COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Devious Taxation
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 25, 2012 on Townhall.comThe Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation does a yeoman's job of keeping track of how much we're paying in taxes and who's paying what. It turns out that American taxpayers [...]
Stealing Our Elections
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 25, 2012 on The American Spectator website.Columnist David Limbaugh, brother of Rush, asks in a recent column, "Can anyone think of an innocuous reason that President Obama and [...]
Appeals Court Gives Arizona Partial Victory on Voter-ID Law
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 20, 2012 on Townhall.com.Arizona might be going to the U.S. Supreme Court yet again. A federal appeals court upheld part of the Grand Canyon State's voter-ID law, but struck down another part [...]
ACLU Fails to Establish Right to Porn
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 19, 2012 on The Washington Times website.Wenatchee, Wash., famous for apples and wine, may become famous in the culture wars as well. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) just took it on the chin there over its ongoing campaign [...]
The Laughable Economic Fallacies Embraced by Progressives
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 19, 2012 on Forbes.com.Persistent economic fallacies hurt working people and the poor the most. They are the ones most in need of the new jobs and higher wages [...]
Ken Blackwell Interviewed about New Book The Blueprint
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell is interviewed about his book The Blueprint: Obama's Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency on Book TV.Click here to watch the video.
Klukowski Takes On Gloria Allred, Others in CNN Debate over Stand Your Ground Laws
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski debates Civil Rights Commissioner Michael Yaki and the attorney for Trayvon Martin's family, Daryl Parks, on CNN over Stand Your Ground laws and gun control, and in a second video, he takes on Mr. Parks and celebrity attorney Gloria Allred. Click below to watch [...]
Stand Your Ground, America
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 18, 2012 on The American Spectator website.How do you stand your ground if you are lying on your back getting pummeled in the face?That one question alone shows [...]
Good Economists
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 18, 2012 on Townhall.comIt's difficult to be a good economist and simultaneously be perceived as compassionate. To be a good economist, one has to deal with reality. To appear compassionate, often one [...]
SCOTUS: Lower Court Must Decide Whether Jerusalem Part of Israel on Passports
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 11, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Federal courts will decide whether U.S. passports must declare Jerusalem part of Israel. In Zivotofsky v. Clinton, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court's conclusion that this issue must be resolved in the political [...]
Titanic Misappropriation of Reagan
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 13 2012 on The Washington Times website.The Titanic went down 100 years ago, on April 15, 1912. It took just two hours and 40 minutes for the sea to swallow the ship that "God Himself couldn't sink."It's taken longer [...]
Reagan Staffer Admonishes Obama's Comparing Class Warfare To Reagan Tax Policy
The Carleson Center for Public Policy issued a press release on April 13, 2012. Susan A. Carleson, Chariman and CEO of the ACRU and Chairman and President of Carleson Center for Public Policy, released the following statement:"Ronald Reagan understood human nature and that increasing tax rates drives people to find [...]
The Buffett Rule: Obama's Community Organizer Understanding of Taxation
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 12, 2012 on Forbes.com.President Obama has a community organizer understanding of America's taxes. His rhetoric doesn't recognize that under our tax system the earnings from capital investment are [...]
Why Obama Hates Paul Ryan
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 11, 2012 on The American Spectator website.Barack Obama's address on April 3 at the Associated Press luncheon in Washington D.C. demonstrated why our politics and our country today [...]
SCOTUS Rules Strip Searches Before Incarceration Constitutional
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 9, 2012 on Breitbart.com.The Supreme Court narrowly sided with police, holding on April 2nd that the Fourth Amendment allows strip searches for anyone taken to jail if that person will mingle with the other inmates.Years ago, an arrest [...]
The Truth about 'Stand Your Ground' Laws
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 10, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Sadly, some are exploiting the Trayvon Martin shooting to target self-defense laws that protect innocent lives. These statutes safeguard law-abiding and peaceable citizens, and are not to blame in [...]
Why the Supreme Court Will Strike Down All of Obamacare
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 5, 2012 on Forbes.com.Barack Obama made a national laughingstock out of himself with his recent comments on the Obamacare law now before the Supreme Court. Obama said on [...]
ACRU Urges Supreme Court to Adopt 'Coercion Test'
March 14 - In an amicus brief submitted today to the U.S. Supreme Court, the American Civil Rights Union argues for a new constitutional standard protecting religious freedom.The case, Mount Soledad Memorial Association v. Steve Trunk, et al, involves the cross at the Mt. Soledad veterans memorial in San Diego, [...]
Edwin Meese on Fiscal Responsibility
Former Attorney General Ed Meese, an ACRU founding board member, tells Fox Business Network's Neil Cavuto that cutting government spending is the key to economic recovery.Click here to see the video.
Professor Who? Federal Appeals Court Schools Obama on Constitutional Law
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 4, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Now it's a duel. A federal appeals court just called out President Barack Obama over his disturbing comments on the Supreme Court this week.Last week, a number of us in the courtroom during oral arguments [...]