COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Supreme Court Hints at Obamacare Impact in Sovereign Immunity Cases
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 23, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Federal law allows state officials to sue each other in federal court, but it's unconstitutional to sue a state for refusing to allow misbehaving inmates to attend religious services. Thus said the [...]
America's Ever Expanding Welfare Empire
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 22, 2011 on Forbes website.A fundamental misconception about America's welfare state misleads millions of voters to reflexively support ever bigger and more generous government. William Voegeli fingers the [...]
Christ's Resurrection Always Invites Media Barrage
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 23, 2011 on The Washington Times website.With spring in the air, all but the truly soul-dead feel the pull of not only natural but spiritual renewal. The surge of new life after winter's dormancy is so magnificent that it [...]
EPA Mandates are Killing Jobs in Coal-Powered Ohio
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published April 19, 2011 on The Cincinnati Enquirer website.During a recent speech at Cleveland State focused on small business in Ohio, President Barack Obama described a goal of "knocking down barriers that stand in the way of your growth." Unfortunately, his [...]
Justices against Court-Imposed Cap-and-Trade
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 19, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.It appeared yesterday during oral arguments in a case raising important constitutional and political issues that members of the U.S. Supreme Court doubt the wisdom of allowing federal judges the power to [...]
Economics and Property Rights at Center of Supreme Court's Microsoft Case
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 18, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Property rights and economics are at the heart of a Microsoft case that pitted a top Bush lawyer against top Clinton and Obama lawyers in arguments before the Supreme Court yesterday.Justices heard [...]
Obama's Taxes and America's Jobs
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 20, 2011 on The American Spectator website.Between President Obama's political campaign speech on the budget last week, and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's thorough 2012 budget proposal, [...]
Federal Appeals Court Dismisses National Day of Prayer Challenge
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 17, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.On April 14, a federal appeals court dismissed a challenge to the National Day of Prayer in a notable victory for religious liberty.The first national call for prayer was from President George [...]
The Gang That Won't Shoot Straight
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published April 16, 2011 on Townhall.com.Hollywood and Washington are rife with elites opposed to the right to bear arms for folks in flyover country "who cling to guns or religion," as their champion in the White House described us.Some notable [...]
Obama's Budget Speech Frames The Debate For 2012
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 14, 2011 on Forbes.com.President Obama's budget speech Wednesday fatefully framed the debate for 2012. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's 2012 budget proposes to return the level of [...]
Death Trap Democrats
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 13, 2011 on The American Spectator website.Despite November's New Deal magnitude political earthquake, surviving House Democrats just laughed off their historic 63 seat loss and reelected ultra-left San [...]
The Welfare Reform Model for Medicaid
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara and Vice President for Policy at Americans for Prosperity Phil Kerpen was published April 13, 2011 in The Wall Street Journal.One of the greatest bipartisan policy successes of recent decades was [...]
No More Czars for the President
As a member of the Conservative Action Project, ACRU CEO Susan Carleson and leaders of 28 other organizations representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement are united in opposing the creation of more unaccountable "czars."MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT: Senators Schumer and Alexander want to reduce the number of [...]
Diversity Perversity
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 6, 2011 on Townhall.com.The terms affirmative action, equal representation, preferential treatment and quotas just don't sell well. The intellectual elite and their media, government and corporate enthusiasts have come up with diversity, [...]
Paul Ryan's Adult Conversation
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 6, 2011 on The American Spectator website.Before Paul Ryan's 2012 budget released yesterday, the Liberal Establishment was telling us that what was needed was an adult conversation on [...]
President Obama & Senate Democrats Have No Excuse for "Shutting Down" the Federal Government
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 the belief that if there is a government shutdown, it will be the fault of Senate Democrats and President Obama.MEMO [...]
Obama's Energetic War on the Young
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 1, 2011 on The Washington Times website.President Obama needs to reinvent reality, so where does he go? A college campus. And why not? With gas doubling in price toward $4 a gallon, what better place to talk energy than [...]
Department of Injustice
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 30, 2011 on Townhall.com.One of the requirements to become a Dayton, Ohio police officer is to successfully pass the city's two-part written examination. Applicants must correctly answer 57 of 86 questions on [...]
A Big Question for 2012
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 30, 2011 on The American Spectator website.If you listen to President Obama and his Democrat and liberal/left cronies carefully, a clear, consistent message comes through on what they [...]
Court Weighs Constitutionality of Law Funding Political Opposition
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 28, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Should taxpayer money go to fund political campaigns when another candidate raises money? It does in Arizona. Now the Supreme Court will decide whether this system violates the First Amendment in the [...]