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Devious Taxation

By |2012-04-25T12:04:53-04:00April 25th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 25, 2012 on Townhall.com

The Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation does a yeoman’s job of keeping track of how much we’re paying in taxes and who’s paying what. It turns out that American taxpayers worked this year from Jan. 1 to April 17, 107 days, to earn enough money to pay their federal, state and local tax bills. That statistic requires some clarification, and I ask my readers to help me examine it.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, Congress will spend $3.8 trillion […]

Stealing Our Elections

By |2020-04-23T21:59:33-04:00April 25th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 25, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Columnist David Limbaugh, brother of Rush, asks in a recent column, “Can anyone think of an innocuous reason that President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder oppose state voter ID laws?”

The correct answer is definitely “No!” But even Limbaugh dances around the full answer to the question, suggesting only at the end that the lack of a good reason to oppose voter ID suggests that the real motivation is an ulterior motive to rig elections.

Appeals Court Gives Arizona Partial Victory on Voter-ID Law

By |2012-04-20T21:45:26-04:00April 20th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 20, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Arizona might be going to the U.S. Supreme Court yet again. A federal appeals court upheld part of the Grand Canyon State’s voter-ID law, but struck down another part of Arizona’s law as inconsistent with a 1993 federal law. This might become the third citizen/voting Arizona law to go to the Supreme Court in just three years.

Arizona allows for citizens to adopt ballot propositions with the force of law, which trump state statutes but fall short of amending […]

ACLU Fails to Establish Right to Porn

By |2020-04-23T21:52:49-04:00April 19th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 19, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

Wenatchee, Wash., famous for apples and wine, may become famous in the culture wars as well. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) just took it on the chin there over its ongoing campaign to force public libraries to accommodate perverts in raincoats.

On April 11, Judge Edward F. Shea of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington upheld the local library system’s computer filter policy, dismissing a motion filed by the ACLU to turn off the filter.

The ruling […]

The Laughable Economic Fallacies Embraced by Progressives

By |2012-04-19T16:37:30-04:00April 19th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 19, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Persistent economic fallacies hurt working people and the poor the most. They are the ones most in need of the new jobs and higher wages that capital investment and economic growth produce. And they suffer the most from unemployment and declining wages and incomes when the economy falters. Self-styled Progressives are the source of the economic fallacies that are hurting working people and the poor today.

One common fallacy popular among self-proclaimed […]

Stand Your Ground, America

By |2023-03-10T08:04:45-05:00April 18th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 18, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

How do you stand your ground if you are lying on your back getting pummeled in the face?

That one question alone shows that Stand Your Ground laws are not at issue in the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin controversy. But the tragic death of young Trayvon is only seen by those on the left as a valuable media opportunity to further exploit the millions of gullible Americans to advance the left’s political interests and agenda. Indeed, we […]

Good Economists

By |2012-04-18T10:52:09-04:00April 18th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 18, 2012 on Townhall.com

It’s difficult to be a good economist and simultaneously be perceived as compassionate. To be a good economist, one has to deal with reality. To appear compassionate, often one has to avoid unpleasant questions, use “caring” terminology and view reality as optional.

Affordable housing and health care costs are terms with considerable emotional appeal that politicians exploit but have absolutely no useful meaning or analytical worth. For example, can anyone tell me in actual dollars and cents the price […]

SCOTUS: Lower Court Must Decide Whether Jerusalem Part of Israel on Passports

By |2012-04-15T22:39:46-04:00April 15th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 11, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Federal courts will decide whether U.S. passports must declare Jerusalem part of Israel. In Zivotofsky v. Clinton, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s conclusion that this issue must be resolved in the political arena between President Obama and Congress.

American passports record “Place of Birth” as either “City, Nation” or “State, Nation.” (For example, mine reads, “Indiana, U.S.A.”) Because of the struggles involving Jerusalem in world politics, modern passports for Americans born in that city say only “Jerusalem” without identifying the nation in […]

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