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The Untold Unemployment Story: A Loss Of 162,000 Full-Time Jobs In June

By |2013-07-18T11:36:36-04:00July 18th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published July 14, 2013 on Forbes.com.

You would not have gotten the real story about the June unemployment report on the front page of any newspaper. If you can find a reporter who can think for himself or herself, he or she is a treasure who should be promoted to run the entire paper.

But since you are already here, the real story is available if you read on. There were no net full time jobs created last month. The number […]

Silver Linings in the Ruling on Obamacare

By |2020-04-23T21:52:42-04:00July 15th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published July 15, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

In the latest court ruling upholding Obamacare, a three-judge federal panel in Richmond, Va, last Thursday rejected Liberty University’s challenge to both the individual mandate and the employer mandate to provide health insurance.

There are silver linings here, and we’ll get to them in a minute. First, let’s look at the case.

Eyebrows were raised a few months ago when Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s Justice Department said it had no problem with the U.S. Supreme Court sending Liberty’s challenge to […]

The Lawless President

By |2013-07-10T23:46:36-04:00July 10th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published July 10, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

The duties of the President of the United States are spelled out in Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution, which states, inter alia, that the President “shall take Care that the laws be faithfully executed.” As Stanford Law Professor and former federal judge Michael McConnell explained in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, “This is a duty, not a discretionary power. While the president does have substantial discretion about how to enforce a law, he has no discretion […]

Black Education Tragedy

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

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published July 10, 2013 on Townhall.com.

As if more evidence were needed about the tragedy of black education, Rachel Jeantel, a witness for the prosecution in the George Zimmerman murder trial, put a face on it for the nation to see. Some of that evidence unfolded when Zimmerman’s defense attorney asked 19-year-old Jeantel to read a letter that she allegedly had written to Trayvon Martin’s mother. She responded that she doesn’t read cursive, and that’s in addition to her poor grammar, syntax and communication skills.

As the Earth Cools, Obama's Still Distracted by a Fraudulent Warming Narrative

By |2013-07-10T21:49:33-04:00July 10th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published July 8, 2013 on Forbes.com.

“A growing economy that creates good, middle class jobs—this must be the North Star that guides our efforts.”

That is what President Obama said in his State of the Union Address would be the overriding priority guiding his second term, to much fanfare. He has also frequently said he is “focused on jobs like a laser,” and that the central goal of his policies is to preserve and advance the middle class. He […]

Homeowners Sue Police for Violating the Little-Known Third Amendment

By |2020-04-23T21:53:45-04:00July 8th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 7, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Police arrested the Mitchell family in Nevada when the family refused to let the police take over their houses to observe the Mitchells’ neighbors. The Mitchells have sued the City of Henderson and various police officials, claiming among other things that the police violated their rights under the Third Amendment to the Constitution.

Anthony Mitchell lives on the same street as his parents Michael and Linda Mitchell in a suburb of Las Vegas. On July 10, 2011, police contacted Anthony to say they were investigating […]

Distrusting Government

By |2020-04-23T21:53:57-04:00July 3rd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published July 3, 2013 on Townhall.com.

Recent opinion polls demonstrate a deepening distrust of the federal government. That’s not an altogether bad thing.

Our nation’s founders recognized that most human abuses are the result of government. As Thomas Paine said, “government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil.” Because of their fear of abuse, the Constitution’s framers sought to keep the federal government limited in its power. Their distrust of Congress is seen in the governing rules and language used throughout our […]

White House Violates Law with Obamacare Delay

By |2013-07-03T13:47:59-04:00July 3rd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 2, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Obama administration officials are illegally delaying enforcement of a central provision in the president’s namesake legislation in a desperate attempt to manipulate the 2014 midterm elections and swell the ranks of those who look to government for healthcare.

The White House is beginning to sense that when Americans realize the price of “free” healthcare, they’re likely to take swift vengeance on those responsible.

Section 1513 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, better known as Obamacare) requires all large employers to provide health insurance for […]

ACRU: Supreme Court Gets It Right in Property Case

By |2013-06-28T13:43:10-04:00June 28th, 2013|

Ruling mirrors ACRU’s brief that Florida officials resorted to unconstitutional coercion against land owner.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 28) – The U.S. Supreme Court on June 25 in a 5-4 ruling smacked down Florida officials who tried to coerce a landowner into paying for improvements to a piece of property in order to obtain needed permits for an entirely unrelated parcel.

The Court essentially agreed with the argument made in the American Civil Rights Union’s amicus brief that the demand amounted to an unconstitutional “taking” of property that violates the Fifth Amendment.

The brief in Coy A. Koontz v. St. John’s River Water Management District, […]

Reconfirming the Constitution

By |2013-06-27T06:39:57-04:00June 27th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published June 26, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act bans any “standard, practice, or procedure” that “results in a denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen… to vote on account of race or color.” After yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder, that is still the law in America, in every state in the country.

What was struck down yesterday was another component of the Voting Rights Act, embodied in Sections 4 and 5. […]

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