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The Fiscal Cliff and America's Coming Recession

By |2012-11-12T11:58:58-05:00November 12th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 9, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Since the end of World War II two thirds of a century ago, federal spending has been stable at around 20% of GDP. America prospered to become the mightiest economic power in the history of the world with the federal government limited to that level of spending.

But President Obama is certain he has a better idea. He wants higher taxes and higher federal spending. Only with that can he “spread the wealth around.” He […]

Where Republicans and Conservatives Went Wrong

By |2012-11-09T14:34:15-05:00November 9th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 8, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

The American people lost literally trillions in the financial crisis, in home values, in stock values, and in lost jobs and wages. Obama had a narrative as to what caused the financial crisis. It was Bush’s, and maybe even Reagan’s, tax cuts, and Republican deregulation. And the argument that won the election for Obama in my opinion was that Romney just wanted to go back to the same policies that caused the financial crisis (the mess we […]

Dismissed Obamacare Lawsuit May Return to Lower Court

By |2020-04-23T21:52:47-04:00November 9th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on November 2, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Just when most people thought all legal challenges to the Individual Mandate were dead and buried, one springs back to life, and with a twist.

Unless they’ve been living under a rock, most Americans have heard that the Supreme Court decided a constitutional challenge to Obamacare’s infamous Individual Mandate in NFIB v. Sebelius. Plenty of Americans are unaware, however, that out of over 30 cases challenging the Mandate, NFIB was only one of five challenges that were considered serious and credible.

Another one […]

President Obama Offers a Repeat of His Same Failed Policies

By |2012-11-06T08:23:52-05:00November 6th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 1, 2012 on Forbes.com.

A central theme of President Obama’s reelection campaign is that we can’t go back to the same economic policies that caused “the mess we are in,” by which he means the 2008 financial crisis. He identifies those policies as the same tax rate cuts and regulatory rollbacks supported by GOP nominee Mitt Romney. This is just about the only Obama theme that has resonated with at least some of the public.

But substantively […]

ACRU Asks Holder to Investigate Connecticut Mayor's Comments

By |2012-10-29T12:53:54-04:00October 29th, 2012|

On October 12th, Bridgeport, Conn. Mayor Bill Finch was caught on tape arguably boasting that he would guarantee U.S. Senate candidate Christopher Murphy however many Bridgeport votes it took for Murphy to win the election in November. On Oct. 24, ACRU Chairman Susan A. Carleson wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. asking the Justice Department to make inquiries and to monitor the voting process in Bridgeport from now until Election Day.

Click here for the letter. (PDF)

Who Do You Trust?

By |2012-10-28T16:37:58-04:00October 28th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published October 27, 2012 on the American Thinker website.

President Obama is playing the assertive husband in his campaign version of an old TV show, “Who Do You Trust?” Mitt Romney should stop playing the passive wife.

Romney can’t be trusted as president, Obama told those attending a campaign rally in Dayton, Ohio on Oct. 24:

“There’s no more serious issue in a presidential campaign than trust… Trust matters. You want to know that the person who’s applying to be your president and commander in chief is trustworthy, that he […]

What You Can't Say

By |2020-04-23T21:57:07-04:00October 25th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 24, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Jon Hubbard, a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, has a book, titled Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative. Among its statements for which Hubbard has been criticized and disavowed by the Republican Party is, “The institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with […]

Benghazi: Obama's Actions Amount to a Shameful Dereliction of Duty

By |2012-10-25T23:17:16-04:00October 25th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 25, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Enough facts are in the public record about the Benghazi murders of Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 others, including two Marines, that a final judgment can be rendered on President Obama’s handling of the affair. Obama’s actions, or inactions, amounted to dereliction of duty, and worse.

The Obama Administration received requests for additional security from the Embassy and the Ambassador himself as early as February. An embassy cable on June 25 expressed […]

The Liar President

By |2012-10-25T20:35:43-04:00October 25th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 24, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Dorothy Rabinowitz, one of the best writers of our time, encapsulated the Obama Presidency perfectly in Monday’s Wall Street Journal. She wrote:

In the 1967 film “A Guide for the Married Man,” a husband, played by a peerless Walter Matthau, is given lessons in ways to cheat on his wife safely: “Deny! Deny! Deny!” — no matter what. In an instructive scene, he’s shown a wife undone by shock, and screaming, with good reason: She has […]

ACLU Says Father-Daughter Dance 'Contrary to Federal Law'

By |2012-10-22T22:51:33-04:00October 22nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 22, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

If you want to see what the new normal looks like when the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) calls the shots, look no further than Cranston, R.I. That city of 80,000, the third-largest in the Ocean State, is at the epicenter of the ACLU’s war on the normal.

It makes a perverse sort of sense, because Cranston reportedly is the inspiration for Quahog, R.I., the fictitious setting of Seth MacFarlane’s vulgar, anti-family Fox TV comedy “Family Guy.” Mr. MacFarlane, who has been […]

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