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Solutions to Black Education

By ACRU Staff|2014-02-27T17:10:53-05:00February 27th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 26, 2014 on Townhall.com.

A fortnight ago, my column focused on how Philadelphia’s schoolteachers have joined public-school teachers in cities such as Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, Columbus, New York and Washington in changing student scores on academic achievement tests. Teachers have held grade fixing parties, sometimes wearing rubber gloves to hide fingerprints. In some cases, poorly performing students were excused from taking exams to prevent them from dragging down averages. As a result of investigations, a number of schoolteachers and administrators have been suspended, […]

The Period of No Global Warming Will Soon Be Longer Than the Period of Actual Global Warming

By ACRU Staff|2014-02-25T11:53:07-05:00February 25th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on February 24, 2014 on Forbes.com.

If you look at the record of global temperature data, you will find that the late 20th Century period of global warming actually lasted about 20 years, from the late 1970s to the late 1990s. Before that, the globe was dominated by about 30 years of global cooling, giving rise in the 1970s to media discussions of the return of the Little Ice Age (circa 1450 to 1850), or worse.

But the record of satellite measurements of global atmospheric temperatures now shows no warming for […]

America's Constitutional Crisis

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-10T08:04:38-05:00February 25th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on February 21, 2014 on Forbes.com.

President Obama famously has a pen and a phone. And if he had the same powers that Hugo Chavez had, that would be all he would need to impose Hugo Chavez’s programs on America, unilaterally by decree. President Obama is telling us by his words, and his actions, that he thinks he has at least some of those powers. He is telling us by his words and his actions that he will not obey the law, and follow the Constitution he is sworn to uphold by […]

Positioning the Coming Myths

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-23T09:50:46-04:00February 25th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on February 19, 2014 on The American Spectator website.

Personal matters have led me to spend more time in Southern California recently. There my eyes have been opened to new developing trends in American culture with political implications.

On my last trip a few weeks ago, I discovered that California Hispanics, who have effectively been convinced that Barack Obama is America’s first Hispanic President, have been telling their fellow citizens that Obamacare is the greatest thing that has happened to them in a long time. That is because Obamacare enabled the poor for the first […]

Concealing Evil

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-10T08:04:38-05:00February 25th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 19, 2014 on Townhall.com.

Evil acts are given an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding socialistic expressions, such as spreading the wealth, income redistribution, caring for the less fortunate, and the will of the majority. Let’s have a thought experiment to consider just how much Americans sanction evil.

Imagine there are several elderly widows in your neighborhood. They have neither the strength to mow their lawns, clean their windows and perform other household tasks nor the financial means to hire someone to help […]

The Unenviable Role of Liberal Apologist for Obama Policies

By ACRU Staff|2014-02-24T10:15:09-05:00February 24th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 21, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

It’s getting harder every day to be a liberal.

Having to defend Obamacare is enough to exhaust the hardiest soul. Trying to explain President Obama’s foreign policy would give anybody — even a creative globalist like John F. Kerry — a pounding headache.

There don’t appear to be any happy outcomes: Libya. Syria. Iran. Iraq. Afghanistan. Punched-in-the-gut Israel. Dennis Rodman’s homicidal North Korea. Creeping communism in Venezuela. The Ukrainians sullying the Olympics for Mr. Obama’s friend, Vladimir Putin.

Even the weather, […]

Rousing Those Moribund 'Monuments Men'

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-10T08:04:39-05:00February 21st, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published February 21, 2014 on the American Thinker website.

American liberty is under assault as President Obama runs roughshod over a Congress as passive as the statuary adorning its halls.

Like our Founders, Congress needs the energizing force of liberty. They might want to take a retro look at the pivotal scene of Ghostbusters II.

In the 1989 film, New Yorkers were dispirited as evil spirits ran amok. The gang of heroes realized that their “psychomagnotheric” slime guns needed a massive, positive charge to stop the evil force, Vigo, from […]

When You Give Liberals the Oval Office

By ACRU Staff|2014-02-17T15:00:20-05:00February 17th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 14, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

On Presidents Day, we honor those men who helped start and guide our nation. Their leadership got us through the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression, two world wars and the Cold War.

Until recently, they all seemed to understand what makes America exceptional. But now, we’re not in Kansas anymore.

You know that clever ad by a satellite-dish company that shows what happens to a man who gets bored waiting for the cable guy?

As with the children’s books that began with […]

If You Work Full Time, You Will Not be Poor

By ACRU Staff|2014-02-17T11:39:00-05:00February 17th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on February 5, 2014 on The American Spectator website.

President Obama said in his State of the Union last week, “But Americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty.”

Thank you, Mr. President. But even without you, as already enacted in current law, for anyone who works full time in America, the minimum wage, plus the Earned Income Tax Credit, plus the Child Tax Credit, equals or exceeds the poverty level for every possible family combination, including single mothers with […]

Truth and Consequences for Krugman, and Keynes, and Obama

By ACRU Staff|2014-02-17T11:10:12-05:00February 17th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on February 10, 2014 on Forbes.com.

Just about one year ago, on February 8, 2013, New York Times columnist and unreconstructed Keynesian Paul Krugman was interviewed by another lefty, Marc Lamont Hill, on Huff Post Live, the Huffington Post website.

Krugman was expounding on how to get the economy growing again and create jobs, which he had discussed in detail in his book, End This Depression Now. “It’s the easiest thing in the world,” Krugman explained. “The really horrifying thing is this is something we know how to end, we could […]