COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
Lies, Lies and More Presidential Lies
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 5, 2014 on The Washington Times website.One bad thing about our media-mad age is that it's difficult to keep up with all the lies we're being told by our government. The good news is that falsehoods don't have the [...]
Militant Atheists' War on Christians and Christmas in 2013
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published December 22, 2013 on Breitbart.com.This Christmas season is seeing those who deny the existence of God pressing forward with a militant secular agenda, one that is intolerant--often bitterly so--of Christians in America.Set aside for a moment the blockbuster controversy [...]
A Miracle Not of Our Making
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 22, 2013 on The Washington Times website.We went last week to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Va., which is staging Christmas Town, a spectacular display of lights, rides and holiday themes. It's all pretty amazing, with a 50-foot Christmas tree, [...]
ACRU: Obama's 'Julius Caesar Option' Usurps Legislative Power
EPA Has No Authority to Issue 'Greenhouse Gas' Rules that Congress Refused to Enact, Supreme Court Brief SaysWASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 18, 2013) -- Under President Obama, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is violating the Constitution's clear separation of powers by issuing "greenhouse gas" emission regulations that Congress explicitly rejected, the [...]
Capital Dysfunction
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 15, 2013 on The Washington Times website.Baseball and football fans know that when coaches chew out umpires and referees, there's little chance that the questionable call will be overturned -- especially in baseball. In many cases, though, that's not [...]
Can the ACLU Force Catholic Hospitals to Perform Abortions?
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 5, 2013 on The Washington Times website.The ACLU wants Catholic hospitals to practice medicine without morals.The American Civil Liberties Union is so upset that a Michigan baby died just after being born that the group is suing the Catholic [...]
Dems' Power Grab Will Cost Them the War Over the Constitution in Court
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published November 26, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Winning a battle that costs you a war is no victory.The silver lining from President Obama's and Senate Democrats' unprecedented power grab last week is that now a conservative Republican president can appoint a Supreme [...]