COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Holding Obama's Party Accountable
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 28, 2011 on The American Spectator website.Barack Obama is on a far worse political trajectory than Jimmy Carter was. First, the Democrats lost Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat to [...]
Washington's Weasel Words
This column by Susan A. Carleson, CEO of the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) and Chairman of the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP), was published September 26, 2011 on Townhall.com.Confusion is the politician's favorite device; clarity, the statesman's most potent weapon.Supporters of limited government too often lose Washington policy [...]
Astride the World
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 26, 2011 in The Washington Times.Rodney King showed up at the United Nations on Wednesday and instructed everyone there to, well, get along.Actually, it was Barack Obama, but his message was the same as the one from the man [...]
Correcting President Obama's Myriad Tax Fallacies
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 22, 2011 on Forbes.com.An emerging, disabling problem with our democracy is that increasingly we cannot even engage in intelligent public discussions of critical issues facing our country. The [...]
Gov. Perry's Right about Social Security
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published September 21, 2011 on Townhall.com.During the recent GOP presidential debate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said that Social Security is a "monstrous lie" and a "Ponzi scheme." More and more people are coming to [...]
His Biggest Big Lies
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 21, 2011 on The American Spectator website.If you work hard, play by the rules, save your money, create jobs, and make a success out of yourself, President Obama [...]
Instead of Obama's Jobs Plan, Pass Something that Will Work
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 15, 2011 on Forbes.com.President Barack Obama's first, nearly $1 trillion "stimulus" bill enacted in February, 2009, was intellectually quite shocking for its total devotion to an unreconstructed, 1970s [...]
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 [...]