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'Hope And Change' Means Punishingly Slow Growth for Obama's Biggest Supporters

By |2013-09-17T13:13:01-04:00September 17th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 13, 2013 on Forbes.com.

Steve Moore of the Wall Street Journal explained President Obama’s 2012 reelection in the September 4 edition as follows: “Mr. Obama was reelected with 51% of the vote….He cleaned up with 60% of the youth vote, 67% of single women, 93% of blacks, 71% of Hispanics, and 64% of those without a high school diploma, according to exit polls.”

But it is precisely these groups that President Obama’s economic policies have punished the most. The latest data on incomes shows that since the end of the […]

You Don't Have to Stay Poor

By |2013-09-12T09:27:21-04:00September 12th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published September 11, 2013 on Townhall.com.

No one can blame you if you start out in life poor, because how you start is not your fault. If you stay poor, you’re to blame because it is your fault. Nowhere has this been made clearer than in Dennis Kimbro’s new book, The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires.

Kimbro, a business professor at Clark Atlanta University, conducted extensive face-to-face interviews, took surveys and had other interactions with nearly 1,000 of America’s black financial elite, many […]

100 Years after Woodrow Wilson, Mark Levin Pens a Brilliant Response

By |2020-04-23T21:58:15-04:00September 12th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 8, 2013 on Forbes.com.

One hundred years ago, Woodrow Wilson was leading a counterrevolution against the Constitution. Unfortunately, he was doing it from the White House, as President of the United States. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Wilson was one of the early leaders of the so-called Progressive Movement, which was an open conspiracy against the Constitution from the start. Former President of Princeton University, he had the haughty attitude of superiority that marks so-called “Progressives” to this day. He […]

50 Years After MLK's Landmark Civil Rights Speech, Obama's Words Don't Match His Deeds

By |2013-09-05T23:02:40-04:00September 5th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 3, 2013 on Forbes.com.

The Bible wisely says, “By their fruits, you shall know them.” In President Obama’s August 28 Address on the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s breakthrough 1963 Civil Rights speech, we heard lofty words about good jobs and a fair deal for the middle class and working people. But after 5 years of Obama as President, what he has delivered is exactly the opposite of his own lofty words.

Obama spoke best and most truly when he said,

“In some ways, though, the […]

ACRU: Supreme Court Should Clear Way to Clean Up N.J. Slum

By |2013-09-04T09:02:35-04:00September 4th, 2013|

Township Broke No Federal Law in Redeveloping Blighted Housing Project, Group Argues

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 4, 2013) — In a Supreme Court brief submitted Tuesday, Sept. 3, the American Civil Rights Union argues that local officials did not violate the Fair Housing Act when they demolished residences in a blighted, mixed-race area and built more modern units for low-income residents. A group of activists, claiming that the new units had a “disparate impact” on the price of other housing in the area owned mostly by minorities, sued the town, claiming racial discrimination.

Two lower courts ruled for the township on all counts. The Third U.S. […]

'Stand Your Ground' when Liberals Attack

By |2013-09-03T11:00:28-04:00September 3rd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 2, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

Americans have a right to their beliefs without left-wing reproach.

Warning: Taking corporate donations may be hazardous to your constitutional freedom of speech.

A case in point is the American Legislative Exchange Council, a Washington-based umbrella group of state legislators from around the nation who work together mostly on conservative economic proposals. Why reinvent the wheel in West Virginia if something works well in Iowa?

Last year, the American Legislative Exchange Council was accused by former White House aide Van Jones, […]

A Minority View

By |2020-04-23T21:57:06-04:00August 30th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 28, 2013 on Townhall.com.

This week begins my 34th year serving on George Mason University’s distinguished economics faculty. You might imagine my surprise when I received a letter from its Office of Equity and Diversity Services notifying me that I was required to “complete the in-person Equal Opportunity and Prevention of Sexual Harassment Policies and Procedures training.” This is a leftist agenda for indoctrination, thought control and free speech suppression to which I shall refuse to submit. Let’s look at it.

Ideas such […]

The Federal Government's Reaction to Bitcoin Is An Acknowledgement of the Dollar's Vulnerability

By |2020-04-23T21:57:06-04:00August 28th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 25, 2013 on Forbes.com.

The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee has private alternative currencies in its crosshairs. The Chairman, Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) and Ranking Member, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), sent a joint letter to seven federal agencies last week asking for feedback and policy proposals for regulation of virtual currencies, like Bitcoin.

Bitcoin has surged in value and popularity recently as it has come to be embraced by more users across the planet. In […]

Democrats and Lawlessness

By |2023-03-10T08:04:41-05:00August 28th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 21, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

In the third of the six films of the Star Wars saga, the Sith Lord who has infiltrated to become the ruling Chancellor of the democratic republic confederation of peaceful worlds announces to the elected Assembly of representatives of those worlds that to deal with an exaggerated, fabricated crisis, “The Old Republic will be reorganized into the first Intergalactic Empire.” The distracted Assembly responds with polite applause. One of the few characters who understands what is happening […]

Progressives and Blacks

By |2013-08-22T08:06:33-04:00August 22nd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 21, 2013 on Townhall.com.

Sometimes I wonder when black people will reject the patronizing insults of white progressives and their black handmaidens. After CNN’s Piers Morgan’s interview with the key witness in the George Zimmerman trial, he said: “Rachel Jeantel is not uneducated. She’s a smart cookie.” That’s a remarkable conclusion. Here’s a 19-year-old young lady, still in high school, who cannot read cursive and appears to be barely literate. Morgan may have meant Jeantel is smart—for a black person.

Progressives treat blacks […]

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