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30. James R. Clapper, “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community,” Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, January 29, 2014, p. 6, http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/140129/clapper.pdf.
31. Jeremy Page, “China Warns North Korean Nuclear Threat Is Rising,” Wall Street Journal, April 22, 2015, http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-warns-north-korean-nuclear-threat-is-rising-1429745706.
32. James R. Clapper, “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community,” Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, January 29, 2014, p. 5, http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/140129/clapper.pdf.
33. “National Security Strategy of the United States,” White House, January 1987, p. 7, nssarchive.us/NSSR/1987.pdf.
34. Clapper, January 29, 2014, pp. 4–5.
35. Id., pp. 19–21.
36. See, for example, Hassan Hassan, “Islamic terror group rose to power by filling the void created by political and religious chaos,” Daily Telegraph, August 23, 2014.
37. James R. Clapper, “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.” Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, January 29, 2014, p. 19, http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/140129/clapper.pdf.
38. www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/al-qaida.htm.
39. Miles Amoore and Richard Kerbaj, “Jihadist plot to grab Iran’s nuclear secrets,” Sunday Times, October 5, 2014, http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/Middle_East/article1467470.ece.
40. Harald Doornbos and Jenan Moussa, “Found: The Islamic State’s Terror Laptop of Doom,” Foreign Relations, August 28, 2014, http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/08/28/found-the-islamic-states-terror-laptop-of-doom/#_.
41. Id.
42. Id.
43. Id.
44. Id.
45. “Between the Millstones: The State of Iraq’s Minorities Since the Fall of Mosul,” Minority Rights Group International, February 2015, http://minorityrights.org/13031/reports/MRG_Rep_Iraq_ONLINE.pdf.
46. Dennis C. Blair, “Written Responses to Questions from the Committee,” Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, February 12, 2009, http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/11/politics/feinstein-visa-program-is-achilles-heel-of-america/; Michael McCaul, “Islamic State Is Recruiting America’s ‘Jihadi Cool’ Crowd,” Wall Street Journal, September11, 2014, http://www.wsj.com/articles/michael-mccall-islamic-state-is-recruiting-americas-jihadi-cool-crowd-1410478638; http://cnsnews.com/news/article/hundreds-soldiers-hezbollah-inside-us-says-homeland-security-chairman.
47. Edwin Mora, “ ‘Hundreds’ of ‘Soldiers of Hezbollah’ Inside the U.S., Says Homeland Security Chairman,” CNS News, March 23, 2012, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/hundreds-soldiers-hezbollah-inside-us-says-homeland-security-chairman; Arthur Brice, “Iran, Hezbollah mine Latin America for revenue, recruits, analysis says,” CNN, June 3, 2013.
48. Eric Bradner, “Feinstein: Visa program is ‘Achilles heel,’ ” CNN, January 11, 2015, http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/11/politics/feinstein-visa-program-is-achilles-heel-of-america/.
49. Robert Wright, “ISIS and the Forgotten, Deadly Threat of Homegrown Terrorism,” Atlantic, September 19, 2014, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/will-obamas-isis-strategy-actually-worsen-the-terror-threat/380465/.
50. Susan Jones, “FBI Director: ‘I Have Home-Grown Violent Extremist Investigations in Every Single State,” CNSnews.com, February 26, 2015, http://cnsnews.com/print/891828.
51. David Bailey, “Six Minnesota men charged with conspiring to support Islamic State,” Reuters, April 20, 2015, http://af.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=AFL1N0XH11920150420.
52. “Muslim Americans: No Sign of Growth in Alienation or Support for Extremism,” Pew Research Center, August 2011, http://www.people-press.org/files/legacy-pdf/Muslim%20American%20Report%2010-02-12%20fix.pdf.
53. Id.
54. Id., p. 65.
55. Id.
56. Id.
57. Id., p. 68.
58. Id., p. 70.
59. Murphy, p. 38.
60. Id.
61. Id.
62. Id., p. 39.
63. Clapper, January 29, 2014, p. 7; Bill Gertz, “U.S. Opposes New Draft Treaty from China and Russia Banning Space Weapons,” Free Beacon, June 19, 2014, http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-opposes-new-draft-treaty-from-china-and-russia-banning-space-weapons/.
64. Murphy, p. 40.
65. Id.
66. Id.
67. Lee Rainie, Janna Anderson, and Jennifer Connolly, “Cyber Attacks Likely to Increase,” Pew Research Internet Project, October 29, 2014, http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/29/cyber-attacks-likely-to-increase/#themes-among-those-who-expect-yes-there-will-be-major-cyber-attacks.
68. Id.
69. www.cnn.com/2015/06/04/politics/federal-agency-hacked-personnel-management/index.html.
70. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/06/federal-data-hacking-worse/395807/.
71. “Ensuring a Strong U.S. Defense for the Future: The National Defense Panel Review of the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review,” United States Institute for Peace, July 31, 2014, http://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/Ensuring-a-Strong-U.S.-Defense-for-the-Future-NDP-Review-of-the-QDR.pdf.
72. Id., p. viii.
73. Id., p. 52.
74. Id.
75. Id., p. x.
76. P. W. Singer, Heather Messera, and Brendan Orino, “D.C.’s New Guard: What Does the Next Generation of American Leaders Think?” Foreign Policy at Brookings, February 2011, p. 14, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2011/2/young%20leaders%20singer/02_young_leaders_singer.pdf.
77. Id.
78. Id., p. 89.
79. Bruce Drake, “Plurality of Americans support current level of defense spending,” Pew Research Center, February 24, 2014, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/24/plurality-of-americans-support-current-level-of-defense-spending/.
80. “2013 Demographics: Profile of the Military Community,” Department of Defense, p. iv, http://www.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2013-Demographics-Report.pdf.
81. Ronald Reagan, “Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Republican National Convention in Detroit,” The American Presidency Project, July 17, 1980, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25970.
10. On the Constitution
1. Benjamin Franklin, Writings (New York: Penguin, 1997), p. 1140.
2. Joseph Story, The Miscellaneous Writings—Literary, Critical, Juridical, and Political of Joseph Story, Now First Collected (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Library, 2009), p. 150.
3. Id., p. 151.
4. Id., p. 152.
5. Id., pp. 155–56.
6. Charles de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, Anne M. Cohler, Basia C. Miller, and Harold S. Stone, eds. (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2009), Part 1, Book 1, Chapter 2.
7. Id., Part 1, Book 3, Chapter 3.
8. Id., Part 2, Book 2, Chapter 6.
9. James Madison, The Federalist No. 47 (New York: Signet Classics, 2003), p. 298.
10. Id., p. 300.
11. John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government, Chapter 11, Sec. 141 (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2004).
12. Id.
13. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (London: Soho, 2010), p. 36.
14. Michelle Obama, Public Remarks, May 14, 2008, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f2j_a_7XkE.
15. Barack Obama, Public Remarks, October 20, 2008, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrefKCaV8m4.
16. Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), p. 193.
17. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Henry Reeve, trans., Phillips Bradley, ed., vol. I (New York: Library of America, 2004), p. 319.
18. Mark R. Levin, The Liberty Amen
dments (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013), p. 3.
19. Id., pp. 3–4.
20. Clyde Wayne Crews, “CEI’s 2015 Unconstitutionality Index: 27 Regulations for Every Law,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, January 4, 2015, https://cei.org/blog/ceis-2015-unconstitutionality-index-27-regulations-every-law.
21. Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 250, Wednesday, December 31, 2014, https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/12/31.
22. Office of the Federal Register, “Federal Register Pages Published 1936–2013,” https://www.federalregister.gov/uploads/2014/04/OFR-STATISTICS-CHARTS-ALL1-1-1-2013.pdf.
23. Office of the Federal Register, “Annual Percentage Change 1976–2013,” https://www.federalregister.gov/uploads/2014/04/OFR-STATISTICS-CHARTS-ALL1-1-1-2013.pdf; Clyde Wayne Crews, “CEI’s 2015 Unconstitutionality Index: 27 Regulations for Every Law,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, January 4, 2015, https://cei.org/blog/ceis-2015-unconstitutionality-index-27-regulations-every-law.
24. Woodrow Wilson, Constitutional Government in the United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 1908), p. 16.
25. Tyler Hartsfield and Grace-Marie Turner, “48 Changes to ObamaCare . . . So Far,” Galen Institute, February 25, 2015, http://www.galen.org/assets/48-Changes-so-far-to-ObamaCare1.pdf.
26. 75 Fed. Reg. 31,514, “Prevention of Significant Deterioration and Title V Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule.”
27. Laurence Tribe, “Professor Tribe Takes Obama to School,” Wall Street Journal, December 6, 2014, A12.
28. Laurence Tribe, “The Clean Power Plan Is Unconstitutional,” Wall Street Journal, December 23, 2014, A13.
29. 79 Fed. Reg. 22,188, “Proposed Definition of ‘Waters of the United States’ Under the Clean Water Act.”
30. Michael D. Shear and Julia Preston, “Obama Pushed ‘Fullest Extent’ of His Powers on Immigration Plan,” New York Times, November 28, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/29/us/white-house-tested-limits-of-powers-before-action-on-immigration.html?_r=1.
31. Robert Rector, “The Fiscal Consequences of Executive Amnesty,” Testimony before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, United States House of Representatives, March 17, 2015, http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Mr.-Rector-Testimony-Bio-TNT.pdf.
32. State of Texas v. United States of America, No. 14-254, slip op. at 111 (S.D. Tx. Feb. 16, 2015).
33. Barack Obama, “Interview With HuffPost,” March 21, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/21/obama-huffpost-interview-transcript_n_6905450.html?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067.
34. George Washington, “Washington’s Farewell Address 1796,” The Avalon Project Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp.
Epilogue: A New Civil Rights Movement
1. Ronald Reagan, “Farewell Speech.” January 11, 1989, http://reagan2020.us/speeches/Farewell.asp.
2. Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to Wilson Cary Nicholas, September 7, 1803.” Thomas Jefferson: Writings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public and Private Papers/Addresses/Letters, Merrill D. Peterson, ed. (New York: Library of America, 1984), p. 1140.
3. Samuel Adams, “Letter from Candidus,” Boston Gazette, October 7, 1771. Appearing in American Patriotism: Speeches, Letters, And Other Papers Which Illustrate The Foundation, The Development, The Preservation of the United States of America, Selim H. Peabody, ed. (New York: American Book Exchange, 1880), p. 32.
4. Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), p. 195.
5. See id., pp. 193–205, for further guidance.
6. See id., pp. 199–205, and Mark R. Levin, The Liberty Amendments (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013).
7. Frederic Bastiat, The Law (Filiquarian Publishing, 2005), p. 71.
Acknowledgments
1. Ronald Reagan, A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan—1961–1982 (Chicago: Regnery Gateway, 1983), 57.
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