OPED Archives - Page 157 of 301

Bully EPA's Air Rules Over All

By ACRU Staff|2014-02-11T11:05:01-05:00February 11th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 10, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

With breathtaking mountains, constant wind and a tiny carbon footprint, Wyoming has some of the prettiest scenery and cleanest air in the nation.

Wyoming ranks 10th among the states in size, but with only 580,000 people — fewer than the city of Las Vegas — it’s only 49th in population density. You can throw a lot of rocks and not hit anybody — for miles.

You might think that it would be the last place that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would […]

The ACLU's Deadly Prescription for Addiction

By ACRU Staff|2014-02-07T12:18:34-05:00February 7th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 6, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

Drug overdoses are in the news again with the passing of Philip Seymour Hoffman. The 46-year-old actor was found dead on Sunday in his Manhattan office-apartment of an apparent drug overdose. Investigators found a large quantity of heroin and prescription medications.

Heroin abuse is on the rise, and so is the abuse of a variety of prescribed narcotics, or opioids.

Overdoses linked to opioid-based prescription drugs, such as oxycodone, have more than quadrupled since 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control […]

President Obama's State of the Union Formula for Economic Stagnation: More Taxes for Still More Spending, and Still More Regulation

By ACRU Staff|2014-02-03T12:08:12-05:00February 3rd, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on January 31, 2014 on Forbes.com.

In a column last month (Barack Obama’s Presidency Is a Complete Failure By His Own, Self-Imposed Standards 12/31/2013), I explained that President Obama’s Presidency has been a complete failure by his own standards. He tells us that he is fighting for the middle class. But real middle class incomes have been declining steadily throughout his entire time in office, more since the recession than during the recession.

He tells us that countering increasing income inequality is the defining issue of our […]

Politics of Hate and Envy

By ACRU Staff|2014-01-31T12:40:06-05:00January 31st, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 29, 2014 on Townhall.com.

Part of the progressive agenda is to create hate and envy. One component of that agenda is to attack the large differences between a corporation’s chief executive officer’s earnings and those of its average worker. CNNMoney published salary comparisons in “Fortune 50 CEO pay vs. our salaries”. Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf’s annual salary is $2.8 million. CNN shows that it takes 66 Wells Fargo employees, whose average salary is $42,400, to match Stumpf’s salary. It […]

The Taxation President

By ACRU Staff|2014-01-31T11:46:07-05:00January 31st, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on January 30, 2014 on the American Spectator website.

The President started last year forcing through sweeping tax increases. The top marginal income tax rate rose by nearly 20%, to punish the most successful for the anti-social acts of working too hard and producing too much. The capital gains tax rate was increased by nearly 60%, as was the tax on corporate dividends. America’s top marginal corporate income tax rate remains the highest among all developed world economies, close to 40% on average, given state corporate tax rates as well.

But […]

OK to Feel Sorry

By ACRU Staff|2014-01-29T11:16:56-05:00January 29th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 22, 2014 on Townhall.com.

At one time in our nation’s history, blacks feeling sorry for whites was verboten. That was portrayed in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. This is a novel published in 1960 — and later made into a movie — about Depression-era racial relations in the Deep South. The novel’s character Tom Robinson, a black man, portrayed in the movie by Brock Peters, is on trial, falsely accused of raping a white woman. The prosecuting attorney, while grilling […]

After Five Years of Obamanomics, a Record 100 Million Americans Not Working

By ACRU Staff|2014-01-29T10:47:41-05:00January 29th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on January 24, 2014 on the Forbes website.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) jobs report for December counted 74,000 jobs created last month. That was less than half the 200,000 new jobs expected.

Nevertheless, the BLS reported those 74,000 new jobs as reducing at least what it calls the U3 unemployment rate by three tenths of a percentage point, from 7.0% to 6.7%. That was because 347,000 workers fled the work force altogether last month, and so were no longer counted as unemployed.

Those 347,000 workers leaving the workforce […]

ACRU Supports Hobby Lobby Against ObamaCare Contraceptive Mandate

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:52:39-04:00January 28th, 2014|

“Individuals have Free Exercise rights with respect to their for-profit businesses.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 28, 2014) – The Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate unconstitutionally violates the religious freedom of a Christian family that owns a chain of craft stores and a chain of Christian bookstores, the American Civil Rights Union argues in a brief submitted today to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, the brief in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., Mardel Stores Inc., David Green, et al. notes that the Green family’s refusal to offer insurance coverage of abortifacients to […]

When Wendy Warred with a Woman

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:52:39-04:00January 27th, 2014|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing January 25, 2014 on The American Thinker website.

One can learn a lot about State Sen. Wendy Davis, the Democratic candidate for governor of Texas, from her battles.

Davis has been battling to restore her tarnished image as a result of nonstop media attention after a column by Wayne Slater in the Dallas Morning News on Jan. 20. The mostly kid-gloves piece revealed some lies and material omissions in Davis’s “I am woman, hear me roar” resume.

For one, Davis downplayed embellishing and lying on her […]

Obama Should Stop Taking Credit: Health Savings Accounts Are Driving Down Costs

By ACRU Staff|2014-01-21T12:00:00-05:00January 21st, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on January 21, 2014 on the Forbes website.

In his economic address at the Washington Navy Yard on September 16, President Obama bragged that “Health care costs are growing at the slowest rate in 50 years,” and attributed that to his Affordable Care Act, “which has helped to keep down the rise in health care costs to their lowest level in 50 years,” he claimed. He reiterated that in his press conference on November 14. His chief economist Jason Furman echoed that line in arguing that Obamacare is slowing health inflation in […]