COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
WRONG: Media Claiming Scalia Said SCOTUS to Limit Second Amendment
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 30, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Some in the media--including conservative media--are claiming that conservative Justice Antonin Scalia is saying the Supreme Court can limit the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.That's not exactly what he said.Scalia has a [...]
Obama's Calculated Deception
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 1, 2012 on The American Spectator website.Calculated Deception. That is the central theme of the Obama campaign. Calculated Deception is the term I use for Obama's rhetorical practice [...]
How President Obama Is Deceiving You On Tax Policy
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 25, 2012 on Forbes.com.The central theme of President Obama's tax policy has been that "the rich" (whatever that is supposed to mean) do not pay their fair share [...]
ADF Scores First Victory Against Obama's Unconstitutional HHS Mandate
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 28, 2012 on Breitbart.com.On August 1, Obamacare's latest outrage goes into effect as the "HHS Mandate" takes effect, and the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) just scored the first victory in religious liberty against this authoritarian decree days before [...]
The Reagan Remedy for Medicaid
This column by ACRU Chairman and CEO and CCPP founder and President Susan A. Carleson was published July 28, 2012 on theAmerican Thinker website.So many people have complained that something must be done about U.S. health care. But the truth is that a solution has been staring us in the [...]
Stubborn Ignorance
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published July 25, 2012 on Townhall.com.Academic intelligentsia, their media, government and corporate enthusiasts worship at the altar of diversity. Despite budget squeezes, universities have created diversity positions, such as director of diversity and inclusion, [...]
Obama Promised He Wouldn't Raise Taxes on the Middle Class. He Lied.
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 19, 2012 on Forbes.com.When he was asking for our vote in 2008, then candidate Barack Obama famously promised the American people, "I can make a firm pledge. Under [...]
Failing Downward
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 25, 2012 on The American Spectator website.President Obama thinks he is so clever in continuing to try to trick us into believing his disgraceful record on the economy [...]
Obama vs. God on Work and Welfare
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published July 22, 2012 on the American Thinker website.President Obama produced political tremors last week when he said in Roanoke that individual success comes from government so we need to give back by paying higher taxes. Combined with his executive [...]
The Great Dissent Part V: Why the Entire Obamacare System Must Be Struck Down in Court
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 12, 2012 on Breitbart.com.The capstone to the Great Dissent was the explanation of why the entire 2,700-page Affordable Care Act (ACA) must be struck down along with the unconstitutional Individual Mandate and the unconstitutional Medicaid Expansion.When part of [...]
Supreme Court Might Not Enforce Constitution's Limits in Second Obama Term
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on July 13, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Public officials and pundits are still digesting the Supreme Court's Obamacare decision in NFIB v. Sebelius. Yet to be discussed are the extraordinary implications for the size and [...]
Obamanomics: The Final Nail in the Discredited Keynesian Coffin
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 12, 2012 on Forbes.com.Keynesian economics is the false vision of human action which says the way to promote economic recovery and renewed growth is through increased government spending, [...]
Constitution's Limits Threaten in an Obama Second Term
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on July 12, 2012 on The Huffington Post website.Public officials and pundits are still digesting the Supreme Court's Obamacare decision in NFIB v. Sebelius. Not yet discussed are the extraordinary implications for the [...]
The Great Dissent Part IV: Why Medicaid Expansion is Unconstitutional
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 12, 2012 on Breitbart.com. We can all be thankful that one thing the Supreme Court got right in the Obamacare decision was striking down at least part of the Affordable Care Act's massive expansion of Medicaid that would [...]
The Future of the "Affordable Care Act"
This piece is by John McClaughry, Vice President of the Ethan Allen Institute, a member of the CCPP Policy Board and former senior policy advisor to President Reagan. The Supreme Court has now issued its startling ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare).Four liberal justices ardently [...]
A Second Term Will Be Terminal: Another four years of Obamanomics and Argentina will be crying for us.
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 11, 2012 on The American Spectator website.With a second term for Obama, the world-leading America we have known and hoped to leave to our children will be gone. [...]
The Great Dissent Part III: Justices Argue Obamacare Mandate Unconstitutional Because It's Not a Tax–and Why Mitt Romney is Right
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 10, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Confusion has reigned over whether Obamacare's individual mandate is a tax, because politics has gotten in the way of serious discussion (no surprise there). As Governor Mitt Romney tried discussing the issue like the serious [...]
The Great Dissent Part II: Four Justices Explain Why Congress' Power to Regulate Commerce Does Not Save Obamacare
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 6, 2012 on Breitbart.com.As I explained after the Obamacare decision came down, it is one of the most unfortunate decisions ever handed down by our highest court. This tragedy is only compounded by the fact that the main [...]
Why Mayberry Still Resonates: 'The Andy Griffith Show' Plays Out Timeless Truths
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 29, 2012 on The Washington Times website. "Americans loved, and still love, the notion of the small town as a manageable, non-threatening, friendly, finite community. ... The black-and-white world that Andy Griffith shaped so masterfully is there for our [...]
The Great Dissent Part I: Four Justices in Obamacare Make Case for Constitutional Conservatism
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 5, 2012 on Breitbart.com.One week after the Supreme Court handed down its most consequential decision in decades (if not more than a century--upholding almost all of Obamacare in NFIB v. Sebelius--constitutional lawyers are just beginning to wrap their [...]