COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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' [...]
Time to Go for the Kill
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published May 22, 2013 on The American Spectator website.The IRS scandal provides Republicans and conservatives with the opportunity to repeal and replace Obamacare now. The House Republican majority should refuse [...]
We Are the Idiots
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 22, 2013 on Townhall.com.Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in their Forbes article "Rachel Carson's Deadly Fantasies" (9/5/2012), wrote [...]
Congress Investigating Obama Admin's Hostility to Religion in the Military
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 13, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Following 59 Members of Congress sending a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel regarding Pentagon officials meeting with an anti-Christian extremist, another group of 72 House Members has sent a second wide-ranging letter, exploring whether [...]
Hating America
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 15, 2013 on Townhall.com.Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who are accused of setting the bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon, attended the University of Massachusetts. Maybe they hated our nation before [...]
Obamacare Implodes
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published May 15, 2013 on The American Spectator website.Health policy economists are puzzled by a persistent slowdown in the growth of health care spending that seems to have started in [...]
59 Congress Members Demand Hagel Explain Meeting with Anti-Christian Extremist
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 13, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Monday morning, Congressmen Steve Scalise and John Fleming--both Republicans representing districts in Louisiana--sent a letter signed by 59 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon, demanding [...]
ACRU Asks Supreme Court to Strike Campaign Finance Limits
Political speech should have higher protection than "pornography, nude dancing and abortion," brief says.WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 13, 2013) -- In an amicus brief filed May 8, the American Civil Rights Union argues that limits on campaign donations infringe on freedom of speech.Written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, the brief [...]
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, [...]