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78. “Editorial: ObamaCare’s Costs Just Keep Rising,” Investors Business Daily, April 20, 2011, http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/569810/201104201922/ObamaCares-Costs-Are-Rising.aspx (July 14, 2011).

79. “Editorial: Obamacare’s casualties: 800,000 jobs,” Washington Times, Feb. 11, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/11/obamacares-casualties-800000–jobs/ (July 14, 2011).

80. Douglas W. Emendorf, Director, Congressional Budget Office, “Letter to Honorable Jerry Lewis,” May 11, 2010, http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/114xx/doc11490/LewisLtr_HR3590.pdf (July 14, 2011).

81. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Ofgb4PDwY.

82. Benjamin Domenech, “CMS Nominee Donald Berwick’s Radical Agenda,” Heartland Institute, May 12, 2010, http://www.heartland.org/healthpolicy-news.org/article/27630/CMS_Nominee_Donald_Berwicks_Radical_Agenda.html (July 14, 2011).

83. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoqI5PSRcXM.

84. Conn Carroll, “Morning Bell: Obamacare’s Failed First Year,” Heritage Foundation, The Foundry blog, March 23, 2011, http://blog.heritage.org/2011/03/23/morning-bell-obamacares-failed-first-year/ (July 14, 2011).

85. Chris Jaarda, “ObamaCare’s Advanced Appropriations Put Government Takeover on Auto-Pilot,” American Healthcare Education Coalition, Nov. 30, 2010, http://healthcare-coalition.org/_blog/Prescription_For_Disaster/post/ObamaCare%27s_Advanced_Appropriations_Put_Gov%27t_Takeover_on_Auto-Pilot/ (July 14, 2011).

86. Peter Ferrara, “The Obamacare Disaster: An Appraisal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” Heartland Policy Study #128, Heartland Institute, Chicago, 2010, v.

87. Curtis W. Copeland, “New Entities Created Pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” Congressional Research Service, July 8, 2010, 2.

88. PPACA, Section 1501.

89. U.S. Constitution, Art. I, Section 6.

EPILOGUE

1. David Miller, Popper Selections (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985), 340.

2. Benjamin Franklin, Writings (New York: Penguin, 1997), 1140.

3. Richard Stengel, “One Document, Under Siege,” Time, June 23, 2011, http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2079445,00.html (July 17, 2011).

4. Richard Cohen, “Republicans Under Spell,” Washington Post, Sept. 21, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/20/AR2010092004256.html (July 17, 2011).

5. Thomas Jefferson, “The Usurpation of Supreme Court,” (June 12, 1823, Letter to William Johnson), The Complete Jefferson, Saul K. Padover, ed. (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943) 322.

6. Thomas Friedman, “Our One-Party Democracy,” New York Times, Sept. 8, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/opinion/09friedman.html (July 17, 2011).

7. Hayek, Fatal Conceit, 167.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

WRITING A BOOK, ESPECIALLY this book, is a solitary and time-consuming undertaking. A special thank-you is owed my amazing children, Lauren and Chase, for their love and understanding. I adore them and could not be more proud of them. It is for them, and their generation, that I wrote this book. And to Kendall, the most decent person I have ever known.

Thank you to my wonderful parents, Jack and Norma, who sacrificed so my brothers and I might succeed and encouraged me throughout my life with their love, wisdom, and guidance. They are my heroes. I can never repay them. And there are no better and more loyal brothers than Douglas and Robert, to whom I am forever grateful and for whom I am deeply blessed.

I want to thank my longtime and dear friend Eric Christensen for his invaluable insight, counsel, and research assistance, as well as my friends and outstanding colleagues at Landmark Legal Foundation—Richard Hutchison, Robert Levin, Michael O’Neill, and Matthew Forys—for their excellent research assistance. Thanks to Professor Thomas West for his kind response to an inquiry respecting the Declaration of Independence.

This is the third book in which my editor, Mitchell Ivers of Simon & Schuster,