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Liberals, Progressives and Socialists

By |2020-04-23T21:57:08-04:00August 8th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 8, 2012 on Townhall.com.

In Europe, especially in Germany, hoisting a swastika-emblazoned Nazi flag is a crime. For decades after World War II, people have hunted down and sought punishment for Nazi murderers, who were responsible for the deaths of more than 20 million people.

Here’s my question: Why are the horrors of Nazism so well-known and widely condemned but not those of socialism and communism? What goes untaught — and possibly is covered up — is that socialist and communist ideas have […]

No, Romney Won't Raise Your Taxes $2,000

By |2012-08-08T14:34:48-04:00August 8th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 8, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

In a campaign stop at Rollins College in Florida last week, Barack Obama suggested that the middle class should resent Mitt Romney’s tax proposals:

“I want everybody to understand here — he’s not asking you to pay an extra $2,000 [in taxes] to reduce our deficit; he’s not asking you to pay an additional $2,000 to help care for our seniors; he’s not asking you to pay an additional $2,000 in order to rebuild America or […]

ACRU's Meese, Blackwell, Carleson Urge Governors to Rethink Voter ID Law Vetoes

By |2012-08-07T22:38:55-04:00August 7th, 2012|

Letter Calls “Suppress the Minority Vote” Allegations “Utter Nonsense”

JULY 25, 2012 — The American Civil Rights Union today is sending letters to four of five governors who vetoed legislation requiring photo voter IDs in order to deter vote fraud. A fifth letter, to New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch, was discarded after the legislature voted to overturn his veto and the bill became law, subject to Department of Justice approval.

Signed by ACRU policy board members former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III, former Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and ACRU Chairman Susan A. Carleson, the letters were mailed to Minnesota Gov. Mark […]

How Times Have Changed

By |2012-08-07T22:26:33-04:00August 7th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 1, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Having been born in 1936 has allowed me to witness both societal progress and retrogression. High on the list of things made better in our society are the great gains in civil liberties and economic opportunities, especially for racial minorities and women. People who are now deemed poor have a level of material wealth that would have been a pipe dream to yesteryear’s poor. But despite the fact that today’s Americans have achieved an unprecedented level of prosperity, we have […]

There's No Mystery To Slow Economic Growth: Progressives Are the Problem

By |2023-03-10T08:04:45-05:00August 3rd, 2012|

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

The Big Picture Lesson of the 20th century was that capitalism works and socialism and communism don’t. The rest of the world learned that lesson far better because they and their close neighbors suffered far more with the socialist and communist progeny of Saul Alinsky’s first radical. But America should know better because it has enjoyed most the workers paradise of capitalism.

Yet those who call themselves Progressive, a polite, Americanized word for […]

WRONG: Media Claiming Scalia Said SCOTUS to Limit Second Amendment

By |2020-04-23T21:53:44-04:00August 2nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 30, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Some in the media–including conservative media–are claiming that conservative Justice Antonin Scalia is saying the Supreme Court can limit the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

That’s not exactly what he said.

Scalia has a new book, and he was on Fox News Sunday to discuss it. Given how rarely justices give general-media interviews, it was predictable that host Chris Wallace took most of his time trying to draw Scalia out on hot-button issues, from the Court’s 5-4 (incorrect) decision upholding most of Obamacare, to abortion […]

Obama's Calculated Deception

By |2012-08-01T21:36:08-04:00August 1st, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 1, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Calculated Deception. That is the central theme of the Obama campaign. Calculated Deception is the term I use for Obama’s rhetorical practice of trying to take advantage of what he calculates the average person does not know, and his party-controlled, so-called mainstream media won’t report. And that can be seen over and over in the Obama campaign.

Obscuring the Worst Recovery Since the Great Depression

In Monday’s Wall Street Journal, Edward Lazear, former Bush chairman […]

How President Obama Is Deceiving You On Tax Policy

By |2012-07-31T14:39:04-04:00July 31st, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 25, 2012 on Forbes.com.

The central theme of President Obama’s tax policy has been that “the rich” (whatever that is supposed to mean) do not pay their fair share of federal taxes, and the middle class pays more as a result. But the CBO just issued a new report this month that proves him grievously wrong.

“The Distribution of Household Income and Federal Taxes, 2008 and 2009,” issued by CBO on July 12, reports that the top 1% […]

ADF Scores First Victory Against Obama's Unconstitutional HHS Mandate

By |2012-07-30T11:26:16-04:00July 30th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 28, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

On August 1, Obamacare’s latest outrage goes into effect as the “HHS Mandate” takes effect, and the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) just scored the first victory in religious liberty against this authoritarian decree days before its implementation.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a regulation under Obamacare requiring almost all employers to cover abortion, birth control, and sterilization services. There are exemptions for nonprofit “religious employers,” but this term’s definition in the regulation is so ridiculously narrow that it would include churches and synagogues, by likely […]

The Reagan Remedy for Medicaid

By |2012-07-30T11:04:56-04:00July 30th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Chairman and CEO and CCPP founder and President Susan A. Carleson was published July 28, 2012 on theAmerican Thinker website.

So many people have complained that something must be done about U.S. health care. But the truth is that a solution has been staring us in the face for years — about forty years, in fact. And it all started with Ronald Reagan.

In 1971, California was heading toward bankruptcy because of out-of-control welfare spending, so Governor Reagan tapped Robert B. Carleson to design and implement the first-ever welfare reform — and it worked. […]

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