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Why Prosperity Is Hip, and Raises Living Standards

By |2012-03-16T13:58:32-04:00March 16th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 15, 2012 on Forbes.com.

From 1947 to 2007, the U.S. economy averaged real growth of 3.2% a year. At that rate, our GDP would double every 22 years. It is that sustained, long term economic growth that made the United States into the world’s dominant superpower.

Last year, U.S. real economic growth was a paltry 1.7%. The current quarter will probably not be much better. Historically, the deeper the recession, the stronger the recovery. That is because the U.S. […]

The Worst Economic Recovery Since the Great Depression

By |2012-03-14T12:32:40-04:00March 14th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 14, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

The record of President Obama’s first three years in office is in, and nothing that happens now can go back and change that. What that record shows is that President Obama, with his throwback, old-fashioned, 1970s Keynesian economics, has put America through the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression. The American people are much poorer now because of that, and will remain poorer, falling farther and farther behind, until we change course and restore […]

Compliant Americans

By |2012-03-14T12:19:27-04:00March 14th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 14, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Last month, at a Raeford, N.C., elementary school, a teacher confiscated the lunch of a 5-year-old girl because it didn’t meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines and therefore was deemed nonnutritious. She replaced it with school cafeteria chicken nuggets. The girl’s home-prepared lunch was nutritious; it consisted of a turkey and cheese sandwich, potato chips, a banana and apple juice. But whether her lunch was nutritious or not is not the issue. The issue is governmental usurpation of parental authority.

Voter ID Insanity at DOJ Going to the United Nations

By |2012-03-13T22:18:16-04:00March 13th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 13, 2012 on The Daily Caller website.

The far left is making an unprecedented two-track move to derail states’ efforts to protect the integrity of the ballot box for this November’s elections. While the Department of Justice (DOJ) is blocking state efforts, liberal activists are taking this issue to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Attorney General Eric Holder is invoking Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). He claims it gives him the power to block Texas’s voter ID law, which […]

The Left's Schadenfreude Fraud

By |2012-03-13T11:26:47-04:00March 13th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published March 13, 2012 on the American Thinker website.

Schadenfreude, according to Webster, is “enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others.” It encapsulates the essence of women using government to force others to pay for their contraception.

The fraud is in hustling the con as a women’s health issue. It makes sense only to abortion zealots who think pregnancy is a disease or a parasite.

The grand dame of abortion rights, Minority House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), held a little Republican-bashing session with three members of the “House […]

Will High Court Adopt the Coercion Test?

By |2020-04-23T21:52:49-04:00March 12th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 12, 2012 in The Washington Times.

As the American Civil Liberties Union prowls the land to muzzle public prayers, rip out Ten Commandments monuments and terrify small towns over Nativity scenes, help may be on the way from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Later this year, the court may decide to hear arguments for and against tearing down the 44-foot cross at the Mount Soledad veterans memorial in San Diego.

The ACLU says the cross, first erected in 1913 and rebuilt twice, is an unconstitutional establishment of religion. You can […]

Securing the Safety Net

By |2012-03-12T07:58:13-04:00March 12th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Chairman and CEO and CCPP founder and President Susan A. Carleson was published March 11, 2012 on The American Thinker website.

As the sheer audacity and real costs of ObamaCare become more apparent every day, we can’t say we weren’t warned.

Back in 1961, Ronald Reagan explained the allure and dangers of “free” medical care:

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It is very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything […]

Romney's Pending Sellout on Global Warming

By |2012-03-07T09:22:19-05:00March 7th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 7, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

The theory that humans are causing catastrophic global warming by burning fossil fuels and releasing “greenhouse” gases lapsed into self-parody in the past couple of weeks with the scandal of Fakegate. Here is the full context to understand that story, which is valuable because it serves as a further revelation and metaphor for the entire fabrication of global warming.

On an irregular schedule of roughly every 6 years, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]

It Just Ain't So

By |2012-03-07T08:34:40-05:00March 7th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 7, 2012 on Townhall.com.

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 2011 manufacturing output grew by 11 percent, to nearly $5 trillion. Were our manufacturing sector considered a nation with its own gross domestic product, it would be the world’s fourth-richest economy. Manufacturing productivity has doubled since 1987, and manufacturing output has risen by one-half. However, over the past two decades, manufacturing employment has fallen about 25 percent. For some people, that means our manufacturing sector is sick. By that criterion, our agriculture sector shares […]

Fakegate: The Obnoxious Fabrication of Global Warming

By |2012-03-02T22:47:04-05:00March 2nd, 2012|

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

About every four years, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produces a voluminous Assessment Report (AR) on the state of global warming science, such as it is. Two years after each AR, the IPCC produces an updating Interim Report.

In 2008, The Heartland Institute, headquartered in Chicago, began organizing international conferences of scientists from across the globe who want to raise and discuss intellectually troubling questions and doubts regarding the theory that […]

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