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25
Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School District
, 508 U.S. 384 (1993).

26
Locke v. Davey
, 540 U.S. 712 (2004).

27
McCreary County v. ACLU
, 545 U.S. 844 (2005).

28
For more instances of the assault on religious liberty, see
www.alliancedefensefund.org
.

29
“Defending Religious Freedom in America,” ADF; available at:
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/ReligiousFreedom
(accessed April 26, 2011).

30
Barton v. City of Balch Springs;
more information available at:
http://www.law.com/jsp/law/LawArticleFriendly.jsp?id=900005543320
(accessed April 26, 2011).

31
“Report Documents Attacks on Religious Freedom,” North Carolina Family Policy Council, October, 2004; available at:
http://www.ncfamily.org/stories/041025s1.html
(accessed April 26, 2011).

32
Vince Haley, “Save the Wren Chapel,” National Review Online, November 17, 2006; available at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/219285/save-wren-chapel/vince-haley
(accessed April 26, 2011).

33
“Missouri school sued by student who refused to support gay adoptions,”
USA Today
, November 2, 2006; available at:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-11-02-gay-adoption_x.htm
(accessed April 26, 2011).

34
Catherina Lorenza Cenzon-Decarlo v. The Mount Sinai Hospital
; available at:
http://oldsite.alliancedefensefund.org/userdocs/Cenzon-DeCarloComplaint.pdf
(accessed April 26, 2011).

35
“Religious Speech and Hate Crimes,” ADF; available at:
www.alliancedefensefund.org/UserDocs/ChurchHateCrimes.pdf
(accessed April 26, 2011).

36
“‘How he linked abortion and slavery,'”
California Catholic Daily
, News Release from Marin Catholic High School, January 12, 2010; available at:
http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=6f41c695-55f9-489c-b1ec-7ffe90022e94
(April 26, 2011).

37
“Christians threatened with arrest in Richmond for sharing Gospel, lawsuit filed,” ADF News Release, February 1, 2010; available at:
http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/3696
(accessed April 26, 2011).

38
“Group Loses Tax Break Over Gay Union Issue,”
New York Times
, September 18, 2007; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/nyregion/18grove.html
(accessed April 26, 2011).

39
“The Homosexual Agenda: The Principal Threat to Your Religious Freedom,” ADF; available at:
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/Marriage
(accessed April 26, 2011).

40
“Public Schools Intolerant of Religious Expression,” ADF; available at:
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/PublicSchools
(accessed April 26, 2011).

41
Ibid.

42
George Washington's Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789, National Archives; available at:
http://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/gw-inauguration/
(accessed April 26, 2011).

43
William J. Bennett,
The De-Valuing of America
(CO: Focus on the Family Pub, 1994), 255.

44
“Proposition 8 Cases,” California State Supreme Court, May 26, 2009; available at:
http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/archive/S168047.PDF
(accessed April 26, 2011), and Lisa Leff, “Court halts Calif. gay marriages pending appeal,”
The Washington Times
, August 16, 2010; available at:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/16/court-halts-calif-gaymarriages-pending-appeal/
(accessed April 26, 2011).

45
Steven Ertelt, “New Planned Parenthood Report: Record Abortions Done in 2009,”
LifeNews.com
, February 23, 2011; available at:
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/02/23/new-planned-parenthood-report-record-abortions-done-in-2009/
(accessed April 28, 2011).

46
Pierce v. Society of Sisters
, US Supreme Court, June 1, 1925; available at:
http://supreme.justia.com/us/268/510/case.html
(accessed April 26, 2011).

47
Wisconsin v. Yoder
, US Supreme Court, May 15, 1972; available at:
http://supreme.justia.com/us/406/205/case.html
(accessed April 26, 2011).

48
IN RE: VISITATION AND CUSTODY OF SENTURIN.S.V. (October 25, 2007); available at:
http://www.state.wv.us/wvsca/docs/fall07/33334.htm
(accessed April 26, 2011).

49
ParentalRights.org
, from footnote 2 to article,
http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp
. ?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={571D1CA7-1BA8-4E61-A55A-EE75EAD37DCE}: “This was not a reported decision and personal names are withheld in such cases as a matter of course. Our source for this information was Michael Farris, J.D., who advised the parents relative to this case.”

50
In Re: Sumey
, 94 Wn. 2d 757, 621 P. 2d 108 (1980); available at:
http://www.nymatlaw.com/sumey-621-p2d-108/
(accessed April 26, 2011).

51
“Homeschooling: Helping Children Achieve Academic and Personal Success,” Calvert School, 2010; available at:
http://homeschool.calvertschool.org/downloads/Calvert_Homeschooling_Academic_Success.pdf
(accessed April 26, 2011).

52
Brian Ray, Ph.D., “Research Facts on Homeschooling,” The National Home Education Research Institute, January 11, 2011; available at:
http://www.nheri.org/Research-Facts-on-Homeschooling.html
(accessed April 26, 2011).

53
Charles Dexter Cleveland,
A Compendium of American Literature
(Philadelphia, 1859), 273–74.

1
Corinne Maier,
Hello Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay
, trans. David Watson (London: Orion, 2005).

2
Rebecca Leung, “France: Less Work, More Time Off,” CBS News
60 Minutes
, June 29, 2005,
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/27/60II/main704571.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody
(accessed April 25, 2011).

3
Michael Novak,
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
(Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1991).

4
Ibid., 39–40.

5
Os Guinness,
The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2003), 40.

6
Michael Novak,
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
, 91.

7
From Ken Burns,
Brooklyn Bridge
, PBS Documentary, 1981.

8
George Washington, Letter to Benjamin Harrison, October 10, 1784.

9
Daniel J. Boorstin,
The Americans: The Colonial Experience
(New York: Vintage Books, 1958), 10.

10
Frederick Jackson Turner,
Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998), 31.

11
Ibid., 59.

12
Ron Chernow,
Alexander Hamilton
(New York: Penguin, 2004).

13
Alex Hutchinson, “The Top 50 Inventions of Past 50 Years,”
Popular Mechanics
, December 1, 2005,
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/2078467
(accessed April 18, 2011).

14
Michael Novak,
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
, 99–100.

15
Robert Rector, Katherine Bradley, and Rachel Sheffield, “Obama to Spend $10.3 Trillion on Welfare: Uncovering the Full Cost of Means-Tested Welfare or Aid to the Poor,” The Heritage Foundation, Special Report #67, 2009.

16
Peter Ferrara,
America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb
(New York: HarperCollins, 2011).

17
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P-60, No. 80, “Income in 1970 of Families and Persons in the United States,” p. 26.

18
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P-60, No. 180, “Money Income of Households, Families, and Persons in the United States: 1991,” p. 7.

19
Peter J. Ferrara, “It's Time To Block Grant Welfare To The States,” Forbes. com, February 23, 2011; available at:
http://www.forbes.com/2011/02/23/welfare-poverty-economics-opinions-contributors-peter-ferrara.html
(accessed April 28, 2011).

20
Ron Haskins, “Welfare Reform: Success or Failure? It Worked,” Brookings Institution, March 15, 2006,
http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2006/0315welfare_haskins.aspx
(accessed April 25, 2011).

1
“Five Years After Katrina: Progress Report on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal,” Office of Governor Haley Barbour, August 29, 2010; available at:
http://www.governorbarbour.com/news/2010/aug/Katrina5years.pdf
(accessed April 25, 2011).

2
Michael Novak,
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
(Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1991), 135.

3
Ibid., 135.

4
Gordon Wood,
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
(New York: Penguin, 2004), 42, 49.

5
Charles Morris,
American Catholic
(New York: Times Books, 1997), 17–18.

6
Alexis de Tocquevile,
Democracy in America
, Part I, ch. 12.

7
Gordon Wood,
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
, 328–29.

8
Burke,
Reflections on the Revolution in France
, para 75.

9
Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
, Part II, ch. 5.

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).