COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Getting Our Fiscal House in Order
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing November 14, 2010, on The Huffington Post website.On November 2, the American people sent a resounding message to Washington D.C. that the era of reckless spending must stop.We all know a Balanced Budget Amendment is vital to stopping out of control [...]
Barack Obama: The Most Anti-Israel President
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing November 12, 2010, on Townhall.com.With his remarks in Jakarta, Indonesia, President Obama made history once again. Sadly, it's a most unenviable title. I believe he is the most anti-Israel President in U.S. history.In going to Jakarta, Indonesia, to launch his latest [...]
Supreme Court Weighs Arizona Tax Credit for Christian Schools
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing November 10, 2010 on Townhall.comWhile America was talking about the election returns, the Supreme Court was talking about tax credits to fund Christian schools in Arizona. It looks like this might be yet another 5-4 decision on religious liberty, and [...]
Attack the Deficits: The Fierce Urgency of Now
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing November 8, 2010, on Townhall.com.Appearing Sunday on ABC's "This Week," Senator-elect Rand Paul (R-KY) told host Christiane Amanpour he would push for a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.This is an idea whose time has come. In 1994, Republicans campaigned [...]
Does First Amendment Require Selling Violent Video Games to Children?
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing November 3, 2010 on Townhall.comMany newer video games depict graphic violence, such as torturing and defiling women and children. These games are sold to kids. The Supreme Court is considering whether the First Amendment forbids states from restricting the sale [...]
Pay No Attention to the Communists Behind the Curtain
ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing November 1, 2010 on The American Thinker website.The evidence is overwhelming. The media interest is zero. The UFO strategy is in force.Let me explain.I'm talking about the unsolved Weather Underground murder of San Francisco Police Officer Brian V. McDonnell. A bomb [...]
Pulling Back the Curtain on Obama's Audacity
ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing October 29, 2010 on The Washington Times website.One of the most memorable scenes in The Wizard of Oz is when Toto yanks on the curtain to reveal the bogus wizard faking a larger-than-life image. In 2008, the media played the role [...]
Marco Rubio is the Second Hispanic Democrats are Trying to Keep Down
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing October 29, 2010, on BigGovernment.comIt's been revealed that the Obama White House is trying to beat Marco Rubio to keep Hispanic-Americans from having a choice when it comes to political parties. This is the second time Democrats have done this, [...]
More Respect for the President, Please!
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing October 27, 2010, on The Patriot Post website.President Barack Obama began his term with the highest of accolades in the press. Hard Ball host, TV's Chris Matthews, felt a tingle go up and down his leg whenever Mr. Obama speaks. Newsweek's [...]
Ohio Government Censors Pro-Life Group, Court Battle Begins
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing October 26, 2010, on Townhall.com.Congressman Steve Driehaus broke faith with his constituents in the Cincinnati, Ohio area, by voting for the big-government monstrosity known as Obamacare. The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List (SBAL) has run billboards condemning Driehaus' vote, asserting [...]
NPR: All PC Things Considered
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing October 22, 2010, on the World Magazine website.National Public Radio is a monument to political correctness. Its acronym might better be thought of as "not professionally responsible." It is not a left-leaning organization. The Leaning Tower of Pisa leans. NPR has [...]
ACLU Outrage: Illinois Recall Proposal "Unconstitutional"
By ACRU Senior Fellow Robert KnightBuckling under constituent heat to deal with corruption exemplified by the multiple-count indictment of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), Illinois legislators gave final approval on Oct. 15 to put a recall of governors law on the November 2 ballot.The ACLU is rattling its sword, warning [...]
Recalling Senator Kent Conrad
Tea Party organizers in North Dakota go to court today in their attempted recall of four-term Sen. Kent Conrad. Oral arguments were heard this morning in the North Dakota Supreme Court in the case of RecallND v. Jaegar arising out of the refusal by North Dakota Secretary of State Al [...]
Angle Wins, Toomey Loses?
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing October 20, 2010 on The American Spectator website.Harry Reid didn't just vote for the failed, wasted, trillion dollar stimulus. As Senate Majority Leader, he led its enactment. And he didn't just vote for President Obama's record smashing federal spending, deficits, and [...]
Leftists, Progressives and Socialists
ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing October 20, 2010 on Townhall.com.One of the greatest sources of confusion and deception is the difference between leftists, progressives, socialists, communists and fascists. I thought about this as I caught a glimpse of the Oct. [...]
How to Really Reform the U.N.
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing October 16, 2010, on The American Thinker website.President Obama famously responded to a question about "American exceptionalism." Asked by a reporter if he believed in it, Mr. Obama replied, "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits [...]
Make Them Agree to Kill the Death Tax
ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing October 15, 2010 on The Washington Times website and in the print edition on October 18, 2010.As election day approaches and many incumbents contemplate the death of their political careers, it's a good time to remind them of their unfinished work [...]
The Political Suicide of President Obama
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing October 15, 2010, on The Patriot Post website.Liberals sit down with the New York Times the way Catholics enter the confessional: To make a clean breast of their sins and to ask for absolution. Except that the Gray Lady offers no [...]
So Much Worse Than Carter
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing October 13, 2010 on The American Spectator website.The most important fact to take from the September unemployment report released last week is that almost three years after the recession began the economy was still losing jobs! Almost 100,000 (95,000) additional jobs [...]
Movie: Dawn of Liberty
In the early morning hours of April 19, 1775 John Parker, commander of the Lexington militia, is alerted by Paul Revere that 1,000 elite troops of the British Army have marched out of Boston to seize rebel arms and munitions stored at nearby Concord.Parker realizes that the simmering cauldron of [...]