COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
Obamacare RIP: John Roberts Cannot Save You
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 5, 2012 on Forbes.com.Progressives are desperate to prevent the country from learning that free market conservatives have long been proposing policies to assure essential health care for all, [...]
How to Defeat and Replace Obamacare Now
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 5, 2012 on The American Spectator website.Whether Left, Right, Independent, or Confused, no one who is not bought and paid for as part of the Obama political machine [...]
The Underclass
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published July 4, 2012 on Townhall.com.Anthony Daniels, who writes under the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist who tells of his experiences with his patients in Life at the [...]
It's Independence Day, Not Dependence Day
This column by ACRU Chairman and CEO and CCPP founder and President Susan A. Carleson was published July 4, 2012 on Townhall.com.Many Americans refer to July 4th as the Fourth of July, but earlier in our history, it was widely known as Independence Day.As we celebrate the 236th anniversary of [...]
Court's Awful Ruling Taxes Our Patients
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 29, 2012 on The Washington Times website. When is a tax not a tax? Answer: When you're busy pushing a major expansion of government like Obamacare. The tax that is not a tax becomes a "penalty" or a "shared [...]
One of the Worst Supreme Court Decisions in American History
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 28, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Chief Justice John Roberts provided the critical fifth vote to uphold Obamacare in its entirety, in a case that will go down as one of the worst and most consequential cases in American history. Now [...]
Obamanomics: Economics For Dummies
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 28, 2012 on Forbes.com.President Obama's June 14 address in Cleveland presented his foundational economic policy arguments for this fall's campaign. We will hear those same rhetorical points over [...]
Supreme Court Upholds Socialized Medicine
June 28, 2012 -- "The Supreme Court today affirmed the fundamental dishonesty of our politics," said Peter Ferrara, general counsel for the American Civil Rights Union, which filed seven amicus briefs challenging the Affordable Care Act."Before Obamacare passed, the President of the United States told the whole country on TV [...]
Too Much College
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 27, 2012 on Townhall.com.In President Barack Obama's 2012 State of the Union address, he said that "higher education can't be a luxury. It is an economic imperative that every family in America [...]
Obama's Perverse Plan for Permanent Recession
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 27, 2012 on The American Spectator website.President Obama told the nation in his June 14 economic policy address in Cleveland that his economic policy plans for a second [...]
ACLU Loses Challenge to Indiana's Sex Offender Social Media Law
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 27, 2012 on the American Thinker website.In a victory over odd men in raincoats, a federal judge has upheld Indiana's 2008 law barring convicted sex offenders from using Facebook, MySpace, and other social media. A class-action suit had been [...]
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