COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Partial Defeat for Arizona at Supreme Court
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 25, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Major provisions of Arizona's S.B. 1070 were held unenforceable by the Supreme Court because they conflict with federal law, though the Court unanimously upheld its most controversial provision. So the biggest immigration case in U.S. [...]
Court Upholds Key Provision in Arizona Case, ACRU Says
Ruling in Arizona v. United States lets officers check immigration status during lawful stops, while striking down other elements of SB 1070.WASHINGTON -- "We're disappointed in much of today's ruling, but the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the key right of law enforcement officials to inquire as to immigration status during [...]
Coal Matters, Even in Manhattan
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published June 24, 2012 on The Daily Caller website.Coal today may seem of little relevance to many residents of New York City or other American urban centers. It long ago ceased to fuel the furnaces of their homes and apartment buildings [...]
U.S. Still Stuck in Recession
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 22, 2012 on The Washington Times website.This latest recession started in December 2007. Since the Great Depression 75 years ago, recessions in America have lasted an average of [...]
President Obama's Perfect Plan For The Economic Decline Of America
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 21, 2012 on Forbes.com.Last week on June 14, President Obama announced his economic plan to finally bring economic recovery and growth to the U.S. in a much ballyhooed [...]
Priceless John Goodman
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 20, 2012 on The American Spectator website.With the publication of his path-breaking book Patient Power in 1992, John Goodman did more to change the course of health care [...]
Racial Double Standards
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 20, 2012 on Townhall.com. Back in 2009, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said we were "a nation of cowards" on matters of race. Permit me to be brave and run a few [...]
Only Voters Can Hold Obama Accountable for Illegal Amnesty Policy
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 17, 2012 on Breitbart.com.President Obama's new amnesty policy regarding illegal aliens violates the law. But there's probably no route to trump it either in Congress or in court, so the only recourse is for the American people to [...]
ACLU Friends Sex Offenders
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 14, 2012 on The Washington Times website.Well, there they go again, carrying water for their army of odd men in raincoats. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Indiana is suing to strike down a state law forbidding convicted [...]
The Supreme Court and Obamacare: Eight Possible Outcomes
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 13, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Everyone is now waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to hand down its decision in NFIB v. Sebelius, the name of the case frequently referred to simply as "Obamacare."Lawyers argued four issues before the justices [...]
President Obama: The Biggest Government 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 June 14, 2012 on Forbes.com.The U.S. has never before had a President who thinks so little of the American people that he imagines he can win re-election running on [...]
Green Welfare, Green Taxes, Green Poverty
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 13, 2012 on The American Spectator website.What would you do if gangs of robbers roamed your neighborhood at night, breaking into your neighbors' houses and stealing their family [...]
Duped by Congressional Lies
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 6, 2012 on Townhall.com.Some of the responses to my column last week, titled "Immoral Beyond Redemption," prove that Americans have been hoodwinked by Congress. Some readers protested my counting Social Security among [...]
Is the Star-Spangled Banner an 'Abomination'?
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published June 12, 2012 on The Patriot Post website.Talk show host, Bill Press, doesn't like the Star-Spangled Banner. Imagine: a liberal talk show that's not on NPR! His radio show is simulcast on Current TV. Bill Press likes provoking conservatives, but [...]
Obama's Pregnant 'Denials'
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published June 10, 2012 on The Daily Caller website.President Obama is offended by accusations that the White House authorized leaks of highly classified national security information detailed in Confront and Conceal, a new book by David Sanger of The New [...]
Medicaid Freedom of Choice
Medicaid can kill you. Read how this important safety net program can be reformed to better serve the poor while saving taxpayers money in the June 2012 The American Spectator. Article by Stephen Moore and Peter Ferrara. Click here to download the article. (PDF)
The Ongoing Disgrace That Is Obamanomics
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 7, 2012 on Forbes.com.President Obama has led America into an accelerating downward spiral. Destination: Argentina. Last Friday's calamitous jobs report was just a signpost on the way.Argentina enjoyed [...]
Immoral Beyond Redemption
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 6, 2012 on Townhall.com.Benjamin Franklin, statesman and signer of our Declaration of Independence, said: "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need [...]
Romney's Education Choice
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 6, 2012 on The American Spectator website.Mitt Romney is rolling through 2012 at a faster pace than Ronald Reagan rolled through 1980. He is ahead of Reagan's pace [...]
Sorry Global Warming Alarmists, the Earth Is Cooling
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 31, 2012 on Forbes.com.Climate change itself is already in the process of definitively rebutting climate alarmists who think human use of fossil fuels is causing ultimately catastrophic global [...]