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