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ACLU Sues to Stop Citizenship Question on Michigan Ballots

By |2020-04-23T21:52:47-04:00October 1st, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 28, 2012 on the American Thinker website.

Only citizens of the United States can legally vote in federal elections. So Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson added a yes/no question on ballot applications that asks: “Are you a United States citizen?”

According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan, this simple requirement is “an election day disaster in the making.” So the ACLU did what it usually does, which is to sue.

Filed on behalf of the UAW International, which includes the radical Service […]

Why Senior Citizens Should Prefer Ryan's Medicare Plan to Obama's

By |2012-09-27T22:43:12-04:00September 27th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 27, 2012 on Forbes.com.

DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz described the Medicare reforms proposed by GOP Vice-Presidential nominee and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as “literally a death trap for seniors.” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that Ryan’s reforms would “change Medicare as we know it.”

But it was Obamacare that already changed Medicare as we know it, transforming it literally into a death trap for seniors. Obamacare cut Medicare by $716 billion […]

Perpetuating Falsehoods

By |2012-09-26T17:07:45-04:00September 26th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 26, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

All the Republicans are offering, President Obama tells us over and over, are the same old, failed policies that got us into this mess in the first place. At the Democrat convention, Obama told us about the Republican economic plan, “all they have to offer is the same prescription they’ve had for the last thirty years.”

And who was President 30 years ago? That would be Ronald Wilson Reagan. So you see, Obama is attacking not […]

Understanding Economics

By |2012-09-26T16:52:54-04:00September 26th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published September 26, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Here’s a question: If there’s a disaster, a war, a severe drought or some other calamity that restricts future supplies of a commodity — such as oil, coffee or corn — what is the intelligent thing for people to do right away? If you said “use less now and try to produce more,” you’d be absolutely correct. That’s not rocket science, but understanding the machinery involved in getting people to do so is a bit more challenging.

The best […]

Appeasement Trumps First Amendment

By |2020-04-23T21:50:21-04:00September 23rd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 21, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

I was driving into Washington the other day when a radio clip of Hillary Rodham Clinton got my attention. The secretary of state was emoting hotly, using terms such as “disgusting” and “reprehensible.”

At first, I thought Bill Clinton might have released a candid memoir, but I soon realized that the former first lady was talking about the crude 14-minute “Innocence of Muslims” video that liberals blamed solely for the deadly attacks on U.S. embassies and riots across the Muslim world. Mrs. […]

Rick Ungar Is Wrong: Obama Is The Biggest Spender In World History

By |2012-09-20T14:00:26-04:00September 20th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 20, 2012 on Forbes.com.

On May 24, 2012, Rick Ungar told the readers at Forbes.com that President Barack Obama “is the smallest government spender since Eisenhower.” “[O]ur president has actually been tighter with a buck than any United States president since Dwight D. Eisenhower,” Ungar insisted.

But Ungar actually reveals the error in the underlying analysis, saying, “The first year of any incoming president term is saddled – for better of for worse – with the budget set […]

Specter of Fraud Haunts November Election

By |2020-04-23T21:59:33-04:00September 14th, 2012|

National Photo Voter ID Law Needed, ACRU Says

“Requiring all voters in a national election to show identification at the polls is a common-sense measure to prevent fraud and corruption.” — former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 13, 2012) — “With far left groups like radical unions and renamed ACORN remnants gearing up for widespread vote fraud, and with state and federal courts and the Obama Administration’s Justice Department striking down voter ID laws contrary to U.S. Supreme Court precedent, it’s time that Congress addressed the problem on a national level,” said Susan A. Carleson, chairman and CEO of the American […]

Bill Clinton Fed His Flock Democratic Daydreams and Fairy Tales

By |2012-09-10T19:47:47-04:00September 10th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 2, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Rhetoric versus reality. That is what this election is about, based on what we saw at the Democrat convention. Instead of a path to the American Dream, Democrats presented to America their fanciful daydreams.

The ever trustworthy Bill Clinton told the American people Wednesday night, “If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining…you should vote for Barack Obama.” But not on the […]

Upward Mobility Barriers

By |2012-09-10T19:34:01-04:00September 10th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published September 5, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Let’s pretend that we have the political guts to expand economic opportunities for people at the lower end of the economic spectrum. What vested interests should be attacked, and what economic regulations should be targeted for elimination? It doesn’t take a lot of money to become a taxi owner-operator and earn more than $40,000 a year. One needs a car, an insurance policy and ancillary interior equipment to make a car a taxi. In New York City, to be a […]

The Left's Campaign to Destroy the First Amendment

By |2020-04-23T21:50:22-04:00September 6th, 2012|

This article was written by the Carleson Center for Public Policy Policy Board Member and retired president of the Ethan Allen Institute John McClaughry.

President Obama’s remark that he believes that Congress should “seriously consider” a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United vs. FEC will doubtless spur ever more fanatic efforts by inaptly-named “liberals” to do just that.

First, let’s understand the issue.

In 1907 Congress prohibited corporations from contributing to the campaigns of candidates for Federal office. But the subject of Citizens United was whether a 2002 act of Congress could declare a nonprofit advocacy corporation’s […]

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