ACRU Staff, Author at American Constitutional Rights Union

It Just Ain't So

By ACRU Staff|2012-03-07T08:34:40-05:00March 7th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 7, 2012 on Townhall.com.

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 2011 manufacturing output grew by 11 percent, to nearly $5 trillion. Were our manufacturing sector considered a nation with its own gross domestic product, it would be the world’s fourth-richest economy. Manufacturing productivity has doubled since 1987, and manufacturing output has risen by one-half. However, over the past two decades, manufacturing employment has fallen about 25 percent. For some people, that means our manufacturing sector is sick. By that criterion, our agriculture sector shares […]

Fakegate: The Obnoxious Fabrication of Global Warming

By ACRU Staff|2012-03-02T22:47:04-05:00March 2nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 1, 2012 on Forbes.com.

About every four years, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produces a voluminous Assessment Report (AR) on the state of global warming science, such as it is. Two years after each AR, the IPCC produces an updating Interim Report.

In 2008, The Heartland Institute, headquartered in Chicago, began organizing international conferences of scientists from across the globe who want to raise and discuss intellectually troubling questions and doubts regarding the theory that […]

Obama Loses His First Debate

By ACRU Staff|2012-02-29T15:50:22-05:00February 29th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 29, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

In a speech that the Gingrich campaign has begun broadcasting around the country, and which is posted at Newt.org, Gingrich presents a unique new vision for a booming American economy. I think you will find it pathbreaking. It is so compelling that it drew Obama into a transcontinental debate with the former Speaker, the first exchange that Obama has decisively lost since he appeared on the national stage.

Gingrich began the explanation of his vision like […]

Equality or Inequality

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:57:09-04:00February 29th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 29, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Rick Santorum’s speech at the Detroit Economic Club stirred a bit of controversy when he said: “I’m not about equality of result when it comes to income inequality. There is income inequality in America. There always has been, and hopefully — and I do say that — there always will be.” That kind of statement, though having merit, should not be made to people who have little or no understanding. Let’s look at inequality.

Kay S. Hymowitz’s article “Why […]

The Loud and Clear Message In President Obama's Budget

By ACRU Staff|2012-02-24T13:44:15-05:00February 24th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 24, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Last week, I discussed the central economic policy of President Obama’s budget and accompanying Presidential budget message. What drives economic recovery and growth according to the President and his budget is federal spending, deficits and debt, the fundamental tenets of the Keynesian economics that arose in the 1930s.

If you agree with that, then President Obama is your man for reelection in 2012. If you think that’s nuts, however, then the message of the budget […]

Obama and the Problem of Evil

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-10T08:04:46-05:00February 24th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published February 24, 2012 on the American Thinker website.

Watching how the media react to God talk and family values by politicians is like watching the spinning head in “The Exorcist,” depending on who’s doing the God talk.

Consider the problem of evil, beginning with this statement from Barack Obama responding to Pastor Rick Warren’s question at the “Saddleback Presidential Candidates Forum” in August 2008:

Evil does exist. I mean, I think we see evil all the time. That is God’s task [to erase evil from the world], but […]

SCOTUS Punts on Medicaid Changes Lawsuits

By ACRU Staff|2012-02-24T08:20:36-05:00February 24th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 23, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

By a 5 to 4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court declined today to resolve an issue that could be instrumental in determining the outcome of the 2012 election: When a state changes its Medicaid system, reducing or cutting funds to providers, can those providers sue?

This is a hot-button issue because abortion providers are suing states that cut their funding. The most prominent of these is Planned Parenthood of Indiana v. Commissioner, pending before the Seventh Circuit appeals court in Chicago.

Medicaid is a […]

High Court to Hear Affirmative Action Case

By ACRU Staff|2012-02-23T14:59:44-05:00February 23rd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 22, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

Every racially based preference system – aka Affirmative Action programs – in the country could be struck down when the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Fisher v. University of Texas this fall.

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution were passed after the Civil War. These Reconstruction Era amendments abolished slavery, defined U.S. citizenship, extended part of the Bill of Rights to the states, and–most important here–declared due process and equal protection of the law to be rights of all persons in this country, […]

Obama's Law of Contraception

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:57:10-04:00February 22nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 17, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

I have frequently discussed in this column the concept of Calculated Deception. That is President Obama’s practice of taking advantage of what he calculates average people don’t know, and what the Democratic Party-controlled media won’t tell them, to mislead them into thinking and believing what will most benefit him politically. That practice is now spreading across the entire Democrat party.

We are seeing this play out now in particularly ugly fashion in regard to the fabricated […]

Math Matters

By ACRU Staff|2012-02-22T13:01:01-05:00February 22nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 22, 2012 on Townhall.com.

If one manages to graduate from high school without the rudiments of algebra, geometry and trigonometry, there are certain relatively high-paying careers probably off-limits for life — such as careers in architecture, chemistry, computer programming, engineering, medicine and certain technical fields. For example, one might meet all of the physical requirements to be a fighter pilot, but he’s grounded if he doesn’t have enough math to understand physics, aerodynamics and navigation. Mathematical ability helps provide the disciplined structure that helps […]

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