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For Now, Public-Safety Exception Precludes Bomber's Miranda Rights

By |2013-04-21T23:44:16-04:00April 21st, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 20, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

As a newly-minted U.S. citizen captured on U.S. soil, Boston terrorist suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev will get the full range of constitutional protections from the Bill of Rights, as we explained yesterday, except one: Tsarnaev wasn’t read his Miranda rights.

In 1966, the heyday of the liberal Warren Court years, the Supreme Court held in Miranda v. Arizona that the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination requires police to inform anyone they’re taking into custody that (1) they have the right to remain silent, (2) anything they […]

What's Next: Civilian Criminal Trial for Marathon Bombing Suspect

By |2013-04-21T23:27:09-04:00April 21st, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 19, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

The Obama administration has placed Boston terrorist suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev in federal custody with plans to give him a civilian criminal trial in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. That’s what the Constitution requires, though some will undoubtedly question that decision.

According to reports, Tsarnaev became a U.S. citizen in Sept. 2012. He was captured on U.S. soil by federal law enforcement officers (not military). This was not a battlefield setting, and at this point it appears Tsarnaev was not working for a foreign government or […]

Boston Terrorists Not Right-Wing Americans

By |2013-04-21T22:59:21-04:00April 21st, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 19, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

We now know the Boston Marathon terrorists were Muslims with roots in Chechnya, the Russian province in an ongoing conflict with Moscow, with a large Muslim population and a history of violent conflict with the Kremlin in a long struggle for independence. They were likely not right-wing Americans, as some on the left had predicted and hoped.

We do not yet know whether they are part of a larger cell or whether these attacks were directed from abroad versus being exclusively the idea of these […]

President Obama's Predictable Budget: More Spending, More Tax Increases

By |2013-04-19T11:34:58-04:00April 19th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 19, 2013 on Forbes.com.

President Obama tells us in the Overview to his Fiscal Year 2014 Budget just released last week that his budget proposes, “more than $2 in spending cuts for every $1 of new revenue from closing tax loopholes and reducing tax benefits for the wealthiest.”

But President Obama’s budget does not propose any spending cuts at all on net, not even reductions from expected increases in spending. Instead, his budget proposes to add $160 billion in increased spending […]

Price Versus Cost

By |2013-04-19T11:07:52-04:00April 19th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 17, 2013 on Townhall.com.

Suppose you buy a gallon of gas for $3. How much did it cost you? You say, “Williams, that’s a silly question. It cost $3.” That’s where you’re mistaken, because there’s a difference between price and cost. To prove that price and cost are not the same, consider the following. Suppose you live and work in New York City and routinely pay $15 for a haircut. Imagine you were told that there’s a barber in Boise, Idaho, who can give […]

Fallacies and Charades

By |2013-04-18T08:00:08-04:00April 18th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 17, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

The biggest fallacy regarding Social Security is that it would be easier politically to cut Social Security benefits rather than to fundamentally reform the way the program works, so as to empower workers with the freedom to choose personal savings, investment, and insurance accounts.

Through such personal accounts, all families at all income levels would receive higher rather than lower benefits, much more than Social Security even promises, let alone what it can pay. That is […]

Supreme Court Denies Review in Flawed Gun Rights Case, Might Take Next One

By |2020-04-23T21:53:58-04:00April 18th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 16, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

The Supreme Court has declined to take Kachalsky v. Cacace, what could have been the next big Second Amendment case for the nation. But Kachalsky was a flawed case, and another case with different lawyers might have better chances of building Supreme Court precedent in the right direction.

Kachalsky was a challenge to New York’s law disallowing carrying guns outside your home without a permit, and also challenged the Empire State’s power to deny those permits if the applicant lacks “proper cause” to have a gun for self-defense.

The Media and President Obama's View through a Gosnell Lens

By |2013-04-17T05:09:12-04:00April 17th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published on April 16, 2013 on the World website.

Mariners have been familiar with the Fresnel lens for nearly two centuries. It refracts light from a lighthouse to magnify the life-saving capacity of the illumination.

Now, we are seeing a new kind of lens we can call a “Gosnell lens,” which refracts light in such a way that the object in view is not seen. It deflects all critical examination of what we plainly see in front of us. The Gosnell lens is named for Kermit Gosnell, who is on trial in […]

Progressive Keynesian Myths Debunked: The Coming Redistribution of Political and Economic Power Among the States

By |2013-04-15T12:00:20-04:00April 15th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 14, 2013 on Forbes.com.

Ongoing effective economic experiments among the 50 states are sharpening, and definitive results will pour out in the real world, editorial and opinion fallacies to the contrary notwithstanding. That sharpening is the result of the increasing political segregation among the states, with 25 now in complete control of Republicans in the Governor’s office and in majorities in the state legislatures, and 15 in the same complete control by the Democrats.

That sharpening is further exacerbated […]

Black Unemployment

By |2013-04-12T06:59:58-04:00April 12th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 10, 2013 on Townhall.com.

A couple of weeks ago, Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson, speaking at The National Press Club, said the nation “would never tolerate white unemployment at 14 and 15 percent.” Black unemployment has been double that of white Americans for more than 50 years. The black youth unemployment rate is more than 40 percent nationally. In some cities, unemployment for black working-age males is more than 50 percent. Let’s look at this, but first let’s look at some history.

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