COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
What? Another Department of Jobs?
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published August 16, 2011 on The Huffington Post.Floundering. Flopping around like a fish on deck. That's the best description of the Obama administration this summer. The president's now on a bus tour of the Heartland. Next, he's slated to go to [...]
"Super Committee" Should Cut Spending, Not Raise Taxes
As a member of the Conservative Action Project, ACRU CEO Susan Carleson and leaders of 37 other organizations representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement have a united message on the "Super Committee."MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT: "Super Committee" should focus on Reducing Spending & Stimulating Economic Growth--not increasing [...]
Bat's the Way It Is for Unarmed Britons
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published August 13, 2011 on the American Thinker blog.In the midst of riots, arson and looting, British citizens armed themselves with ... aluminum bats.A Louisville Slugger is no match for a mob, but when your Socialist government makes it virtually [...]
Wasteful Politicians, And The Fed's Coming Recession
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 11, 2011 on Forbes.com.The Tea Party-dominated Republican House majority already acted in the spring to solve America's sovereign debt crisis by passing the budget proposed by House Budget [...]
Ignorance, Stupidity or Connivance?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 10, 2011 on Townhall.com.President Barack Obama has called for a luxury tax on corporate jets as a means to generate revenue to fight federal deficits. The president's economic advisers ought to be [...]
Obama Downgraded, Tea Party Vindicated
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 10, 2011 on The American Spectator website.President Obama achieved the historic downgrading of America's credit rating the old-fashioned way. He earned it.He came into office with federal spending [...]
Aborting the Monroe Doctrine?
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published August 7, 2011 on The Huffington Post.For almost two hundred years, the Monroe Doctrine has been a cornerstone of American foreign policy. First proclaimed in December 1823, the message from President James Monroe to the imperialist ruling houses of Europe [...]
A Budget Cutting Deal That Boosts Federal Spending
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 4, 2011 on Forbes.com.How is it possible that we can "cut" federal spending by $2 trillion over the next 10 years, and yet federal spending will still increase [...]
Cruel Laws
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 3, 2011 on Townhall.com.What does it take to be able to own and operate a taxi and earn $30,000, $40,000 or more a year? You need to purchase a used car and [...]
The Disgrace of Obamanomics
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for The Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 3, 2011 on The American Spectator website.Last Friday's report on economic growth for the second quarter of 2011 completes the burial of Obamanomics. The economy grew a paltry [...]
Supreme Court Should Not Take This Obamacare Case
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 30, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.News outlets are announcing that Obamacare has reached the Supreme Court. But while the high court must soon consider whether President Obama's signature legislation is constitutional, this case is not the one [...]
Atheists Cross Over 'Cross'
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published July 31, 2011 on the American Thinker blog.Those God-obsessed "American Atheists" filed suit in New York state court on July 25 to remove the World Trade Center "Cross" from the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. They're seeking relief [...]
'Clean' Balanced Budget Amendment Could Be Trap for Conservatives
This article by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski and ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published July 31, 2011 on BigGovernment.com.Liberals are trying to kill the prospect of a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) in the ongoing battle over the debt ceiling. Some on the Right respond that they might [...]