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Leftist Race-Baiters

By |2020-04-23T21:58:17-04:00May 9th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 9, 2012 on Townhall.com.

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, in a recent debate with former Republican National Chairman Michael Steele, called the Republican Party the “grand wizard crowd.” Grand wizard is the title given to the leader of the Ku Klux Klan. It is truly misinformed to call Republicans the party of the Klan. Throughout our history, most Klansmen and most racists have been Democrats. Here are a few racist quotes from major Democratic figures.

The late Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., a former Klansman, wrote […]

Why the Supreme Court Will Strike Down All of Obamacare

By |2020-04-23T21:58:18-04:00April 6th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 5, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Barack Obama made a national laughingstock out of himself with his recent comments on the Obamacare law now before the Supreme Court. Obama said on Monday, “I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.” (emphasis added).

President Obama is not stupid. But he thinks you are. He knows the Obamacare health […]

Obamacare Day 3: Does Medicaid Expansion Violate 10th Amendment?

By |2020-04-23T21:58:18-04:00April 2nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 31, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

For a century, legal scholars wondered if a federal spending program could ever violate the 10th Amendment by coercing the states to go along, since the states are sovereign and equal in stature to the federal government. The final issue the Supreme Court will decide is whether Obamacare’s massive expansion of Medicaid–and sticking the states with part of the price tag–is the first program to cross this constitutional limit.

As Paul Clement–the lawyer representing 26 states in the Obamacare case–summarized to the Court: “The expansion […]

A Budget America Can't Live Without

By |2020-04-23T21:58:18-04:00March 28th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Chairman and CEO and CCPP founder and President Susan A. Carleson was published March 28, 2012 on Townhall.com.

The House Republican Study Committee (RSC) has proposed a federal budget that not only can America live with – it cannot live without.

It is a serious plan with responsible measures for achieving fiscal sanity in an appropriate and reasonable time frame. The RSC budget will reach balance in just five years, as opposed to balancing the federal budget in 10 years at the earliest under Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s proposal.

This is not pie-in-the-sky thinking – our […]

The Gipper's Principles for Governing Still Apply Today

By |2020-04-23T21:58:18-04:00February 4th, 2012|

This column by ACRU board member and founding member of the policy board of the Carleson Center for Public Policy Edwin Meese III was published February 6, 2012 in The Washington Times.

As the years pass, Ronald Reagan’s stature continues to grow, and it has reached the point where all sorts of people quote him to support their policies or candidacies.

Last year, during the contrived “crisis” over a possible national default, California Sen. Barbara Boxer evoked the Gipper to justify raising taxes: “I find myself these days quoting Ronald Reagan. ‘The full consequences of a default,’ he said, ‘or even […]

Obama's Racial Politics

By |2020-04-23T21:58:18-04:00February 1st, 2012|

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

There’s been a heap of criticism placed upon President Barack Obama’s domestic policies that have promoted government intrusion and prolonged our fiscal crisis and his foreign policies that have emboldened our enemies. Any criticism of Obama pales in comparison with what might be said about the American people who voted him in to the nation’s highest office.

Obama’s presidency represents the first time in our history that a person could have been elected to that office who had long-standing […]

ObamaCare's Medicaid Provision 'Unconstitutional'

By |2020-04-23T21:58:18-04:00January 18th, 2012|

“Has Congress made an offer that the states could not refuse? That is the question that must be decided by this case.”

Jan. 17, 2012 — The American Civil Rights Union filed its sixth brief on Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as ObamaCare.

The brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in States of Florida, et al v. United States Department of HHS, in support of Florida and 25 other states was authored by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara. The brief argues that the law’s Medicaid provision violates the Coercion Doctrine, which holds that the national […]

Texas Case Suggests Court May Overhaul Voting Rights

By |2020-04-23T21:58:18-04:00January 10th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 9, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

Former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement told U.S. Supreme Court justices Monday that lower federal courts cannot redraw state-approved election district maps unless they can point to concrete “identifying specific statutory or constitutional violations.”

Instead, Clement said during oral arguments on Perry v. Perez, two federal district judges have nullified the will of the people in Texas. The evident frustration of at least some of the Supreme Court justices suggests they agree with Gov. Rick Perry that state sovereignty must be restored.

Clement represented Perry […]

Newt Gingrich's Entitlement Reform Plan

By |2020-04-23T21:58:19-04:00December 20th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 15, 2011 on Forbes.com.

On Nov. 12, in Manchester, N.H., Newt Gingrich released his entitlement reform proposals in a 49-page, single-spaced, footnoted document to which I contributed heavily. Those proposals reflect my life’s work at such institutions as the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation and John Goodman’s National Center for Policy Analysis, devoted to making government smaller, particularly through politically viable entitlement reforms. (You can read more about them in my book America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb).

Entitlement Reform Revolution

By |2020-04-23T21:58:19-04:00November 30th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 30, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

In New Hampshire on November 21, Newt Gingrich, who has just been endorsed by the Manchester Union Leader, unveiled sweeping entitlement reform proposals, discussed in a comprehensive, extensive campaign position paper now available at Newt.org. Those proposals reflect closely my own work over many years, discussed in detail in my recent book, America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb.

These reforms taken together would reduce federal spending over an extended period of years by half […]

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