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PAGE 159: "'hurricane of human suffering'" Mark Tooley, "Sojourn to the Center: Has Religious-Left Activist Jim Wallis Gone Moderate?" Touchstone 15, no. 3 (2002), http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=15-03-054-r. * "'anchors our nation in a common humanity'" Jim Wallis, God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006), 19. * "'not just off the welfare rolls'" Mark Tooley, "Our Savior, the Democrats," Weekly Standard, June 13, 2011, http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/our-savior-democrats_573260.html.

PAGE 160: "'My hope is that we will have a partnership'" Mark Tooley, "Sojourn to the Center: Has Religious-Left Activist Jim Wallis Gone Moderate?" Touchstone 15, no. 3 (2002), http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=15-03-054-r. * "'inclined to give Mr. Bush a chance'" Mark Tooley, "Sojourn to the Center: Has Religious-Left Activist Jim Wallis Gone Moderate?" Touchstone 15, no. 3 (2002), http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=15-03-054-r. * "'no moral compass'" Mark Tooley, "Sojourn to the Center: Has Religious-Left Activist Jim Wallis Gone Moderate?" Touchstone 15, no. 3 (2002), http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=15-03-054-r. * "'$150,000 in 2011 through his foundation'" Marvin Olasky, "There He Goes Again: Jim Wallis' Sojourners Accepts $150,000 More from Atheist George Soros," World magazine, October 22, 2011, http://www.worldmag.com/articles/18750.

PAGE 161: "'Just bad theology'" "Is America a Christian Nation: And Does It Matter?" lifetreecafe.com, March 4, 2012, http://www.lifetreecafe.com/topics/030412.

PAGE 162: "'We've been talking faith and politics for a long time'" Julia Duin, "Clergy Offer Obama Counsel," Washington Times, January 22, 2009, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/22/clergy-offer-obama-counsel. * "'This White House wants our advice'" Jim Wallis, "A Renewed Faith in Public Life," On Faith blog at washingtonpost.com, January 25, 2009, http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/jim_wallis/2009/01/a_renewed_faith_in_public_life.html. * "'We are in danger of losing the moral core of the health care debate'" Jim Wallis, "The Moral Core of the Health-Care Debate," sojo.net, August 20 2009, http://sojo.net/blogs/2009/08/20/moral-core-health-care-debate.

PAGE 163: "'American exceptionalism, theologically, is a heresy'" Billy Hallowell, "Lib Pastor Jim Wallis: 'American Exceptionalism. . .Is a Heresy. . .& It's Very Dangerous'," theblaze.com, March 8, 2012, http://www.theblaze.com/stories/lib-pastor-jim-wallis-american-exceptionalism-is-a-heresy-its-very-dangerous. * "'And I signed up to be a follower of Jesus'" Connor Ewing, "Wallis Sparks Controversy at Christian Music Festival," theird.org, July 15, 2010, http://www.theird.org/page.aspx?pid=1558. * "more a 'movement person' supposedly akin to Martin Luther King" Mark Tooley, "Our Savior, the Democrats," Weekly Standard, June 13, 2011, http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/our-savior-democrats_573260.html.

PAGE 164: "'American foreign policy has made the world much better'" Mark Tooley, "Exceptional America?" American Spectator, April 8, 2011, http://spectator.org/archives/2011/04/08/exceptional-america. * "'holding the wealthy and powerful accountable'" Jim Wallis, "Praying for Peace and Looking for Jesus at #OccupyWallStreet," Huffington Post, October 6, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-wallis/occupy-wall-street-looking-for-jesus_b_998381.html. * "'those services for women who seek it'" "Sojourners' Statement on Obama Administration's Contraception Policy Change," God's Politics blog at sojo.net, February 10, 2012, http://sojo.net/blogs/2012/02/10/sojourners-statement-obama-administrations-contraception-policy-change.

PAGE 165: "'more than they're paying now'" Napp Nazworth, "Progressive Evangelical Jim Wallis Agrees Debt Is Moral Issue," Christian Post, April 4, 2012, http://www.christianpost.com/news/jim-wallis-responds-to-christians-for-a-sustainable-economy-letter-55769.

PAGE 166: "'so small that I hadn't remembered them'" Sarah Pulliam Bailey, "Wallis Admits to Soros Funding," Politics blog at christianitytoday.com, August 20, 2010, http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2010/08/wallis_admits_t.html.

Chapter 9.

CHANGE THE MEDIA, CHANGE THE WORLD.

PAGE 170: "'It will be the fast beating the slow.'" "The Big Idea," fastcompany.com, http://www.fastcompany.com/node/653619, accessed April 29, 2012.

PAGE 172: "front page of the Drudge Report" "The Face of CBS to Sign Off," drudgereport.com, November 24, 2004, http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2004/11/24/20041124_001000.htm.

PAGE 175: "culture at CBS News in the early 1980s" Peggy Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (New York: Random House, 2006), 24-25, http://books.google.com/books?id=Ff8oVIxKcSoC&pg=PA24.

PAGE 177: "'accountability of government. . .'" Peter Johnson, "Katrina Rekindles Adversarial Media," Media Mix column at usatoday.com, September 5, 2005, http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2005-09-05-media-mix_x.htm.

PAGE 179: "'not Woodward and Bernstein on our side'" Michael Calderone, "Conservatives At CPAC Search For The Right's Woodward And Bernstein," huffingtonpost.com, February 13, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/cpac-conservative-media-journalism_n_1272327.html.

PAGE 180: "journalism make it into that income group" Robert Gebeloff and Shaily Dewan, "What the Top 1% of Earners Majored In," Economix blog at nytimes.com, January 18, 2012, http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/what-the-top-1-of-earners-majored-in.

PAGE 181: "'non-traditional' sources of news" Michelle Malkin, "Announcing Twitchy.com," michellemalkin.com, http://michellemalkin.com/2012/03/07/announcing-twitchy-com, accessed April 29, 2012.

PAGE 186: "mainstream media remains a lure" Roy Greenslade, "Journalism Students Don't Read Newspapers," Greenslade blog at guardian.co.uk, October 12, 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/oct/12/cityuniversity-journalism-education.

Chapter 10.

THE ISLAMIST AGENDA.

Facts Over Fear PAGE 190: "'the State of Islam established.'" Oren Kessler, "Muslim Brotherhood Text Reveals Scope of Radical Creed," jpost.com, February 9, 2011, http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=207415.

PAGE 192: "'that was not prohibited'" Sharia Law and American State Courts: An Assessment of State Appellate Cases, Center for Security Policy, report, May 20, 2011, 474, http://shariahinamericancourts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Sharia_Law_And_American_State_Courts_1.4_06212011.pdf. * "when she resists his sexual advances" Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. and ed. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MA: Amana Publications, 1994) 535, 619. * "New Jersey family court" US Constitution, art. VI, sec. 2. * "giving the woman the protection she was seeking"S.D. v. M.J.R., 2 N.J. 3d, 412 (2010).

PAGE 193: "irrespective of where they live" William Boykin and others, Shariah: The Threat to America, An Exercise in Competitive Analysis, Report of Team B II (Washington, DC: Center for Security Policy Press, 2012), 57. * "'North American environment'" Fiqh Council of North America, "History of the Fiqh Council," fiqhcouncil.org, accessed April 23, 2012, http://www.fiqhcouncil.org/node/13. * "'and students in this language'" Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. and ed. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MA: Amana Publications, 1994) xvii, http://www.bysiness.co.uk/Classical_Other/reliance.htm. * "'conforms to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni community'" Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. and ed. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MA: Amana Publications, 1994) xv, http://www.bysiness.co.uk/Classical_Other/reliance.htm.

PAGE 194: "a boy not until age fifteen" Iran Bulletin, "Islamic Republic of Iran and Penal Codes," iran-bulletin.org, accessed April 23, 2012, http://www.iran-bulletin.org/political_islam/punishmnt.html. * "Beating and raping one's wife is authorized" Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. and ed. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MA: Amana Publications, 1994), 541. * "woman's testimony in court is valued at half that of a man" Qur'an 2:282. * "amputation of a thief's right hand" Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. and ed. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MA: Amana Publications, 1994), 613. * "'Whoever a Muslim changes his/her religion, kill him/her'" Amjaonline "The Shari'ah ruling on Apostasy (Reddah)," April 17, 2006, Sheikh Hatem Mohammad Al-Haj Aly. * "against nonbelievers is required of all adherents" Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. and ed. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MA: Amana Publications, 1994), 599. * "death sentence mandate for apostates" Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. and ed. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MA: Amana Publications, 1994), 595-596.

PAGE195: "'not freely performing their religious obligation as Muslims'" Toni Johnson, "Islam: Governing Under Sharia," cfr.org, October 24, 2011, http://www.cfr.org/religion/islam-governing-under-sharia/p8034. * "'it would be doomed from the start'" Imran A. Nyazee, Theories of Islamic Law: The Methodology of Ijtihad (Chicago: KAZI, 1995).

PAGE 196: "those decisions conflict with Constitutional protections" Sharia Law and American State Courts: An Assessment of State Appellate Cases, Center for Security Policy, report, May 20, 2011, http://shariahinamericancourts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Sharia_Law_And_American_State_Courts_1.4_06212011.pdf. * "laws of the Middle East in the past 11 years" Dr. Ihsan Al-Khatib, "Shari'a Law and American Courts: An Interview with Abed Awad, Esq." Shariainamerica.com, January 23, 2012, http://shariainamerica.com/2012/01/23/Sharia-Law-and-American-Courts-An-Interview-with-Abed-Awad-Esq.

PAGE 197: "'I am going to dismiss the charge'" The Counter Jihad Report, "Impeach Pennsylvania's Sharia Judge," counterjihadreport.com, March 6, 2012, http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/judge-mark-martin. * "insult directed against the Prophet Muhammad" Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, trans. and ed. Nuh Ha Mim Keller, rev. ed. (Beltsville, MA: Amana Publications, 1994) 597, 713, 724. * "'the state of Michigan's constitution'" American Islamic Leadership Coalition "American Muslims Speak Out Against the Enforcement of Shari'ah Law in America," press release, September 7, 2011, http://americanislamicleadership.org/AILC_Response_MI.

PAGE 198: "integrating shariah into yet another element of society" William Boykin and others, Shariah: The Threat to America, An Exercise in Competitive Analysis, Report of Team B II (Washington, DC: Center for Security Policy Press, 2012), 265. * "an Israeli company on grounds that it is impure" William Boykin and others, Shariah: The Threat to America, An Exercise in Competitive Analysis, Report of Team B II (Washington, DC: Center for Security Policy Press, 2012), 267. * "are fighting in the cause of Allah" William Boykin and others, Shariah: The Threat to America, An Exercise in Competitive Analysis, Report of Team B II (Washington, DC: Center for Security Policy Press, 2012), 267.

PAGE 199: "'in an alien and rival system. . .'" Gregory Katz, "Archbishop: UK Should Allow Shariah," The Associated Press, February 7, 2008, http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Feb07/0,4670,BritainShariahLaw,00.html.

PAGE 200: "the largest Muslim charity in America" Gretel C. Kovach, "Five Convicted in Terrorism Financing Trial," NY Times, November 24, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/us/25charity.html. * "organization Hamas under the guise of zakat" US Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons, 112th cong., 2nd sess., http://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/t11sdn.pdf. * "'goal of re-establishing the global caliphate'" William Boykin and others, Shariah: The Threat to America, An Exercise in Competitive Analysis, Report of Team B II (Washington, DC: Center for Security Policy Press, 2012), 119.

PAGE 201: "'at the very latest,' Europe will be predominately Islamic" Christopher Caldwell, "Islamic Europe?" Weekly Standard, October 4, 2004, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/685ozxcq.asp. * "'is to dominate in Europe'" Christopher Caldwell, "Islamic Europe?" Weekly Standard, October 4, 2004, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/685ozxcq.asp?page=2. * "'become integrated into their European host nations'" Soeren Kern, "European 'No-Go' Zones for Non-Muslims Proliferating: 'Occupation Without Tanks or Soldiers,'" gatestoneinstitute.org, August 22, 2011, http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2367/european-muslim-no-go-zones.

PAGE 202: "in predominantly Muslim neighborhoods" Soeren Kern, "European 'No-Go' Zones for Non-Muslims Proliferating: 'Occupation Without Tanks or Soldiers,'"gatestoneinstitute.org, August 22, 2011, http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2367/european-muslim-no-go-zones. * "exact addresses and satellite maps" GIS Urban Policy, "Atlas Sensitive Urban Areas (ZUS)," SIG of the Secretariat General of the VIC, accessed April 24, 2012, http://sig.ville.gouv.fr/Atlas/ZUS. * "non-Muslims can avoid these areas" GIS Urban Policy, "Atlas Sensitive Urban Areas (ZUS)," SIG of the Secretariat General of the VIC, accessed April 24, 2012, http://sig.ville.gouv.fr/Atlas/ZUS. * "is completely out of the picture" DerWesten, "Even in Urban Districts the Police are Afraid," derwesten.de, January 8, 2011, http://www.derwesten.de/politik/in-problemvierteln-fuerchtet-sich-sogar-die-polizei-id4926287.html.

PAGE 203: "under the guise of charity" Gretel C. Kovach, "Five Convicted in Terrorism Financing Trial," NY Times, November 24, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/us/25charity.html. * "'just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s'" Brad Knickerbocker, "Why is Glenn Beck Freaking Out Over Egypt and a Caliphate?" Vox blog at csmonitor.com, February 12, 2011, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/Vox-News/2011/0212/Why-is-Glenn-Beck-freaking-out-over-Egypt-and-a-caliphate.

PAGE 204: "'guidance, instruction, truth and justice.'" MEMRI, "Muslim Brotherhood General Guide Muhammed Badi: Our Ultimate Goal, Establishing a Global Islamic Caliphate, Can Only Be Achieved Gradually and Without Coercion," memri.org, February 10, 2012, http://www.memri.org/report/en/print6075.htm.

PAGE 205: "'is made victorious over all other religions'"United States v. Holy Land Foundation, 445 F.3d 771 (5th Cit. 2006) http://www.txnd.uscourts.gov/judges/hlf2/09-25-08/Elbarasse%20Search%203.pdf. * "contacts between CAIR and the FBI" Richard C. Powers, letter to Jon Kyl, April 28, 2009, http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/265.pdf. * "because the Brotherhood pledged they would not seek the presidency" David D. Kirkpatrick, "Islamist Group Breaks Pledge to Stay Out of Race in Egypt," New York Times, March 31, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/world/middleeast/brotherhood-chooses-a-candidate-in-egypt.html. * "(. . .Brotherhood wouldn't seek the presidency), for president" David D. Kirkpatrick, "Islamist Group Breaks Pledge to Stay Out of Race in Egypt," NY Times, March 31, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/world/middleeast/brotherhood-chooses-a-candidate-in-egypt.html. * "'We have no desire at all to monopolize power'" David D. Kirkpatrick, "Islamist Group Breaks Pledge to Stay Out of Race in Egypt," NY Times, March 31, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/world/middleeast/brotherhood-chooses-a-candidate-in-egypt.html.

PAGE 206: "'affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists'"United States v. Sabri Benkahla, 530 F.3d 300 (4th cir. 2008) 530 F.3d 300, http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/542.pdf. * "met with Islamist 'grievance group' leaders from CAIR" CAIRtv, "Video: CAIR Meets with FBI, NJ Officials on NYPD Muslim Spying," youtube.com, March 5, 2012, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkvJRR71Ebk. * "'speaking on an Arab-American radio show to assuage concerns'" Niraj Warikoo, "FBI Ditches Training Materials Criticized as Anti-Muslim," usatoday.com, February 20, 2012, http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-02-20/fbi-anti-muslim-training/53168966/1. * "'make them slaves to Allah'" Brigitte Gabriel, They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It, 1st ed. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008), 117.

PAGE 207: "establishing the caliphate is their religious duty" Hizb ut-Tahrir, "Home," hizbuttahrir.org, accessed April 25, 2012, http://english.hizbuttahrir.org. * "'motivating force behind fundamentalist Islam'" Jim Murk, Islam Rising (Springfield, MO: 21st Century Press, 2006), 15. * "they who are truly iniquitous!" Qur'an 24:55. http://www.islamicity.com/QuranSearch/ (24:55) (Sura Al-Nur, verse 55). * "'the symbol of Muhammad, will be supreme everywhere'" Ronald de Valderano, "Terror: The War Against the West,"Imprimis, November, 1988, http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1988&month=11.

PAGE 208: "'your theories are just wacky'" "Shields and Brooks on GOP Candidates' Plausibility, Egypt's Bottom-up Revolution," PBS NewsHour, PBS, February 11, 2011, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june11/shieldsbrooks_02-11.html. * "through jihad against the apostate rulers and their removal" Brigitte Gabriel, They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It, 1st ed. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008), 123.

PAGE 209: "is the highest of our aspirations" Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Report on the Roots of Violent Islamist Extremism and Efforts to Counter It: The Muslim Brotherhood, 110th Cong., 2nd sess., 2008, http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/353.pdf, and http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/07/steven_emerson_statement_for.php. * "in 1963 they created their first American front" William Boykin and others, Shariah: The Threat to America, An Exercise in Competitive Analysis, Report of Team B II (Washington, DC: Center for Security Policy Press, 2012), 117. * "organization at the University of Illinois, Urbana: the Muslim Student Association" Muslim Students Association, "Our History: MSA National: Serving Islam and Muslims Since 1963," msanational.org, accessed April 26, 2012, http://msanational.org/about-us.

PAGE 210: "'And remember, you read it here first'" Brad Knickerbocker, "Why is Glenn Beck Freaking Out Over Egypt and a Caliphate?" Vox blog at csmonitor.com, February 12, 2011, http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/Vox-News/2011/0212/Why-is-Glenn-Beck-freaking-out-over-Egypt-and-a-caliphate/(page)/2. * "threats from radical Islamists in America and abroad" William J. Federer, What Every American Needs to Know About the Qur'an: A History of Islam and the United States (St. Louis: Amerisearch, 2007), 18.

PAGE 211: "'This is, and I do not use the term lightly, looney tunes'" Matt Schneider, "Chris Matthews: Glenn Beck's Theories Are 'Looney Tunes' Trying To Distract Us from Thought," mediaite.com, February 2, 2011, http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-matthews-glenn-becks-theories-are-looney-tunes-trying-to-distract-us-from-thought. * "Allah tear his organs asunder" Memri Blog, "On Jihadi Forum, Incitement Against American Islamic Forum for Democracy Director," thememriblog.org, January 25, 2012, http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/41602.htm.

Chapter 11.

EDUCATION.

Radical Ideas to Defeat the Radicals PAGE 216: "will help us reach that goal" George H. W. Bush, "State of the Union Address," January 28, 1992, transcript, usa-presidents.info, http://www.usa-presidents.info/union/bush-4.html. * "not just spend more money" William Jefferson Clinton, "State of the Union Address," February 17, 1993, usa-presidents.info, http://www.usa-presidents.info/union/clinton-1.html. * "or having more public school choice" Bill Clinton, "State of the Union Address," usa-presidents.info, January 25, 1994, http://www.usa-presidents.info/union/clinton-2.html. * "have the opportunity to renew our skills" "1995 State Of The Union Address," Politics, washingtonpost.com, January 24, 1995, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/states/docs/sou95.htm. * "let politics stop at the schoolhouse door" "Text of President Clinton's 1998 State of the Union Address," washingtonpost.com, January 27, 1998, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/states/docs/sou98.htm. * "that every single child can learn" Bill Clinton, "State of the Union Address," January 27, 2000, usa-presidents.info, http://www.usa-presidents.info/union/clinton-8.html. * "education reform so that no child is left behind" George W. Bush, "State of the Union Address," January 29, 2002, usa-presidents.info, http://www.usa-presidents.info/union/gwbush-2.html. * "They need more reform" "Full Transcript: Obama's 2012 State of the Union Address," usatoday.com, January 24, 2012, http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-01-24/state-of-the-union-transcript/52780694/1. * "competition called Race to the Top" The White House Office of the Press Secretary, "Remarks by the President in State of Union Address," press release, January 25, 2011, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/25/remarks-president-state-union-address.

PAGE 217: "in science and 14th out of 15 in math" "American Children Trail in Math and Science," New York Times online, February 06, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/06/us/american-children-trail-in-math-and-science.html, accessed April 12, 2012. * "they were doing forty years ago" Fawn Johnson, "Parsing the Nation's Report Card," Education Experts blog at nationaljournal.com, November 7, 2011, http://education.nationaljournal.com/2011/11/parsing-the-nations-report-car.php, accessed April 12, 2012. * "spent some $2 trillion on education" Andrew J. Coulson, "The Impact of Federal Involvement in America's Classrooms," cato.org, February 10, 2011, http://www.cato.org/publications/congressional-testimony/impact-federal-involvement-americas-classrooms.

PAGE 218-219: "'education system the best in the world. . .'" Jimmy Carter, "Department of Education Organization Act Statement on Signing S. 210 Into Law." The American Presidency Project, October 17, 1979, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=31543#axzz1tU039auy.

PAGE 220: "per student since 1970 in real dollars" Gary W. Patterson, Jr., comment on Audrey Spalding, "The U.S. Education System Wrongly Penalizes Good Teachers, Won't Fire Bad Teachers," policymic.com, accessed April 19, 2012, http://www.policymic.com/articles/3257/the-u-s-education-system-wrongly-penalizes-good-teachers-won-t-fire-bad-teachers.

PAGE 221: "parents who wanted their kids to read the Bible" Hannah Barker and Simon Burrows, eds., Press, Politics and the Public Sphere in Europe and North America 17601820 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 141. * "nature has made between man and brute" The Letters of John and Abigail Adams (New York: Penguin, 2004), 117. * "people would learn to guard their freedom" Meg Brulatour, "Transcendental Ideas: Education; Background for the State of Education in New England: Post-Revolutionary War to Mid-19th Century." American Transcendentalism Web, accessed April 19, 2012 http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/edhistory.html.

PAGE 222: "architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain" "In a Second Revolution," Life, December 26, 1960. * "time learning to achieve their goals" Erkki Aho, Kari Pitkanen, and Pasi Sahlberg, "Policy Development and Reform Principles of Basic and Secondary Education in Finland since 1968" (working paper series, Education, World Bank, Washington, D.C. May 2006), http://bit.ly/ICRqeC. * "it is a belief against all experience" James Bryant Conant, Thomas Jefferson and the Development of American Public Education (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962), 118. * "the infant against the will of his father" Tom Shuford, "Jefferson on Public Education: Defying Conventional Wisdom," educationnews.org, June 28, 2007, http://www.educationnews.org/articles/jefferson-on-public-education-defying-conventional-wisdom.html, accessed April 19, 2012. * "and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical" David Kirkpatrick, "Thomas Jefferson on Education," heartland.org, November 1, 2005, http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2005/11/01/thomas-jefferson-education, accessed February 2012.

PAGE 223: "from kindergarten through college" Matthew J. Brouillette, "The 1830s and 40s: Horace Mann, the End of Free-Market Education, and the Rise of Government Schools," Mackinac Center for Public Policy, July 16, 1999, http://www.mackinac.org/2035. * "and eventually around the country" Seth Godin, "Stop Stealing Dreams: What is School For?" sethgodin.com, accessed April 19, 2012, http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/StopStealingDreamsSCREEN.pdf. * "fostering care of the Bolshevist government" Charles A. Morse, "How Communist is Public Education?" enterstageright.com, March 25, 2002, http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0302/0302publiced.htm. * "institutions as well as science and art" John Dewey, "The Future of Liberalism," Address to the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1934, http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/john-dewey-on-liberalisms-future.

PAGE 224: "be left to their own devices" Chiemeka Utazi, "Child Education in Rousseau's Concept," scribd.com, November 11, 2003, http://scr.bi/ICP2EN. * "tendency is to make the child secretive and deceitful" John Dewey, The Middle Works, 1899-1924, Volume 8: Essays and Miscellany in the 1915 Period and German Philosophy and Politica and Schools of To-Morrow, ed. Jo Ann Boydson (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979), 226. * "people under the nonreligious state" Rev. John A. Hardon, S.J., "John Dewey-Radical Social Educator,"Catholic Educational Review, October 1952, http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMESCHL/JNDEWEY2.HTM * "people under the nonreligious state" Rev. John A. Hardon, S.J., "John Dewey-Radical Social Educator," Catholic Educational Review, October 1952, http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMESCHL/JNDEWEY2.HTM. * "per student, after adjusting for inflation" "Fast Facts," National Center for Education Statistics, nces.ed.gov, accessed April 19, 2012, http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66.

PAGE 225: "In 2010, just. . ." "The Nation's Report Card: U.S. History 2010," National Center for Education Statistics, June 14, 2011, http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2011468.

PAGE 226: "in 1961, after adjusting for inflation" Robert Franciosi, The Rise and Fall of American Public Schools (New York: Praeger, 2004), 24; U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, 2010 (NCES 2011-015), Table 188 and Chapter 2; National Center for Education Statistics, nces.ed.gov, http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=28.

PAGE 227: "steps required in the union contract" Michael Winerip, "Teachers Get Little Say in a Book About Them," New York Times, August 28, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/education/29winerip.html. * "costing the city $30 million a year" Jennifer Medina, "Teachers Set Deal with City on Discipline Process," New York Times, April 15, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/nyregion/16rubber.html. "school that is attempting to fire them" Jennifer Medina, "Teachers Set Deal with City on Discipline Process," New York Times, April 15, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/nyregion/16rubber.html, accessed April 19, 2012. * "simply is too high a price to pay" "Teachers Union Big Wig Says It's Not About Kids, It's About Power!," foxnews.com, February 23, 2011, http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/02/23/teachers-union-big-wig-says-its-not-about-kids-its-about-power.

PAGE 228: "receive full pension and health benefits" Kristen Gosling, "Mark Berndt Paid to Resign from School District Following Sex Scandal," ksdk.com, February 10, 2012, http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/302979/28/Teacher-in-Los-Angeles-sex-scandal-paid-to-resign, accessed February 2012.

PAGE 229: "kiss our public schools goodbye" Erik Kain, "Why I Support the Teachers Unions," forbes.com, September 28, 2011, http://onforb.es/KoUsJ5.

PAGE 230: "$2 billion in union dues every year" Chris Edwards, "State and Local Fiscal Reforms," Conference on State and Local Government Finance and Economic Turbulence, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, April 9, 2010, http://www.cato.org/speeches/chrisedwards-state-fiscal.pdf. * "order to back the Democrat machine" Steven Greenhouse, "N.E.A. Advances Endorsement for Obama in 2012," The Caucus blog at nytimes.com, May 6, 2011, http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/n-e-a-advances-endorsement-for-obama-in-2012. * "percent of that went to Democrats" "Teachers Unions," Influence & Lobbying, opensecrets.org, accessed April 19, 2012, http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=l1300. * "New York City public school teachers" Fred Lucas, "New York City Teachers Union Is Largest Recipient of Obamacare Waiver; Parent AFT Union Spent $1.9 Million on Obama Election," cnsnews.com, January 31, 2011, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/new-york-city-teachers-union-largest-recipient-obamacare-waiver-parent-aft-union-spent. * "movement of teachers for their rights" "Teaching About Labor Issues and the Wisconsin Worker Fight Back," rethinkingschools.org, accessed April 19, 2012, http://rethinkingschools.org/news/WIProtestTeachingResources.shtml. * "climbed to roughly $24,000 a student" Chris Taylor, "Is College Worth It?" Money blog at reuters.com, September 15, 2011, http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-money/2011/09/15/is-college-worth-it. * "wouldn't have to deal with massive debt" Chris Taylor, "Is College Worth It?" Money blog at reuters.com, September 15, 2011, http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-money/2011/09/15/is-college-worth-it. * "America with hard work and perseverance" T. Kenneth Cribb Jr., "The Shaping of the American Mind" (report, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Wilmington, DE, December 2009), http://bit.ly/ICPtil.

PAGE 231: "critical thinking skills throughout college" "A Lack of Rigor Leaves Students 'Adrift' in College," npr.org, February 9, 2011, http://www.npr.org/2011/02/09/133310978/in-college-a-lack-of-rigor-leaves-students-adrift, accessed February 2012. * "escalated by a factor of three since 1980" Linsey Davis, "Facebook and PayPal's Peter Thiel Pays College Students to Drop Out," abcnews.com, May 26, 2011, http://abcn.ws/ICPvaa, accessed February 2012.

PAGE 232: "Americans with the qualifications to fill those jobs" "Prepared Students," waitingforsuperman.com, accessed February 2012, http://www.waitingforsuperman.com/action/theme/students.

PAGE 233: "rather than founding philosophy" Caroline Evans, "Back to School: 10 Completely Real College Courses That Sound Totally Fake," Random Ephemera blog at houstonpress.com, August 3, 2011, http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2011/08/back_to_school_20_completely_r.php. * "Democrat:Republican ratio is probably about 8:1" Daniel B. Klein and Charlotta Stern, "Liberal Versus Conservative Stinks," Society 45, no. 6 (2008): 488-495, doi: 10.1007/s12115-008-9150-0; Daniel B. Klein and Charlotta Stern, "Democrats and Republicans in Anthropology and Sociology: How Do they Differ on Public Policy Issues?" The American Sociologist 35, no. 4 (2004): 79-86, DOI: 10.1007/s12108-004-1025-2 http://www.springerlink.com/content/e942vnq7aumnwynu. * "Democrats and zero registered Republicans" "More Iowa Rationalizations," History News Network blog at hnn.us, George Mason University, December 13, 2007, http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/45545.html.

PAGE 234: "identify themselves as any shade of liberal" Scott Jaschik, "Red Grader, Blue Grader," insidehighered.com, May 20, 2011, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/05/20/study_finds_differences_in_republican_and_democratic_grading_patterns. * "liberal and only 13 percent as conservative" Howard Kurtz, "Most College Profs Lean Left, Study Says," Seattle Times, March 30, 2005, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2002224341_professors30.html. * "reformed were they allowed to reopen" Mark. W. Clark, Beyond Catastrophe: German Intellectuals and Cultural Renewal After World War II, 1945-1955 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006), 55. * "from entering Canada on several occasions" "Bill Ayers Again Barred from Entering Canada," Canada Newswire, June 15, 2011, http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/726585/bill-ayers-again-barred-from-entering-canada.

PAGE 235: "$54,000 per student last year." Richard Vedder, "Princeton Reaps Tax Breaks as State Colleges Beg," bloomberg.com, March 18, 2012, accessed April 29, 2012, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-18/princeton-reaps-tax-breaks-as-state-colleges-beg.html.

PAGE 236: "Maryland, along with many others" Scott Jaschik, "Murky Picture for Faculty Salaries," insidehighered.com, April 13, 2009, http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/04/13/aaup. * "$4.4 billion in fiscal 2011 alone" "Harvard Endowment Rises $4.4 Billion to $32 Billion," Harvard Magazine, September 22, 2011, http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/09/harvard-endowment-rises-to-32-billion, accessed February 2012. * "and Yale has $19 billion" Dan Berman, "Top 10 Richest Colleges: The Biggest Endowments," advisorone.com, October 24, 2011, http://www.advisorone.com/2011/10/24/top-10-richest-colleges-the-biggest-endowments. * "dollars in federal funding every year" Radhika Jain, "Federal Government a Financial 'Lifeline' for Physics Department," Crimson, October 26, 2011, accessed February 2012, http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/10/26/physics-department-federal-funds. * "a systemic level at the national level" Donna Gordon Blankinship, "Public Universities Look Toward Federal Government as Another Source to Replace State Dollars," Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 16, 2010, http://www.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=91072159. * "country needs that interstate highway system" Donna Gordon Blankinship, "Public Universities Look Toward Federal Government as Another Source to Replace State Dollars," startribune.com, April 16, 2010, http://www.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=91072159.

PAGE 238: "challenging Einstein's theory of special relativity" Tamara Cohen, "Einstein Wrong Again! New Experiment Confirms Doubts over His Speed of Light Theory," dailtmail.co.uk, November 18, 2011, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2063163/Einstein-speed-light-2nd-set-scientists-particles-CAN-travel-faster-light.html.

PAGE 239: "her lunch for not being sufficiently nutritious" Matt Willoughby, "State Inspectors Searching Children's Lunch Boxes: This Isn't China, Is It?," nccivitas.org, February 14, 2012, http://www.nccivitas.org/2012/state-inspectors-searching-childrens-lunch-boxes-this-isnt-china-is-it.

Chapter 12.

YOUNG SOCIALISTS.

Why Our Kids Think They Hate Capitalism PAGE 240-241: Image courtesy of the Everett Collection, Copyright 2012. Used under license from Shutterstock.com.

PAGE 242: "'government-run cartel education system.'" Kevin Williamson, "Jobs Agenda," nationalreview.com, October 5, 2011, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/279321/jobs-agenda-kevin-d-williamson.

PAGE 244: "'the state-run shops are so barren. . .black market'" David Remnick, "'Soviet Union's Shadow Economy' Bribery, Barter, Black-Marker Deals Are the Facts of Life," Seattle Times, September 22, 1990, http://bit.ly/Ij3swn. * "'owned the only private broadcast media'" U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, "2010 Human Rights Report: Equatorial Guinea," report, April 8, 2011, http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/af/154344.htm. * "'or access to the Internet,'" U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, "2010 Human Rights Report: Turkmenistan," report, April 8, 2011, http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/sca/154488.htm. * "inches shorter than South Koreans." Carl Bialik, "The Korean Height Gap," wsj.com, October 15, 2008, http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/the-korean-height-gap-431.

PAGE 245: "'and we have our revolution.'" Buck Sexton, Occupy: American Spring (New York: Mercury Ink, 2012)." * "Socialism was viewed negatively by 59 percent. . ." Pew Research Center, "'Socialism' Not So Negative, 'Capitalism' Not So Positive," pewresearch.org, May 4, 2010, http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1583/political-rhetoric-capitalism-socialism-militia-family-values-states-rights. * "Only 45 percent think capitalism is a good idea" Frank Newport, "Socialism Viewed Positively by 36% of Americans,"gallup.com, February 4, 2010, http://www.gallup.com/poll/125645/Socialism-Viewed-Positively-Americans.aspx.

PAGE 246: "'and then lost it have never known it again.'" Ronald Reagan, "First Inaugural Address 33rd Governor, Republican 1967-1975," governors.library.ca.gov, January 5, 1967, http://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/33-Reagan01.html. * "'Center-Left or actually majoritarian socialist.'" Charles Derber, "Capitalism: Big Surprises in Recent Polls," commondreams.org, May 18, 2010, http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/18-3.

PAGE 247: "Great for the young communist and socialist." Greg Mankiw, "The Rainbow Fish, Revised," gregmankiw.blogspot.com, July 27, 2011, http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2011/07/rainbow-fish-revised.html.

PAGE 248: "as one critic wondered" "Oil Baron Tex Richman," futureofcapitalism.com, December 3, 2011, http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2011/12/oil-baron-tex-richman. * "errors abound" Lawrence Reed, "Are High School Economics Textbooks Reliable?," times-herald.com, December 08, 2011, http://bit.ly/Ij315q.

PAGE 249: "Here are the results" Ray Franke, Sylvia Ruiz, et al., Higher Education Research Institute, "Findings from the 2009 Administration of the College Senior Survey (CSS): National Aggregates," report, February 2010, http://www.heri.ucla.edu/PDFs/pubs/Reports/2009_CSS_Report.pdf.

PAGE 251: "'sharing equally in the world's wealth.'" Rose Kennedy, Times to Remember (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 17273. * "got to ring the closing bell on the NASDAQ. . ." NASDAQ OMX Education Foundation, Junior Achievement of New York, "Junior Achievement of New York Announces the Top Three Winning High School teams of the 2011 Business Plan Competition," press release, June 5, 2011, http://bit.ly/Ij2Kzc. * "'sales of things you have made or grow.'" Boy Scouts of America, "American Business," scouting.org, 2010, http://bit.ly/Ij2PTA. * "put pinball machines in barbershops." Alice Schroeder, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (New York: Bantam Books, 2008).

PAGE 252: "dropped out of Harvard" Joel Dreyfuss, "Gates Meets Gates: Our Editor-in-Chief Quizzes the Microsoft Founder on His Passion About Education," theroot.com, July 28, 2011, http://www.theroot.com/views/gates-meets-gates.

PAGE 253: "Success in every sort of business." Adam Smith, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Part III: Of the Foundation of our Judgments concerning our own Sentiments and Conduct, and of the Sense of Duty Consisting of One Section Chap. IV: Of the Nature of Self-deceit, and of the Origin and Use of general Rules," in The Theory of Moral Sentiments,6th ed. (London, A. Millar, 1790, 6th Edition), http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-adam/works/moral/part03/part3c.htm.

PAGE 254: "worth more than $20 billion." Matthew G. Miller and Peter Newcomb, "Slim Beats Gates in Global Daily Ranking of Billionaires," bloomberg.com, Mar 5, 2012, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-05/slim-beats-gates-in-global-daily-ranking-of-billionaires.html.

PAGE 255: "she sold 1.5 million." Ed Pilkington, "Amanda Hocking, the Writer Who Made Millions by Self-Publishing Online," guardian.co.uk, January 12, 2012, http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/12/amanda-hocking-self-publishing.

Chapter 13.

ADAPT OR DIE.

The Coming Intelligence Explosion PAGE 258: "'one percent about anything'" Inez N. McFee, Famous Americans For Young Readers: The Story of Thomas A. Edison (New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1922), 6.

PAGE 260: "another 8 percent were roughly correct" Ray Kurzweil, "How My Predictions are Faring," e426.org, October 1, 2010, http://www.e426.org/pdf/kurzweilai.pdf.

PAGE 261: "criticized Kurzweil's forecasting methods" Robert U. Ayres, review of The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, by Ray Kurzweil, Technological Forecasting and Social Change 73 (February 2006): 95-100, doi:10.1016/j.techfore.205.12.002; Theodore Modis, "The Singularity Myth," Technological Forecasting and Social Change 73 (February 2006): 104-112; Tesseleno C. Devezas, discussion of The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, by Ray Kurzweil, Technological Forecasting and Social Change 73 (February 2006): 112-121. * "(or even faster than exponential), not linear" Bela Nagy, J. Doyne Farmer, Jessika E. Trancik, Quan Minh Bui, "Testing Laws of Technological Progress" (working paper, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, September 2, 2010), http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~bn/workingpapers/NagyFarmerTrancikBui.pdf; Bela Nagy, J. Doyne Farmer, Jessika E. Trancik, John Paul Gonzales, "Superexponential Long-term Trends in Information Technology," Technical Forecasting and Social Change 78 (October 2011): 1356-1364. * "will take decades to get to 400" Michael Kanellos, "Moore's Law to Roll On for Another Decade," news.cnet.com, February 10, 2003, http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-984051.html. * "not 'straight line' progress" Michael Kanellos, "Moore's Law to Roll On for Another Decade," news.cnet.com, February 10, 2003, http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-984051.html. * "2.6 billion transistors onto a single chip" "Computing Power and Stockmarkets: Moore and More," Graphic Detail blog at economist.com, November 29, 2011, http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/11/computing-power-and-stockmarkets. * "basically an information-processing system" Jose Luis Bermudez, "The Prehistory of Cognitive Science," chapter 1 in Cognitive Science: An Introduction (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010).