COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
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 [...]