COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
The Taxation President
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on January 30, 2014 on the American Spectator website.The President started last year forcing through sweeping tax increases. The top marginal income tax rate rose by nearly 20%, to punish the most successful for the anti-social acts of working too [...]
OK to Feel Sorry
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 22, 2014 on Townhall.com.At one time in our nation's history, blacks feeling sorry for whites was verboten. That was portrayed in Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. This is [...]
After Five Years of Obamanomics, a Record 100 Million Americans Not Working
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on January 24, 2014 on the Forbes website.The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) jobs report for December counted 74,000 jobs created last month. That was less than half the 200,000 new jobs expected.Nevertheless, the BLS reported those 74,000 new jobs [...]
ACRU Supports Hobby Lobby Against ObamaCare Contraceptive Mandate
"Individuals have Free Exercise rights with respect to their for-profit businesses."WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 28, 2014) - The Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate unconstitutionally violates the religious freedom of a Christian family that owns a chain of craft stores and a chain of Christian bookstores, the American Civil Rights Union argues [...]
When Wendy Warred with a Woman
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing January 25, 2014 on The American Thinker website.One can learn a lot about State Sen. Wendy Davis, the Democratic candidate for governor of Texas, from her battles.Davis has been battling to restore her tarnished image as a result of nonstop [...]
Obama Should Stop Taking Credit: Health Savings Accounts Are Driving Down Costs
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on January 21, 2014 on the Forbes website.In his economic address at the Washington Navy Yard on September 16, President Obama bragged that "Health care costs are growing at the slowest rate in 50 years," and attributed that to his [...]
Income Inequality
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 15, 2014 on Townhall.com.Democrats plan to demagogue income inequality and the wealth gap for political gain in this year's elections. Most of what's said about income inequality is stupid or, at best, [...]
Why Economic Growth is Exponentially More Important Than Income Inequality
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published January 14, 2014 on Forbes.com.In 1900, we had no airplanes, no computers, no cellphones, no internet. We had only rudimentary versions of cars, trucks, telephones, even cameras.But in the last century, 1900 to 2000, as Stephen Moore and Julian L. [...]
Supreme Court to Decide if Abortion Buffer Zones Violate Pro-Life Free Speech
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 14, 2014 on The Washington Times website.Members of American Civil Liberties Union like to bill themselves as the ultimate protectors of the First Amendment, defending hard-core pornography as "free speech" and even the possession of child pornography. Go ahead, [...]
Politics and Minimum Wage
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 8, 2014 on Townhall.com.There's little debate among academic economists about the effect of minimum wages. University of California, Irvine economist David Neumark has examined more than 100 major academic studies on the [...]
Barack Obama's Presidency is a Complete Failure by His Own, Self-Imposed Standards
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published December 31, 2013 on Forbes.com.At the end of 2013, after serving five years, Barack Obama is a complete failure as President, by his own standards, as reflected in his own words.How many times has President Obama told us that he [...]
Dumb Politicians Won't Get Elected
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published December 25, 2013 on Townhall.com.Politicians can be progressives, liberals, conservatives, Democrats or Republicans, and right-wingers. They just can't be dumb. The American people will never elect them to office. Let's look at it.For [...]
Obama's Slow Growth Policies Have Stacked the Deck Against American Workers
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published December 26, 2013 on Forbes.com.President Obama told us in his December 4 economic coming out speech on inequality, which the Huffington Post called the most important speech of his Presidency, "But we know that people's frustrations run deeper than these [...]