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Putting a Gun to the Public's Head

By |2010-12-09T00:35:31-05:00December 9th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing December 3, 2010 on The Washington Times website.

Government’s most essential function is to protect citizens. All other services are secondary.

Camden, N.J., is one of the most dangerous cities in the nation, according to FBI statistics analyzed by CQ Press. In fact, Camden was rated the “most dangerous city in America” in 2003, 2004 and 2008, just missing the top spot in 2009. (St. Louis edged it out).

Camden has neighborhoods that aren’t safe in broad daylight, much less at night.

So what did the city fathers of […]

Moral or Immoral Government

By |2020-04-23T21:57:14-04:00December 8th, 2010|

ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing December 8, 2010 on Townhall.com.

Immorality in government lies at the heart of our nation’s problems. Deficits, debt and runaway government are merely symptoms. What’s moral and immoral conduct can be complicated, but needlessly so. I keep things simple and you tell me where I go wrong.

My initial assumption is that we each own ourselves. I am my private property and you are yours. If we accept the notion that people own themselves, then it’s easy to discover what forms of conduct are moral and […]

The Madness of Obamanomics

By |2010-12-08T14:36:43-05:00December 8th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 8, 2010 on The American Spectator website.

For two years I have been arguing here and elsewhere that Obamanomics will not work. But for Obama and the Democrats to persist in transparent error after the election tsunami and now last Friday’s catastrophic unemployment report has now veered into madness.

Obama’s unreconstructed, throwback Keynesian economics from the 1970s and even the 1930s was a proven failure 30 years ago. Bringing it back as if nothing has happened since the Keynesian intellectual high water mark in the 1960s is public policy malpractice so extreme that it deserves […]

Striking Down Individual Mandate Would Mean Ending Obamacare

By |2010-12-07T18:25:12-05:00December 7th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing December 8, 2010, on The Washington Examiner website.

Litigation over Obamacare’s individual mandate has captured the public’s attention. But the ultimate goal in challenging the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law is not the mandate; it’s severability.

This individual mandate that you must buy health insurance is the most obnoxious provision of Obamacare, eradicating the concept of limited government. If the federal government can tell you how to spend your own money to buy insurance, then it also has the power to command you how to spend the […]

Harry Reid, Your Number Is Up!

By |2010-12-07T09:34:28-05:00December 7th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 7, 2010, on Townhall.com.

It was election night 2006, and as the results came in, one U.S. Senate seat after another turned from red to blue. And finally, during the early morning hours of November 8th, the final wall was breached. Montana’s junior Senator, Republican Conrad Burns was 3,562 votes short of defeating his Democrat opponent, Jon Tester. It was the loss of this Senate seat in Montana that was the deciding seat which handed the Senate Majority Leader gavel over to Harry Reid with a 51/49 margin in the U.S. Senate. […]

Obama to Voters: Drop Dead

By |2020-04-23T21:52:55-04:00December 2nd, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 1, 2010 on The American Spectator website.

The good news is that the Democrats and the Washington Establishment have heard the message from the American people on Election Day, 2010. How could they have not? It was an epoch beginning, 1932 style rout, as predicted here first 18 months ago.

The bad news is how much trouble our country is still in. For after all of President Obama’s double talking sweet talk right after the vote, the harsh reality, inconsistent with our very democracy, is that the Democrats and the Washington Establishment are rejecting the […]

Guarding Jimmy Carter's Tongue!

By |2010-12-02T12:51:23-05:00December 2nd, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 2, 2010, on Townhall.com.

Fans of Hollywood’s imaginative take on American politics may remember the movie, Guarding Tess. That 1994 comic hit featured Shirley MacLaine as a former First Lady who was being guarded by a Secret Service detachment headed by Nicolas Cage. Tess was something of a composite figure, part feisty Bess Truman, part liberal activist Eleanor Roosevelt, and part small town belle Rosalynn Carter. Of course, Hollywood being Hollywood, no part of Tess could be mistaken for a Barbara Bush or a Nancy Reagan. Even the fictional former First Ladies […]

Minimum Wage, Maximum Folly

By |2010-12-01T13:17:11-05:00December 1st, 2010|

ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing December 1, 2010 on Townhall.com.

How about this: The law of gravity is applicable to the behavior of falling objects on the U.S. mainland but not applicable on our Pacific Ocean territories Samoa and Northern Mariana Islands. You say, “Williams, that’s lunacy! Laws are applicable everywhere; that’s why they call it a law.”

You’re right, but does the same reasoning apply to the law of demand that holds: The higher the price of something, the less people will take of it; and the lower its price, […]

Liberal Lid Won't Fit on Boiling Tea Pot

By |2010-11-29T13:03:06-05:00November 29th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing November 27, 2010 on The Washington Times website.

Whew. Liberals are breathing a sigh of relief after the Associated Press released a poll this past week showing that Tea Partiers are out of step with the rest of America. Doctrinaire liberal: “We just knew those people were wacko. Now we have proof.”

Another doctrinaire liberal: “Thank goodness for polls like this and a reliable outlet like AP, or Sarah Palin and her backwoods family might yet dance their way right into the White House.”

Here’s how AP spun it:

The American Civil Rights Union Files Amicus Brief to Strike Down Obamacare

By |2010-11-21T15:40:38-05:00November 21st, 2010|

The American Civil Rights Union filed an amicus curiae brief on November 19 in the Federal District Court in the Northern District of Florida in the case of State of Florida, et al. v. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services supporting 20 states who have joined in that lawsuit seeking to strike down Obamacare as unconstitutional. The brief argued that the delegated, enumerated power in the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce does not include compelling participation in interstate commerce by requiring purchase of government designated products and services by those who otherwise choose not to do so. The brief also uniquely argued that there were […]

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