available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Statement-by-Press-Secretary-Robert-Gibbs-on-the-Iranian-Election/ (accessed April 27, 2011).
13 “Obama Refuses to ‘Meddle’ in Iran,” BBC, June 19, 2009; available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8104362.stm (accessed April 27, 2011).
14 Ryan Lizza, “The Consequentialist,” The New Yorker, May 2, 2011, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/02/110502fa_fact_lizza?printable=true¤tPage=all (accessed April 27, 2011).
15 Charles Krauthammer, “Obama’s New Start,” National Review Online, December 24, 2010; available at: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/255914/obama-s-new-start-charles-krauthammer (accessed April 27, 2011).
16 “Allies Are Split on Goal and Exit Strategy in Libya,” New York Times, March 24, 2011; available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/world/africa/25policy.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all (accessed April 27, 2011).
17 Ibid.
18 “NATO takes command of part of Libya operation,” FOXNews.com, March 24, 2011; available at: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/24/france-libya-operation-weeks-months (accessed April 27, 2011).
19 Ryan Lizza, “The Consequentialist,” The New Yorker.
CHAPTER NINE
1 See the video here: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/09/20/cnbc_town_hall_questioner_to_obama_im_exhausted_of_defending_you.html (accessed May 2, 2011).
2 Jon Meacham, “We Are All Socialists Now,” Newsweek, February 7, 2009; available at: http://www.newsweek.com/2009/02/06/we-are-all-socialistsnow.html (accessed May 2, 2011).
3 Stephen Dinan, “Social Security in the red this year,” Washington Times, August 5, 2010; available at: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/5/social-security-red-first-time-ever/ (accessed May 3, 2011).
4 The Prowler, “Nullification Nancy,” American Spectator, July 5, 2005; available at: http://spectator.org/archives/2005/07/05/nullification-nancy (accessed May 2, 2011).
5 Ben Geman, “Energy Department official highlights ‘resilience’ in oil markets amid Libyan unrest,” E2 Wire, February 22, 2011; available at: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/145551-energy-department-officialcites-resilience-in-oil-markets-amid-libyan-unrest?utm_campaign=E2Wire&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter (accessed May 2, 2011).
6 Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter Tanous, The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy—If We Let It Happen (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 88.
CHAPTER TEN
1 Matthew Jaffe and John R. Parkinson, “House Votes to Strip Planned Parenthood of Federal Funding,” ABC News, February 18, 2011; available at: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-votes-strip-planned-parenthoodfederal-funding/story?id=12951080 (accessed May 2, 2011).
2 “Caretakers of Stolen Mojave Desert Cross Vow to Replace It,” FoxNews. com, May 11, 2010; available at: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/11/thieves-steal-mojave-desert-memorial-cross-nighttime-heist/#ixzz1KI99Ch54 (accessed May 2, 2011).
3 Robert Barnes, “For Couple, Memorial Became a Mission,” Washington Post, September 28, 2009; available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/28/AR2009092803125.html (accessed May 2, 2011).
4 Ibid.
5 The article can be read here: “A College Education,” originally published in the Wall Street Journal Review & Outlook, June 16, 2007; available at GoACTA.org, http://www.goacta.org/press/Articles/2007Articles/07-06-16WSJ.cfm (accessed May 2, 2011).
6 “Appeals Court: Mt. Soledad Cross Is Unconstitutional,” 10News.com, January 4, 2011; available at: http://www.10news.com/news/26366967/detail.html (accessed May 2, 2011).
7 “Victory: ‘In God We Trust’ Unveiled in Capitol Visitors Center,” Congressman Randy J. Forbes, September 30, 2009; available at: http://forbes.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=147350 (accessed May 2, 2011).
8 “At Vacation Liberty School, Kentucky kids get civic lessons with a Christian twist,” FOX News, July 15, 2010; available at: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/15/vacation-liberty-school-kentucky-kids-civics-lessons-christian-twist/ (accessed May 2, 2011).
9 Ibid.
10 St. Louis Vacation Liberty School, http://stlvls.webs.com/index.htm (accessed May 2, 2011).
11 David Bossie, “Hypocrisy in Citizens United Chatter,” Politico, February 2, 2010; available at: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32331.html (accessed May 2, 2011).
12 Jeff Benedict, Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009).
13 “Five Years After Kelo: The Sweeping Backlash Against One of the Supreme Court’s Most-Despised Decisions,” Institute for Justice; available at: http://ij.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3392&Itemid=165 (accessed May 2, 2011).
14 Benjamin Evans, “Replicating the Success of Prop C,” National Review Online, August 12, 2010; available at: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/243657 (accessed May 2, 2011).
15 Tony Messenger, “Prop C passes overwhelmingly,” stltoday.com, August 4, 2010; available at: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_c847dc7c-564c-5c70-8d90-dfd25ae6de56.html (accessed May 2, 2011).
16 Dan Whitcomb, “Mayor, officials arrested in California pay scandal,” Reuters, September 22, 2010; available at: http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/09/22/us-california-payscandal-arrests-idUSTRE68K40N20100922 (accessed May 2, 2011); and “Voters in California’s corruption-bit Bell make clean sweep,” Reuters, March 9, 2011; available at: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/09/us-corruption-bell-election-idUS-TRE7286GZ20110309 (accessed May 2, 2011).
17 BASTA, http://basta4bell.com/ (accessed May 2, 2011).
18 “California’s Parent Revolution,” Wall Street Journal Review & Outlook, December 7, 2010; available at: http://parentrevolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Wall-Street-Journal-Opinion-12-7-10.pdf (accessed May 2, 2011).
19 “The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program is Making a Difference,” D.C. Parents for School Choice; available at: http://www.saveschoolchoice.com/pdf/Facts.pdf (accessed May 2, 2011).
20 “D.C. Parents Call on Congress to Put the needs of Kids Ahead of Special Interest Politics,” PRNewsWire.com, March 24, 2011; available at: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dc-parents-call-on-congress-to-put-theneeds-of-kids-ahead-of-special-interest-politics-118588989.html (accessed May 2, 2011).
21 Kathryn Jean Lopez, “Icing on the Cake,”
National Review Online The Corner, April 9, 2011; available at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/264305/icing-cake-kathryn-jean-lopez (accessed May 2, 2011).
22 Matthew Ladner, “Arizona Legislature passes ‘Lexie’s Law’ to replace vouchers,” Goldwater Institute, June 1, 2009; available at: http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/article/2826 (accessed May 2, 2011).
23 “Arizona Governor to Sign Lexie’s Law To Save Scholarships for Special Needs and Foster Children,” Institute for Justice, May 29, 2009; available at: http://www.ij.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2735&Itemid=165 (accessed May 2, 2011).
24 “License to Describe: Challenging Washington D.C.’s Tour-Guide Licensing Scheme,” Institute for Justice; available at: http://www.ij.org/about/3491 (accessed May 2, 2011); and video; available at: http://www.ij.org/freedomflix/16-licensetodescribe (accessed May 2, 2011).
25 Jonathan Dienst and Hasani Gittens, “9/11 Terror Trials Will Not Be Held in New York City,” NBC, January 30, 2010; available at: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/911-Terror-Trials-Will-Not-Be-Held-in-NYC-83083662.html (accessed May 2, 2011).
26 Andrew C. McCarthy, “Never Forgot Coalition Plans Rally Against Civilian Trials for 9/11 Terrorists,” National Review Online The Corner, November 23, 2009; available at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/190768/neverforget-coalition-plans-rally-against-civilian-trials-911-terrorists-andrew-c-mcc (accessed May 2, 2011).
CONCULSION
1 CBS News Poll, May 26, 2010, http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll_052510.pdf (accessed May 2, 2011).
INDEX
60 Minutes
A
Adams, Abigail
Adams, John
Adams, Samuel
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
Alger, Horatio
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