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ACRU: Supreme Court Should Clear Way to Clean Up N.J. Slum

By |2013-09-04T09:02:35-04:00September 4th, 2013|

Township Broke No Federal Law in Redeveloping Blighted Housing Project, Group Argues

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 4, 2013) — In a Supreme Court brief submitted Tuesday, Sept. 3, the American Civil Rights Union argues that local officials did not violate the Fair Housing Act when they demolished residences in a blighted, mixed-race area and built more modern units for low-income residents. A group of activists, claiming that the new units had a “disparate impact” on the price of other housing in the area owned mostly by minorities, sued the town, claiming racial discrimination.

Two lower courts ruled for the township on all counts. The Third U.S. […]

'Stand Your Ground' when Liberals Attack

By |2013-09-03T11:00:28-04:00September 3rd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 2, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

Americans have a right to their beliefs without left-wing reproach.

Warning: Taking corporate donations may be hazardous to your constitutional freedom of speech.

A case in point is the American Legislative Exchange Council, a Washington-based umbrella group of state legislators from around the nation who work together mostly on conservative economic proposals. Why reinvent the wheel in West Virginia if something works well in Iowa?

Last year, the American Legislative Exchange Council was accused by former White House aide Van Jones, […]

A Minority View

By |2020-04-23T21:57:06-04:00August 30th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 28, 2013 on Townhall.com.

This week begins my 34th year serving on George Mason University’s distinguished economics faculty. You might imagine my surprise when I received a letter from its Office of Equity and Diversity Services notifying me that I was required to “complete the in-person Equal Opportunity and Prevention of Sexual Harassment Policies and Procedures training.” This is a leftist agenda for indoctrination, thought control and free speech suppression to which I shall refuse to submit. Let’s look at it.

Ideas such […]

The Federal Government's Reaction to Bitcoin Is An Acknowledgement of the Dollar's Vulnerability

By |2020-04-23T21:57:06-04:00August 28th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 25, 2013 on Forbes.com.

The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee has private alternative currencies in its crosshairs. The Chairman, Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) and Ranking Member, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), sent a joint letter to seven federal agencies last week asking for feedback and policy proposals for regulation of virtual currencies, like Bitcoin.

Bitcoin has surged in value and popularity recently as it has come to be embraced by more users across the planet. In […]

Democrats and Lawlessness

By |2023-03-10T08:04:41-05:00August 28th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 21, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

In the third of the six films of the Star Wars saga, the Sith Lord who has infiltrated to become the ruling Chancellor of the democratic republic confederation of peaceful worlds announces to the elected Assembly of representatives of those worlds that to deal with an exaggerated, fabricated crisis, “The Old Republic will be reorganized into the first Intergalactic Empire.” The distracted Assembly responds with polite applause. One of the few characters who understands what is happening […]

Progressives and Blacks

By |2013-08-22T08:06:33-04:00August 22nd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 21, 2013 on Townhall.com.

Sometimes I wonder when black people will reject the patronizing insults of white progressives and their black handmaidens. After CNN’s Piers Morgan’s interview with the key witness in the George Zimmerman trial, he said: “Rachel Jeantel is not uneducated. She’s a smart cookie.” That’s a remarkable conclusion. Here’s a 19-year-old young lady, still in high school, who cannot read cursive and appears to be barely literate. Morgan may have meant Jeantel is smart—for a black person.

Progressives treat blacks […]

The Coming Liberation: Health Care for All without Obamacare

By |2020-04-23T21:57:06-04:00August 21st, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 18, 2013 on Forbes.com.

Obamacare was pushed through on the promise of universal health coverage for everyone. But the CBO now scores Obamacare as leaving 30 million uninsured even 10 years after implementation!

In fact, Obamacare will increase the uninsured rather than reduce them. Former CBO Chief Douglas Holtz-Eakin published a study in 2011 arguing that more than 40 million workers will lose their employer provided health insurance under the incentives of Obamacare. That is because […]

Thank You, Speaker Boehner

By |2013-08-16T13:05:54-04:00August 16th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 14, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

A highly illuminating article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal by Stephen Moore explained the newly transformed federal budget realities, and the reasons for them. Bottom line: the Republican House Majority elected in a New Deal sized landslide in 2010 has been successful in doing what the voters elected it to do—turn around the explosive Obama Democrat runaway spending spree of 2009-2010. But this is just a first step in restoring American prosperity, and […]

Energy Manipulation

By |2013-08-16T12:26:15-04:00August 16th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 14, 2013 on Townhall.com.

Why is it that natural gas sells in the U.S. for $3.94 per 1,000 cubic feet and in Europe and Japan for $11.60 and $17, respectively? Part of the answer is our huge supply. With high-tech methods of extraction and with discovery of vast gas-rich shale deposits, estimated reserves are about 2.4 quadrillion cubic feet. That translates into more than a 100-year supply of natural gas at current usage rates. What partially explains the high European and Japanese prices is […]

Will Democrat Voters Support Obama's Suspension of Democracy and Calculated Deception?

By |2013-08-16T11:02:56-04:00August 16th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 11, 2013 on Forbes.com.

On July 18, President Obama held an event at the White House to promote Obamacare. It was Calculated Deception writ large, which is Obama’s rhetorical style of taking advantage of what he shrewdly calculates the great majority of average Americans will not know, and what he is certain the so-called mainstream media will not tell them. That smacks of third world style, authoritarian propaganda.

Obama falsely claimed, “In states like California, Oregon, Washington, […]

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