COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Final Proof of Democrat Decline
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 17, 2012 on The American Spectator website.Yes, take Barack Obama's advice and read the transcript of the Vice Presidential debate last week, as I did. In the black [...]
A Modest Proposal
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 10, 2012 on Townhall.com.California was once the land of opportunity, but it is going down the tubes. Several of California's prominent cities have declared bankruptcy, such as Vallejo, Stockton, Mammoth Lakes and [...]
Obama's Real Unemployment Rate Is 14.7%, and a Recession's on the Way
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 11, 2012 on Forbes.com.The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported last Friday that 114,000 new jobs were created last month, according to its Establishment Survey of business payrolls [...]
Buying Obama's Whoppers
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 12, 2012 on The Washington Times website. You know it's bad when the president deputizes Big Bird as his thuggish surrogate. Aside from Big Bird's checkered past as a well-to-do federal welfare recipient, wouldn't Joe Biden or Oscar the [...]
SCOTUS Likely to Strike Racial Preferences in University Admissions
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on October 11, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Government preferring one racial group over another in college admissions may be about to end, in what would be a historic move by the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts said that Supreme Court [...]
Time to Investigate the Bureau of Labor Statistics
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 10, 2012 on The American Spectator website.Who needs the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), when you have Rush Limbaugh? Limbaugh predicted almost a year ago that the unemployment [...]
Obama's Coming Crash: The President's Recession Of 2013
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was published October 3, 2012 on the Investor's Business Daily website.So far, Obamanomics has produced the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression. But if Obamanomics is not stopped, next year it will produce [...]
Obama's Medicaid Plan Exposes Him as an Enemy of the Poor
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 5, 2012 on Forbes.com.As in so much else, Progressives hold an outdated conception of the debate over entitlements. They conceive it as the Left supporting generous entitlements for [...]
Restoring the American Dream
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 5, 2012 on The American Spectator website.President Obama told a sleepwalking America in his Democrat Convention Acceptance speech:I won't pretend the path I'm offering is quick or easy. [...]
Trickle Down and Tax Cuts
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 3, 2012 on Townhall.com.Dr. Thomas Sowell's "'Trickle Down Theory' and 'Tax Cuts for the Rich'" has just been published by the Hoover Institution. Having read this short paper, the conclusion you must [...]
ACLU Sues to Stop Citizenship Question on Michigan Ballots
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 28, 2012 on the American Thinker website. Only citizens of the United States can legally vote in federal elections. So Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson added a yes/no question on ballot applications that asks: "Are you a United [...]
Why Senior Citizens Should Prefer Ryan's Medicare Plan to Obama's
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 27, 2012 on Forbes.com.DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz described the Medicare reforms proposed by GOP Vice-Presidential nominee and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as "literally a [...]
Perpetuating Falsehoods
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 26, 2012 on The American Spectator website.All the Republicans are offering, President Obama tells us over and over, are the same old, failed policies that got us into [...]
Understanding Economics
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published September 26, 2012 on Townhall.com.Here's a question: If there's a disaster, a war, a severe drought or some other calamity that restricts future supplies of a commodity -- such as oil, coffee or [...]
Obama's Unholy Mess in Libya
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published September 25, 2012 on the American Thinker website.Islamic terrorists murdered the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans during an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11. President Obama, promising "to bring to justice [...]
Appeasement Trumps First Amendment
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 21, 2012 on The Washington Times website. I was driving into Washington the other day when a radio clip of Hillary Rodham Clinton got my attention. The secretary of state was emoting hotly, using terms such as "disgusting" and [...]
Rick Ungar Is Wrong: Obama Is The Biggest Spender In World History
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 20, 2012 on Forbes.com.On May 24, 2012, Rick Ungar told the readers at Forbes.com that President Barack Obama "is the smallest government spender since Eisenhower." "[O]ur president has [...]
Who May Tax and Spend?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published September 12, 2012 on Townhall.com.Within the past decade, I've written columns titled "Deception 101," "Stubborn Ignorance" and "Exploiting Public Ignorance," all explaining which branch of the federal government has taxing and spending authority. [...]
Specter of Fraud Haunts November Election
National Photo Voter ID Law Needed, ACRU Says"Requiring all voters in a national election to show identification at the polls is a common-sense measure to prevent fraud and corruption." -- former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese IIIWASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 13, 2012) -- "With far left groups like radical unions and [...]
Bill Clinton Fed His Flock Democratic Daydreams and Fairy Tales
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 2, 2012 on Forbes.com.Rhetoric versus reality. That is what this election is about, based on what we saw at the Democrat convention. Instead of a path to the [...]