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Obama Promised He Wouldn't Raise Taxes on the Middle Class. He Lied.

By |2012-07-26T13:12:08-04:00July 26th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 19, 2012 on Forbes.com.

When he was asking for our vote in 2008, then candidate Barack Obama famously promised the American people, “I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” But as the Supreme Court has now authoritatively ruled, the Obamacare individual mandate, requiring […]

Failing Downward

By |2012-07-26T12:44:00-04:00July 26th, 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 The American Spectator website.

President Obama thinks he is so clever in continuing to try to trick us into believing his disgraceful record on the economy and jobs is really the fault of the Republicans in Congress. You see, 10 months ago in September, 2011, Obama proposed the American Jobs Act. But Congressional Republicans refused to pass most of it. So that means that the continued high unemployment and worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression must all be […]

The Great Dissent Part V: Why the Entire Obamacare System Must Be Struck Down in Court

By |2020-04-23T21:57:08-04:00July 17th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 12, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

The capstone to the Great Dissent was the explanation of why the entire 2,700-page Affordable Care Act (ACA) must be struck down along with the unconstitutional Individual Mandate and the unconstitutional Medicaid Expansion.

When part of a law is found unconstitutional and invalidated by a court, severability doctrine is the set of rules under which a court determines how much of the law must fall alongside the invalid provision. While most large statutes include a severability clause that declares Congress’ wish that if part of […]

The Future of the "Affordable Care Act"

By |2012-07-11T12:03:10-04:00July 11th, 2012|

This piece is by John McClaughry, Vice President of the Ethan Allen Institute, a member of the CCPP Policy Board and former senior policy advisor to President Reagan.

The Supreme Court has now issued its startling ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare).

Four liberal justices ardently believe, with President Obama, that the constitutional power to regulate commerce authorizes Congress to require individuals to purchase government-approved health insurance, or suffer a monetary penalty for minding their own business.

Five conservative justices believe that the commerce power cannot be stretched to authorize any such penalty.

Four of these five […]

Court's Awful Ruling Taxes Our Patients

By |2012-07-02T11:06:56-04:00July 2nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 29, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

When is a tax not a tax? Answer: When you’re busy pushing a major expansion of government like Obamacare. The tax that is not a tax becomes a “penalty” or a “shared responsibility payment” in the text of the bill. In campaign lingo, it becomes an “investment.”

That’s what the Democrats told us when they rammed Obamacare down America’s throat. In a famous clip you can find on YouTube, President Obama adamantly denies to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that the individual mandate is, […]

One of the Worst Supreme Court Decisions in American History

By |2012-06-29T12:00:48-04:00June 29th, 2012|

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

Chief Justice John Roberts provided the critical fifth vote to uphold Obamacare in its entirety, in a case that will go down as one of the worst and most consequential cases in American history. Now the Taxing Clause of the Constitution trumps the Commerce Clause as the greatest grant of authority to the national government, one that is without any limits that a court can enforce.

We will have more columns on this decision in NFIB v. Sebelius, but this first legal analysis column goes […]

Obamanomics: Economics For Dummies

By |2012-06-28T22:44:03-04:00June 28th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 28, 2012 on Forbes.com.

President Obama’s June 14 address in Cleveland presented his foundational economic policy arguments for this fall’s campaign. We will hear those same rhetorical points over and over this year, at least until his pollsters realize they are doing more harm than good.

The marker Obama himself laid down for judging his economic policies is whether they would serve “to create strong, sustained growth…pay down our long-term debt…[and] generate good, middle class jobs….” Last […]

Supreme Court Upholds Socialized Medicine

By |2012-06-28T17:44:37-04:00June 28th, 2012|

June 28, 2012 — “The Supreme Court today affirmed the fundamental dishonesty of our politics,” said Peter Ferrara, general counsel for the American Civil Rights Union, which filed seven amicus briefs challenging the Affordable Care Act.

“Before Obamacare passed, the President of the United States told the whole country on TV that the individual mandate is not a tax. After Obamacare passed, Barack Obama sent his lawyers into courts all over America to argue that it is constitutional because it is a tax.

“The Supreme Court of the United States just endorsed this fundamental dishonesty of our politics. The President intimidated Chief Justice John Roberts […]

Obama's Perverse Plan for Permanent Recession

By |2012-06-27T14:52:51-04:00June 27th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 27, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

President Obama told the nation in his June 14 economic policy address in Cleveland that his economic policy plans for a second term would “create strong sustained growth;…pay down our long term debt; and most of all…generate good, middle-class jobs….” He then spent almost an hour describing policies that would do just the opposite.

He did not begin the speech with much credibility on how to achieve those goals. He has been President for almost four […]

ACLU Loses Challenge to Indiana's Sex Offender Social Media Law

By |2012-06-27T10:05:16-04:00June 27th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 27, 2012 on the American Thinker website.

In a victory over odd men in raincoats, a federal judge has upheld Indiana’s 2008 law barring convicted sex offenders from using Facebook, MySpace, and other social media. A class-action suit had been filed against the statute by the American Civil Liberties Union’s Indiana chapter, which immediately threatened to appeal.

“Social networking, chat rooms, and instant messaging programs have effectively created a ‘virtual playground’ for sexual predators to lurk,” wrote U.S. Judge Tanya Walton Pratt in her 18-page June 22 ruling in […]

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