COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Enough of This Glumness
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 30, 2013 on The American Spectator website.Conservatives are still glum about the election, and the upper hand President Obama seems to have over Republicans. But the political stage [...]
Former Mayor Blackwell: Four Year Fight for Second Amendment
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 29, 2013 on Breitbart.com.President Barack Obama met with big-city police chiefs today calling for gun control. In response, former Cincinnati Mayor Ken Blackwell explained to Breitbart News why violating the Second Amendment doesn't make anyone safer, and [...]
Experts Aren't Deities
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 23, 2013 on Townhall.com.Let's look at experts. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was a mathematician and scientist. Newton has to be the greatest and most influential scientist who has ever lived. He laid [...]
Forget Market Failure, Our Crumbling Democracy Speaks To Political Failure
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 24, 2013 on Forbes.com.Government does not even have the power to take guns away from criminals. It can only take guns away from the victims of criminals. This [...]
Major Court Defeat for Obama: "Recess" Appointments Unconstitutional
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 25, 2013 on Breitbart.com.President Barack Obama just suffered a humiliating defeat in federal court. A top federal appeals court has removed three presidential appointees from power, and invalidated all actions they've taken over the past twelve months.One [...]
40 Years of Roe v. Wade: What Happened? And What Comes Next?
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 22, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Today marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution provides a right to have an abortion in one of its most controversial decisions in history. [...]
Obama Opens a New Term with a Loud 'Bang'
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 21, 2013 on The Washington Times website.Leave it to Barack Obama to come into his inaugural weekend with a bang, and not just on guns. He's made it clear that he intends more spending, more regulation, more radical appointees [...]
Bobby Jindal Seeks Rich State Status With Income Tax Phaseout
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 17, 2013 on Forbes.com.Nine states survive perfectly well with no state income tax at all. These include large states such as Texas and Florida, medium size states such [...]
Clergy Declares Holy War on NRA
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published January 21, 2013 on Townhall.com.The battle to demonize the National Rifle Association became a religious crusade when the Rev. Jim Wallis, CEO of Sojourners and "progressive" spiritual advisor to President Obama, convened some clergy for a witch trial.As a [...]
SCOTUS Takes Major Constitutional Case on Treaty Powers
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 18, 2013 on Breitbart.com.On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in Bond v. United States, a case raising serious issues of federal power under the U.S. Constitution.This case is about a woman who discovered her [...]
Overcoming Obama's Obduracy
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 16, 2013 on The American Spectator website.President Obama said at his increasingly notorious press conference on Monday, "America cannot afford another debate with this Congress about whether or [...]
Obama's Gun Control Campaign Doomed to Fail
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 17, 2013 on Breitbart.com.President Barack Obama on Wednesday revealed his national gun control proposal, one loaded with divisive rhetoric and exploiting children onstage to push his agenda, which ignores the most effective ways to stop gun violence.Obama [...]
Dishonest Educators
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 9, 2013 on Townhall.com.Nearly two years ago, U.S. News & World Report came out with a story titled "Educators Implicated in Atlanta Cheating Scandal." It reported that "for 10 years, hundreds of [...]
To Win the Debt-Ceiling Debate, We Must Discredit Obama's Debt Dishonesty
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 11, 2013 on Forbes.com.President Obama tells the nation that Congress must increase the debt limit because they "should pay the bills that they have already racked up." Let [...]
NRA Gears Up for Gun Control Fight with White House
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 10, 2012 on Breitbart.com.The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is mobilizing for a massive four-front conflict with President Barack Obama over the Constitution and gun rights after a made-for-TV meeting today at the White House between [...]
President Obama's Re-Election Is Powerful Evidence of Democracy Failure
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 3, 2013 on Forbes.com."Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and [...]
Why the 2nd Amendment
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 2, 2013 on Townhall.com.Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings, said: "The British are not coming. ... We don't need all these guns to kill people." Lewis' [...]
Tax Cuts and Duplicity
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 2, 2013 on The American Spectator website.Neither President Obama nor any other Democrat ever proposed any middle class tax cut in the fiscal cliff negotiations. All that was [...]
New York Times: Throw Off Bondage of "Evil" Constitution
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 1, 2012 on Breitbart.com.The biggest liberal newspaper in the country has printed a column from a top progressive scholar calling on the American people to ignore the Constitution with its "evil provisions," revealing the far-left agenda for [...]
Federal Appeals Court Sides with Religious Liberty on HHS Mandate
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 1, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Just last week Breitbart News reported on the threat to religious liberty from the HHS Mandate: starting today, Hobby Lobby is subject to penalties of $1.3 million per day for its owners refusing to [...]