COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Seniors Can Handle the Truth
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published September 15, 2011 on the American Thinker website.When it comes to Social Security, Republicans should stop treating seniors like the feeble-minded demographic portrayed in commercials written by 13-year-olds on Madison Avenue.It's like the home security commercial targeting seniors for [...]
Braindead on Arrival
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 14, 2011 on The American Spectator website.If President Obama's jobs plan is such a good idea, then why did he wait until the third year of his presidency [...]
Too Much Higher Education
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published September 14, 2011 on Townhall.com.Too much of anything is just as much a misallocation of resources as it is too little, and that applies to higher education just as it applies to everything [...]
9/11 Services Show Liberal Politicizing of Memorials
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published September 8, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.In addition to Mayor Mike Bloomberg's barring clergy and prayer from the 10-year 9/11 memorial service in New York, another sad incident is playing out in our nation's capital. Religious leaders representing [...]
The Equality of Reaganomics, and Fallacious Leftist Dissent
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 9, 2011 on Forbes.com.For the last two weeks, we have discussed the broad prosperity throughout society produced by Reaganomics and the resulting 25 year economic boom that started [...]
Packing Heat
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 7, 2011 on The American Spectator website.The theory that human activity is causing potentially catastrophic global warming is not science. It is politics, driven by special interests with [...]
Blacks and Politics
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published September 7, 2011 on Townhall.com.At one of last month's Congressional Black Caucus-sponsored "job fairs," Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told the audience: "This is the effort that we're seeing of Jim Crow. Some of [...]
Can Perry Summon Courage of True Convictions?
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 5, 2011 in The Washington Times.The modern-day faith in science makes the most fanatical fundamentalist look indifferent by comparison. Ever since Charles Darwin proposed his theory of macroevolution, which even he admitted had scant evidence to support it, the [...]
Growing Proof of Obama's Imperial Presidency
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published September 6, 2011 on Townhall.com.President Barack Obama's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is on a job-killing rampage. It's claiming unprecedented powers far beyond what federal law allows. Taken with Obama's other agencies, these [...]
What Did Napolitano Know about Fast and Furious?
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 31, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Heads seem to be rolling from the deadly Operation Fast and Furious gun scandal that is revealing the Obama administration to be as anti-gun as the National Rifle Association has always said.Fast [...]
More on the Certain Equality of Reaganomics
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 31, 2011 on Forbes.com.Last week we discussed the broad prosperity throughout society produced by Reaganomics and the resulting 25 year economic boom that started in 1982. We showed [...]
Now Obama's NLRB Tells a Church School it's Not Religious Enough
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 29, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.It's not enough for President Obama's National Labor Relations Board to target the Boeing plant in South Carolina. Now the NLRB thinks it can tell a church school when it's not religious [...]
Obama's War on the Secret Ballot
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and Clint Bolick of the Goldwater Institute was published August 28, 2011 on The Huffington Post.The Obama Administration has fired its opening salvo against a cornerstone of democracy: the right to secret ballot.Last fall, voters in four states voted overwhelmingly to amend [...]
Excluding Prayer From 9/11 Memorial Compounds the Tragedy of That Day
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 25, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Do you remember what things were like in the hours and days following the 9/11 terrorist attacks? Evidently New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg does not.While the smoke was still rising against [...]
The Downward Spiral
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 24, 2011 on The American Spectator website.Accelerating downward spiral. That is what I have been predicting for the Obama Administration for over two years. And now it's happening. [...]
Legal Obedience
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 24, 2011 on Townhall.com.What laws are we morally obligated to obey? Help with the answer can be found in "Economic Liberty and the Constitution," a 66-page pamphlet by Jacob G. Hornberger, founder [...]
Warren Buffett's Public Disservice On Taxation
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 18, 2011 on Forbes.com.Warren Buffet is performing a gross public disservice in creating urban myths about the nature of the tax system in America. Those myths will mislead [...]
Purple Politics Color Colorado Rockies
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published August 17, 2011 on The Washington Times website.SILVERTON, COLO.The man in the coffee shop had the look of a no-nonsense Westerner. A retired architect, he told me he had lived in the mountains for the past few years and, like [...]
Ominous Parallels
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 17, 2011 on Townhall.com.People are beginning to compare Barack Obama's administration to the failed administration of Jimmy Carter, but a better comparison is to the Roosevelt administration of the 1930s and '40s. [...]
Obamacare Is Going Down
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 17, 2011 on The American Spectator website.As we saw, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals became the first federal appellate court to find the Obamacare individual mandate [...]