COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Why Prosperity Is Hip, and Raises Living Standards
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 15, 2012 on Forbes.com.From 1947 to 2007, the U.S. economy averaged real growth of 3.2% a year. At that rate, our GDP would double every 22 years. It [...]
The Worst Economic Recovery Since the Great Depression
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 14, 2012 on The American Spectator website.The record of President Obama's first three years in office is in, and nothing that happens now can go back and change [...]
Compliant Americans
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 14, 2012 on Townhall.com.Last month, at a Raeford, N.C., elementary school, a teacher confiscated the lunch of a 5-year-old girl because it didn't meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines and therefore was [...]
Voter ID Insanity at DOJ Going to the United Nations
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 13, 2012 on The Daily Caller website.The far left is making an unprecedented two-track move to derail states' efforts to protect the integrity of the ballot box for this November's elections. While [...]
The Left's Schadenfreude Fraud
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published March 13, 2012 on the American Thinker website.Schadenfreude, according to Webster, is "enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others." It encapsulates the essence of women using government to force others to pay for their contraception.The fraud is in hustling [...]
Will High Court Adopt the Coercion Test?
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 12, 2012 in The Washington Times.As the American Civil Liberties Union prowls the land to muzzle public prayers, rip out Ten Commandments monuments and terrify small towns over Nativity scenes, help may be on the way from the U.S. [...]
Securing the Safety Net
This column by ACRU Chairman and CEO and CCPP founder and President Susan A. Carleson was published March 11, 2012 on The American Thinker website.As the sheer audacity and real costs of ObamaCare become more apparent every day, we can't say we weren't warned.Back in 1961, Ronald Reagan explained the [...]
Romney's Pending Sellout on Global Warming
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 7, 2012 on The American Spectator website.The theory that humans are causing catastrophic global warming by burning fossil fuels and releasing "greenhouse" gases lapsed into self-parody in the [...]
It Just Ain't So
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 7, 2012 on Townhall.com.The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 2011 manufacturing output grew by 11 percent, to nearly $5 trillion. Were our manufacturing sector considered a nation with its own gross domestic [...]
Fakegate: The Obnoxious Fabrication of Global Warming
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 1, 2012 on Forbes.com.About every four years, the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produces a voluminous Assessment Report (AR) on the state of global warming [...]
Obama Loses His First Debate
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 29, 2012 on The American Spectator website.In a speech that the Gingrich campaign has begun broadcasting around the country, and which is posted at Newt.org, Gingrich presents a [...]
Equality or Inequality
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 29, 2012 on Townhall.com.Rick Santorum's speech at the Detroit Economic Club stirred a bit of controversy when he said: "I'm not about equality of result when it comes to income inequality. There [...]
The Loud and Clear Message In President Obama's Budget
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 24, 2012 on Forbes.com.Last week, I discussed the central economic policy of President Obama's budget and accompanying Presidential budget message. What drives economic recovery and growth according to [...]
Obama and the Problem of Evil
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published February 24, 2012 on the American Thinker website.Watching how the media react to God talk and family values by politicians is like watching the spinning head in "The Exorcist," depending on who's doing the God talk.Consider the problem of [...]
SCOTUS Punts on Medicaid Changes Lawsuits
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 23, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.By a 5 to 4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court declined today to resolve an issue that could be instrumental in determining the outcome of the 2012 election: When a state changes [...]
High Court to Hear Affirmative Action Case
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 22, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.Every racially based preference system - aka Affirmative Action programs - in the country could be struck down when the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Fisher v. University of Texas this fall.The [...]
Obama's Law of Contraception
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 17, 2012 on The American Spectator website.I have frequently discussed in this column the concept of Calculated Deception. That is President Obama's practice of taking advantage of what [...]
Math Matters
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 22, 2012 on Townhall.com.If one manages to graduate from high school without the rudiments of algebra, geometry and trigonometry, there are certain relatively high-paying careers probably off-limits for life -- such as [...]
Voter Fraud in This Life and the Next
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 20, 2012 in The Washington Times.Did you know that according to a new Pew study, more than 1.8 million dead people are registered to vote? And that leading Democrats are fiercely opposing new laws that tighten voting requirements?This tells [...]
Obama's Budget: The Decline and Fall of the American Economy
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 17, 2012 on Forbes.com.President Obama's budget released Monday embodies his policies for economic growth and recovery. The document, including the President's accompanying budget message, makes those policies quite [...]