COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
House Republicans Prove Effective At Restraining Runaway Democrat Spending
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 9, 2013 on Forbes.com.House Republicans are proving effective in restraining the runaway federal spending desired by President Obama and Congressional Democrats. That does not remotely mean that the [...]
Congress Must Tell Pentagon to Protect Troops' First Amendment Rights
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 11, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The Pentagon has now fully reversed its previous declarations and is now claiming it has no policy either way on whether proselytizing is allowed in the military. Given the contradictory statements on this issue and [...]
Benghazi's Media Maze
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 13, 2013 on The Washington Times website.You just knew press coverage of the congressional hearing on the Benghazi cover-ups last Wednesday would be nonexistent or squirrely, right?It was mostly the latter, so break out the nuts.After the hearing, an [...]
Obama's Rising Inequality
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 8, 2013 on The American Spectator website.The day after his second inauguration, the New York Times and the Washington Post blared about Obama's speech heralding a new vision [...]
Honest Examination of Race
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 8, 2013 on Townhall.com.One definition given for insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results; it might also be a definition of stupidity. Let's look at [...]
Pentagon Began Relationship with Anti-Religious Extremist in 2009
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 7, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The Obama-Hagel Pentagon is trying to minimize Breitbart News' blockbuster story last week of top brass meeting with anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein, who we reported calls Christians "monsters" imposing a "rapacious reign of theocratic terror" [...]
Overreaching Internet Sales Tax Is Obama's Calculated Deception Of Gullible Voters
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 2, 2013 on Forbes.com.During the 2008 campaign, when candidate Obama was seeking our votes, he pledged in Dover, New Hampshire on Sept. 12, 2008:"I can make a firm [...]
Hagel's Pentagon Defends Unconstitutional Policy against Soldiers Sharing Faith
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 3, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Pentagon personnel responded to Breitbart News' report about court-martialing service members who share their faith in the military, which the Pentagon confirmed on May 1, and the Air Force on May 2 separately confirmed a [...]
Liberal Suffering and Confusion
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 1, 2013 on Townhall.com.The liberal world vision and reality are often at variance, for example, with equal pay for equal work. I've often watched "Lockup," a show that features California supermax prisons, [...]
Pentagon May Court Martial Soldiers Who Share Christian Faith
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 1, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: "Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense...Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case [...]
Holder Undercut FBI by Giving Tsarnaev Miranda Rights
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 26, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Updating our earlier report:Details are emerging that when U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler read Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights, she went to his hospital room accompanied by a federal public defender (meaning taxpayer-funded) and an [...]
Academic Cesspools
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 24, 2013 on Townhall.com.Over the past 10 years, I have written columns variously titled "Academic Cesspools," "Academic Dishonesty," "The Shame of Higher Education," "Academic Rot" and "Indoctrination of Our Youth." Therefore, I [...]
Tsarnaev the Fraud
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published April 23, 2013 on the American Thinker website.Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be tried by a military commission at Guantanamo Bay rather than in U.S. federal court on charges related to the Boston Marathon bombing. Naturalized American citizenship obtained by fraud [...]
Ken Klukowski on the Phil Valentine Show
Topic: Suspected Terrorist TrialClick here to listen online.
Earth Day Religion
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 22, 2013 on The Washington Times website.Just as the word "liberal" has given way to the less-tarnished "progressive," it's hard to find "global warming" in environmental groups' materials celebrating April 22 as Earth Day.The operative phrase is "climate change," [...]
Updated: Label Tsarnaev Enemy Combatant for Now, Can Give Bill of Rights Later
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 21, 2013 on Breitbart.com.This is an update to an earlier story, presenting the analysis of why the Constitution probably entitles Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the full range of protections in the Bill of Rights that he would receive as [...]
For Now, Public-Safety Exception Precludes Bomber's Miranda Rights
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 20, 2013 on Breitbart.com.As a newly-minted U.S. citizen captured on U.S. soil, Boston terrorist suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev will get the full range of constitutional protections from the Bill of Rights, as we explained yesterday, except one: Tsarnaev wasn't [...]
What's Next: Civilian Criminal Trial for Marathon Bombing Suspect
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 19, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The Obama administration has placed Boston terrorist suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev in federal custody with plans to give him a civilian criminal trial in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. That's what the Constitution requires, though some [...]
Boston Terrorists Not Right-Wing Americans
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 19, 2013 on Breitbart.com.We now know the Boston Marathon terrorists were Muslims with roots in Chechnya, the Russian province in an ongoing conflict with Moscow, with a large Muslim population and a history of violent conflict with the [...]
President Obama's Predictable Budget: More Spending, More Tax Increases
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 19, 2013 on Forbes.com.President Obama tells us in the Overview to his Fiscal Year 2014 Budget just released last week that his budget proposes, "more than $2 in [...]