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The CBO's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb

By |2011-07-01T13:12:21-04:00July 1st, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 30, 2011 on Forbes.com.

Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued their Long Term Budget Outlook for 2011. The report closely validates my own analysis in my new book America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, released this month by HarperCollins.

CBO reports that the national debt is already the highest in history except for World War II, reaching roughly 70% of GDP this year. On our current course, CBO projects the national debt held by the public will […]

Scalia Wrong, Thomas Right on Violent Video Games

By |2020-04-23T21:52:53-04:00June 30th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 29, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Those who paint U.S. Supreme Court justices with a broad brush only prove they don’t really understand the court.

Justice Antonin Scalia was dead wrong in striking down California’s restriction on selling horribly violent video games to children. And Justice Clarence Thomas did a spectacular job of showing why the Founders would uphold this law.

California enacted a law restricting the sale of graphically violent video games to children, requiring an adult to make the purchase. One such graphic game involves the player torturing a […]

Block Grant Welfare to the States

By |2020-04-23T21:58:20-04:00June 29th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 29, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

The first step in defusing America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, the title of my new book, is to restore a booming economy. I discussed last week how to do that by applying the lessons of Reaganomics.

The next step is fundamental entitlement reform, to reduce the overwhelming future burden of exploding entitlement expenses. As I argue in the book, we will never be able to solve the entitlement crisis by simply trying to cut benefits for the […]

Why the GOP Is Right on Taxes

By |2011-06-29T09:49:36-04:00June 29th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 29, 2011 on FoxNews.com.

Congressional Republicans are standing firm on their principle that for every dollar of increase in the national debt limit, President Obama and the Democrats must agree to a dollar of spending cuts. That means if President Obama wants to increase the debt limit by $2 trillion to $3 trillion, then he will have to agree to $2 to $3 trillion in future spending cuts. But President Obama and the Democrats are insisting they won’t agree to […]

Supreme Court's Pliva Decision Is Another Blow Against Trial Lawyers

By |2023-03-10T08:04:49-05:00June 28th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 26, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Trial lawyers cannot sue drug manufacturers for defective warning labels on generics if labels were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The 5-4 Pliva v. Mensing decision announced last week was a defeat for class-action trial lawyers hoping to profit on litigation based on allegations that manufacturers violated state laws that aren’t pre-empted by federal laws or regulations.

The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution requires that so long as a federal law is constitutional, it pre-empts divergent […]

Bureaucratic Overreach Not Kids Stuff

By |2011-06-26T22:29:47-04:00June 26th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 24, 2011 on The

Washington Times website.

While 22-year-old Rory McIlroy was teeing up on June 16 during the first round of his historic victory at the U.S. Open, another drama was unfolding outside Congressional Country Club in Bethesda.

A Montgomery County inspector busted some kids for running a lemonade stand at which they were setting aside half the proceeds for pediatric cancer victims. The charge? No permit.

One of the dads involved got a $500 fine. After a TV station’s tape of the bust went viral, the […]

Sotomayor Sides with Conservatives in Corporate Free Speech Case

By |2020-04-23T21:52:53-04:00June 26th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 25, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor threw lawyers a curve ball this past week by siding with conservatives on a corporate free-speech case.

Marking the first time she’s broken with liberals in a case presenting a clear philosophical split, scholars will wonder what other surprises the “wise Latina” from the Bronx has in store.

The case is Sorrell v. IMS Health. Pharmacies sell information on which drugs individual doctors prescribe. Pharmaceutical companies buy that information so their salespeople will know exactly what each doctor’s preferences […]

The Over-Employed and the Mal-Employed

By |2011-06-26T18:52:45-04:00June 26th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published June 24, 2011 on Townhall.com.

Roughly 14 million people are formally labeled as unemployed, but “there’s probably 22 million to 23 million people who are unemployed, mal-employed or under-employed,” said Andrew Sum, an economics professor at Northeastern University in Boston, as reported by DailyCaller.com.

The professor didn’t define “mal-employed,” but I’m thinking it includes the over-employed–those in full-time jobs way over their heads who screw up life for the rest of us.

Consider Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, who’s blown through nearly $2 trillion taxpayer dollars trying […]

Universal Health Care With No Mandates

By |2011-06-24T14:25:39-04:00June 24th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 23, 2011 on Forbes.com.

Washington Post columnist Matt Miller taunts Republicans and free market conservatives with the claim that he is willing to repeal ObamaCare, as long as they offer a plan that covers the same number of uninsured, at lower cost. He is sure there is no chance of that because “the GOP does not view the presence of 50 million uninsured in a wealthy nation as an issue that needs to be addressed.”

The New York […]

Obama's Debt Limit Scare Tactics

By |2011-06-24T14:11:24-04:00June 24th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 22, 2011 on FoxNews.com.

America’s gross federal debt is already bumping up against the national debt limit of $14.3 trillion. But with the federal government already running a deficit of 43 cents out of every dollar of federal spending, if President Obama’s budget of $3.8 trillion, or $3,818 billion, is going to be financed, clearly a lot more national debt is going to be needed.

Speaker John Boehner, however, is holding firm on his position to allow a debt […]

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