COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
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 [...]