COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Price Versus Cost
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 17, 2013 on Townhall.com.Suppose you buy a gallon of gas for $3. How much did it cost you? You say, "Williams, that's a silly question. It cost $3." That's where you're mistaken, [...]
Fallacies and Charades
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 17, 2013 on The American Spectator website.The biggest fallacy regarding Social Security is that it would be easier politically to cut Social Security benefits rather than to fundamentally [...]
Supreme Court Denies Review in Flawed Gun Rights Case, Might Take Next One
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 16, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The Supreme Court has declined to take Kachalsky v. Cacace, what could have been the next big Second Amendment case for the nation. But Kachalsky was a flawed case, and another case with different lawyers [...]
The Media and President Obama's View through a Gosnell Lens
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published on April 16, 2013 on the World website.Mariners have been familiar with the Fresnel lens for nearly two centuries. It refracts light from a lighthouse to magnify the life-saving capacity of the illumination.Now, we are seeing a new kind of [...]
Progressive Keynesian Myths Debunked: The Coming Redistribution of Political and Economic Power Among the States
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 14, 2013 on Forbes.com.Ongoing effective economic experiments among the 50 states are sharpening, and definitive results will pour out in the real world, editorial and opinion fallacies to [...]
Black Unemployment
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 10, 2013 on Townhall.com.A couple of weeks ago, Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson, speaking at The National Press Club, said the nation "would never tolerate white unemployment at 14 and 15 [...]
Minority Student Needs
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 3, 2013 on Townhall.com.Professor Craig Frisby is on the faculty of University of Missouri's Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology. His most recent book is Meeting the Psychoeducational Needs of Minority [...]
Look Out Below, the Obamacare Chaos Is Coming
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 7, 2013 on Forbes.com.The biggest political problem faced by so-called "liberals" and so-called "progressives" in President Obama's second term is how to prevent voters from holding them politically [...]
The Sound of Tyranny
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 8, 2013 on The Washington Times website.In a remarkably short time, Germany recovered smartly from the wreckage of its defeat in World War II to become the economic strongman of Europe. Monuments to the nation's plunge into Nazism remain [...]
His Greatest Failure
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 3, 2013 on The American Spectator website.President Obama likes to pose as a martyred man, because when he entered office, the economy was in a recession. But the [...]
The Age of Unreason: Senate Democrat Budget Mythology
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 31, 2013 on Forbes.com.Paul Ryan's House Republican budget, and Patty Murray's Senate Democrat budget, deserve continued scrutiny and debate, because they do definitively display the core beliefs of [...]
SCOTUS May Throw Out DOMA Cases Due to DOJ Refusal to Defend
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 27, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The Supreme Court's justices spent a full hour in today's DOMA case, U.S. v. Windsor, debating whether the case should be in court at all.In each DOMA lawsuit--including Windsor--the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) has [...]
Are We Equal?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 27, 2013 on Townhall.com.Are women equal to men? Are Jews equal to gentiles? Are blacks equal to Italians, Irish, Polish and other white people? The answer is probably a big fat no, [...]
Left And Right Extremists Fail To See Paul Ryan's Win-Win Entitlement Reform
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 24, 2013 on Forbes.com.The New York Times told its readers on March 12 that Paul Ryan's proposed 2014 budget involves "eliminating Medicare's guarantee to retirees" and "dispensing with [...]
NRA Sues NY Gov. Cuomo on Gun-Control Law
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 22, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The NRA is taking New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to court as Cuomo prepares to run for president in 2016.The National Rifle Association is supporting a lawsuit filed by its state affiliate, the New York [...]
Brazen Extremism
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 20, 2013 on the American Thinker website.Democrat Party cheerleader Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) ridicules Paul Ryan's House Republican budget as "extremist" and "radical." Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) [...]
Sheriff Cruz Meets School Marm Feinstein
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published March 19, 2013 on the American Thinker website.Here's what Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) learned from questioning Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) about the constitutionality of her "assault weapons" ban. She's out of estrogen and she used to have a gun.Feinstein [...]
Supreme Court Hears Arizona Voter ID Case
With the fate of a crucial provision of the Voting Rights Act hanging in the balance, the Supreme Court hears another case challenging the right of a state to put in place new voting requirements Monday. At stake in the case--Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.-- is whether or not an Arizona law requiring Arizonans to show proof of citizenship at the voting booth will be upheld.
Paul Ryan's House Republican Budget vs. Patty Murray's Senate Democrat Budget
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 17, 2013 on Forbes.com.The competing budgets released last week by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-WA) definitively define the [...]
No Room for Nuisances in Missouri Pews
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 18, 2013 on The Washington Times website.You can't keep a good theophobe down.Despite losing in court, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says it will continue opposing Missouri's voter-approved constitutional amendment guaranteeing the freedom to pray in public places.An [...]