COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Slow Economic Recovery: What's Taking So Long?
Reagan v. Obama: In a CBN.com story by Jennifer Wilson published on April 3, 2012, ACRU's Peter Ferrara compares policies and results, and tells CBN News that we're in "the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression."WASHINGTON -- This year, the economy is adding some 245,000 jobs a month, the [...]
Obama's Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 4, 2012 on The American Spectator website.Perhaps you do not know that President Obama has asked the Pentagon to develop plans to reduce America's nuclear arsenal by up [...]
Dupes for the State
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 4, 2012 on Townhall.com.Public misunderstanding, ignorance and possibly contempt for liberty play into the hands of people who want to control our lives. Responses to my recent column "Compliant Americans" brought this [...]
From Hugs to Hand-Wringing: Watching the Legal Left Freak Out at the Supreme Court
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 1, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Over the past several years, I've been to the Supreme Court dozens of times to cover cases. Some of them have been blockbusters such as the Citizens United v. FEC campaign finance case, the Snyder [...]
Obamacare Day 3: Does Medicaid Expansion Violate 10th Amendment?
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 31, 2012 on Breitbart.com.For a century, legal scholars wondered if a federal spending program could ever violate the 10th Amendment by coercing the states to go along, since the states are sovereign and equal in stature to the [...]
Obamacare Day 3: Court May Strike Down Entire Law, Not Just Mandate
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 28, 2012 on Breitbart.com.If the Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare's individual mandate (which is very likely after yesterday), will it also strike down President Obama's entire 2,700-page law? The justices signaled they might do so during the third [...]
Washington Post Misleads Readers About Paul Ryan, Tax Rates and Deficits
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 29, 2012 on Forbes.com.The Washington Post proclaimed editorially on March 21, "There is no credible path to deficit reduction without a combination of spending cuts and revenue increases." [...]
Day 2: Supreme Court Will Likely Strike Down Obamacare, 5-4
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 28, 2012 on Brietbart.com.On Day Two, Justice Anthony Kennedy noted that Obamacare "changes the relationship of the Federal Government to the individual in a very fundamental way."With those words, the individual mandate--the centerpiece of Obamacare--is likely doomed.Liberal law [...]
Obamacare, Day 1: Supreme Court Will Declare Game On
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 27, 2012 on Brietbart.com.The Supreme Court appears to reject the argument that it lacks jurisdiction to decide Obamacare's fate until 2015. We should all expect the red-hot issues surrounding Obamacare to be decided by the end of June, [...]
Our Constitutional Freedom to Listen
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara and former ACRU intern and researcher Carlos Ramirez explain in a Liberty Law Review article why the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech is violated if the corollary freedom to listen is not enforced.Download the article here. (PDF)
Profiling
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 28, 2012 on Townhall.com.Right now, there isn't enough known about the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a black, by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old part-Hispanic, during his neighborhood watch [...]
A Budget America Can't Live Without
This column by ACRU Chairman and CEO and CCPP founder and President Susan A. Carleson was published March 28, 2012 on Townhall.com.The House Republican Study Committee (RSC) has proposed a federal budget that not only can America live with - it cannot live without.It is a serious plan with responsible [...]
ACLU Gins Up Contraception Controversy in Arizona
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 27, 2012 on The Daily Caller website.While the Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of Obamacare and the nation reels from the Obama administration's order that Catholic hospitals must provide contraceptives and abortifacients to their employees, the ACLU of Arizona [...]
Taming the EPA Monster
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 26, 2012 in The Washington Times.Slowly, inexorably, the monster is being driven back to its lair. Its days of terrorizing villagers may soon be over. I wish I were talking about the federal government, but it's the Environmental Protection [...]
Supreme Court Sides with ACRU in EPA Case
"This is a great victory for property rights and against abuses of federal power," said Susan A. Carleson, Chairman and CEO of the American Civil Rights Union, which filed a friend of the court brief in Sackett v. EPA.March 21--The Supreme Court ruled today in favor of an Idaho couple, [...]
Holder's 'All-Out War' on Voter IDs Is Obama Re-election Tool
This column by Jim Meyers and Kathleen Walter interviews ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and was published March 22, 2012 on Newsmax.com.Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell tells Newsmax that the Obama administration has "launched an all-out war on voter ID laws" to bolster the president's re-election chances.The Republican [...]
Protect Your Vote! ACRU Launches Campaign to Prevent Vote Fraud
"ProtectYourVote.us is a powerful new tool for citizens to use to ensure that fair and honest elections are held this November. All Americans have a stake in protecting our election process. Without confidence in the system, we cannot continue to be a free, self-governing nation." - Edwin Meese III, former [...]
Voter ID Laws Protect the Integrity of the Ballot Box
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 21, 2012 on The Huffington Post website.Protecting the integrity of the ballot box is essential to our democracy. Laws requiring voters to show identification at the polls are commonsense measures to prevent [...]
Eric Holder Is at War with Gun Owners' Rights
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 20, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.This week we've seen confirmation that the National Rifle Association has been right all along about President Obama's choice for attorney general to lead the Department of Justice.Taken with Eric Holder's arguments [...]
Political Rope-A-Dope
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 21, 2012 on Townhall.com.It's not unreasonable to ask how valuable the variously labeled liberal, Democratic or progressive agenda has been to black Americans and whether blacks should proceed in political lock step [...]