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What You Can't Say

By |2020-04-23T21:57:07-04:00October 25th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 24, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Jon Hubbard, a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, has a book, titled Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative. Among its statements for which Hubbard has been criticized and disavowed by the Republican Party is, “The institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with […]

Benghazi: Obama's Actions Amount to a Shameful Dereliction of Duty

By |2012-10-25T23:17:16-04:00October 25th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 25, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Enough facts are in the public record about the Benghazi murders of Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 others, including two Marines, that a final judgment can be rendered on President Obama’s handling of the affair. Obama’s actions, or inactions, amounted to dereliction of duty, and worse.

The Obama Administration received requests for additional security from the Embassy and the Ambassador himself as early as February. An embassy cable on June 25 expressed […]

The Liar President

By |2012-10-25T20:35:43-04:00October 25th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 24, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Dorothy Rabinowitz, one of the best writers of our time, encapsulated the Obama Presidency perfectly in Monday’s Wall Street Journal. She wrote:

In the 1967 film “A Guide for the Married Man,” a husband, played by a peerless Walter Matthau, is given lessons in ways to cheat on his wife safely: “Deny! Deny! Deny!” — no matter what. In an instructive scene, he’s shown a wife undone by shock, and screaming, with good reason: She has […]

ACLU Says Father-Daughter Dance 'Contrary to Federal Law'

By |2012-10-22T22:51:33-04:00October 22nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 22, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

If you want to see what the new normal looks like when the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) calls the shots, look no further than Cranston, R.I. That city of 80,000, the third-largest in the Ocean State, is at the epicenter of the ACLU’s war on the normal.

It makes a perverse sort of sense, because Cranston reportedly is the inspiration for Quahog, R.I., the fictitious setting of Seth MacFarlane’s vulgar, anti-family Fox TV comedy “Family Guy.” Mr. MacFarlane, who has been […]

Final Proof of Democrat Decline

By |2012-10-18T20:45:03-04:00October 18th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 17, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Yes, take Barack Obama’s advice and read the transcript of the Vice Presidential debate last week, as I did. In the black and white pages, without Biden and Raddatz trying to shout Ryan down, Ryan’s well-informed points and arguments shine through even better, while Biden’s disgraceful serial dishonesty is more clearly exposed, without the surrounding brown shirt bluff and bluster.

Biden seemed to be following a strategy of “catch me if you can,” unconstrained by truth […]

A Modest Proposal

By |2020-04-23T21:57:07-04:00October 15th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 10, 2012 on Townhall.com.

California was once the land of opportunity, but it is going down the tubes. Several of California’s prominent cities have declared bankruptcy, such as Vallejo, Stockton, Mammoth Lakes and San Bernardino. Others are on the precipice, and that includes Los Angeles, California’s largest city. California’s 2012 budget deficit is expected to top $28 billion, and its state debt is $618 billion. That’s more than twice the size of New York’s state debt, which itself is the second-highest in the nation.

Obama's Real Unemployment Rate Is 14.7%, and a Recession's on the Way

By |2012-10-15T13:08:37-04:00October 15th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 11, 2012 on Forbes.com.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported last Friday that 114,000 new jobs were created last month, according to its Establishment Survey of business payrolls that has been emphasized by the Obama Administration. That is pitifully weak, especially for what is supposed to be the fourth year of a recovery (the National Bureau of Economic Research scored the recession as officially over in June, 2009).

As economist John Lott noted at FoxNews.com on October […]

Buying Obama's Whoppers

By |2012-10-15T10:16:20-04:00October 15th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 12, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

You know it’s bad when the president deputizes Big Bird as his thuggish surrogate. Aside from Big Bird’s checkered past as a well-to-do federal welfare recipient, wouldn’t Joe Biden or Oscar the Grouch put up a better fight?

Mr. Biden did his best Thursday night in the vice presidential debate. He seemed to relish the role of a windbag bully. But Rep. Paul Ryan’s command of the facts made Mr. Biden look overwrought.

Far more serious than commandeering Big Bird or […]

SCOTUS Likely to Strike Racial Preferences in University Admissions

By |2012-10-12T09:50:28-04:00October 12th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on October 11, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Government preferring one racial group over another in college admissions may be about to end, in what would be a historic move by the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts said that Supreme Court precedent requires that “there has to be a logical end point to your use of race. What is the logical end point? When will I know that you’ve reached a critical mass?” The government’s inability to answer that question might mean that the end point will come in a few months when the Court hands […]

Time to Investigate the Bureau of Labor Statistics

By |2012-10-10T17:01:30-04:00October 10th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 10, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Who needs the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), when you have Rush Limbaugh? Limbaugh predicted almost a year ago that the unemployment rate reported last Friday would fall below 8% for the first time since Obama entered office. Limbaugh by his own admission is no economist. So how did he know? Maybe because we are in the realm of politics now, rather than economics.

How Stupid Do They Think We Are?

The BLS reported last […]

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