COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Ladies Who Launch
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published March 28, 2011 on the American Thinker website.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with a little help from her friends, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and National Security Advisor Samantha Power, is being hailed as a decisive [...]
Social Security Personal Accounts and the Financial Crisis
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 25, 2011 on Forbes.com.In a weekly radio address on Aug. 14 of last year, President Obama taunted Republicans on the issue of a personal savings and investment account [...]
Evasion of the Body Snatchers
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published March 22, 2011 on Townhall.com.Eleven years after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, on the eve of America's great Centennial celebration, counterfeiters formed a plot to steal his body from its honored grave in Springfield, Illinois. They had plans to hold the [...]
Honoring All our WWI Heroes
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published March 19, 2011 on Townhall.com.President Obama and Vice President Biden this week paid an unannounced visit to Arlington National Cemetery. They went there to offer the thanks of a grateful nation for the service of Frank Buckles, the last known [...]
Economic Lunacy
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 23, 2011 on Townhall.com.Economic lunacy abounds, and often the most learned, including Nobel Laureates, are its primary victims. The most recent example of economic lunacy is found in a Huffington Post article [...]
Budget Nuclear Option: Shut Down Obama Until the Election
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the CCPP Peter Ferrara was published March 21, 2011 on PajamasMedia.com.The House Republican leadership needs to get over their paralyzing fear of a government shutdown, which is based on the liberal media narrative of the politics of the 1995 shutdown. [...]
America's Accelerating Downward Spiral
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the CCPP Peter Ferrara was published March 23, 2011 on The American Spectator website.For two years now, I have been arguing in this column and elsewhere that President Obama's economic policies were a throwback to the 1970s, and so were [...]
A Banner Day For Freedom For a Rhode Island High School
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 19, 2011 on The Daily Caller website.Remember those lists that contrasted the problems that faced schools in the 1950s with the problems that face schools today? In the '50s, gum chewing, running in the hall and tardiness were right [...]
A Winning Plan For Social Security Reform
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published March 17, 2011 on Forbes.com.Next year the baby boomers begin to retire on Medicare in earnest, and the year after that on Social Security. For decades now, the federal government's own official reports have been showing that Social Security would [...]
Obama: On the Wrong Side of History?
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published March 17, 2011 on The Patriot Post website."I don't think anybody disputes that Gaddafi has more firepower than the opposition," President Obama said at a recent White House news conference."I believe that Gaddafi is on the wrong side of history [...]
Make the Bush Tax Cuts Permanent
This column by Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and ACRU General Counsel and Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy Peter Ferrara was published March 16, 2011 in The Wall Street Journal.By the end of last year, President Obama was faced with the utter failure [...]
Continuing Stubborn Ignorance
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 16, 2011 on Townhall.com.Within the past decade, I've written three columns titled "Deception 101," "Stubborn Ignorance," and "Exploiting Public Ignorance," all explaining which branch of the federal government has taxing and spending [...]
Slouching Towards Argentina
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy Peter Ferrara was published March 16, 2011 on The American Spectator website.Argentina enjoyed the world's fourth highest per capita GDP in 1929, on par with America at the time. But then the nation [...]
State Department Is AWOL on Religious Liberties
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published March 15, 2011 on The American Spectator website.Last May 31 in Afghanistan, a world away from American backyard barbeques and military parades, Sayeed Mussa vanished into thin air. Mr. Mussa was spirited away to an unknown location to be executed [...]
Why Isn't Awlaki on the Most Wanted List?
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published March 15, 2011 on the American Thinker website.You might think that a top terrorist targeted for assassination by the Obama administration would be on the FBI's list of "Most Wanted Terrorists." You might think he would be under indictment [...]
Supreme Court may be Tiring of Atheist Activist Newdow
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 10, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Atheist activist Michael Newdow, a controversial lawyer who once received significant media attention, may have worn out his welcome at the U.S. Supreme Court this week.Although many lawyers who argue before the [...]
Unions Show No Class in Wisconsin 'War'
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 11, 2011 on The Washington Times website."I'm not going to lie to you, this is going to get ugly." So predicts "Goldfish," a Daily Kos blogger who boasts of spending two weekends in Madison, Wisc., "on the Front Lines [...]
The Anachronism Of State Income Taxes
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy Peter Ferrara was published March 9, 2011 on Forbes.com.Nine states survive perfectly well with no state income tax at all. These include large states such as Texas and Florida, medium-size states such as [...]
Obama Energy Non-Policy Hurting America
As a member of the Conservative Action Project, ACRU CEO Susan Carleson and leaders of 31 other organizations representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement are united in opposing the Obama administration's actions on energy policy that are hurting America.MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT: Obama Energy Non-Policy Hurting AmericaRE: [...]
Handouts, Morality and Common Sense
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 9, 2011 on Townhall.com.Whether Americans realize it or not, the last decade's path of congressional spending is unsustainable. Spending must be reined in, but what spending should be cut? The Republican majority [...]