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Bloomberg Hides Government Causes of Financial Crisis

By |2012-01-05T08:11:47-05:00January 5th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 4, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

On December 21, Bloomberg News breathlessly reported, “The leading Republican candidates for president have embraced an explanation of the financial crisis that has been rejected by the chairman of the Federal Reserve, many economists and even three of the four Republicans on the government commission that investigated the meltdown.”

Reporter David J. Lynch further explained, “Both former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney lay much of the blame on U.S. government housing […]

I Love Greed

By |2020-04-23T21:57:10-04:00January 4th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 4, 2012 on Townhall.com.

What human motivation gets the most wonderful things done? It’s really a silly question, because the answer is so simple. It turns out that it’s human greed that gets the most wonderful things done. When I say greed, I am not talking about fraud, theft, dishonesty, lobbying for special privileges from government or other forms of despicable behavior. I’m talking about people trying to get as much as they can for themselves. Let’s look at it.

This winter, Texas […]

Hawkeye Hoopla and the Rueful Paul Reality

By |2012-01-02T15:11:12-05:00January 2nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published January 2, 2012 on the American Thinker website.

My New Year’s resolution is never hearing the words “Iowa caucuses” ever again.

The ceaseless and breathless media reporting about which Republican presidential candidate is leading in the Iowa polls is about as trivial as a tractor pull in Treynor. Iowans are good people, but let’s get some perspective here.

Recall that Mike Huckabee, winner of the 2008 corn caucuses, is hosting a show on Fox News rather than playing bass guitar on his “Hail to the Chief” CD.

Voter ID Terrifies Democrats

By |2020-04-23T21:48:01-04:00January 1st, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 2, 2012 in The Washington Times.

The most consequential election in our lifetime is still 10 months away, but it’s clear from the Obama administration’s order halting South Carolina’s new photo ID law that the Democrats already have brought a gun to a knife fight.

How else to describe this naked assault on the right of a state to create minimal requirements to curb voter fraud?

On Dec. 23, Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez sent a letter ordering South Carolina to stop enforcing its photo ID law. Mr. […]

Holder Race-Baiting about Obama's Re-Election, Not Voting Rights

By |2020-04-23T21:59:34-04:00December 31st, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published December 30, 2011 on Big Government.

Eric Holder’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an all-out war on voter-ID laws and other measures to safeguard the electoral process. Although Holder’s actions are purportedly to prevent African-Americans from being disenfranchised, the reality is that they serve the crass political purpose of ensuring that Holder’s boss gets reelected next year.

In the past several years states have increasingly focused on measures to protect the vote. After years of the federal government loosening voting regulations, such as through the Motor Voter […]

The Other Voting Right: Protecting Every Citizen's Vote by Safeguarding the Integrity of the Ballot Box

By |2020-04-23T21:59:34-04:00December 30th, 2011|

There is a saying that “people get the government they vote for.” The implication of the maxim is that if undesirable or unwise legislation is enacted, if executive branch officials are inept or ineffective, or if the government is beset with widespread corruption, then such unfortunate results are the consequence of the electorate’s decision regarding whom to trust with the powers and prestige of public office. The Constitution does not forbid people from enacting wrongheaded policies. If voters elect leaders that fail them, then the citizenry is saddled with the consequences of its choice until the next election. Such is the reality in a democratic republic.

Gullible Americans

By |2011-12-28T16:51:42-05:00December 28th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published December 28, 2011 on Townhall.com.

National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Deborah Hersman has called for states to mandate a total ban on cellphone usage while driving. She has also encouraged electronics manufacturers — via recommendations to the CTIA — The Wireless Association and the Consumer Electronics Association — to develop features that “disable the functions of portable electronic devices within reach of the driver when a vehicle is in motion.” That means she wants to be able to turn off your cellphone while you’re driving.

Heritage and the Individual Mandate

By |2011-12-21T11:03:07-05:00December 21st, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 21, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

I have kept the true story of the Heritage Foundation and the individual health insurance mandate under wraps for almost 20 years now, because up until now it has been too costly to tell it. But now it is too costly not to tell it.

This is not an attack on Heritage, which has long since mended its ways. But the story is now centrally relevant to the Republican presidential primaries.

In 1993, I was […]

Newt Gingrich's Entitlement Reform Plan

By |2020-04-23T21:58:19-04:00December 20th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 15, 2011 on Forbes.com.

On Nov. 12, in Manchester, N.H., Newt Gingrich released his entitlement reform proposals in a 49-page, single-spaced, footnoted document to which I contributed heavily. Those proposals reflect my life’s work at such institutions as the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation and John Goodman’s National Center for Policy Analysis, devoted to making government smaller, particularly through politically viable entitlement reforms. (You can read more about them in my book America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb).

The ACLU's 12 Days of Litigation

By |2020-04-23T21:52:50-04:00December 20th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 19, 2011 in The Daily Caller.

Always imaginative, the ACLU’s elves are finding new ways to step on Christmas, which they seem to regard as about as important in America as, oh, churches.

This year, the liberal organization’s lawyers are playing off the traditional carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” with an ACLU version, “The 12 Days of Religious Liberty.” It’s not a song, just a litany of religious cases.

Here’s their exquisitely multicultural explanation:

During what is often referred to as the holiday season, a variety of […]

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