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Slimming Entitlement Costs

By |2023-05-20T09:40:54-04:00October 8th, 2007|

This article originally appeared in Barrons.com: link

FEDERAL SPENDING HAS HOVERED around 20% of gross domestic product for more than 50 years now, ever since it settled down after World War II. Despite all the battles over taxes and spending in that time, the federal share of our economy has remained fairly stable.

That will change quite dramatically without fundamental reform of our nation’s entitlement programs. The latest long-term projections of the Congressional Budget Office estimate that federal spending will soar, reaching close to 40% of GDP over the next 40 years, primarily owing to exploding costs for Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. Add […]

Parker v. District of Columbia

By |2023-05-20T09:40:55-04:00October 7th, 2007|

The American Civil Rights Union filed an amicus curiae brief in the United States Supreme Court on Friday, October 12 in the case of Parker v. District of Columbia urging the Court to grant the requested writ of certiorari on behalf of 5 of the original 6 plaintiffs seeking to strike down the District’s gun control laws as unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals had found that these 5 plaintiffs did not have standing in the case and dismissed them from the suit.

READ THE AMICUS BRIEF HERE.

ACORN and Labor Unions

By |2023-05-20T09:40:56-04:00September 29th, 2007|

In November 2008, Capital Research Center did an investigation into ACORN's connections with labor unions and discovered some shocking details.

ACORN in San Diego

By |2023-05-20T09:40:57-04:00September 29th, 2007|

James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles took their investigation of ACORN to San Diego where they found an ACORN lawyer willing to help them smuggle their underage prostitutes.

To the West Coast

By |2023-05-20T09:40:58-04:00September 29th, 2007|

James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles went to the West Coast to visit ACORN offices there. In San Bernadino, CA, ACORN workers not only helped get away with prostitution and tax evasion, but also bragged about some of the crimes she had committed and the politicians she lobbied.

Now Off to the Big Apple

By |2023-05-20T09:40:59-04:00September 29th, 2007|

Bertha Lewis, CEO of ACORN released a statement about the videos from James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles.

Lewis said, “This recent scam, which was attempted in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia to name a few places, had failed for months before the results weve all recently seen.”

Apparently no one told Ms. Lewis that ACORN workers in New York helped out O’Keefe and Giles.

First Baltimore, Then DC

By |2023-05-20T09:40:59-04:00September 29th, 2007|

Following up on the September 9 release of videos showing Baltimore ACORN employees giving advice on running an underage prostitution ring and evading taxes, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles released similar videos from the Washington, DC ACORN office.

The Videos that Started it All

By |2023-05-20T09:41:00-04:00September 29th, 2007|

On September 9, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles released videos showing employees from the Baltimore offices of ACORN giving advice on how to run a underage prostitution ring and evade taxes.

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