COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Honesty and Trust
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 25, 2013 on Townhall.com.Dishonesty, lying and cheating are not treated with the right amount of opprobrium in today's society. To gain an appreciation for the significance of honesty and trust, consider what our day-to-day lives would be like if [...]
Your Move, Global Warming Alarmists. Science Has Exposed Your Unwarranted Hysteria
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 22, 2013 on Forbes.com.Who will decide American public policy on the issue of potentially catastrophic man caused global warming? The answer is you and me, through the democratic process that governs our country.So spare me the comments saying Shut [...]
The Fight to Defund Is a Fight for Liberty
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published September 22, 2013 on the American Thinker website.Texas doesn't have an ObamaCare Exchange -- we have the Alamo.Sen. Ted Cruz is our contemporary William B. Travis, commandant of the Alamo and defender of liberty. Standing with Cruz to defund [...]
Conservatives Rescuing Obama
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 18, 2013 on Forbes.com.Obamacare has not even gone into effect yet, and there it lies substantively smashed on the floor in ruins. The cost of health insurance on the Obamacare Exchanges for next year is already soaring, for those [...]
Student Indoctrination
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published September 18, 2013 on Townhall.com.The new college academic year has begun, and unfortunately, so has student indoctrination. Let's look at some of it.William Penn, Michigan State University professor of creative writing, greeted his [...]
Supreme Court to Consider New Obamacare Case
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published September 18, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Obamacare is before the U.S. Supreme Court again. On Thursday, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) lawyers filed the first viable petition for Supreme Court review involving Kathleen Sebelius' HHS Mandate, which requires employers to provide abortion-related [...]
'Hope And Change' Means Punishingly Slow Growth for Obama's Biggest Supporters
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 13, 2013 on Forbes.com.Steve Moore of the Wall Street Journal explained President Obama's 2012 reelection in the September 4 edition as follows: "Mr. Obama was reelected with 51% of the vote....He cleaned up with 60% of the youth vote, [...]
You Don't Have to Stay Poor
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published September 11, 2013 on Townhall.com.No one can blame you if you start out in life poor, because how you start is not your fault. If you stay poor, you're to blame because it [...]
100 Years after Woodrow Wilson, Mark Levin Pens a Brilliant Response
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 8, 2013 on Forbes.com.One hundred years ago, Woodrow Wilson was leading a counterrevolution against the Constitution. Unfortunately, he was doing it from the White House, as President of the United States. The more things change, the more they stay [...]
50 Years After MLK's Landmark Civil Rights Speech, Obama's Words Don't Match His Deeds
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 3, 2013 on Forbes.com.The Bible wisely says, "By their fruits, you shall know them." In President Obama's August 28 Address on the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's breakthrough 1963 Civil Rights speech, we heard lofty words about good [...]
ACRU: Supreme Court Should Clear Way to Clean Up N.J. Slum
Township Broke No Federal Law in Redeveloping Blighted Housing Project, Group ArguesWASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 4, 2013) — In a Supreme Court brief submitted Tuesday, Sept. 3, the American Civil Rights Union argues that local officials did not violate the Fair Housing Act when they demolished residences in a blighted, mixed-race [...]
'Stand Your Ground' when Liberals Attack
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 2, 2013 on The Washington Times website.Americans have a right to their beliefs without left-wing reproach.Warning: Taking corporate donations may be hazardous to your constitutional freedom of speech.A case in point is the American Legislative Exchange Council, a Washington-based [...]
A Minority View
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 28, 2013 on Townhall.com.This week begins my 34th year serving on George Mason University's distinguished economics faculty. You might imagine my surprise when I received a letter from its Office of Equity [...]
The Federal Government's Reaction to Bitcoin Is An Acknowledgement of the Dollar's Vulnerability
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 25, 2013 on Forbes.com.The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee has private alternative currencies in its crosshairs. The Chairman, Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) and Ranking Member, Senator [...]
Democrats and Lawlessness
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 21, 2013 on The American Spectator website.In the third of the six films of the Star Wars saga, the Sith Lord who has infiltrated to become the ruling [...]
Progressives and Blacks
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 21, 2013 on Townhall.com.Sometimes I wonder when black people will reject the patronizing insults of white progressives and their black handmaidens. After CNN's Piers Morgan's interview with the key witness in the [...]
The Coming Liberation: Health Care for All without Obamacare
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 18, 2013 on Forbes.com.Obamacare was pushed through on the promise of universal health coverage for everyone. But the CBO now scores Obamacare as leaving 30 million uninsured even [...]
Thank You, Speaker Boehner
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 14, 2013 on The American Spectator website.A highly illuminating article in Monday's Wall Street Journal by Stephen Moore explained the newly transformed federal budget realities, and the reasons [...]
Energy Manipulation
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 14, 2013 on Townhall.com.Why is it that natural gas sells in the U.S. for $3.94 per 1,000 cubic feet and in Europe and Japan for $11.60 and $17, respectively? Part of the [...]
Will Democrat Voters Support Obama's Suspension of Democracy and Calculated Deception?
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 11, 2013 on Forbes.com.On July 18, President Obama held an event at the White House to promote Obamacare. It was Calculated Deception writ large, which is Obama's rhetorical [...]