COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
The Texas Tea Party Debate
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 9, 2011 on The American Spectator website.In 1858, U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas was facing a tough reelection challenge in Illinois from former Congressman Abraham Lincoln. A serious, [...]
Ignorance Exploited
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 9, 2011 on Townhall.com.Many Wall Street occupiers are echoing the Communist Party USA's call to "Save the nation! Tax corporations! Tax the rich!" There are other Americans, on both the left and [...]
How to Achieve Higher Wages for Working People
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 3, 2011 on Forbes.com.In Chapter 1 of my recent book, America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, I write, "I fully accept the 'liberal' premise that prosperity and opportunity must be [...]
If Israel Strikes
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published November 4, 2011 on Townhall.com.The headlines are stark indeed. "Israel Readies a Pre-Emptive Strike." Israeli Prime Minister is said to be working to persuade reluctant members of his coalition Cabinet to go along with such a military option against Islamist [...]
Ryan Schools Obama on America
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 2, 2011 on The American Spectator website.At the Heritage Foundation last week, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan demonstrated why he doesn't need to be running for President [...]
Democracy Is Impossible
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 2, 2011 on Townhall.com.After Moammar Gadhafi's downfall as Libya's tyrannical ruler, politicians and "experts" in the U.S. and elsewhere, including French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, are saying that his death marked the [...]
Court Decides Against Hearing Roadside Crosses Case
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published October 31, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.The Supreme Court let stand yesterday a lower court decision that is outrageously hostile to common expressions of religious faith, Utah Highway Patrol Association v. American Atheists.When a state trooper in Utah [...]
Perry's Game-Changing Plan for Jobs and Growth
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published October 28, 2011 on Townhall.com.Governor Rick Perry unveiled his plan for fundamental tax reform with an optional flat tax. This bold proposal for economic growth is a fiscal game-changer, and demonstrably superior to [...]
The GOP Jobs Plan Vs. Obama's
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 28, 2011 on Forbes.com.Senate Republicans have taken the lead in proposing a Jobs Plan alternative to President Obama's, in the form of the Jobs Through Growth Act, led [...]
ACRU Argues for Rule of Law, Financial Accountability in Stock Market Case
The American Civil Rights Union filed a brief on Wednesday supporting a complaint that the National Association of Securities Dealers should be held accountable for misleading members as to a proxy vote over a change in bylaws."NASD's claim of immunity highlights the threat posed by Self Regulating Organizations (SROs) operating [...]
Obama's Regulatory Excess and Abuse
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 26, 2011 on The American Spectator website.The critique of Obamanomics has focused primarily on the runaway spending, taxes, deficits and debt, and the throwback monetary policies at the [...]
Profits Are for People
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 26, 2011 on Townhall.com.The Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are demanding "people before profits"—as if profit motivation were the source of mankind's troubles—when it's often the absence of profit motivation that's the true [...]
A Balanced Budget Amendment Should Make Tax & Debt Increases Difficult
As a member of the Conservative Action Project, CEO Susan Carleson and leaders of 28 other organizations, representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement, are united in supporting a Balanced Budget Amendment that actually reins in national spending and increasing our national debt - without raising taxes.MEMO FOR [...]