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  29. Internal Revenue Service Oversight Hearing, C-SPAN.

  30. Jake Sherman, “Nancy Pelosi Says She’s ‘Proud’ of Obamacare,” Politico, October 30, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/nancy-pelosi-says-shes-proud-of-obamacare-99102.html (accessed December 5, 2013).

  31. “Transcript of Obama’s Announcement on Health Insurance,” Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2013, http://blogs.marketwatch.com/capitolreport/2013/11/14/transcript-of-obamas-announcement-on-health-insurance (accessed December 12, 2013).

  32. Avik Roy, “HHS Inspector General: Obamacare Privacy Protections Way Behind Schedule; Rampant Violations of Law Possible,” Forbes, August 7, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/08/07/hhs-inspector-general-obamacare-privacy-protections-way-behind-schedule-rampant-v iolations-of-law-possible (accessed September 9, 2013).

  33. John Merline, “Think NSA Spying Is Bad? Here Comes ObamaCare Hub,” Investor’s Business Daily, June 25, 2013, http://news.investors.com/062513-661264-obamacare-database-hub-creates-privacy-nightmare.htm (accessed September 9, 2013).

  34. Identity Theft Resource Center, “2013 Data Breach Stats,” August 9, 2013, http://www.idtheftcenter.org/images/breach/Breach_Stats_Report_2013.pdf (accessed December 5, 2013).

  35. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, “Some Taxpayers Were Not Appropriately Notified When Their Personally Identifiable Information Was Inadvertently Disclosed,” May 24, 2011, http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2011reports/201140054fr.pdf (accessed September 9, 2013).

  36. Thomas Hargrove, “Social Security Kept Silent About Private Data Breach,” Seattle Times, October 13, 2011, http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2016498264_socialsecurity14.html (accessed September 9, 2013).

  37. Merline, “Think NSA Spying Is Bad? Here Comes ObamaCare Hub.”

  38. Patrick Meehan and James Lankford, “A Closer Look at the ObamaCare Data Hub,” The Hill, August 2, 2013, http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/315083-a-closer-look-at-the-obamacare-data-hub (accessed September 9, 2013).

  39. “Your Next IRS Political Audit,” Wall Street Journal, May 14, 2013, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324715704578481461934680982.html (accessed September 9, 2013).

  40. Department of Health and Human Services, “Notice to Establish a New System of Records,” Federal Register, vol. 78, no. 25, February 6, 2013, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-02-06/html/2013-02666.htm (accessed September 9, 2013).

  41. Ashton Ellis, “ObamaCare’s ‘Data Hub’ Should Be Its Death Knell,” Center for Individual Freedom, July 25, 2013, http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/56-health-care/1910-obamacares-data-hub-should-be-its-death-knell (accessed September 9, 2013).

  42. John Fund, “ObamaCare’s Branch of the NSA,” National Review, July 22, 2013, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/354031/obamacares-branch-nsa-john-fund (accessed September 9, 2013).

  Chapter 5: Same as the Old Boss

  1. James M. Buchanan and Richard E. Wagner, Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc. 1999).

  2. John Maynard Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform (London: MacMillan & Co. 1923).

  3. Thomas Schatz, “Putting the National Debt in Perspective,” Daily Caller, September 19, 2012, http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/19/putting-the-national-debt-in-perspective (accessed September 27, 2013).

  4. Steve Hargreaves, “Labor Participation Lowest Since 1978,” CNN Money, September 6, 2013, http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/06/news/economy/labor-force-participation/index.html (accessed September 27, 2013).

  5. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Table A-10. Selected Unemployment Indicators, Seasonally Adjusted,” http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t10.htm (accessed September 27, 2013).

  6. Richard Fry, “A Rising Share of Young Adults Live in Their Parents’ Home,” Pew Research, August 1, 2013, http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/08/01/a-rising-share-of-young-adults-live-in-their-parents-home (accessed September 27, 2013).

  7. Heidi Moore, “U.S. Student Loan Debt by the Numbers,” Guardian, April 2, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/apr/03/student-loan-debt-america-by-the-numbers (accessed September 27, 2013).

  8. Joe Light, “Many Graduates Delay Job Searches,” Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2013, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576363783070164132.html (accessed September 27, 2013).

  9. Donghoon Lee, “Household Debt and Credit: Student Debt,” Federal Reserve Bank of New York, February 28, 2013, http://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/mediaadvisory/2013/Lee022813.pdf (accessed August 26, 2013).

  10. “Average Net Price for Full-Time Students over Time—Public Institutions,” Trends in Higher Education, http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-net-price-full-time-students-over-time-public-institutions (accessed September 27, 2013).

  11. Alec Liu, “The Student Loan Bubble Looks Awfully Like the Housing Crisis, Top Bankers Say,” Motherboard, May 13, 2013, http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-student-loan-bubble-looks-awfully-like-the-housing-crisis-bankers-warn-fed (accessed August 26, 2013).

  12. Roper Center, “How Groups Voted in 2008,” http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/elections/how_groups_voted/voted_08.html; and “How Groups Voted in 2012,” http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/elections/how_groups_voted/voted_12.html (accessed September 26, 2013).

  13. FreedomWorks, “The Role of Government,” September 2013, http://online-campaigns.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/pollingreport.pdf (accessed September 12, 2013).

  14. “Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change,” Pew Research Center, February 24, 2010, http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2010/02/24/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change (accessed October 7, 2013).

  15. David A. Graham, “The Surreal Semiotics of Burning Obamacare Draft Cars,” The Atlantic, August 2, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/the-surreal-semiotics-of-burning-obamacare-draft-cards/278321 (accessed December 12, 2013).

  16. Kevin Drum, “FreedomWorks Plans Push to Persuade People Not to Get Health Insurance,” Mother Jones, July 25, 2013, http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/07/freedomworks-plans-push-persuade-people-not-get-health-insurance (accessed September 27, 2013).

  17. Amanda Terkel, “Kathleen Sebelius Criticizes ‘Dismal’ Conservative Effort Urging Young People Not to Enroll in ObamaCare,” Huffington Post, August 5, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/05/kathleen-sebelius-obamacare_n_3708198.html (accessed August 27, 2013).

  18. Carla Johnson, “ObamaCare National Marketing Campaign to Cost Nearly $700 Million,” Real Clear Politics, July 25, 2013, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/07/25/obamacare_national_marketing_campaign_to_cost_nearly_700_million_119368.html (accessed October 3, 2013).

  19. Christopher Weaver and Louise Radnofsky, ‘‘New Health-Care Law’s Success Rests on the Young,” Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2013, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324263404578613700273320428.html (accessed September 26, 2013).

  20. David Hogberg, “Why the ‘Young Invincibles’ Won’t Participate in the ObamaCare Exchanges and Why It Matters,” National Center for Public Policy Research, August 2013, http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA652.html (accessed September 26, 2013).

  21. Louise Radnofsky, “Prices Set for New Health-Care Exchanges,” Wall Street Journal, September 25, 2013, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303983904579095731139251304.html (accessed September 27, 2013).

  22. Sam Cappellanti, “Premium Increases for ‘Young Invincibles’ Under the ACA and the Impending Premium Spiral,” American Action Forum, October 2, 2013, http://americanactionforum.org/research/premium-increases-for-young-invincibles-under-the-aca-and-the-impending-premium-spiral (accessed October 3, 2013).

  23. Nick Gillespie, “Ads Hide Obamacare Truth: It’s Generational Theft,” Time, November 25, 2013, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2157491,00.html (accessed December 5, 2013).

  24. Joel Stein, “Mil
lennials: The Me Me Me Generation,” Time, May 20, 2013, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2143001,00.html (accessed September 27, 2013).

  25. T. Scott Gross, Invisible: How Millennials are Changing the Way We Sell (Bloomington, IN: Triple Nickel Press, 2012).

  26. Leonard Downie, Jr., “The Obama Administration and the Press,” Committee to Protect Journalists, October 10, 2013, http://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911.php (accessed December 15, 2013).

  27. “Survey of Young Americans’ Attitudes Toward Politics and Public Service: 23rd Edition,” Institute of Politics, Harvard University, April 30, 2013, 14–15, http://www.iop.harvard.edu/sites/default/files_new/spring_poll_13_Exec_Summary.pdf (accessed August 26, 2013).

  28. “63% View Too-Powerful Government as Bigger Threat than Weaker One,” Rasmussen Reports, July 3, 2013, http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/june_2013/63_view_too_powerful_government_as_bigger_threat_than_weaker_one (accessed August 22, 2013).

  29. Aamer Madhani, “Obama to Youth: Be Responsible and Sign up for Obamacare,” USA Today, December 4, 2013, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/12/04/obama-young-people-obligation-obamacare/3871351 (accessed December 6, 2013).

  30. Ron Fournier, “Millennials Abandon Obama and Obamacare,” National Journal, December 4, 2013, http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/millennials-abandon-obama-and-obamacare-20131204 (accessed December 15, 2013).

  31. Nate Silver, “Poll Finds a Shift Toward More Libertarian Views,” New York Times, June 20, 2011, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/poll-finds-a-shift-toward-more-libertarian-views/?_r=0 (accessed August 22, 2013).

  32. CNN Opinion Research Poll, June 17, 2013, http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2013/images/06/17/rel7a.pdf (accessed August 22, 2013).

  33. FreedomWorks, “The Role of Government.”

  34. James Hohmann, “Poll: Republicans Embracing Libertarian Priorities,” Politico, September 11, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/poll-republicans-libertarian-96576.html (accessed September 12, 2013).

  35. Rebekah Metzler, “Obama: I Am Not a Socialist,” U.S. News and World Report, November 19, 2013, http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/11/19/obama-i-am-not-a-socialist (accessed December 15, 2013).

  Chapter 6: The Right to Know

  1. Adam Ferguson, “An Essay on the History of Civil Society” (1767), http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1428&chapter=19736&layout=html#a_156617 (accessed November 6, 2013).

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

  3. Deb Reichman, “Kerry: Some NSA Surveillance Reached ‘Too Far,’ ” U.S. News & World Report, November 1, 2013 http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2013/11/01/kerry-some-nsa-surveillance-reached-too-far (accessed November 6, 2013).

  4. Nat Hentoff, “Our Constitution: How Many of Us Know It?” Cato, May 19, 2011, http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/our-constitution-how-many-us-know-it (accessed November 6, 2013).

  5. Chris Moody, “Lindsey Graham: ‘If I Thought Censoring the Mail Was Necessary, I Would Suggest It,’ ” Yahoo News, June 11, 2013, http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/lindsey-graham-thought-censoring-mail-necessary-suggest-182932835.html (accessed November 6, 2013).

  6. Interview with Lindsey Graham, Fox News, June 6, 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzsxsTEk7tc (accessed November 6, 2013).

  7. Glenn Greenwald, “NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Verizon Customers Daily,” Guardian, June 5, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order (accessed August 28, 2013).

  8. Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras, “U.S., British Intelligence Mining Data from Nine U.S. Internet Companies in Broad Secret Program,” Washington Post, June 6, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html (accessed August 28, 2013).

  9. Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, “NSA Prism Program Taps Into User Data of Apple, Google and Others,” June 6, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data (accessed August 28, 2013).

  10. Tom McCarthy, “Holder Ducks NSA Phone Record Questions in Senate Hearing—As It Happened,” Guardian, June 6, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/holder-phone-records-surveillance-live?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#block-51b0af76e4b0cc64243720d3 (accessed August 28, 2013).

  11. Meghashyam Mali and Brandon Sasso, “Administration Defends NSA Grab of Verizon Customer Phone Calls,” The Hill, June 6, 2013, http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/303821-white-house-defends-nsa-collecting-verizon-phone-records (accessed August 28, 2013).

  12. Andrew Rosenthal, “Making Alberto Gonzales Look Good,” New York Times, June 11, 2013, http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/making-alberto-gonzales-look-good/?_r=0 (accessed August 28, 2013).

  13. Michael Pearson, “Obama: No One Listening to Your Calls,” CNN, June 10, 2013, http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/07/politics/nsa-data-mining (accessed August 28, 2013).

  14. Mike Dorning and Chris Strohm, “Secret Court Finding Domestic Spying Risks Obama Credibility,” Bloomberg News, August 23, 2013, http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-08-23/secret-court-finding-domestic-spying-risks-obama-credibility (accessed August 28, 2013).

  15. Siobhan Gorman, “NSA Officers Spy on Love Interests,” Wall Street Journal, August 23, 2013, http://realclearscience.com/blog/2013/08/how-can-americans-be-both-obese-and-starving.html (accessed August 27, 2013).

  16. “President Obama’s Dragnet,” New York Times, June 6, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-dragnet.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 (accessed August 28, 2013).

  17. Gerald F. Seib, “In Crisis, Opportunity for Obama,” Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2008, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122721278056345271.html (accessed September 9, 2013).

  18. Liz Klimas, “Was Watertown’s Door-to-Door Search for Bombing Suspects a Violation of the Fourth Amendment?,” The Blaze, April 13, 2013, http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/23/ready-how-watertown-door-to-door-search-for-bombing-suspects-did-not-violate-the-fourth-amendment (accessed October 10, 2013.)

  19. “Obama on NSA Surveillance: Can’t Have 100% Security and 100% Privacy,” RT.com, June 7, 2013, http://rt.com/usa/obama-surveillance-nsa-monitoring-385 (accessed September 9, 2013).

  20. Interview with Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, NPR, August 20, 2013, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=213902177 (accessed October 10, 2013).

  21. Andrew Napolitano, “Government Spying Out of Control,” Reason, December 13, 2012, http://reason.com/archives/2012/12/13/government-spying-out-of-control (accessed October 15, 2013).

  22. Glenn Greenwald and James Ball, “The Top Secret Rules that Allow NSA to Use US Data without a Warrant,” Guardian, June 20, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-without-warrant (accessed October 10, 2013).

  23. Office of the Attorney General, Letter to the Honorable Rand Paul, March 4, 2013, http://www.paul.senate.gov/files/documents/BrennanHolderResponse.pdf (accessed November 6, 2013).

  24. Morgan Little, “Transcript: Rand Paul’s Filibuster of John Brennan’s CIA Nomination,” Los Angeles Times, March 7, 2013, http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/07/news/la-pn-transcript-rand-paul-filibuster-20130307 (accessed October 29, 2013).

  25. Transcript of “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” March 7, 2013, http://livedash.ark.com/transcript/the_last_word_with_lawrence_o%27donnell/5304/MSNBC/Thursday_March_07_2013/619583; sh (accessed December 15, 2013).

  26. “McCain Slams Rand Paul for Filibuster: ‘Calm Down, Senator,’ ” Real Clear Politics Video, March 7, 2013, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/03/07/mccain_slams_rand_paul_for_filibuster_calm_down_senator.html (accessed December 15, 2013)
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  27. Stephen Dinan, “Graham, McCain Blast Paul Filibuster,” Washington Times, March 7, 2013, http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/mar/7/graham-mccain-blast-paul-filibuster/#ixzz2nTAqgPDn (accessed December 15, 2013).

  28. Timothy Noah, “The Legend of Strom’s Remorse,” Slate, December 16, 2002, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2002/12/the_legend_of_stroms_remorse.html (accessed September 10, 2013).

  29. United States Congressional Record, August 28, 1957, 16402, http://www.archive.org/stream/congressionalrec103funit#page/n1061/mode/1up (accessed September 11, 2013).

  30. “Thurmond Holds Senate Record for Filibustering,” Associated Press, June 27, 2013, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,90552,00.html (accessed August 21, 2013).

  31. Patrick Ruffini, “#StandWithRand Blowing Up Right Now,” Twitter, March 6, 2013, https://twitter.com/PatrickRuffini/status/309504645728980995/photo (accessed September 18, 2013).

  32. TrendPo, “StandWithRand,” August 2, 2013, http://blog.trendpo.com/2013/08/02/download-trendpos-latest-white-paper-standwithrand (accessed September 18, 2013).

  33. Josh Vorhees, “Rand Paul Ends Epic Mr. Smith–Style Filibuster After More Than 12 Hours,” Slate, March 7, 2013, http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/03/06/rand_paul_is_waging_an_epic_mr_smith_style_filibuster_right_ now.html (accessed August 21, 2013).

  34. Partisan ID, “Rand Paul’s 2016 GOP Primary Poll Bounce Has Arrived, Courtesy of an Old Fashioned Filibuster,” April 4, 2013, http://partisanid.blogspot.com/2013/04/rand-pauls-2016-gop-primary-poll-bounce.html (accessed November 6, 2013).

  35. Mo Elleithee, “New Leader of the GOP: Rand Paul,” CNN, March 8, 2013, http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/08/opinion/elleithee-gop-rand-paul/ (accessed November 6, 2013).

  36. Brett Logiurato, “Since Rand Paul’s Historic Filibuster, There Has Been a Dramatic Shift in Public Opinion on Drone Strikes,” Business Insider, April 11, 2013, http://www.businessinsider.com/rand-paul-filibuster-drone-polling-polls-2013-4 (accessed December 5, 2013).