COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Obama's Unaffordable Act
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published June 19, 2013 on The American Spectator website.When he was campaigning for President in 2008, President Obama told the American people his health reform plan would reduce family health [...]
Unasked and Unanswered Questions
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 19, 2013 on Townhall.com.Grutter v. Bollinger was the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the University of Michigan Law School's racial admissions policy. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for the majority, [...]
States Can't Require Proof of Citizenship to Vote in Federal Elections
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 17, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The Supreme Court ruled today in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council that federal law does not allow states the option of requiring voters to prove they are American citizens when they register to vote.The National [...]
The Magic, Fairy Dust Naivete That Is Progressive Economics
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published June 16, 2013 on Forbes.com.Let's proclaim the Good News: Government money is free. No, not just to the beneficiaries of government programs. To society as a whole. Meaning there [...]
Obama Threatens Veto of Religious Protection for Military
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 12, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Breitbart News reported last week that Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) passed an amendment in the House Armed Services Committee protecting religious speech of service members in the military. President Barack Obama has now threatened to [...]
Unnecessary Tragedy
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 12, 2013 on Townhall.com.Last week, a federal judge ordered Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to allow 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, to be moved to the [...]
Obamacare's California Insurance Premiums Are Soaring – This Is Fact
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published June 7, 2013 on Forbes.com.The great American experiment in democracy is currently failing. In proof of that, I give you Exhibit A: We cannot even agree on the basic [...]
Amendments Protecting Soldiers' Religious Rights Approved by Committee
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 7, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Congress is taking action on religious liberty in the military, a story that was originally reported by Breitbart News. New legal language passed a key committee this week and next goes to the full House [...]
Can We Get It Back?
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published June 5, 2013 on The American Spectator website.As Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon reported in their underappreciated work, It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of [...]
Obama's DC Judges: Democrats Started the Fight
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 4, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Last week we reported that President Obama's agenda may depend on how many judges he can appoint to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Today Obama nominated three legal heavyweights to fill [...]
Scalia Dissents on SCOTUS Decision Upholding DNA Samples of Arrestees
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 3, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Constitutional protections do not forbid police from taking DNA samples from those arrested for serious crimes, according to the Supreme Court in its 5-4 decision Monday in Maryland v. King.If someone is arrested on suspicion [...]
Drilled by the Quill
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 3, 2013 on The Washington Times website.As a longtime, ink-stained wretch, I'm actually glad that some of the Obama administration's bombs targeting our essential liberties found their way out of the Tea Party kill zone and were dropped instead [...]
Pentagon Denies Relationship with Anti-Christian Extremist; Instantly Complies with His Demands
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 2, 2013 on Breitbart.com.One month ago the Pentagon assured the public it was not being advised by anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein. Yet two days ago Weinstein called the Pentagon demanding that a Christian painting be removed from a [...]
Holder's Defense: Diminished Capacity?
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published June 2, 2013 on Townhall.com.U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, a former prosecutor and judge, is pleading ignorance of the law as his excuse for criminally accusing a journalist of being a journalist. Holder wants Congress to pass a law [...]
Americans Deserve the IRS
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 29, 2013 on Townhall.com.Individually, Americans do not deserve to be subservient to such a fear-mongering, intimidating and powerful agency as the Internal Revenue Service; but collectively, we do. Let's look at it.Since [...]
Obama's Agenda Depends on Packing the DC Circuit Court
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 29, 2013 on Breitbart.com.President Barack Obama is finalizing an aggressive strategy to pack a court. It's not the Supreme Court; it's the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Whether Obama's agenda succeeds or fails [...]
SCOTUS Denies Review in Planned Parenthood Funding Case
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 28, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take a case where a federal appeals court struck down an Indiana law denying Medicaid funds to abortion provider Planned Parenthood.Medicaid is a federal-state partnership where government pays [...]
Striking a Sour Note on the Boardwalk
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 28, 2013 on The Washington Times website.What do you do if you're a street fiddler who wants to play as loud as you want, and the cops tell you to pipe down?Well, you could make a federal case of [...]
Senate Confirms Rising Star, Could Be Next SCOTUS Nominee
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 26, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed Sri Srinivasan to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by a vote of 97-0, and he should already be [...]
Turning the Tables on the IRS
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 27, 2013 on The Washington Times website.It's pretty clear that the Internal Revenue Service acted illegally in its abuse of Tea Party and other conservative groups and individuals since 2009.Why else would Lois G. Lerner, director of the IRS' [...]