COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Blacks and Obama
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published December 04, 2013 on Townhall.com.In a March 2008 column, I criticized pundits' concerns about whether America was ready for Barack Obama, suggesting that the more important issue was whether black people could afford [...]
Did The BLS Give Obama A Major Election 2012 Gift?
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published November 27, 2013 on Forbes.com.Just one month before the 2012 election, the Obama campaign received a major illegal campaign contribution from the Commerce Department. The Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on October 5, 2012 that the nation's unemployment [...]
Obama Uses IRS to Eliminate His Enemies
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski and ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published December 3, 2013 on Breitbart.com."The power to tax involves the power to destroy," the Supreme Court wrote in 1819, shortly after America began.Now in 2013, President Barack Obama is launching a frightening attack [...]
The Great Depression Was Ended by the End of World War II, Not the Start of It
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published November 30, 2013 on Forbes.com.A common fallacy is that the Great Depression was ended by the explosive spending of World War II. But World War II actually institutionalized the sharp decline in the standard of living caused by the Depression. [...]
Masking Totalitarianism
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 27, 2013 on Townhall.com.One of the oldest notions in the history of mankind is that some people are to give orders and others are to obey. The powerful elite believe that they [...]
Do Americans Prefer Deception?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 20, 2013 on Townhall.com.There's more to the deceit and dishonesty about Social Security and Medicare discussed in my recent columns. Congress tells us that one-half (6.2 percent) of the Social Security tax [...]
'Signal and Manifest Mercies'
Giving thanks to God for America's blessings has a long pedigree, from observances in Jamestown, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts in the 17th Century, and at the dawn of our new nation.On Sept. 25, 1789, the day after the House of Representatives passed the Bill of Rights, Elias Boudinot, president of [...]
The ACLU's Not So Holy Trinity
This column by Grove City College historian Paul Kengor was published December 14, 2010 on the American Spectator website.There's a reason why the Christmas season always brings out the atheist in the ACLU.In a revealing American Spectator article, historian Paul Kengor uproots the American Civil Liberties Union's historic hostility to [...]
ACRU: Obama Made Illegal Recess Appointments to NLRB
Group's Supreme Court brief supports private company against negative ruling by a National Labor Relations Board that lacked a constitutionally legal quorum.WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 26, 2013) -- President Obama violated the Constitution by claiming to have made three appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) when the Senate was [...]
We Must Repeal Obamacare To Make Society Much More Humane
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published November 18, 2013 on Forbes.com.In a Wall Street Journal commentary on November 11, Alan Blinder purports to tell us why, despite a "botched rollout," Obamacare is still worth it. "America cannot be a humane society if we leave 15% of [...]
Entitlement Reform, Tea Party Style
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published November 13, 2013 on the American Spectator website.The Tea Party/Republican House majority was elected in 2010 to stop the runaway Obama/Progressive Democrat big government spending spree. And it has had a decisive effect in that regard, as recorded in the [...]
Clarence Thomas vs. Barack Obama on Gettysburg, American Greatness
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published November 19, 2013 on Breitbart.com.When asked last week how he ended up on the Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Clarence Thomas said, "It was totally Forrest Gump," in a revealing--and hilarious--on-stage interview at last week's Federalist Society [...]
Feeling the Pain and Assigning the Blame
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published November 17, 2013 on The Washington Times website.When Bill Clinton jumps off the bus over embarrassing prevarications, you know it's getting serious.The former president's rebuke last week of President Obama for repeatedly lying to Americans that they could keep their [...]
Obama's Insurance 'Fix' is Unconstitutional
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published November 14, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Outlets are quoting Democratic operative Howard Dean saying of President Barack Obama suspending certain Obamacare requirements, "I wonder if he has the legal authority to do this."To remove all doubt: The Take Care Clause of [...]
A 'Sorry' Excuse for a President
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published November 15, 2013 on the American Thinker website.President Obama is "sorry" that millions of Americans have had their health insurance plans cancelled despite his promises that ObamaCare would not cause this.Is Obama sorry he's been caught in multiple material [...]
Does Washington Know Best?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 13, 2013 on Townhall.com.According to some estimates, there are more than 100 million traffic signals in the U.S., but whatever the number, how many of us would like Washington, in the name [...]
The Coming Revelation of the 'Global Warming' Fraud Resembles the Obamacare Lie
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published November 12, 2013 on Forbes.com.The second shoe is preparing to drop to shatter the world view of so-called Progressives. Coming, global revelations will demonstrate the fraud behind the theory of man-caused, catastrophic, global warming, just like the real world has [...]
The Anti-Cuccinelli Axis
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published November 7, 2013 on the American Spectator website.The roots of Ken Cuccinelli's 2.5 point loss to ultrapartisan national Democrat and Hillary Clinton stalking horse Terry McAuliffe were planted by Republican incumbent Gov. Bob McDonnell.McDonnell began with a damn good start [...]
The Coming Obamacare Bailout
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published November 5, 2013 on the American Spectator website.Think back to the fall of 2008. Congress was asked to pass a $700 billion taxpayer bailout for Wall Street. We were told it had to be passed, or else the economy would [...]
Obama's Shameful Calculated Deception Deceives America Over Obamacare
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published November 5, 2013 on Forbes.com.Every one of the major promises Obama made to the American people regarding Obamacare has now been proven to be shamefully deceitful.Do you remember, "If you like your health care plan, you will be able to [...]