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82
. Ibid.

83
. Ibid.

84
. Ibid.

85
. Ibid.

86
. Ibid.

87
. Ibid.

88
. Ibid.

89
. Ibid.

90
. Ibid.

Lie #16

1
. Stone, et al.,
The First Amendment
, 7.

2
. Ibid., 8.

3
. Eric Foner, “The Most Patriotic Act,”
The Nation
,
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20011008/foner
(Sept. 20, 2001).

4
. FISA §1803(a).

5
. FISA 50 U.S.C. §1802(a)(1)(B).

6
. Others were split or refilled with further information. Electronic Privacy Information Centre, table of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Orders 1979–2007, available at
http://epic.org/privacy/wiretap/stats/fisa_stats.html.

7
. Section 218 of the Patriot Act (50 U.S.C. 1804 of FISA).

8
. Pen American Center—Discussion of Patriot Act provisions available at
http://www.pen.org/printmedia.php/prmMediaID/64
.

9
.
Stanford v. Texas
, 379 U.S. 476 (1965).

10
.
http://www.pen.org/printmedia.php/prmMediaID/64.

11
. Ibid.

12
. Section 213 amending 18 U.S.C. 3103(a).

13
. “Sneak and Peek Search Warrants and the Patriot Act,”
Georgia Defender
, 1,
http://www.lawsch.uga.edu/academics/profiles/dwilkes_more/37patriot.html
(Sept. 2002).

14
.
United States v. Freitas
, 800 F. 2d 1451, 1458 (9th Cir. 1986) (Poole, J., dissenting).

15
.
ACLU v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice
, 265 F. Supp. 2d 20 (D.D.C. 2003).

16
.
http://www.pen.org/printmedia.php/prmMediaID/64.

17
. Kim Zetter, “Bush Grabs New Power for FBI,” Wired.com,
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2004/01/61792
(Jan. 6, 2004).

18
. 31 U.S.C. §5312.

19
. The bodega was rationalized on the basis that some provided money-wiring services.

20
. Speech of Hon. Mark Udall of Colorado in the House of Representatives, November 20, 2003, at congressional record page E2399.

21
. Pen American Center – Analysis of Section 215—available at
http://www.pen.org/printmedia.php/prmMediaID/63
.

22
. Ibid.

23
. Ron Paul, “The Police State: A Report,” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul265.html
( Jul. 26, 2005).

24
. Ron Paul, “Domestic Surveillance and the Patriot Act,” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul295.html
(Dec. 27, 2005).

25
. Ron Paul, “The Police State: A Report.”

Lie #17

1
. George Reisman, “The Myth That Laissez Faire is responsible for Our Present Crisis,” Ludvig von Mises Institute,
http://mises.org/story/3165
(Oct. 23, 2008).

2
. Thomas Sowell,
The Housing Boom and Bust
(New York: Basic Books, 2009) (inspired the chapter).

3
. Reisman, “The Myth That Laissez Faire is responsible for Our Present Crisis.”

4
. Ibid.

5
. Sowell,
The Housing Boom and Bust
, 5.

6
. Mark Skousen, “Why the U.S. Economy is Not Depression Proof,
Review of Austrian Economics
, 3, 81.

7
. Llewellyn H. Rockwell, “Don’t Bail Them Out,” Ludvig von Mises Institute, http:// mises.org/story/3104 (Sept. 10, 2008).

8
. Annelena Lobb, “Looking Back at Black Monday: A Discussion with Richard Sylla,”
Wall Street Journal
(Oct. 15, 2007).

9
. Skousen, “Why the U.S. Economy is Not Depression Proof,” 80.

10
. Rockwell, “Don’t Bail Them Out.”

11
. Arthur Laffer, “A Warning from Reagan’s Economist,”
Daily Beast,
http://www .thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-24/reagans-economist-bashes-obama/ 1/
(Nov. 24, 2008).

12
. “Timeline: AIG Developments Since US Bailout,”
Insurance Journal
,
http://www .insurancejournal.com/news/national/2009/03/16/98729.htm
(Mar. 16, 2009).

13
. Jennifer Levitz and Philip Shishkin, “Stimulus Brings Out City Wish Lists: Neon for Vegas, Harleys for Shreveport,”
Wall Street Journal
,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123369271403544637.html
(Feb. 4, 2009).

14
. Frank Shostak, “The Rescue Package Will Delay Recovery,” Ludvig von Mises Institute,
http://www.mises.org/story/3131
(Sept. 29, 2008).

15
. Edmund L. Andrews and Peter Barker, “AIG Planning Huge Bonuses After $170 Billion Bailout,”
New York Times
,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/business/15AIG.html
(Mar. 15, 2009).

16
. Murray Rothbard,
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
(San Francisco: Fox &Wilkes, 1996), 195.

17
. Joseph Vranich, and Edward L. Hudgins, “Help Passenger Rail by Privatizing Amtrak,” Cato Institute, Policy Analysis,
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa419.pdf
(Nov. 1, 2001), 6.

18
. Ibid., 25.

19
. Ibid., 13.

20
. Ibid., 29.

21
. Ibid., 6.

22
. Andrea Fuller, “Increasing Postal Deficits Intensify Talks on Solution,”
Wall Street Journal
( July 30, 2009).

23
. Michael Billy, Lysander Spooner and the United States Postal Monopoly,
“Digital Journal”
,
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/271139
(Apr. 18, 2009).

24
. “‘Father of 3-cent Stamp’ Spooner Fought Post Office,”
Linn’s Weekly Stamp News
, Feb.–Mar. 1983,
http://www.lysanderspooner.org/STAMP2.htm.

25
. Billy, “Lysander Spooner and the United States Postal Monopoly.”

About the Author

Andrew P. Napolitano joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in January 1998 and currently serves as the Senior Judicial Analyst. He provides on-air legal analysis throughout the day weekdays on both FNC and Fox Business Network (FBN) daily. He is the host of
FreedomWatch
on Foxnews.com weekdays and on FBN on weekends, and he is the regular fill-in host on
The Glenn Beck Program
.

Judge Napolitano
is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the State of New Jersey. While on the bench from 1987 to 1995, Judge Napolitano tried more than 150 jury trials and sat in all parts of the Superior Court—criminal, civil, general equity, and family. He has handled thousands of sentencings, motions, hearings, and divorces. For eleven years, he served as an adjunct professor of constitutional law at Seton Hall Law School, where he provided instruction in constitutional law and jurisprudence. Judge Napolitano returned to private law practice in 1995 and began television broadcasting in the same year.

Judge Napolitano is the author of five books on the U.S. Constitution:
Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws
; a
New York Times
bestseller,
The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land
;
A Nation of Sheep
;
Dred Scott’s Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom in America
; and
Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History
. His writings have also been published in
The New York Times
,
The Wall Street Journal
,
The Los Angeles Times
,
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
,
The New York Sun
,
The Baltimore Sun
,
The (New London) Day
,
The Seton Hall Law Review
,
The New Jersey Law Journal
, and
The Newark Star-Ledger
. He is a nationally recognized expert on the U.S. Constitution, and he lectures nationally on the Constitution and human freedom.

Judge Napolitano received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1972, and received his Juris Doctor from the University of Notre Dame in 1975.

Index

A

“actual innocence,”



,

Adams, John,



,

,



affirmative action,



,

Afghanistan.
See
War in Afghanistan

alcohol,

,

,



,

American Civil War,



,

,

antitrust laws,



Articles (of U.S. Constitution):

,

,

,



,


Δ
,

,
Ο
,

,
[L11]
;
[L12]
,
[L13]
,
[L14]

[L15]
;
[L16]
,
[L17]
,
[L18]

assault weapons,

,



,



.

assisted suicide,

Authorization for the Use of Military Force,

B

bailouts,

,

,

,



,

bankruptcies,

,

,

,

“beyond a reasonable doubt,”

,

,



,

,


Δ

Big Government,

,

,

,

,

,

,
Δ
,

,
Ο


,
[L11]
,
[L12]

bioterrorism,



Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act,

Brown v. Board of Education
of Topeka
,

,

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF),

,

,



,

Bush, George H. W.,

,

,

Bush, George W.,

,

,

,

,

,


Δ
,

,
Ο
,

,
[L11]
,
[L12]
,
[L13]

[L14]
,
[L15]

[L16]
,
[L17]

[L18]
,
[L19]

[L20]
,
[L21]

[L22]
,
[L23]
,
[L24]
,
[L25]
,
[L26]
,
[L27]
,
[L28]

[L29]
,
[L30]
,
[L31]
,
[L32]

C

Carter, Jimmy,

,

,

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),

,

,

,

central bank,

,



,

,

,

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),

,

,



,



,
Δ


,
Ο

Cheney, Dick,



,

,

,

,

CIA.
See
Central Intelligence Agency civil rights movement,

,

Civil War (American).
See
American Civil War

clinical trials,



,

,

Clinton, Bill (William Jefferson),

,

Commerce Clause (Article 1, U.S. Constitution),



,



Communism,

,

,

,

,

,


Δ
,

constitutional activism,

,

,



Contract Clause (U.S. Constitution),



Controlled Substances Act,



crime (and gun control),

,

,

,



,

,
Δ


curfews,

,

,



D

DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration),

,

,

Declaration of Independence,



,

,

,

,

,
Δ
,

,
Ο
,

Department of Education (U.S.),

Department of Health and Human Services,

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD),

,

Department of Justice (U.S.),

,

,

,

,

,

,
Δ
,

,
Ο
,


[L11]
,
[L12]
,
[L13]

Department of the Treasury (U.S.),

,

,

Detainee Treatment Act of 2005,

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