COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
The Left's War on Legal Immigration and Voter Integrity
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 24, 2011 in The Washington Times.On Oct. 14, a federal judge blocked key portions of Alabama's new immigration law after several groups, including the Obama Justice Department and the ACLU, asked for an injunction.The Justice Department claims that states [...]
Nothing but a Political Ploy
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 19, 2011 on The American Spectator website.President Obama's so-called Jobs Plan has nothing to do with jobs and economics. On that score, it is already a proven failure. [...]
Pitting Us Against Each Other
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 19, 2011 on Townhall.com.President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have led increasingly successful efforts to pit Americans against one another through the politics of hate and envy. Attacking CEO salaries, the [...]
Obama's Jobs Machine
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 17, 2011 in The Washington Times.How does paying people not to work constitute a key element of a "jobs bill"? President Obama's goofy, gimmicky American Jobs Act, which even the Harry Reid-led Senate rejected Wednesday and the adult-led House [...]
The New Republican Vision for Modern Social Safety Nets
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 13, 2011 on Forbes.com.A new consensus is emerging among Republicans for fundamental entitlement reform providing for modern, 21st century social safety nets. The new, reformed programs would actually [...]
Cain's '9-9-9' Tax Reform Plan Is Unconstitutional
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published October 13, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Herman Cain's signature 9-9-9 proposal has two problems. First, it's unconstitutional, and second, it's not conservative because it transforms Washington from the head of a federal republic into a centralized ruling authority.Cain [...]
Kagan Balks at Obama EEOC Claim of Authority over Churches
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published October 11, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.President Obama's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claimed during oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court last week that it can order a church to restore a fired minister to a teaching position.But [...]