COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Playing the Race Card before Election Day
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 19, 2011 in The Washington Times.Is it racist to require people to show a photo ID when they vote? You need a photo ID for nearly any meaningful transaction, such as cashing checks, including government checks. If this simple [...]
Our Marxist Wizard of Oz
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 14, 2011 on The American Spectator website.His mother was an unabashed hippie from 1960s central casting. His father was an openly avowed Communist from Kenya. While his father [...]
Obama Channels Hugo Chavez, Shows Why He Can't Lead on the Economy
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 8, 2011 on Forbes.com.On Tuesday, President Obama went to Osawatomie High School in Kansas to deliver an address framing the economic issues for the 2012 election. He was [...]
Holder's Choice: Name a Fast and Furious Special Prosecutor or Face Impeachment
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published December 9, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Official Obama administration explanations for Operation Fast and Furious keep changing with each new wave of revelations. If Attorney General Eric Holder won't appoint a special prosecutor, this scandal could end in [...]
Organizing the Takers Against the Makers
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 7, 2011 on The American Spectator website.The brilliant Chavistas at the Center for American Progress have revealed the reelection strategy for President Jimmy Carter II. This time they [...]
Free to Die?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published December 7, 2011 on Townhall.com.Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, in his New York Times column titled "Free to Die" (9/15/2011), pointed out that back in 1980, his late fellow Nobel laureate Milton Friedman [...]
Salvaging the Mythology of Man-Caused Global Warming
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 1, 2011 on Forbes.com.If you read this column completely and carefully today, you will learn about the true state of the scientific debate over global warming. You will [...]
Entitlement Reform Revolution
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 30, 2011 on The American Spectator website.In New Hampshire on November 21, Newt Gingrich, who has just been endorsed by the Manchester Union Leader, unveiled sweeping entitlement reform [...]
Ending Income Inequality
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 30, 2011 on Townhall.com.Benefiting from a hint from an article titled "Is Harry Potter Making You Poorer?", written by my colleague Dr. John Goodman, president of the Dallas-based National Center for Policy [...]
Holy Rudolph?
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published November 28, 2011 in The Washington Times.Atheists must be the most fragile peaches in the basket. They're always getting bruised by the slightest exposure to public displays that remind them of Christmas, God, the Ten Commandments or, worst of all, [...]
Should the Rich Be Condemned?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 23, 2011 on Townhall.com.Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, the phonograph, the DC motor and other items in everyday use and became wealthy by doing so. Thomas Watson founded IBM and became [...]
The Bell Tolls for Obamacare
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 23, 2011 on The American Spectator website.On November 14, the Supreme Court granted the Writ of Certiorari to hear the appeal of the cases testing the constitutionality of [...]
Gingrich Follows FDR with Court-Packing Scheme
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published November 20, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's idea for checking judicial activism is a textbook case of historical revisionism that is strikingly similar to the court-packing scheme of liberal icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt.Gingrich says [...]
Supreme Opportunity to Right a Wrong
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published November 21, 2011 in The Washington Times.In March, the Supreme Court will hear the challenge by 26 states and the National Federation of Independent Business to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. [...]
There Are No Longer Any Excuses for Obamanomics
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 17, 2011 on Forbes.com.The history of America's recessions is provided at the website of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Before this last recession, since the Great [...]
Poverty in America?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 16, 2011 on Townhall.com.According to CBS News, "the number of people in the U.S. living in poverty in 2010 rose for the fourth year in a row, representing the largest number of [...]
Historic Obamacare Battle at Supreme Court in 2012
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published Novembr 14, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.So, the Supreme Court will decide Obamacare's fate. After two years of political and legal battles, our highest court will decide whether to strike down all or part of Obamacare, or whether [...]
Election Message: Get Involved or Get Left Out
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published November 10, 2011 on The Washington Times website.Tuesday's off-year elections revealed a truth well known in sports that also applies to politics: The side that's more energized wins. In Virginia, an energized Republican Party apparently gained a tie in the [...]
Media Parrot Obama Financial Crisis Campaign Propaganda
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 10, 2011 on Forbes.com.At the October 11 GOP Presidential primary debate on Bloomberg TV, Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post asked candidate Michelle Bachmann if Wall Street bankers [...]