COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
ACLU Sings Harmony with Violent Lyricist
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 13, 2014 on The Washington Times website.In a case of attempted murder headed for the New Jersey Supreme Court, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wants violent lyrics written by the accused to be protected as "free speech" and [...]
Governed by Rules, Not Men
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 12, 2014 on Townhall.com.What kind of rules should govern our lives? I'd argue that the best rules are those that we'd be satisfied with if our very worst enemy were in charge [...]
On Track to Restart the Cold War
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on March 12, 2014 on The American Spectator website.On economic policy, President Obama has consistently and thoroughly followed just the opposite of everything Reagan did. And that is why he has consistently and thoroughly gotten the opposite of Reagan's results.Reagan [...]
ACRU: IRS, U.S. Court Overreached on Obamacare Exchanges
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 11, 2014) — In a brief filed Monday at the Fourth District U.S. Court of Appeals, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) argues that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has ignored Congress on Obamacare and violated the constitutional separation of powers.Even though the Affordable Care Act (ACA) [...]
Riding the Rails to Insolvency at High Speed
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 7, 2014 on The Washington Times website.The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) says in a new report that the light-rail "Purple Line" expanding Washington, D.C.'s rail system further into the Maryland suburbs will cost $1 billion more than originally estimated.Well, [...]
Obama Democrats Versus Kennedy Democrats
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on March 10, 2014 on Forbes.com.In promoting his economic program in the early 1960s, President Kennedy told the American people,"It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today, and tax revenues are too low and the soundest [...]
Solutions to Black Education
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 26, 2014 on Townhall.com.A fortnight ago, my column focused on how Philadelphia's schoolteachers have joined public-school teachers in cities such as Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, Columbus, New York and Washington in changing [...]
The Period of No Global Warming Will Soon Be Longer Than the Period of Actual Global Warming
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on February 24, 2014 on Forbes.com.If you look at the record of global temperature data, you will find that the late 20th Century period of global warming actually lasted about 20 years, from the late 1970s to the late 1990s. [...]
America's Constitutional Crisis
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on February 21, 2014 on Forbes.com.President Obama famously has a pen and a phone. And if he had the same powers that Hugo Chavez had, that would be all he would need to impose Hugo Chavez's programs on America, unilaterally [...]
Positioning the Coming Myths
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on February 19, 2014 on The American Spectator website. Personal matters have led me to spend more time in Southern California recently. There my eyes have been opened to new developing trends in American culture with political implications. On my [...]
Concealing Evil
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 19, 2014 on Townhall.com.Evil acts are given an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding socialistic expressions, such as spreading the wealth, income redistribution, caring for the less fortunate, and the will of [...]
The Unenviable Role of Liberal Apologist for Obama Policies
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 21, 2014 on The Washington Times website.It's getting harder every day to be a liberal.Having to defend Obamacare is enough to exhaust the hardiest soul. Trying to explain President Obama's foreign policy would give anybody -- even a creative [...]
Rousing Those Moribund 'Monuments Men'
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published February 21, 2014 on the American Thinker website.American liberty is under assault as President Obama runs roughshod over a Congress as passive as the statuary adorning its halls.Like our Founders, Congress needs the energizing force of liberty. They might [...]
When You Give Liberals the Oval Office
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 14, 2014 on The Washington Times website.On Presidents Day, we honor those men who helped start and guide our nation. Their leadership got us through the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression, two world wars and the [...]
If You Work Full Time, You Will Not be Poor
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on February 5, 2014 on The American Spectator website.President Obama said in his State of the Union last week, "But Americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty."Thank you, [...]
Truth and Consequences for Krugman, and Keynes, and Obama
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on February 10, 2014 on Forbes.com.Just about one year ago, on February 8, 2013, New York Times columnist and unreconstructed Keynesian Paul Krugman was interviewed by another lefty, Marc Lamont Hill, on Huff Post Live, the Huffington Post website.Krugman was [...]
Bully EPA's Air Rules Over All
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 10, 2014 on The Washington Times website.With breathtaking mountains, constant wind and a tiny carbon footprint, Wyoming has some of the prettiest scenery and cleanest air in the nation.Wyoming ranks 10th among the states in size, but with only [...]
The ACLU's Deadly Prescription for Addiction
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 6, 2014 on The Washington Times website.Drug overdoses are in the news again with the passing of Philip Seymour Hoffman. The 46-year-old actor was found dead on Sunday in his Manhattan office-apartment of an apparent drug overdose. Investigators found [...]
President Obama's State of the Union Formula for Economic Stagnation: More Taxes for Still More Spending, and Still More Regulation
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on January 31, 2014 on Forbes.com.In a column last month (Barack Obama's Presidency Is a Complete Failure By His Own, Self-Imposed Standards 12/31/2013), I explained that President Obama's Presidency has been a complete failure by his own standards. He tells [...]
Politics of Hate and Envy
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 29, 2014 on Townhall.com.Part of the progressive agenda is to create hate and envy. One component of that agenda is to attack the large differences between a corporation's chief executive officer's earnings [...]