This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 26, 2013 on Townhall.com.

There’s a move on to prohibit Washington’s football team from calling itself “Redskins,” even though a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision said that it has that right. Now the name change advocates are turning to the political arena and intimidation. The NCAA has already banned the University of North Dakota from calling its football team the “Fighting Sioux.”

This is the classic method of busybodies and tyrants; they start out with something trivial or small and then magnify and […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 19, 2013 on the Tea Party Unity website.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 19, 2013) – At an “Audit the IRS” rally staged today in front of the U.S. Capitol, Glenn Beck told a crowd of about 10,000 to draw on their faith for courage in opposing tyrannical government.

My wife and I attended the event, which was held under cloudy skies on the lawn facing the mall.

“Stare down the bullies with the full armor of God,” Beck said to enthusiastic applause at the event, which was sponsored by Tea […]

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 12, 2013 on Townhall.com.

Last week, a federal judge ordered Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to allow 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, to be moved to the adult lung transplant list. That gives her a better chance of receiving a potentially lifesaving transplant. Sarah Murnaghan’s fate should force us to examine our organ transplant policy.

There are more than 88,000 Americans on the organ transplant waiting list. Roughly 10 percent of them will die before receiving an […]