COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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. [...]
Dismissed Obamacare Lawsuit May Return to Lower Court
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on November 2, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Just when most people thought all legal challenges to the Individual Mandate were dead and buried, one springs back to life, and with a twist.Unless they've been living under a rock, most Americans have [...]
President Obama Offers a Repeat of His Same Failed Policies
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 1, 2012 on Forbes.com.A central theme of President Obama's reelection campaign is that we can't go back to the same economic policies that caused "the mess we are [...]
ACRU Asks Holder to Investigate Connecticut Mayor's Comments
On October 12th, Bridgeport, Conn. Mayor Bill Finch was caught on tape arguably boasting that he would guarantee U.S. Senate candidate Christopher Murphy however many Bridgeport votes it took for Murphy to win the election in November. On Oct. 24, ACRU Chairman Susan A. Carleson wrote a letter to U.S. [...]
Who Do You Trust?
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published October 27, 2012 on the American Thinker website.President Obama is playing the assertive husband in his campaign version of an old TV show, "Who Do You Trust?" Mitt Romney should stop playing the passive wife.Romney can't be trusted as [...]
What You Can't Say
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 24, 2012 on Townhall.com.Jon Hubbard, a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, has a book, titled Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative. Among its statements for which [...]
Benghazi: Obama's Actions Amount to a Shameful Dereliction of Duty
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 25, 2012 on Forbes.com.Enough facts are in the public record about the Benghazi murders of Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 others, including two Marines, that a final [...]
The Liar President
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 24, 2012 on The American Spectator website.Dorothy Rabinowitz, one of the best writers of our time, encapsulated the Obama Presidency perfectly in Monday's Wall Street Journal. She wrote:In [...]
ACLU Says Father-Daughter Dance 'Contrary to Federal Law'
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 22, 2012 on The Washington Times website. If you want to see what the new normal looks like when the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) calls the shots, look no further than Cranston, R.I. That city of 80,000, the [...]