COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Federal Appeals Court: Saying "Jesus" During Public Prayer Is Unconstitutional
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 30, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.As in most counties in America, the Board of Commissioners of Forsyth County, North Carolina, begins its public meetings with an invocation. These prayers are given by local religious leaders on a [...]
Court Dismisses Militant Atheists' Federal Suit Against Texas Gov. Rick Perry
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 28, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.U.S. District Judge Gray Miller in Texas today dismissed a lawsuit against Texas Gov. Rick Perry for organizing a day of prayer at Reliant Stadium on Aug. 6, holding that the plaintiffs [...]
President Obama Is No Longer Tethered To Reality
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 28, 2011 on Forbes.com.President Barack Obama's speech to the nation Monday night was highly disturbing. Because read carefully, it reveals a president wildly divorced from the fundamental realities [...]
Job Destruction Makes Us Richer
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published July 27, 2011 on Townhall.com.Here's what President Barack Obama said about our high rate of unemployment in an interview with NBC's Ann Curry: "The other thing that happened, though -- and this goes [...]
Don't Blame the House
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for The Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 27, 2011 on The American Spectator website.The indisputable facts show that Congressional Republicans have done their job. Months ago, the House Republican majority passed the budget proposed by [...]
It's Official: Tea Is Good for the GOP
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published July 22, 2011 on The Washington Times website.Of all the bombs that liberal pundits toss at the Tea Party, none better illustrates why the GOP should actually pay attention than Thursday's article by E. J. Dionne Jr., the liberal Washington [...]
Education Is Worse Than We Thought
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published July 20, 2011 on Townhall.com.Last December, I reported on Harvard University professor Stephan Thernstrom's essay "Minorities in College -- Good News, But...," on Minding the Campus, a website sponsored by the New York-based [...]
2012: The End of the World As We Know It
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for The Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 20, 2011 on The American Spectator website.Like a replicating amoeba, America is pulling apart into two separate cultures. One is strongly committed to the birth of an even [...]
Cut, Cap and Balance Is the Only Way
As a member of the Conservative Action Project, ACRU CEO Susan Carleson and leaders of 23 other organizations representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement are united in supporting Cut, Cap and Balance to save America's economic future and make the following recommendations:MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT: Cut, Cap [...]
McConnell's Plan B Debt-Ceiling Compromise Is (Almost) Unconstitutional (Bad Policy, Too!)
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 18, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's proposed debt-ceiling compromise could be a disaster. Not only is it bad policy--it also pushes the edge of the constitutional envelope.The non-conservative Senate Republican-proposed compromise with the [...]
It's About Jobs, Stupid!
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published July 18, 2011 on The Huffington Post and The Patriot Post.America has a growth deficit. As the latest job report shows unemployment reached 9.2% -- the highest rate of 2011 -- investors and employers continue to react negatively to this [...]
Shovel-Ready in the Middle East?
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published July 15, 2011 on The American Thinker website.Osama bin Laden famously said that people in his region always follow the strong horse. President Obama sent bin Laden to sleep with the sturgeons earlier this year in a move widely hailed. [...]
How To Solve Our Growth And Jobs Deficit
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published July 13, 2011 on The Huffington Post.As President Barack Obama lectured us with foolish notions -- such as attempting to reduce America's $14.4 trillion deficit by focusing carefully poll-tested, repetitive threats -- it is clear that, as the debt ceiling [...]
Holder Must Go Over Gun Scandal, but What Did Obama Know?
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 12, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Operation Fast and Furious is a growing scandal. Attorney General Eric Holder must go, but Congress should not stop investigating there, and ask if Democratic operatives knew anything.Fast and Furious is the [...]
Failing Liberty 101
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published July 13, 2011 on Townhall.com.A recent Superman comic book has the hero saying, "I am renouncing my U.S. citizenship" because "truth, justice, and the American way -- it's not enough anymore." Though not [...]
Reaganomics Is the Only Answer
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 13, 2011 on The American Spectator website.The extended stagnation of the American economy is starting to look more and more like a depression. Obama is on track to [...]
American Sovereignty and Republican Politics in Texas Execution
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 11, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.President Obama joined Mexico and foreign powers condemning Texas' execution of a convicted murder-rapist on July 7. But Obama has no one to blame but himself, in a story that will affect [...]
Fallacies Of Economic Equality That Promote Poverty
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 7, 2011 on Forbes.com."The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody [...]
Constitutional Conservatism Ready for Prime Time
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski and ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published July 6, 2011 on The Huffington Post.Liberal pundits are panicking over constitutional conservatism. They shouldn't, because every child -- whether the parents are liberal or conservative -- will benefit from constitutional conservatism's ascendency. [...]
Obamacare Tragedy Primed To Further Explode the Deficit
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 6, 2011 on The American Spectator website.President Obama bludgeoned Obamacare through Congress on the claim, backed by CBO, that it would not add to the deficit, even though [...]