COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Obama's Budget Bomb: He Proposes Spending Increases, While Disarming America
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 15, 2012 on Townhall.com.Early in his administration, President Obama pledged to cut the federal deficit in half. But in his recent budget proposal, to say Obama has not kept his promise is [...]
Dishonorable Budget Dishonesty
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 15, 2012 on The American Spectator website.You have probably heard by now the disastrous performance by new White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew on the Sunday morning [...]
Rising Black Social Pathology
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 15, 2012 on Townhall.com.The Philadelphia Inquirer's big story Feb. 4 was about how a budget crunch at the Philadelphia School District had caused the district to lay off 91 school police officers. [...]
ACLU, Obama Discover 'Right' to Free Contraceptives and Abortifacients
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 12, 2012 on The Daily Caller. website.Which part of the U.S. Constitution guarantees women the right to have other people pay for their birth control pills and abortifacients? Which part says that the federal government has the power to [...]
Economic Chaos Ahead
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 8, 2012 on Townhall.com.Let's think about the kind of mess that we're in. Federal 2010 Medicare and Medicaid expenditures totaled $800 billion. The projected annual growth of both programs is about 7 [...]
Don't Be Fooled, the Obama Unemployment Rate Is 11%
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 9, 2012 on Forbes.com.When Barack Obama entered office in January, 2009, the labor force participation rate was 65.7%, meaning nearly two-thirds of working age Americans were working or [...]
The Gipper's Principles for Governing Still Apply Today
This column by ACRU board member and founding member of the policy board of the Carleson Center for Public Policy Edwin Meese III was published February 6, 2012 in The Washington Times.As the years pass, Ronald Reagan's stature continues to grow, and it has reached the point where all sorts [...]
With Many Claiming His Mantle, It's Important to Get Reagan Right
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 6, 2012 in The Washington Times.Ronald Reagan, who would have turned 101 on Feb. 6, no doubt would have been amused by the number and ideological diversity of people claiming some part of the Reagan mantle.Barack Obama has been [...]
Delta Force Hero Can't Speak at West Point Because of His Christian Beliefs
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 1, 2012 on The Huffington Post website.A three-star Army general and war hero cannot speak at West Point because he's an outspoken Christian. So the Obama administration's hostility toward religion -- and [...]
Obama's Calculated Deception
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 1, 2012 on The American Spectator website.Calculated deception as a central public manipulation strategy practiced by President Obama involves the President taking advantage of what he thinks the [...]
Obama's Racial Politics
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 1, 2012 on Townhall.com.There's been a heap of criticism placed upon President Barack Obama's domestic policies that have promoted government intrusion and prolonged our fiscal crisis and his foreign policies that have [...]
Schools of Education
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 25, 2012 on Townhall.com.Larry Sand's article "No Wonder Johnny (Still) Can't Read" -- written for The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, based in Raleigh, N.C. -- blames schools of [...]
Is Kagan Signaling Her Recusal on Obamacare?
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 23, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.Justice Elena Kagan did not participate in the Supreme Court's recent decision not to grant a motion from one of the participants in the upcoming consideration of the constitutionality of Obamacare.In today's [...]
Many to Benefit from President's Ruling, but Not Us
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 23, 2012 in The Washington Times.Checking his sundial and solar-powered calendar, Barack Obama has decided that he did not have enough time to study the impact of the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, so he killed it.Seriously. [...]
Obama's Lawyer Argues for Family Values at Supreme Court
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 11, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.Culture warriors took the upper hand against liberals and libertarians alike at the Supreme Court this week, as a moderate justice joined with conservatives and a liberal presidential administration to take a [...]
ObamaCare's Medicaid Provision 'Unconstitutional'
"Has Congress made an offer that the states could not refuse? That is the question that must be decided by this case."Jan. 17, 2012 -- The American Civil Rights Union filed its sixth brief on Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known [...]
Shocker! Supreme Court Lets Stand Lower Bench's Ban on Saying 'Jesus' Too Often in Public Prayers
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 17, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.Pastors and priests in five states cannot mention 'Jesus' more than once or twice if they pray in public at an official function after the U.S. Supreme Court stunned constitutional law experts [...]
The Che Guevara Democrat Party
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 18, 2011 on The American Spectator website.Those who contribute to, vote for, or otherwise support today's Democrat party need to catch up to the curve. These are not [...]
Presidential Nonsense
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 18, 2012 on Townhall.com.Last week, President Barack Obama, at a Capital Hilton fundraising event, told the crowd, "We can't go back to this brand of you're-on-your-own economics." Throughout my professional career as [...]
ATF Wins First Round against Gun Owners in Border-State Lawsuit
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 18, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.Gun owners just lost the first round in a court struggle with President Obama's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).ATF issued orders requiring all firearm dealers in the border states [...]