COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Navigating a Rocky Media Landscape
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 17, 2011 on The Washington Times website.When I was a reporter years ago in Ocean City, Md., I learned the hard way that freedom of the press can be expensive.In the dark days of winter, ad revenue was scarce. [...]
How Obamacare Will Further Explode the Deficit
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 16, 2011 on Forbes.com.President Obama bludgeoned Obamacare through Congress on the claim, backed by the Congressional Budget Office, that it would not add to the deficit, even though [...]
The Problem with the Republican Party
This excerpt by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski and ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published June 14, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Second of a series of three excerpts from Resurgent: How Constitutional Conservatism Can Save America, published by Threshold Editions of Simon & Schuster.Most would expect that [...]
Our Moral Dilemma
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 15, 2011 on Townhall.com.Most of our nation's problems are a direct result of our being immune, hostile or indifferent to several moral questions. Let's start out with the simple and move to [...]
America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 15, 2011 on The American Spectator website.My new book, America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, published by HarperCollins, went on sale this week. The book begins by explaining the overwhelming [...]
Book Review: Confronting National Debt Now
This column by Wes Vernon was published June 10, 2011 on The Washington Times website, and reviews ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara's new book.AMERICA'S TICKING BANKRUPTCY BOMB: HOW THE LOOMING DEBT CRISIS THREATENS THE AMERICAN DREAM - AND HOW [...]
Recovery and Resurgence Starts with the Family
This excerpt by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski and ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published June 13, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.First of a series of three excerpts from "Resurgent: How Constitutional Conservatism Can Save America," published by Threshold Editions of Simon & Schuster.There are many trying [...]
America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 14, 2011 on FoxNews.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 [...]
Supreme Court Says Officials' Speech Is Not Protected by First Amendment
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 13, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Nevada's law barring public officials from voting--or officially speaking--for or against issues where they have a personal stake is okay under the First Amendment, according to the U.S. Supreme Court.In Nevada Commission [...]
Vote Fraudsters Redouble Efforts
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 10, 2011 on The Washington Times website.Even with the demise of ACORN, a lot of people are worried about voter fraud in the 2012 presidential election. That's because the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has not really [...]
Addressing The Various Debt-Limit Delusions
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 9, 2011 on Forbes.com.Suppose you were suffering long term unemployment, and you had maxed out all of your credit cards. Would your first action this morning be (1) [...]
Weiner's Shame Deficit
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published June 9, 2011 on Townhall.com.After 10 days of playing the victim of computer hacking, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York) admitted Monday that he lied about sending lewd photos of himself to women he met online. He said that he [...]
Irksome Things
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 8, 2011 on Townhall.com.There are a lot of things, large and small, that irk me. One of them is our tendency to evaluate a presidential candidate based on his intelligence or academic [...]
Last Stop for Obamacare Before Supreme Court
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 7, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Obamacare is likely facing its last stop before it heads to the Supreme Court in 2012. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta will hear arguments Wednesday in [...]
The Coming Crash of 2013
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 8, 2011 on The American Spectator website.On Inauguration Day, 2009, President Obama seemed so politically blessed by the timing of developing economic trends. I expected that based on [...]
Democratic Press Handmaidens
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 3, 2011 on The Washington Times website.You might have seen the vicious Mediscare video by now entitled "America the Beautiful." If you haven't, you should. It's from folks who just the other day were chanting the mantra of "civility." [...]
First Amendment Protects Prayer, Not Obscene Violence
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 5, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and the rest of the framers of the Constitution would be astounded to hear a federal judge order a valedictorian's prayer is not protected by the First Amendment, [...]
The Two Alternatives for Health Care Policy
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 2, 2011 on Forbes.com.National health care costs have been growing faster than the economy for close to 100 years. But that cost growth accelerated over the past 50 [...]
The Democrats' Big Government Breakout
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 1, 2011 on The American Spectator website.Historic battle lines are being drawn in the budget battle in Washington that too few understand. The Democrats are supporting an unprecedented [...]
Do We Deserve Our Fate?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 1, 2011 on Townhall.com.The latest Social Security Trustees Report tells us that the program will be insolvent by the year 2037. The combined unfunded liability of Social Security and Medicare has reached [...]