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