COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Gross Media Ignorance
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published July 6, 2011 on Townhall.com.There's little that's intelligent or informed about Time magazine editor Richard Stengel's article "One Document, Under Siege" (June 23, 2011). It contains many grossly ignorant statements about our Constitution. [...]
MEP Daniel Hannan Warns America
Introduction by Sen. Jim DeMintThe American Civil Rights Union and Regular Folks United recently hosted Daniel Hannan, Member of the European Parliament from Southeastern England, at the Capitol Hill Club where he delivered remarks warning Americans about the dangers of following in the steps of Europe.Click on the video above [...]
Time's Orwellian Story on U.S. Constitution Refuted!
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski and ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published July 2, 2011 on The Huffington Post.Time magazine's cover story shows the U.S. Constitution and asks, "Does it still matter?" Reading this story, we kept waiting for Emmanuel Goldstein to show up for [...]
The CBO's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 30, 2011 on Forbes.com.Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued their Long Term Budget Outlook for 2011. The report closely validates my own analysis in my new [...]
Scalia Wrong, Thomas Right on Violent Video Games
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 29, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Those who paint U.S. Supreme Court justices with a broad brush only prove they don't really understand the court.Justice Antonin Scalia was dead wrong in striking down California's restriction on selling horribly [...]
Block Grant Welfare to the States
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 29, 2011 on The American Spectator website.The first step in defusing America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, the title of my new book, is to restore a booming economy. I [...]
Why the GOP Is Right on Taxes
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 29, 2011 on FoxNews.com.Congressional Republicans are standing firm on their principle that for every dollar of increase in the national debt limit, President Obama and the Democrats must [...]
Supreme Court's Pliva Decision Is Another Blow Against Trial Lawyers
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 26, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Trial lawyers cannot sue drug manufacturers for defective warning labels on generics if labels were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to the U.S. Supreme Court.The 5-4 Pliva v. [...]
Bureaucratic Overreach Not Kids Stuff
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 24, 2011 on TheWashington Times website.While 22-year-old Rory McIlroy was teeing up on June 16 during the first round of his historic victory at the U.S. Open, another drama was unfolding outside Congressional Country Club in Bethesda.A Montgomery County [...]
Sotomayor Sides with Conservatives in Corporate Free Speech Case
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 25, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor threw lawyers a curve ball this past week by siding with conservatives on a corporate free-speech case.Marking the first time she's broken with liberals in a [...]
The Over-Employed and the Mal-Employed
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published June 24, 2011 on Townhall.com.Roughly 14 million people are formally labeled as unemployed, but "there's probably 22 million to 23 million people who are unemployed, mal-employed or under-employed," said Andrew Sum, an economics professor at Northeastern University in Boston, [...]
Universal Health Care With No Mandates
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 23, 2011 on Forbes.com.Washington Post columnist Matt Miller taunts Republicans and free market conservatives with the claim that he is willing to repeal ObamaCare, as long as they [...]
Obama's Debt Limit Scare Tactics
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 22, 2011 on FoxNews.com.America's gross federal debt is already bumping up against the national debt limit of $14.3 trillion. But with the federal government already running a deficit [...]
Pledging Allegiance
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published June 22, 2011 on Townhall.com. This column was co-authored by Bob Morrison.Frank Mickens took NBC to task for its censorship of "Under God" and "Indivisible" from the Pledge of Allegiance over the weekend. Mickens is a news anchor for CBS [...]
Libyan War Violates Constitution's War Powers Clause, Not War Powers Act
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 21, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.President Obama's war in Libya is now illegal, if it was ever legal. So House Speaker John Boehner can try to enforce the Constitution's War Powers Clause, instead of the unconstitutional War [...]
Obama's Audacity of Hype
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published June 21, 2011 on The Huffington Post website.President Obama got a good laugh from his liberal audience at the nationally televised meeting of his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. At least all those who joined in the laughter there had [...]
America's New Racists
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 22, 2011 on Townhall.com.The late South African economist William Hutt, in his 1964 book, The Economics of the Colour Bar, said that one of the supreme tragedies of the human condition is [...]
Reaganomics' Resurgence
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 22, 2011 on The American Spectator website.In my new book, America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, I argue that the first step in defusing the bomb, and averting the coming [...]
America's Coming Bankruptcy
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 21, 2011 on Townhall.com.The failures of federal, state and local officials of both major parties, over many years, have primed a ticking bankruptcy bomb for America that will [...]
Court Rejects Judicially Mandated Cap and Trade
This excerpt by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 20, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Judges cannot make their own cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions, but only because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is already doing it, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a major global-warming case.Several [...]