Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto (28 page)

38.  Brett Molina, “Five Questions About the Business of Twitter,”
USA Today,
October 3, 2013, http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/10/03/five-questions-twitter-s1/2918277/ (accessed October 4, 2013).

39.  Sydney Brownstone, “Twitter vs. Mainstream Media: Science Proves Which Breaks News Faster,” Fastcoexist.com, July 9, 2013, http://www.fastcoexist.com/1682521/twitter-vs-mainstream-media-science-proves-which-breaks-news-faster (accessed October 4, 2013).

40.  Roy Morejon, “How Social Media is Replacing Traditional Journalism as a News Source,”
Social Media Today,
June 28, 2012, http://socialmediatoday.com/roymorejon/567751/how-social-media-replacing-traditional-journalism-news-source (accessed August 22, 2013).

41.  John Perry Barlow, Closing Keynote Address at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, June 8, 2013.

42.  Jim Newell, “Thousand Gather in Washington for Anti-NSA ‘Stop Watching Us’ Rally,”
Guardian,
October 26, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/26/nsa-rally-stop-watching-washington-snowden (accessed November 6, 2013).

Chapter 8: Twelve Steps

  1.  “David Brooks Warns About ‘the Rise of Ted Cruz-ism,’ ”
Real Clear Politics,
video, September 15, 2013, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/09/14/david_brooks_warns_about_the_rise_of_ted_cruz-ism.html (accessed September 30, 2013).

  2.  Daniel Politi, “Harry Reid: ‘The American People Will Not Be Extorted by Tea Party Anarchists,’ ”
Slate,
September 28, 2013, http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/09/28/harry_reid_on_shutdown_american_people_will_not_be_extorted_by_tea_party.html (accessed September 30, 2013).

  3.  Sam Baker, “Baucus Warns of ‘Huge Train Wreck’ Enacting ObamaCare Provisions,”
The Hill,
April 17, 2013, http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/294501-baucus-warns-of-huge-train-wreck-in-obamacare-implementation (accessed September 30, 2013).

  4.  Barbara Hagenbaugh and Sue Kirchhoff, “Timothy Geithner Says He Regrets Tax Mistakes,”
USA Today,
January 22, 2009, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/economy/2009-01-21-geithner-hearing_N.htm (accessed October 9, 2013).

  5.  
Newsmax,
“60 Minutes Uncovers Pelosi’s Insider Stock Trades,” November 13, 2011, http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/pelosi-stock-insider-60minutes/2011/11/13/id/417848 (accessed December 5, 2013).

  6.  S. 2038 (112th): STOCK Act, http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s2038 (accessed September 23, 2013).

  7.  Stephen Dinan, “Congress Votes to Shield Top Officials’ Financial Disclosures,”
Washington Times,
April 12, 2013, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/12/senate-votes-shield-top-officials-financial-disclo/?page=1 (accessed September 30, 2013).

  8.  Elise Viebeck, “GOP Bill Hits Alleged ObamaCare Exemption Talks,”
The Hill,
April 26, 2013, http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/296489-gop-bill-hits-alleged-obamacare-exemption-talks#ixzz2RbQ3O72J (accessed September 23, 2013).

  9.  Matt Kibbe,
Hostile Takeover
(New York: HarperCollins, 2012), 1.

10.  S. J. Res. 1 (113th): Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Requiring That the Federal Budget Be Balanced, http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.J.RES.1.IS: (accessed September 24, 2013).

11.  Congressional Budget Office, “The 2013 Long-Term Budget Outlook,” http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44521 (accessed September 27, 2013).

12.  “Sen. Ted Cruz Leading the Charge on Abolishing the IRS,” Fox News, video, June 3, 2013, http://video.foxnews.com/v/2429567001001/sen-ted-cruz-leading-the-charge-on-abolishing-the-irs (accessed September 23, 2013).

13.  National Center for Policy Analysis, “The Medicare/Social Security Trustees Spring Report: A Bleak Future,” http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/A_Bleak_Future.pdf (accessed September 30, 2013).

14.  Joseph Lawler, “Economist Laurence Kotlikoff: U.S. $222 Trillion in Debt,”
Real Clear Policy,
December 1, 2013, http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2012/12/01/economist_laurence_kotlikoff_us_222_trillion_in_debt_363.html (accessed September 27, 2013).

15.  Rand Paul,
A Clear Vision to Revitalize America,
March 22, 2013, http://www.paul.senate.gov/files/documents/FY2014Budget.pdf (accessed September 23, 2013).

16.  S. 2196 (112th): Congressional Health Care for Seniors Act, http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s2196# (accessed September 23, 2013).

17.  Peter Suderman, “Rand Paul, Jim DeMint, and Mike Lee’s Medicare Plan Is a Challenge to Both Sides of the Health Care Debate,”
Reason,
March 16, 2012, http://reason.com/blog/2012/03/16/rand-paul-jim-demint-and-mike-lees-medic (accessed September 23, 2013).

18.  “Transcript of Speaker Pelosi’s Speech,”
New York Times,
September 29, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/washington/30pelositranscript.html?pagewanted=all (accessed September 30, 2013).

19.  “Hensarling Re-Introduces Legislation to End Taxpayer Funded Bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” March 18, 2011, http://hensarling.house.gov/news/press-releases/2011/03/hensarling-re-introduces-legislation-to-end-taxpayer-funded-bailout-of-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac.shtml (accessed September 23, 2013).

20.  Press Release, “Congressmen Write Landmark Surveillance Reform,”
Office of Congressman Justin Amash,
October 29, 2013, http://amash.house.gov/press-release/congressmen-write-landmark-surveillance-reform (accessed December 6, 2013).

21.  Katrina Trinko, “The Phone Lines Melt,”
National Review,
September 6, 2013, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/357771/phone-lines-melt-katrina-trinko (accessed December 15, 2013).

22.  CNN Wire Staff, “Mullen: Debt Is Top National Security Threat,” CNN, August 27, 2010, http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/27/debt.security.mullen/index.html?_s=PM:US (accessed December 5, 2013).

23.  
Susette Kelo, et al., Petitioners v. City of New London, Connecticut, et al.,
04-108 U.S. (2005), available at http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=000&invol=04-108 (accessed September 30, 2013).

24.  Bob Ewing, “Taken: Federal Lawsuit in Michigan Challenges Forfeiture Abuse,” Institute for Justice, September 25, 2013, http://www.ij.org/michigan-civil-forfeiture-release-9-25-2013 (accessed October 1, 2013).

25.  Joel Brinkley, “What Tyrants Fear Most: Social Media,”
Chicago Tribune,
November 27, 2012, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-11-27/opinion/sns-201211271500—tms—amvoicesctnav-c20121127-20121127_1_social-media-bloggers-president-alexander-lukashenko (accessed December 16, 2013).

26.  Scott Gottlieb, “Suit Alleges IRS Improperly Seized 60 Million Personal Medical Records,”
Forbes,
May 15, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgottlieb/2013/05/15/the-irs-raids-60-million-personal-medical-records (accessed October 3, 2013).

27.  Declan McCullagh, “IRS Claims It Can Read Your E-mail without a Warrant,” CNET, April 10, 2013, http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57578839-38/irs-claims-it-can-read-your-e-mail-without-a-warrant/ (accessed October 3, 2013).

28.  See United States Copyright Office, Circular 92, “Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the
United States Code,
” http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap3.html#302 (accessed October 10, 2013).

29.  Mark M. Jaycox and Kurt Opsahl, “CISPA Is Back: FAQ on What It Is and Why It’s Still Dangerous,”
Electronic Future Foundation,
February 25, 2013, https://www.eff.org/cybersecurity-bill-faq (accessed December 16, 2013).

Chapter 9: Not a One-Night Stand

  1.  George Jean Nathan and Ho Lo Mencken, “Repetition Generals,”
The Smart Set,
December 1919, p.71.

  2.  Jill Lawrence, “Former House Leaders Say the Current Group Has It Rough,”
National Journal,
September 23, 2013, http://www.nationaljournal.com/daily/former-house-leaders-say-the-current-group-has-it-rough-20130923 (accessed November 4, 2013).

  3.  Peter Schweizer,
Throw Them All Out
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011).

  4.  Grace Wyler and Zeke Miller, “Beyond Insider Training: Here’s How Members of Congress Get Rich off Earmarks,” November 15, 2011, http://www.businessinsider.com/congress-insider-trading-earmarks-real-estate-nancy-pelosi-rich-tax-payer-money-2011-11?op=1#ixzz2jPlZMcXW (accessed November 4, 2013).

  5.  Michael Gerson, “ ‘Purity for Profit’ Wing Threatens GOP’s Stability,”
The Daytona Beach News-Journal,
November 7, 2013, http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20131107/WIRE/131109649 (accessed December 5, 2013).

  6.  Matthew Yglesias, “It’s Worth Actually Reading Obama’s 2006 Debt Ceiling Speech,”
Slate,
October 9, 2013, http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/10/09/obama_s_2006_debt_ceiling_speech.html (accessed November 4, 2013).

  7.  Jeffrey Lord, “Cruz Leads the Reaganite Rebellion,”
American Spectator,
September 24, 2013, http://spectator.org/archives/2013/09/24/cruz-leads-the-reaganite-rebel/print (accessed November 4, 2013).

  8.  Manuel Klausner, “Inside Ronald Reagan,”
Reason,
July 1975, http://reason.com/archives/1975/07/01/inside-ronald-reagan (accessed November 4, 2013).

  9.  Benjamin Franklin in a pseudonymous letter published in the
Pennsylvania
Journal
on December 27, 1775.

INDEX

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accountability:

     
and health care, 84

     
and monetary policy, 185, 191, 192

     
as personal responsibility, 13, 84

     
and public knowledge, 152, 168, 185, 212

     
of public officials, 24–25, 64, 193, 194

     
secrecy as barrier to, 24–25, 136

     
and war powers, 193, 194

Acton, Lord, 5, 23

Adams, Samuel, 26, 148, 223

Affordable Care Act (ACA),
see
ObamaCare

Alexander, Lamar, 176

Alinsky, Saul,
Rules for Radicals,
4–5, 40

Amadeus (movie), 31

Amash, Justin, 148, 190, 211

     
author’s interviews with, 152, 155–56, 163–65

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 149, 162, 201

American dream, 107

Anthem Entertainment Group Inc., 45

Atwater, Lee, 214

Auschwitz concentration camp, 39–42

Axelrod, David, 56, 64

bailouts, 69, 184–87, 213, 216

Barlow, John Perry, 126, 146

Bastiat, Frédéric, 153

Baucus, Max, 67, 172

Beatles, 43

beautiful chaos, 125

Belsom, Dianne, 61

Bill of Rights, 132–36, 196

bin Laden, Osama, 145

Boettke, Peter, 36–37

Boston Marathon, 2013 bombing, 133–34

Boston Tea Party (1773), 56, 148

Brennan, John, 138

Bridenstine, Jim, 157

Brinkley, Joel, 200

British Petroleum (BP), 77

Brooks, David, 171

Brown, Scott, 208

Brown, Sherrod, 68

Brown v. Board of Education,
141

Buchanan, James, 101, 102

budget:

     
balancing, 175–77, 215

     
and entitlements, 181

Bull Moose Party, 120

“Burn Your ObamaCare Card,” 110–12

Bush, George W., 22, 67, 129, 155, 209, 215

Bush, Jeb, 144

campaign finance laws, 78, 211

Camp, Dave, 70, 175

capitalism, 19

Captain & Tennille, 29, 30

Carney, Tim, 68

censorship, 129, 203–4

Center for the Study of Market Processes, 37

central bank, 191–92

Chambliss, Saxby, 130

Christie, Chris, 144

Churchill, Winston, 168–69

Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), 37–38

civil forfeitures, 198–99

civilization, 21

civil liberties, curtailment of, 122, 128, 129–32, 134, 137, 203, 213

civil rights, protection of, 129, 132, 142–43

Civil Rights Act (1957), 142

civil servants, 71–73

     
and ambiguous rules, 177

     
and health care, 83, 87–89, 93, 174–75

     
job protection for, 72

     
meaningless security clearances of, 95, 96–97

     
power of, 127

     
tenure of, 91

Civil War, U.S., and taxes, 80

Clapper, James, 131

classical liberals, 120

Clean Air Act, 82

Clinton, Bill, 67, 112

Clinton, Hillary, 4, 167–68

CNN, 119

Coca-Cola, 77

Code Pink, 149

coercion, 76

Color of Change, 149

Coltrane, John, 31, 44, 125

Committee to Protect Journalists, 116

community, cohesion of, 14, 16

community service, 13, 22

compassionate conservatism, 22

complexity, 76–78

     
of federal tax code, 79–83, 177

     
of ObamaCare, 77, 85, 92–93, 94, 97

“Complexity Industrial Complex,” 77

compromise, 47, 48–49

compulsion, 76, 82

Congress, U.S.:

     
and acts of war, 193–94

     
and broken promises, 210–11

     
and the Constitution, 136

     
and federal budget, 175–77

     
political will missing from, 204

     
spending favors to members of, 215

conservatives: