COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Racial Trade-offs
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 2, 2013 on Townhall.com.Trade-offs apply to our economic lives, as well as our political lives. That means getting more of one thing requires giving up something else. Let's look at some examples.Black [...]
Symposium: Time to Restore Longstanding Meaning—and Sanity—to the Establishment Clause in Town of Greece v. Galloway
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published October 3, 2013 on SCOTUSblog.com.Town of Greece v. Galloway is a major Establishment Clause case involving legislative prayer. If the Supreme Court takes this opportunity—as it should—to replace both the manifestly unworkable original Lemon test and its equally unworkable [...]
Symposium: Time to Restore Longstanding Meaning—and Sanity—to the Establishment Clause in Town of Greece v. Galloway
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published October 3, 2013 on SCOTUSblog.com.Town of Greece v. Galloway is a major Establishment Clause case involving legislative prayer. If the Supreme Court takes this opportunity—as it should—to replace both the manifestly unworkable original Lemon test and its equally unworkable [...]
Bloomberg's Astroturf Mayors
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published on October 1, 2013 on The Daily Caller website.By now, you'd think Michael Bloomberg would have learned his lesson.The out-of-touch New York City mayor has lately made it his business to be in everyone else's business—whether that means trying to [...]
It's the President's Fault
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published October 2, 2013 on the American Spectator website.Day 2 of the government shutdown, and look out the window. The sun is still shining, and the sky is still blue. The birds are chirping.The Great Government Shutdown is not that big [...]
Over Obamacare's Illegal Delay, John Boehner Must Play Hard Ball with Harry Reid
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 30, 2013 on Forbes.com.Everyone is so sure of their opinion. But almost no one knows anything about it. With most of the news media actually participating in the partisan political wrangling, instead of reporting on it, can anyone even [...]
Cruz's Green Eggs and the Media Hambones
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 30, 2013 on The Washington Times website.C-SPAN is more powerful than a fleet of little red wagons, but it felt a lot like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" as Sen. Ted Cruz demolished the legitimacy of Obamacare in his [...]
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 [...]