COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
What Would Reagan Do About Egypt?
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published February 3, 2011 on the BIG PEACE website.We're about to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth. As much as I would like to praise that great and good man, I have to wonder what he would do about [...]
Black Education
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams was published February 2, 2011 on Townhall.com.In my "Black Education Disaster" column (12/22/10), I presented National Assessment of Educational Progress test data that demonstrated that an average black high school graduate had a level of reading, [...]
The Legal Future of Obamacare
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared February 2, 2011 on The American Spectator website.As of this moment Obamacare is officially not the law of the land. As Federal Judge Roger Vinson ruled on Monday in Florida, "[T]here is a long standing presumption that officials of the Executive [...]
ObamaCare Unconstitutional — Why Judge Vinson's Ruling Is So Important
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 1, 2011 on FoxNews.com.The federal court in the massive 26-state challenge to ObamaCare on Monday held that the health care law's individual mandate is unconstitutional. And, even more importantly, the judge accepted the argument in my court brief [...]
Bowing and Kowtowing
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published February 1, 2011 on The Patriot Post website.The Obama administration thinks that George W. Bush was too arrogant, that he liked to throw his weight around in international affairs. The way to win Nobel Peace Prizes was obviously to cut [...]
Socialism's State of the Union
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 28, 2011 on The Washington Times website.Socialism - the abolishment of private property - sometimes advances at the point of a gun. At other times, it advances by co-opting the language of freedom.In his State of the Union speech [...]
Mike Lee for Senate Judiciary Committee
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 26, 2011 on Townhall.com.It's a positive sign of the times that constitutional expert Mike Lee of Utah was elected to the U.S. Senate. To make full use of Senator Lee's extraordinary knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, Republican Leader [...]
Can Our Nation Be Saved?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams was published January 26, 2011 on Townhall.com.National debt is over $14 trillion, the federal budget deficit is $1.4 trillion and, depending on whose estimates are used, the unfunded liability or indebtedness of the federal government (mostly [...]
Appeasing the Gods, Hawaii Style
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 25, 2011 on The Washington Times website.In the state where pagan natives once threw people off cliffs to placate the gods, the Hawaiian state Senate has voted to end the practice of opening its sessions with prayer.It's probably just [...]
Why Today Is 1979, Not 1995
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared January 26, 2011 on The American Spectator website.In 1979, of course, Jimmy Carter was the incumbent President, and no sophisticated, intelligent person in Washington thought Ronald Reagan had a serious chance of beating him. The RNC was convinced Reagan would be [...]
Obama Justice Department Must Probe Child Porn at MTV
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 25, 2011 on The Patriot Post website.The child porn allegations made against MTV for its "Skins" show must be investigated by the Obama Justice Department. Child pornography is not protected by the [...]
Obama and the 'Constitutional' House of Horrors
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue appeared January 24, 2011 on Townhall.com.January 22nd was the 38th anniversary of the mother of all absurd Supreme Court rulings, Roe. v. Wade. Unsurprisingly, America's most pro-abortion President even chose to celebrate Roe in a public statement while ignoring the atrocities [...]
When Science Goes Mad
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 21, 2011 on The Washington Times website.On any given day, scientists jolt us with new findings - and possibilities.The white coats in China are busily creating chimeras, the offspring of humans mated with animals (via Petri dish) in order [...]
Second Amendment is Insurance Against Government Tyranny
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 20, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.Gun-control legislation is back after the Tucson tragedy. Congress must confront the reality that the courts have declared two reasons for the Second Amendment right to bear arms. One is self-defense, and [...]
Why We're a Divided Nation
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams was published January 19, 2011 on Townhall.com.Some Americans have strong, sometimes unyielding preferences for Mac computers, while most others have similarly strong preferences for PCs and wouldn't be caught dead using a Mac. Some Americans love [...]
Welcoming Hu Jintao
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published January 19, 2011, on The American Thinker website.It was twenty-two years ago, in the spring of 1989, that thousands of Chinese students gathered in Beijing's Tienanmen Square to demand democracy. The students even fashioned their own 30-foot high replica of [...]
Death and Liberalism
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared January 19, 2011 on The American Spectator website.Imagine if Sarah Palin or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh had said the following about a Democrat candidate running for Governor of Florida:That Scott down there that's running for Governor of Florida. Instead of [...]
Recall Sheriff Dupnik
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 14, 2011 on The Washington Times website.A lot of people are wondering what to do about Clarence Dupnik, sheriff of Pima County, Ariz. He's the left-wing lawman who shot off his mouth and blamed everyone to the right of [...]
A Bright Idea: Rescue the Incandescents
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published January 13, 2011, on The American Thinker website.Why is Paris known as the City of Light? Is it because the U.S. Congress banned Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulbs, so he had to take his invention offshore?Well, not actually. Thomas Edison [...]