COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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. [...]
When It Comes to the Jobless Numbers, President Obama Isn't Talking Straight
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 9, 2012 on Forbes.com."This morning we learned that our businesses created 172,000 new jobs in the month of July," President Obama bragged regarding last Friday's jobs report. "That [...]
Liberals, Progressives and Socialists
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 8, 2012 on Townhall.com.In Europe, especially in Germany, hoisting a swastika-emblazoned Nazi flag is a crime. For decades after World War II, people have hunted down and sought punishment for Nazi murderers, [...]
No, Romney Won't Raise Your Taxes $2,000
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 8, 2012 on The American Spectator website.In a campaign stop at Rollins College in Florida last week, Barack Obama suggested that the middle class should resent Mitt Romney's [...]
ACRU's Meese, Blackwell, Carleson Urge Governors to Rethink Voter ID Law Vetoes
Letter Calls "Suppress the Minority Vote" Allegations "Utter Nonsense"JULY 25, 2012 -- The American Civil Rights Union today is sending letters to four of five governors who vetoed legislation requiring photo voter IDs in order to deter vote fraud. A fifth letter, to New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch, was discarded [...]
How Times Have Changed
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 1, 2012 on Townhall.com.Having been born in 1936 has allowed me to witness both societal progress and retrogression. High on the list of things made better in our society are the great [...]
When Logic and Reason Enter the Political Discussion
Robert Knight, Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union, discusses the media's war on traditional values with syndicated radio talk show host Josh Tolley on August 2, 2012.
There's No Mystery To Slow Economic Growth: Progressives Are the Problem
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 2, 2012 on Forbes.com.The Big Picture Lesson of the 20th century was that capitalism works and socialism and communism don't. The rest of the world learned that lesson [...]
Blueprint for Dismantling 'ObamaCare'
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on July 30, 2012 on The Hill.Here's the blueprint for how the states can eviscerate three central pillars of ObamaCare, crippling it and setting the stage for replacing it if Mitt Romney takes [...]