COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Voter ID Terrifies Democrats
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 2, 2012 in The Washington Times.The most consequential election in our lifetime is still 10 months away, but it's clear from the Obama administration's order halting South Carolina's new photo ID law that the Democrats already have brought a [...]
Holder Race-Baiting about Obama's Re-Election, Not Voting Rights
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published December 30, 2011 on Big Government.Eric Holder's Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an all-out war on voter-ID laws and other measures to safeguard the electoral process. Although Holder's actions are purportedly to [...]
The Other Voting Right: Protecting Every Citizen's Vote by Safeguarding the Integrity of the Ballot Box
There is a saying that "people get the government they vote for." The implication of the maxim is that if undesirable or unwise legislation is enacted, if executive branch officials are inept or ineffective, or if the government is beset with widespread corruption, then such unfortunate results are the consequence [...]
Gullible Americans
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published December 28, 2011 on Townhall.com.National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Deborah Hersman has called for states to mandate a total ban on cellphone usage while driving. She has also encouraged electronics manufacturers -- via [...]
Heritage and the Individual Mandate
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 21, 2011 on The American Spectator website.I have kept the true story of the Heritage Foundation and the individual health insurance mandate under wraps for almost 20 years [...]
Newt Gingrich's Entitlement Reform Plan
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 15, 2011 on Forbes.com.On Nov. 12, in Manchester, N.H., Newt Gingrich released his entitlement reform proposals in a 49-page, single-spaced, footnoted document to which I contributed heavily. Those [...]
The ACLU's 12 Days of Litigation
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 19, 2011 in The Daily Caller.Always imaginative, the ACLU's elves are finding new ways to step on Christmas, which they seem to regard as about as important in America as, oh, churches.This year, the liberal organization's lawyers are playing [...]
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 [...]