COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Educational Rot
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 13, 2013 on Townhall.com.American education is in a sorry state of affairs, and there's enough blame for all participants to have their fair share. They include students who are hostile and alien [...]
Yes, Ted Cruz Likely Eligible to Be President
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 11, 2013 on Breitbart.com.On Mar. 8, reporter Carl Cameron on Special Report on Fox News Channel was surveying potential GOP 2016 presidential candidates. Then he raised Ted Cruz--one of the most brilliant constitutional lawyers ever to serve in [...]
President Obama's War on Women and Minorities
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 10, 2013 on Forbes.com.The 2012 election featured the bottom feeding charge of a Republican War on Women. The grounds for such a charge were less than zero. But [...]
Last Chance to Repair Mr. Roberts' Obamacare Error
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 11, 2013 on The Washington Times website.In 1919, back when the United States was a constitutional republic, Congress passed a child-labor law imposing a 10 percent excise tax on companies that violated it.A North Carolina furniture maker challenged the [...]
Rand Paul and Osama bin Laden's Spokesperson
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 8, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Supporters of national security and the Constitution are rightly outraged about learning that Sulaiman Abu Ghaith--the al Qaeda spokesman who is also Osama bin Laden's son-in-law--appeared today in federal court in New York City. And [...]
ACRU's Liberty U. Brief: ObamaCare Violates Religious Freedom
WASHINGTON (March 6) - In an amicus brief filed at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) argues that the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act's (PPACA) employer and individual mandates are unconstitutional burdens on religious freedom. It is the ACRU's ninth federal court [...]
The Coming Sequester Lies
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 6, 2013 on The American Spectator website.Almost a week since the dreaded sequester went into effect, and look out your window. To quote President Obama the day after [...]
Mandated Wages and Discrimination
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 6, 2013 on Townhall.com.Let's work through an example. Suppose 100 yards of fence could be built using one of two techniques. You could hire three low-skilled workers for $15 each, or you [...]
A Minority View: Higher Minimum Wage
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 27, 2013 on Townhall.com.In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama proposed raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9 an hour. That would be almost a 25 [...]
America's Three Greatest Presidents
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 27, 2013 on The American Spectator website.Turns out the shortest month on the calendar is actually the most significant for American history. For our three greatest Presidents were [...]
Joe Doe Loses His Fight with the 10 Commandments
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 25, 2013 on The Washington Times website.The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has lost its six-year campaign to tear down a Ten Commandments monument at the Dixie County, Florida, courthouse.They've even lost their usual extortion money for harassing a [...]
As the Economy Recesses, Obama's Global Warming Delusions Are Truly Cruel
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 22, 2013 on Forbes.com.President Obama issued this threat to the American people in his 2013 State of the Union Address (SOTU): "But for the sake of our children [...]
Sequester Hysterics
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 20, 2013 on The American Spectator website.President Obama told America yesterday morning that if the sequester goes through on March 1,It will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and [...]
The Next Citizens United? SCOTUS Takes First Amendment Challenge to Campaign Finance Law
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 19, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The Supreme Court will hear arguments in what could be the next Citizens United, considering whether a central part of the nation's foundational federal campaign-finance law violates the First Amendment.In 1971, Congress passed the Federal [...]
Lars Larson: MO Gun Control Proposal Raises Constitutional Problems
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 16, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Missouri Democrats are trying to join New York, California, and Illinois as states that oppose gun rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. National talk-radio host Lars Larson--who is not a lawyer--understands the relevant provisions of [...]
Why Celebrate Washington's Birthday?
This column by former federal judge and ACRU policy board member Richard Bender Abell was published in the Mount Vernon Gazette.A great nation — a great democracy — needs heroes to set an example — a paradigm for conduct, a coalescence of our own defining traits.Currently we live in an [...]
Federal Court Dismisses Lawsuit against Ten Commandments Display
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 15, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The Ten Commandments won in federal court this week in Dixie County, FL, which adopted a policy that allows any of its citizens to erect a display atop the county courthouse's steps. A local Christian [...]
President Obama's State of Disunion: Half of America Is in a Trance
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 15, 2013 on Forbes.com.President Reagan famously said "Government is not the answer to the problem. Government IS the problem."But keeping with his unwavering theme as the unrelenting opposite [...]
Obama and the Pirates
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 13, 2013 on The American Spectator website.Everything in this column will be established by logical proof, as in geometry. There will be no name calling, or mere assertion.You [...]