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You Don't Have to Stay Poor

By |2013-09-12T09:27:21-04:00September 12th, 2013|

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 is your fault. Nowhere has this been made clearer than in Dennis Kimbro’s new book, The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires.

Kimbro, a business professor at Clark Atlanta University, conducted extensive face-to-face interviews, took surveys and had other interactions with nearly 1,000 of America’s black financial elite, many […]

50 Years After MLK's Landmark Civil Rights Speech, Obama's Words Don't Match His Deeds

By |2013-09-05T23:02:40-04:00September 5th, 2013|

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 jobs and a fair deal for the middle class and working people. But after 5 years of Obama as President, what he has delivered is exactly the opposite of his own lofty words.

Obama spoke best and most truly when he said,

“In some ways, though, the […]

ACRU v. Walthall County (MS) — Consent Decree

By |2013-09-04T16:11:54-04:00September 4th, 2013|

HATTIESBURG, MS (Sept. 4, 2013) — Walthall County, Mississippi officials were sued in April by the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (“Motor Voter”) for having more registered voters than voting-age-eligible residents.
Today, the parties have settled the case. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi entered a final consent decree that requires the defendants to clean up the county’s voter rolls.
Read consent decree. (PDF 714 KB)

ACRU: Supreme Court Should Clear Way to Clean Up N.J. Slum

By |2013-09-04T09:02:35-04:00September 4th, 2013|

Township Broke No Federal Law in Redeveloping Blighted Housing Project, Group Argues

WASHINGTON, 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 area and built more modern units for low-income residents. A group of activists, claiming that the new units had a “disparate impact” on the price of other housing in the area owned mostly by minorities, sued the town, claiming racial discrimination.

Two lower courts ruled for the township on all counts. The Third U.S. […]

The Federal Government's Reaction to Bitcoin Is An Acknowledgement of the Dollar's Vulnerability

By |2020-04-23T21:57:06-04:00August 28th, 2013|

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 Tom Coburn (R-OK), sent a joint letter to seven federal agencies last week asking for feedback and policy proposals for regulation of virtual currencies, like Bitcoin.

Bitcoin has surged in value and popularity recently as it has come to be embraced by more users across the planet. In […]

Democrats and Lawlessness

By |2023-03-10T08:04:41-05:00August 28th, 2013|

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 Chancellor of the democratic republic confederation of peaceful worlds announces to the elected Assembly of representatives of those worlds that to deal with an exaggerated, fabricated crisis, “The Old Republic will be reorganized into the first Intergalactic Empire.” The distracted Assembly responds with polite applause. One of the few characters who understands what is happening […]

The Coming Liberation: Health Care for All without Obamacare

By |2020-04-23T21:57:06-04:00August 21st, 2013|

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 10 years after implementation!

In fact, Obamacare will increase the uninsured rather than reduce them. Former CBO Chief Douglas Holtz-Eakin published a study in 2011 arguing that more than 40 million workers will lose their employer provided health insurance under the incentives of Obamacare. That is because […]

Thank You, Speaker Boehner

By |2013-08-16T13:05:54-04:00August 16th, 2013|

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 for them. Bottom line: the Republican House Majority elected in a New Deal sized landslide in 2010 has been successful in doing what the voters elected it to do—turn around the explosive Obama Democrat runaway spending spree of 2009-2010. But this is just a first step in restoring American prosperity, and […]

Holder Does End-Run Around Congress on Federal Drug Laws

By |2020-04-23T21:58:16-04:00August 14th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 12, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Attorney General Eric Holder has just announced an end-run around Congress and given the far left one of its priority action-items, announcing he will not prosecute drug crimes unconnected to gangs or violence. Ironically, he invoked the conservative principle of federalism to do it.

Congress has enacted stiff penalties for various drug crimes, carrying mandatory minimum sentences. According to a leaked copy of his speech today at the American Bar Association (which is a solidly-liberal lawyers’ organization, not any sort of official body for the […]

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