COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Terrorists With Union Cards?
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published March 8, 2011 on The Patriot Post website.The response of our State Department spokesman, P.J. Crowley, to the murder of two U.S. Airmen and the wounding of two others in Germany was firmly noncommittal. Crowley was unwilling to call the [...]
Bush Tax Cuts Still Working — For Now
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published March 9, 2011 on The American Spectator website.During President Obama's 2008 campaign, he termed the Bush tax cuts "the failed policies of the past." But last December, with the economy in shambles under the Keynesian, throwback, 1970s-style economic policies of [...]
Bush Tax Cuts Still Working — For Now
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published March 9, 2011 on The American Spectator website.During President Obama's 2008 campaign, he termed the Bush tax cuts "the failed policies of the past." But last December, with the economy in shambles under the Keynesian, throwback, 1970s-style economic policies of [...]
Public Employee Unions
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 3, 2011 on Townhall.com.With all of the union strife in Wisconsin, Indiana and New Jersey, and indications of more to come, it might be time to shed a bit of light on [...]
Gutting Medicare By Refusing To Pay The Bills
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published March 3, 2011 on Forbes.com.The full extent of the future cuts to Medicare under ObamaCare is revealed in the little noticed 2010 Financial Report of the U.S. Government, released in December by the Treasury Department. What the data in that [...]
They're All Detroit Democrats Now
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy Peter Ferrara was published March 2, 2011 on The American Spectator website.House Republicans have fulfilled their campaign pledge to cut $100 billion in spending in the first year, passing a continuing resolution (CR) [...]
It's Time To Block Grant Welfare To The States
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy Peter Ferrara was published February 23, 2011 on Forbes.com.If any liberal reform had been as wildly successful as the 1996 welfare reforms spearheaded by then House Speaker Newt Gingrich, every schoolchild in America [...]
American Dream or Socialist Nightmare
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 24, 2011 on The Washington Times website.There are few things more galling than communists lecturing Americans on how we can live up to our "values." A case in point is former Obama administration "green jobs czar" Van Jones rhapsodizing [...]
Democracy Versus Liberty
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 23, 2011 on Townhall.com.It is truly disgusting for me to hear politicians, national and international talking heads and pseudo-academics praising the Middle East stirrings as democracy movements. We also hear democracy as [...]
Wisconsin Showdown
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published February 23, 2011 on The American Spectator website .Nationwide, state and local government workers are paid on average 45% more than private sector workers, with an average hourly wage of $26.25, and $13.56 in hourly costs for benefits, for total [...]
Time to Recall AWOL Lawmakers
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published February 22, 2011 on FoxNews.com.Newly elected Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has moved expeditiously to propose legislation to close the state's $3.6 billion budget deficit. But that legislation languishes in the state legislature because the Democrat minority in the state Senate [...]
In Case of Emergency, Break the Constitution
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 11, 2011 on The Washington Times website.Did you know that the nation soon will undergo a test that will determine how effectively the president of the United States can seize control of the media in the event of an [...]
Good Morning, Suckers
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published February 16, 2011 on The American Spectator website.President Obama's budget released on Monday proposes to spend $3.73 trillion for 2012. He can't say Bush made him do that. That proposed spending is an undeniable fact that reveals who he is, [...]
Roadmap for Repealing Obamacare
As a member of the Conservative Action Project, ACRU CEO Susan Carleson and leaders of 32 other organizations representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement are united on repealing Obamacare and make the following recommendations:REPEALING OBAMACARE & PROTECTING COURT VICTORIESRE: House and Senate Leaders should seize the momentum [...]
Don't Sweeten the Hemlock
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and Family Research Council Senior Fellow for Policy Studies Bob Morrison was published February 9, 2011 on The Daily Caller website.Bill Bennett engaged in a fine discussion of strategy on his radio talk show recently. Marc Thiessen, a visiting fellow at the [...]
The Opposite of Ronald Reagan
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published February 9, 2011 on The American Spectator website.While Americans across the country are holding celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of President Reagan, President Obama and his media allies are peddling the line that he is just [...]
Obama's Foxy Evasions
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue appeared February 9, 2011 on the American Thinker website.Bill O'Reilly's interview of President Obama on Fox News just prior to the Super Bowl confirmed that he remains a self-absorbed leftist.Now that he's ardently denied moving to the political center, maybe pundits [...]
President Obama's Epic Obamacare Dilemma
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 6, 2011 on the The Washington Examiner website.Florida's Obamacare court ruling presents President Obama with a risky proposition.Because the federal court accepted our argument that the individual mandate cannot be severed from [...]
Reagan's Communism Rollback a Model for Tea Party
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 4, 2011 on The Washington Times website.Years ago, when I was a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, I got to sit down with Martin Anderson, one of Ronald Reagan's closest advisers.We were discussing what had [...]
What Reagan Would Do
This column by ACRU Chairman/CEO Susan A. Carleson and ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 4, 2011 on Townhall.com.We knew things weren't good, but nearly one seventh of all Americans on food stamps? Forty-three million people?That's the news this week from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which noted [...]