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Securing the Safety Net

By |2012-03-12T07:58:13-04:00March 12th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Chairman and CEO and CCPP founder and President Susan A. Carleson was published March 11, 2012 on The American Thinker website.

As the sheer audacity and real costs of ObamaCare become more apparent every day, we can’t say we weren’t warned.

Back in 1961, Ronald Reagan explained the allure and dangers of “free” medical care:

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It is very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything […]

Romney's Pending Sellout on Global Warming

By |2012-03-07T09:22:19-05:00March 7th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 7, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

The theory that humans are causing catastrophic global warming by burning fossil fuels and releasing “greenhouse” gases lapsed into self-parody in the past couple of weeks with the scandal of Fakegate. Here is the full context to understand that story, which is valuable because it serves as a further revelation and metaphor for the entire fabrication of global warming.

On an irregular schedule of roughly every 6 years, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]

It Just Ain't So

By |2012-03-07T08:34:40-05:00March 7th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 7, 2012 on Townhall.com.

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 2011 manufacturing output grew by 11 percent, to nearly $5 trillion. Were our manufacturing sector considered a nation with its own gross domestic product, it would be the world’s fourth-richest economy. Manufacturing productivity has doubled since 1987, and manufacturing output has risen by one-half. However, over the past two decades, manufacturing employment has fallen about 25 percent. For some people, that means our manufacturing sector is sick. By that criterion, our agriculture sector shares […]

Fakegate: The Obnoxious Fabrication of Global Warming

By |2012-03-02T22:47:04-05:00March 2nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 1, 2012 on Forbes.com.

About every four years, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produces a voluminous Assessment Report (AR) on the state of global warming science, such as it is. Two years after each AR, the IPCC produces an updating Interim Report.

In 2008, The Heartland Institute, headquartered in Chicago, began organizing international conferences of scientists from across the globe who want to raise and discuss intellectually troubling questions and doubts regarding the theory that […]

Obama Loses His First Debate

By |2012-02-29T15:50:22-05:00February 29th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 29, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

In a speech that the Gingrich campaign has begun broadcasting around the country, and which is posted at Newt.org, Gingrich presents a unique new vision for a booming American economy. I think you will find it pathbreaking. It is so compelling that it drew Obama into a transcontinental debate with the former Speaker, the first exchange that Obama has decisively lost since he appeared on the national stage.

Gingrich began the explanation of his vision like […]

Equality or Inequality

By |2020-04-23T21:57:09-04:00February 29th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 29, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Rick Santorum’s speech at the Detroit Economic Club stirred a bit of controversy when he said: “I’m not about equality of result when it comes to income inequality. There is income inequality in America. There always has been, and hopefully — and I do say that — there always will be.” That kind of statement, though having merit, should not be made to people who have little or no understanding. Let’s look at inequality.

Kay S. Hymowitz’s article “Why […]

The Loud and Clear Message In President Obama's Budget

By |2012-02-24T13:44:15-05:00February 24th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 24, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Last week, I discussed the central economic policy of President Obama’s budget and accompanying Presidential budget message. What drives economic recovery and growth according to the President and his budget is federal spending, deficits and debt, the fundamental tenets of the Keynesian economics that arose in the 1930s.

If you agree with that, then President Obama is your man for reelection in 2012. If you think that’s nuts, however, then the message of the budget […]

Obama and the Problem of Evil

By |2023-03-10T08:04:46-05:00February 24th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published February 24, 2012 on the American Thinker website.

Watching how the media react to God talk and family values by politicians is like watching the spinning head in “The Exorcist,” depending on who’s doing the God talk.

Consider the problem of evil, beginning with this statement from Barack Obama responding to Pastor Rick Warren’s question at the “Saddleback Presidential Candidates Forum” in August 2008:

Evil does exist. I mean, I think we see evil all the time. That is God’s task [to erase evil from the world], but […]

SCOTUS Punts on Medicaid Changes Lawsuits

By |2012-02-24T08:20:36-05:00February 24th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 23, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

By a 5 to 4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court declined today to resolve an issue that could be instrumental in determining the outcome of the 2012 election: When a state changes its Medicaid system, reducing or cutting funds to providers, can those providers sue?

This is a hot-button issue because abortion providers are suing states that cut their funding. The most prominent of these is Planned Parenthood of Indiana v. Commissioner, pending before the Seventh Circuit appeals court in Chicago.

Medicaid is a […]

High Court to Hear Affirmative Action Case

By |2012-02-23T14:59:44-05:00February 23rd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 22, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

Every racially based preference system – aka Affirmative Action programs – in the country could be struck down when the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Fisher v. University of Texas this fall.

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution were passed after the Civil War. These Reconstruction Era amendments abolished slavery, defined U.S. citizenship, extended part of the Bill of Rights to the states, and–most important here–declared due process and equal protection of the law to be rights of all persons in this country, […]

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