COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Future Generations
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published December 5, 2012 on Townhall.com.Is there any reason for today's Americans to care about what happens to tomorrow's Americans? After all, what have tomorrow's Americans done for today's Americans? Moreover, since tomorrow's Americans [...]
Deceitful Debate over Women in Combat
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published November 30, 2012 on The Washington Times website.Oblivious to important differences between men and women, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the Department of Defense to lift all combat exemptions for women.Not putting women into combat deprives them [...]
ACRU Files Supreme Court Brief in Major Property Rights Case
WASHINGTON, DC (Nov. 30, 2012) -- In a case with profound implications for property owners, the American Civil Rights Union filed a brief at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, Nov. 28 arguing that bureaucrats so violated a Florida man's constitutional rights against seizure of his property without proper compensation [...]
ACRU Supreme Court Brief Calls Florida Permit Denial 'Extortion'
Nov. 30, 2012 - In a case with profound implications for property owners, the American Civil Rights Union filed a brief on Nov. 28 at the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that bureaucrats so violated a Florida man's constitutional rights against seizure of his property without proper compensation that it amounts [...]
Policies Meant to Achieve Equality Are Very Unfair to the Least Equal
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 29, 2012 on Forbes.com.Steve Moore begins his brilliant new book, Who's the Fairest of Them All? The Truth About Opportunity, Taxes and Wealth In America, quoting President Obama [...]
Good Day for a Fiscal Cliff Hanging
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 28, 2012 on The American Spectator website.It seems like everyone is piling on my college friend Grover because they can't wait to abandon the tax pledge not to [...]
Democracy and Majority Rule
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 21, 2012 on Townhall.com.President Barack Obama narrowly defeated Gov. Mitt Romney in the popular vote 51 percent to 48 percent. In the all-important Electoral College, the difference was larger, with Obama winning [...]
Left Likes Fuzzy Math on Election Day
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published November 23, 2012 on The Washington Times website.Pawing through the ashes of Mitt Romney's defeat, it's clear that if the Republican Party wants to compete nationally, it has to do several things, such as re-message timeless traditional values, attract more [...]
Federal Courts Split on Religious Liberty and Obamacare
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on November 25, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Can an American citizen exercise his religion through his privately-owned business? The fate of Obamacare's disturbing HHS contraception mandate turns on that question, and now the federal courts are split on the answer regarding [...]
Justice Alito Discusses Obama Administration at Federalist Society Convention
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on November 19, 2012 on Breitbart.com.President Barack Obama's lawyers are claiming vast and sweeping powers in arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to Justice Samuel Alito in an address to the Federalist Society last week.Celebrating its 30th anniversary [...]
For the Republicans There's an Opportunity at the Fiscal Cliff
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 22, 2012 on Forbes.com.The fiscal cliff will not be a new topic to regular readers of this column. I have been writing about it for almost two years, [...]
Laboratories of Democracy
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 21, 2012 on The American Spectator website.The lesson of the 20th century is that Marxism was tried and tried and tried, and failed and failed and failed. But [...]
Obama and the Fourth Estate
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published November 18, 2012 on Townhall.com.Where is Wilford Brimley when America needs him? The national security failure exposed by the Benghazi bungle has all of the intrigue and more of the movie, Absence of Malice, starring Paul Newman and Sally [...]
Obamacare Will Create Two Americas for Healthcare
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on November 14, 2012 on Breitbart.com.If Obamacare survives the 2016 election after it is fully implemented, there will be two healthcare systems in America from which our citizens will choose.As former Ohio Treasurer Ken Blackwell and I explained months [...]
Economic Growth, Not Redistribution, Most Benefits the Poor, Working People, and the Middle Class
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 15, 2012 on Forbes.com.Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon note in their underappreciated work, It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years, [...]
Disaster Ignorance
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 14, 2012 on Townhall.com.Here's a which-is-better question for you. Suppose a New Jersey motel room rented for $125 a night prior to Hurricane Sandy's devastation. When the hurricane hits, a husband, wife [...]
Should We Raise Taxes on the Rich?
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 14, 2012 on The American Spectator website.Barack Obama says that now that he has been re-elected, that means a majority of Americans agree with him that taxes should [...]
Supreme Court to Hear Constitutional Challenge to Voting Rights Act
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on November 9, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Early next year, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on a constitutional challenge to one of the most powerful provisions in federal law, Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, in the [...]
The Fiscal Cliff and America's Coming Recession
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 9, 2012 on Forbes.com.Since the end of World War II two thirds of a century ago, federal spending has been stable at around 20% of GDP. America prospered [...]
Where Republicans and Conservatives Went Wrong
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 8, 2012 on The American Spectator website.The American people lost literally trillions in the financial crisis, in home values, in stock values, and in lost jobs and wages. [...]