A Nation Like No Other (35 page)

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).

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.

1
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat 17, “On an Unlimited National Emergency,” May 27, 1941.

2
Ronald Reagan, First 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
.

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,”
E
²
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.

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).