COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Robert Knight: U.S. Was Born a Christian Nation
ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this article appearing August 29, 2010 on CNN.com.Will Bunch's CNN.com tirade earlier this week against television host Glenn Beck and David Barton -- the founder and president of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization that emphasizes history's "moral, religious and constitutional heritage" -- for allegedly [...]
Walter E. Williams: Who Cares About Our Future?
Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing August 25, 2010 on Townhall.com.My column titled "What Handouts to Cut?" created a number of angry responses, and for the first time in my life, I had some, not much, sympathy for political cowardice. Most letters were from senior citizens [...]
Jan LaRue: Speaker of the Institutionalized
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing August 22, 2010 on The American Thinker website.Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is a national embarrassment with a long train of gaffes and abuses. It can give you angina to bear in mind that she's two heartbeats from the [...]
Peter Ferrara: The Coming Obamacare Disaster
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing August 18, 2010 on The American Spectator.Forthcoming for public release shortly will be my extensive study of the Obamacare legislation, "The Obamacare Disaster: An Appraisal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (Heartland Policy Study No. 128, The Heartland Institute, [...]
Peter Ferrara: How to Balance the Budget
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing August 16, 2010 on The American Spectator.President Obama's budget proposes all-time record federal spending of $3.834 trillion for fiscal 2011, up 29 percent from fiscal 2008 and 40 percent from fiscal 2007, which was the last budget adopted by Republican congressional [...]
Walter E. Williams: What Handouts To Cut
Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing August 11, 2010 on Townhall.com.Because of failure to heed the limitations of the U.S. Constitution, which has produced runaway federal spending, our nation sits on the precipice of disaster. Former Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming and Erskine Bowles, White House [...]
Jan LaRue: The Manhattan Mosque and Women
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing August 7, 2010 on The American Thinker.New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the ACLU, and the go-along-to get-along throng who support building a massive mosque at Ground Zero need to explain why they're okay with a Shariah version of Jim Crow [...]
Peter Ferrara: The Proposed New York Mosque and the Constitution
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing August 4, 2010 on FOXNews.com.Muslim interests propose to build a 15 story mosque in Manhattan towering over the site of the 9/11 atrocity just 600 feet away. They would name the monument "Cordoba House."The original Great Mosque of Cordoba was built [...]
Ken Blackwell: Mr. President: Don't back the Dhimmicrats!
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing August 5, 2010, on The Daily Caller.Despite what you may think, Dhimmicrats are not Democrats. A dhimmicrat is a Western official who uses his position of power and influence to clear the pathway for the spread of shariah—the law they have [...]
Peter Ferrara: The Big Bamboozler
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing August 4, 2010 on The American Spectator.On Monday, at yet another campaign fundraiser, the part-time President, full-time campaigner Barack Obama told Democrat fat cats, with both hands in taxpayer pockets, that Republicans "have not come up with a single, solitary new [...]
Peter Ferrara: What If Revenue From The Rich Dries Up?
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing August 2, 2010 on Investors.com.President Obama says his sweeping, across-the-board increases for every major federal tax rate starting next year are necessary for "the rich" to pay their fair share. "The rich" are defined as those making more than $250,000 per [...]
Robert Knight: The Kagan Moral Train Wreck
ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing August 3, 2010 on Townhall.com.As we watch in disbelief, the United States Senate is about to take the Fifth on a Supreme Court nominee who has no business being near a courtroom except as a defendant.The word from Capitol Hill is [...]
Jan LaRue: Obama's Stealth Amnesty Express
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing August 2, 2010, on TownHall.com.Amnesty is on the horizon. Open and transparent government be damned--full speed ahead. Barack Obama is throwing overboard his commitment to "an unprecedented level of openness in Government" as he pursues his ultimate goal of "fundamentally [...]
Ken Klukowski: Federal Court Allows Challenge to Obamacare
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing August 2, 2010, on Townhall.com.The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia denied the Obama administration's motion to dismiss Virginia's lawsuit against Obamacare. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli filed one of the three major lawsuits against President Obama's [...]
Peter Ferrara: Beware the Balanced Budget Deal
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing July 29, 2010, on Wall Street Journal Online.Washington's traditional approach to balancing the budget is to negotiate an agreement on a package of benefit cuts and tax increases. President Obama's deficit commission seems likely to recommend just this strategy in December. The [...]
Ken Klukowski: Three Silver Linings in the Bad Arizona Court Decision
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing July 29, 2010, on BigGovernment.com.Wednesday's federal court decision on Arizona's immigration law is being rightly criticized for a number of reasons. But there are three silver linings to this situation, which may result in the rule of law prevailing in [...]
Peter Ferrara: The Timeless Principles of American Prosperity
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing July 28, 2010 on Spectator.org.We know, based on economic experience, theory, and logic, how to create another economic boom that will last 25 years, or a generation into the future. We achieved that in America from the end of 1982 to [...]
Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski: Obamacare Mandate Much Worse than a Tax
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing July 22, 2010, on BigGovernment.com.In the Wall Street Journal today, we discuss why the Obamacare mandate is not a tax, and even if it were, it would still be unconstitutional. But there's much more [...]
Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski: Why the ObamaCare Tax Penalty Is Unconstitutional
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing July 22, 2010, on The Wall Street Journal.The Justice Department announced last week that it would defend the new federal health-insurance mandate as an exercise of Congress's "power to lay and collect taxes," even [...]
Complaint Filed in North Dakota Supreme Court to Allow Recall of U.S. Senator Kent Conrad
On July 14, North Dakota joined New Jersey in an effort to recall a U.S. Senator.RecallND filed a complaint with the North Dakota Supreme Court claiming that the state's Secretary of State has unconstitutionally blocked a petition to recall U.S. Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND).The complaint indicates that on May 13 [...]