COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Romney's Practical Vision vs. Obama's Left-Wing Extremism
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 3, 2012 on Forbes.com.In his weekly radio address on April 14, President Obama displayed his lifelong commitment to an ideological extremism of pure theory unhinged from reality. That [...]
Saving the Planet, One Crucifixion at a Time
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 4, 2012 on The Washington Times website.What do Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico have in common? They make up the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Region 6. They also constitute the core of America's energy production, especially oil.Thus, [...]
NRA CEO LaPierre Rallies Conservatives at Massive Gun Rights Convention
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 2, 2012 on Breitbart.com."Our Founding Fathers enshrined the Second Amendment for one purpose: survival. Survival of each citizen. Survival of a nation." With those words as his theme, the longest-serving head of the National Rifle Association (NRA)--CEO Wayne [...]
America's Two-Faced Liberals
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 2, 2012 on Townhall.comPresident Barack Obama and Wall Street occupiers, along with their allies in the mainstream media and on college campuses, have maintained an ongoing attack on high-income earners, people they [...]
The Immorality of Obamanomics
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 2, 2012 on The American Spectator website.The President's economic policies are usually criticized for their practical ineffectiveness. Thinking people know that the result of the President's 1970s retro [...]
Wisconsin's New Aristocracy Is on the Ballot
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 26, 2012 on Forbes.com.Our Founding Fathers carefully eliminated in American law every special legal privilege of the old aristocracies of Europe. They strongly favored instead equality under the [...]
The Secularization of Martin Luther King Jr.
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 26, 2012 on The Daily Caller website.At the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington earlier this month, the faithful met to worship the Almighty and discuss the latest battles for religious liberty [...]
Analysis: Supreme Court May Split Decision Arizona Immigration Law
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 26, 2012 on Breitbart.com."What does sovereignty mean if it does not include the ability to defend your borders?" That question by Justice Antonin Scalia goes to the heart of the Supreme Court's blockbuster immigration case, Arizona v. United [...]
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 [...]