COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
Doomsday Prophets Who Never Say They're Sorry
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 30, 2011 on The Washington Times website.Well, we're still here despite doomsday evangelist Harold Camping's warning of the end of the world on May 21 at 6 p.m. But wait. Mr. Camping says we're not out of the woods. [...]
Supreme Court Releases Thousands of Imprisoned Felons
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 26, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.In a shocking and unprecedented move, the Supreme Court suddenly discovered that overcrowded prisons are unconstitutional. As a result, it has ordered up to 46,000 convicted felons released from California prisons.Congress enacted [...]
Common Sense Versus Nonsense
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 25, 2011 on Townhall.com.William J. McGee, the consumer advocate on the Department of Transportation's Future of Aviation Advisory Committee wrote "Forcing the F.A.A. to Fly Blind" in The New York Times (April [...]
Jehovah or Marx?
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 25, 2011 on The American Spectator website.Years ago a man with a history as a careful investigator told me on the basis of his research into his own [...]
ACRU Brief Argues for 'Coercion Test' in Utah Highway Cross Case
May 23, 2011 - Memorial crosses honoring fallen Utah Highway Patrol Officers are not an unconstitutional establishment of religion because there is no coercion involved, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) argues in an amicus curiae brief filed today in the U.S. Supreme Court.The ACRU's brief in support of the [...]
ACRU Files Brief Defending Utah Cross Memorials
71-Davenport v American AtheistsThe American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) filed an amicus curiae brief in the United States Supreme Court in support of the Petitioners in Davenport et al. v. American Atheists, Inc., urging the Court to grant certiorari to review the ruling of the Tenth Circuit finding memorial crosses [...]
Obamacare Bombshell: Final Ruling May Wait Until After 2012 Election
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 23, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Federal appeals judges dropped an Obamacare bombshell today that could change the calendar of when the Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether the president's signature law is unconstitutional.Two major lawsuits challenging the [...]
How The Government Created A Financial Crisis
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 19, 2011 on Forbes.com.Facing double digit inflation, double digit interest rates and soon to be double digit unemployment, President Reagan came into office with a four point economic [...]
Why I Take Obama's 'Common' Offenses Against Officers Personally
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published May 16, 2011 on the American Thinker blog.President Obama continues to use the White House as a platform to dishonor police officers.On May 11, Obama and First Lady Michele welcomed a rap poet who celebrates cop killers to the [...]
Throw Out the Bums Before Election Day
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 13, 2011 on The Washington Times website.In Wymore, Neb., voters got fed up with a councilman who kept leaving meetings. So, on Tuesday, they voted him out in a recall election. It's part of a nationwide pattern as people [...]
Human Events Spotlights the Carleson Center for Public Policy
Human Events published a "Conservative Spotlight" on the formation of the Carleson Center for Public Policy in its May 9, 2011 issue. Click here to download the article. (PDF)
The Incredible Shrinking Recovery
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 11, 2011 on The American Spectator website.There was President Obama at a recent fundraiser telling his star-struck enablers, look at me, after just two and a half years, [...]
National Histrionic
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 6, 2011 on The Washington Times website.A couple of years ago, I let my National Geographic subscription lapse because of the magazine's relentless earth worship. But I missed the superb photos, crisp writing and mind- boggling statistics, so I [...]
Reaganomics Vs. Obamanomics: Facts And Figures
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 5, 2011 on Forbes.com.In February 2009 I wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal entitled "Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics," which argued that the emerging outlines of President Obama's [...]
Obama's War on Oil
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 4, 2011 on The American Spectator website.As a guest on a black radio talk show recently, I suggested that someone ask President Obama what his plan is for [...]
Interrogation Not Litigation Led to Osama
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published May 4, 2011 on the American Thinker blog.Osama bin Laden is dead because President Obama followed the rules of war and the policies and procedures left to him by President George W. Bush rather than the rules of civil [...]