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