COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Ken Klukowski on the Phil Valentine Show
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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 [...]
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, [...]