This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 14, 2011 on FoxNews.com.

The failures of federal, state and local officials of both major parties, over many years, have primed a ticking bankruptcy bomb for America that will explode the American Dream if we don’t disarm it. But it is not too late to reverse course and avert the coming bankruptcy of America.

Reversing course will require fundamental structural reforms of all levels of government, and our most politically sensitive entitlement programs, including Social Security, Medicare, the continuing […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 9, 2011 on Forbes.com.

Suppose you were suffering long term unemployment, and you had maxed out all of your credit cards. Would your first action this morning be (1) get out of the house to look for a job, or (2) start cutting back on expenses, or (3) focus on increasing your credit limit?

Based on their positions in the federal debt limit debate, what President Obama and Sens. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi would advise is (3) […]

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published June 9, 2011 on Townhall.com.

After 10 days of playing the victim of computer hacking, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York) admitted Monday that he lied about sending lewd photos of himself to women he met online. He said that he is “deeply ashamed” and accepts responsibility for his “actions,” but will not resign from Congress, claiming that he “didn’t violate any laws or congressional rules.”

Instead of urging Weiner to resign, as several other Democrats have done, Minority House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), former Queen of Clean Swamps, referred the […]

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 8, 2011 on Townhall.com.

There are a lot of things, large and small, that irk me. One of them is our tendency to evaluate a presidential candidate based on his intelligence or academic credentials. When Obama threw his hat in the ring, people thought he was articulate and smart and hailed his intellectual credentials. Just recently, when Newt Gingrich announced his candidacy, people hailed his intellectual credentials and smartness as well.

By contrast, the intellectual elite and mainstream media people see Sarah Palin […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 8, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

On Inauguration Day, 2009, President Obama seemed so politically blessed by the timing of developing economic trends. I expected that based on American economic history, recovery from the recession should have occurred some time during 2009. Even the longest previous recession since the Great Depression would have resulted in a recovery in summer 2009, as the recession began in December 2007.

Moreover, prior American history had shown that the deeper the recession the stronger the recovery. […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 3, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

You might have seen the vicious Mediscare video by now entitled “America the Beautiful.” If you haven’t, you should. It’s from folks who just the other day were chanting the mantra of “civility.” It’s a taste of what the left will be serving up as 2012 approaches.

As the song “America the Beautiful” plays, a man in a dark suit with a likeness to Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin pushes an elderly woman in a wheelchair down a sidewalk. The message on […]