This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 18, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s proposed debt-ceiling compromise could be a disaster. Not only is it bad policy–it also pushes the edge of the constitutional envelope.

The non-conservative Senate Republican-proposed compromise with the White House would raise the debt ceiling and give President Obama power to raise it higher down the road.

First, it’s bad policy to transfer borrowing power to the president. The Framers deliberately wanted to constrain executive spending power, which is why the Constitution requires that every dollar spent by the government […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published July 18, 2011 on The Huffington Post and The Patriot Post.

America has a growth deficit. As the latest job report shows unemployment reached 9.2% — the highest rate of 2011 — investors and employers continue to react negatively to this bad news.

During the three years of the Obama administration, in this dismal economy millions of Americans have been forced to take jobs which they are overqualified for or they have simply given up looking for work entirely. If you include those workers, the real unemployment […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published July 15, 2011 on The American Thinker website.

Osama bin Laden famously said that people in his region always follow the strong horse. President Obama sent bin Laden to sleep with the sturgeons earlier this year in a move widely hailed. No one but the michaelmoores complained that bin Laden hadn’t been given a Miranda warning or carped that our faithful friends, the Pakistanis, hadn’t been tipped off first.

As it turned out, however, the Osama raid proved to be the outlier. President Obama turned from that undeniable […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published July 13, 2011 on The Huffington Post.

As President Barack Obama lectured us with foolish notions — such as attempting to reduce America’s $14.4 trillion deficit by focusing carefully poll-tested, repetitive threats — it is clear that, as the debt ceiling issue reaches a stage of urgency, the positions staked out by Republicans and Democrats are on different planets.

Just as six presidential candidates, 12 U.S. senators, 26 House members and more than 100,000 citizens have signed onto a pledge requiring a debt-ceiling-increase limitation to be tied to serious budgetary cuts […]

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 12, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Operation Fast and Furious is a growing scandal. Attorney General Eric Holder must go, but Congress should not stop investigating there, and ask if Democratic operatives knew anything.

Fast and Furious is the latest variation of the ATF’s Operation Gunrunner (aka Gunwalker), allowing U.S. guns into Mexico. It’s a disaster involving more than 2,000 guns, many now being used in crimes, and one used to kill a federal agent.

Despite Holder claiming to have only recently learned about Fast and Furious, BigGovernment.com found a 2009 […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 13, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

The extended stagnation of the American economy is starting to look more and more like a depression. Obama is on track to put the Great in that Depression with what he has already enacted into law for 2013, unless the American people reverse course next year.

At no point in the last 70 years, going back to the Great Depression, has the American economy suffered unemployment this high for this long, or such extended stagnation without […]

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 11, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

President Obama joined Mexico and foreign powers condemning Texas’ execution of a convicted murder-rapist on July 7. But Obama has no one to blame but himself, in a story that will affect Texas’ Senate race and presidential politics.

In 1994, a 16-year-old American girl was raped and murdered by Humberto Leal Garcia–a Mexican–in San Antonio, Texas. When police interviewed Garcia in a non-custodial setting (meaning he was not under arrest), Garcia’s answers led to his conviction and death sentence.

Although Mexico does not deny Garcia’s […]