COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
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 [...]