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Concealing Evil

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-10T08:04:38-05:00February 25th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 19, 2014 on Townhall.com.

Evil acts are given an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding socialistic expressions, such as spreading the wealth, income redistribution, caring for the less fortunate, and the will of the majority. Let’s have a thought experiment to consider just how much Americans sanction evil.

Imagine there are several elderly widows in your neighborhood. They have neither the strength to mow their lawns, clean their windows and perform other household tasks nor the financial means to hire someone to help […]

The Unenviable Role of Liberal Apologist for Obama Policies

By ACRU Staff|2014-02-24T10:15:09-05:00February 24th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 21, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

It’s getting harder every day to be a liberal.

Having to defend Obamacare is enough to exhaust the hardiest soul. Trying to explain President Obama’s foreign policy would give anybody — even a creative globalist like John F. Kerry — a pounding headache.

There don’t appear to be any happy outcomes: Libya. Syria. Iran. Iraq. Afghanistan. Punched-in-the-gut Israel. Dennis Rodman’s homicidal North Korea. Creeping communism in Venezuela. The Ukrainians sullying the Olympics for Mr. Obama’s friend, Vladimir Putin.

Even the weather, […]

Rousing Those Moribund 'Monuments Men'

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-10T08:04:39-05:00February 21st, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published February 21, 2014 on the American Thinker website.

American liberty is under assault as President Obama runs roughshod over a Congress as passive as the statuary adorning its halls.

Like our Founders, Congress needs the energizing force of liberty. They might want to take a retro look at the pivotal scene of Ghostbusters II.

In the 1989 film, New Yorkers were dispirited as evil spirits ran amok. The gang of heroes realized that their “psychomagnotheric” slime guns needed a massive, positive charge to stop the evil force, Vigo, from […]

When You Give Liberals the Oval Office

By ACRU Staff|2014-02-17T15:00:20-05:00February 17th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 14, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

On Presidents Day, we honor those men who helped start and guide our nation. Their leadership got us through the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression, two world wars and the Cold War.

Until recently, they all seemed to understand what makes America exceptional. But now, we’re not in Kansas anymore.

You know that clever ad by a satellite-dish company that shows what happens to a man who gets bored waiting for the cable guy?

As with the children’s books that began with […]

If You Work Full Time, You Will Not be Poor

By ACRU Staff|2014-02-17T11:39:00-05:00February 17th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on February 5, 2014 on The American Spectator website.

President Obama said in his State of the Union last week, “But Americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty.”

Thank you, Mr. President. But even without you, as already enacted in current law, for anyone who works full time in America, the minimum wage, plus the Earned Income Tax Credit, plus the Child Tax Credit, equals or exceeds the poverty level for every possible family combination, including single mothers with […]

Truth and Consequences for Krugman, and Keynes, and Obama

By ACRU Staff|2014-02-17T11:10:12-05:00February 17th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on February 10, 2014 on Forbes.com.

Just about one year ago, on February 8, 2013, New York Times columnist and unreconstructed Keynesian Paul Krugman was interviewed by another lefty, Marc Lamont Hill, on Huff Post Live, the Huffington Post website.

Krugman was expounding on how to get the economy growing again and create jobs, which he had discussed in detail in his book, End This Depression Now. “It’s the easiest thing in the world,” Krugman explained. “The really horrifying thing is this is something we know how to end, we could […]

Bully EPA's Air Rules Over All

By ACRU Staff|2014-02-11T11:05:01-05:00February 11th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 10, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

With breathtaking mountains, constant wind and a tiny carbon footprint, Wyoming has some of the prettiest scenery and cleanest air in the nation.

Wyoming ranks 10th among the states in size, but with only 580,000 people — fewer than the city of Las Vegas — it’s only 49th in population density. You can throw a lot of rocks and not hit anybody — for miles.

You might think that it would be the last place that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would […]

The ACLU's Deadly Prescription for Addiction

By ACRU Staff|2014-02-07T12:18:34-05:00February 7th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 6, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

Drug overdoses are in the news again with the passing of Philip Seymour Hoffman. The 46-year-old actor was found dead on Sunday in his Manhattan office-apartment of an apparent drug overdose. Investigators found a large quantity of heroin and prescription medications.

Heroin abuse is on the rise, and so is the abuse of a variety of prescribed narcotics, or opioids.

Overdoses linked to opioid-based prescription drugs, such as oxycodone, have more than quadrupled since 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control […]

President Obama's State of the Union Formula for Economic Stagnation: More Taxes for Still More Spending, and Still More Regulation

By ACRU Staff|2014-02-03T12:08:12-05:00February 3rd, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on January 31, 2014 on Forbes.com.

In a column last month (Barack Obama’s Presidency Is a Complete Failure By His Own, Self-Imposed Standards 12/31/2013), I explained that President Obama’s Presidency has been a complete failure by his own standards. He tells us that he is fighting for the middle class. But real middle class incomes have been declining steadily throughout his entire time in office, more since the recession than during the recession.

He tells us that countering increasing income inequality is the defining issue of our […]

Politics of Hate and Envy

By ACRU Staff|2014-01-31T12:40:06-05:00January 31st, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 29, 2014 on Townhall.com.

Part of the progressive agenda is to create hate and envy. One component of that agenda is to attack the large differences between a corporation’s chief executive officer’s earnings and those of its average worker. CNNMoney published salary comparisons in “Fortune 50 CEO pay vs. our salaries”. Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf’s annual salary is $2.8 million. CNN shows that it takes 66 Wells Fargo employees, whose average salary is $42,400, to match Stumpf’s salary. It […]