COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
Upward Mobility Barriers
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published September 5, 2012 on Townhall.com.Let's pretend that we have the political guts to expand economic opportunities for people at the lower end of the economic spectrum. What vested interests should be attacked, and [...]
The Left's Campaign to Destroy the First Amendment
This article was written by the Carleson Center for Public Policy Policy Board Member and retired president of the Ethan Allen Institute John McClaughry.President Obama's remark that he believes that Congress should "seriously consider" a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United vs. FEC will doubtless [...]
Obama's Accelerating Downward Spiral For America
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.New income data from the Census Bureau reveal what a great job Barack Obama has done for the middle class as President. During his entire [...]
ACLU Begs Colorado Springs to Rethink Panhandling Proposal
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published August 31, 2012 on the American Thinker website. Visitors to downtown Colorado Springs are besieged by panhandlers, according to city officials. So they drafted an anti-solicitation law that prohibits begging in a designated area.Quicker than you can say "Got a [...]
The Rich Don't Pay Enough?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 29, 2012 on Townhall.com.If you listen to America's political hacks, mainstream media talking heads and their socialist allies, you can't help but reach the conclusion that the nation's tax burden is borne [...]
Don't Believe Obama's Ads, Romney Is a Middle Class Tax Cutter
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 23, 2012 on Forbes.com.Barack Obama brazenly fabricates Mitt Romney's tax proposals, pouring millions into advertising claiming those proposals would increase taxes by $2,000 a year on the average [...]
Cracking the Left's Fortresses
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 22, 2012 on The American Spectator website.Check out one of those maps of the county-by-county results for a recent presidential election. The Democrat counties are in blue, and [...]
Educational Lunacy
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 22, 2012 on Townhall.com.If I were a Klansman, wanting to sabotage black education, I couldn't find better allies than education establishment liberals and officials in the Obama administration, especially Secretary of Education [...]
Romney-Ryan Engages Americans to Face Looming Fiscal Doom
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on August 21, 2012 on The Huffington Post.We do not know who will win the White House in November. But we do know that American politics has crossed the Rubicon on spending and [...]
The New Face of Health Care — the IRS
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 17, 2012 on The American Spectator website.When President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, aka "Obamacare") goes fully into effect in 2014, the American people will [...]
ACRU Asks Governors to Rethink Photo ID Vetoes
On July 25, 2012, the ACRU sent letters to four governors who vetoed legislation requiring photo voter IDs in order to deter vote fraud, asking them to rethink their opposition to these common-sense laws. ACRU policy board members former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III and former Ohio Secretary of [...]
Obama's Educational Excellence Initiative
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 15, 2012 on Townhall.com.President Barack Obama recently wrote an executive order that established a White House initiative on educational excellence for black Americans that will be housed in the Department of Education. [...]