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The Immorality of Obamanomics

By |2012-05-02T11:34:15-04:00May 2nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 2, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

The President’s economic policies are usually criticized for their practical ineffectiveness. Thinking people know that the result of the President’s 1970s retro economic policies has been the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression, with persistent high unemployment, declining real wages and incomes, soaring poverty, doubling gas prices, and budding inflation sure to get much worse.

Unthinking people still call national conservative talk radio shows to say the President’s economic policies can’t be faulted […]

Wisconsin's New Aristocracy Is on the Ballot

By |2012-04-27T09:21:45-04:00April 27th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 26, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Our Founding Fathers carefully eliminated in American law every special legal privilege of the old aristocracies of Europe. They strongly favored instead equality under the law, later enshrined in the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, which means not equality of result, but that everyone plays by the same rules.

A recall election for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is scheduled for June 5. But on the ballot that day will effectively be whether we should […]

The Secularization of Martin Luther King Jr.

By |2012-04-27T07:36:57-04:00April 27th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 26, 2012 on The Daily Caller website.

At the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington earlier this month, the faithful met to worship the Almighty and discuss the latest battles for religious liberty in an increasingly secular culture.

When the Knights of Columbus’ Supreme Knight Carl Anderson spoke, he made a startling observation about the capital’s new Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. monument: Even though Dr. King was a Baptist minister and his history-altering speeches about civil liberties are saturated with references to […]

Analysis: Supreme Court May Split Decision Arizona Immigration Law

By |2012-04-26T14:54:18-04:00April 26th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 26, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

“What does sovereignty mean if it does not include the ability to defend your borders?” That question by Justice Antonin Scalia goes to the heart of the Supreme Court’s blockbuster immigration case, Arizona v. United States. (Download a PDF of the amicus brief the ACRU filed in the case here). The end result will likely be a split decision that will disappoint some and be spun as a victory by others.

On April 25, the justices heard arguments in the challenge to Arizona’s controversial law, […]

Devious Taxation

By |2012-04-25T12:04:53-04:00April 25th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 25, 2012 on Townhall.com

The Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation does a yeoman’s job of keeping track of how much we’re paying in taxes and who’s paying what. It turns out that American taxpayers worked this year from Jan. 1 to April 17, 107 days, to earn enough money to pay their federal, state and local tax bills. That statistic requires some clarification, and I ask my readers to help me examine it.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, Congress will spend $3.8 trillion […]

Stealing Our Elections

By |2020-04-23T21:59:33-04:00April 25th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 25, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Columnist David Limbaugh, brother of Rush, asks in a recent column, “Can anyone think of an innocuous reason that President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder oppose state voter ID laws?”

The correct answer is definitely “No!” But even Limbaugh dances around the full answer to the question, suggesting only at the end that the lack of a good reason to oppose voter ID suggests that the real motivation is an ulterior motive to rig elections.

Appeals Court Gives Arizona Partial Victory on Voter-ID Law

By |2012-04-20T21:45:26-04:00April 20th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 20, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Arizona might be going to the U.S. Supreme Court yet again. A federal appeals court upheld part of the Grand Canyon State’s voter-ID law, but struck down another part of Arizona’s law as inconsistent with a 1993 federal law. This might become the third citizen/voting Arizona law to go to the Supreme Court in just three years.

Arizona allows for citizens to adopt ballot propositions with the force of law, which trump state statutes but fall short of amending […]

ACLU Fails to Establish Right to Porn

By |2020-04-23T21:52:49-04:00April 19th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 19, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

Wenatchee, Wash., famous for apples and wine, may become famous in the culture wars as well. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) just took it on the chin there over its ongoing campaign to force public libraries to accommodate perverts in raincoats.

On April 11, Judge Edward F. Shea of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington upheld the local library system’s computer filter policy, dismissing a motion filed by the ACLU to turn off the filter.

The ruling […]

The Laughable Economic Fallacies Embraced by Progressives

By |2012-04-19T16:37:30-04:00April 19th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 19, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Persistent economic fallacies hurt working people and the poor the most. They are the ones most in need of the new jobs and higher wages that capital investment and economic growth produce. And they suffer the most from unemployment and declining wages and incomes when the economy falters. Self-styled Progressives are the source of the economic fallacies that are hurting working people and the poor today.

One common fallacy popular among self-proclaimed […]

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