COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
McCotter Trailblazes Social Security Prosperity
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 12, 2011 on The American Spectator website.On September 12, the pioneering Rep. Thaddeus McCotter introduced trailblazing legislation providing workers the freedom to choose personal savings and investment accounts [...]
It's Hard To Be a Racist
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 12, 2011 on Townhall.com.Years ago it was easy to be a racist. All you had to be was a white person using some of the racial epithets that are routinely used in [...]
Culture-War Heroine Gets Her Due
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 11, 2011 in The Washington Times.As a school board member in Kanawha County, W.Va., in the early 1970s, Alice Moore ignited what might be considered the opening battle of America's culture war in education.Mrs. Moore challenged the board's choice [...]
Social Security Personal Accounts Are a Path to Prosperity
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 6, 2011 on Forbes.com.Republicans are in disarray over Social Security. Mitt Romney wants to hide safely within the establishment status quo that is not working. Rick Perry understands [...]
Newt's New Contract
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 5, 2011 on The American Spectator website.Last week, Newt Gingrich released his 21st Century Contract with America, composed of 10 specific legislative proposals he would enact if elected [...]
Social Security Disaster
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 5, 2011 on Townhall.com.Politicians who are principled enough to point out the fraud of Social Security, referring to it as a lie and Ponzi scheme, are under siege. Acknowledgment of Social Security's [...]
Court Opens Terms with Question of Standing
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published October 4, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Can private parties sue to enforce a federal statute when Congress does not say so? That's what the Supreme Court is deciding in a case heard on the opening day of its [...]
ACRU Defends Property Owner's Right to Build
The ACRU is defending property rights in the important Fifth Amendment case of Sackett v. EPA. In this case, Idaho couple Chantell and Michael Sackett purchased a lot in a residential neighborhood, zoned and permitted by local authorities for construction of their home. After they began earthwork in preparation to [...]
Texas Hold 'Em Unfolds in El Paso
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 3, 2011 in The Washington Times.North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue spoke for many politicians on Tuesday when she suggested suspending congressional elections for two years to give the politicians a free hand without voter input."You want people who don't [...]
DOJ's Muslim Affirmation
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published October 1, 2011 on the American Thinker website.When a Muslim is charged with terrorism, the Muslim "community" gets a warm and fuzzy affirmation from the U.S. Department of Justice. See here, here, and here. Other cultures, communities, and religions, [...]
Full Docket as Supreme Court Term Begins
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published September 29, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Monday, Oct. 3, marks the start of the annual term for the Supreme Court of the United States. Most of the court's docket was set as of this week's preterm conference, painting [...]
Economic Growth, Not Income Redistribution, Is What Helps Us All
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 29, 2011 on Forbes.com.President Obama is proving a fundamental economic principle proven as well by President Reagan, though in the opposite way. That principle is that economic growth [...]
The Financial Mess in the US and Europe
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published September 28, 2011 on Townhall.com.What's the common thread between Europe's financial mess, particularly among the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain), and the financial mess in the U.S.? That question could be [...]