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Cruz's Green Eggs and the Media Hambones

By |2020-04-23T21:53:56-04:00September 30th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 30, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

C-SPAN is more powerful than a fleet of little red wagons, but it felt a lot like “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” as Sen. Ted Cruz demolished the legitimacy of Obamacare in his 21-hour, 19-minute floor speech last week.

In the classic film, a naive junior senator played by Jimmy Stewart performs a heroic, overnight filibuster to expose corruption. The media suppress it and viciously attack his character. An army of wagon-pulling children try to report the truth via homespun “newspapers,” only to […]

Honesty and Trust

By |2013-09-29T23:09:36-04:00September 29th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 25, 2013 on Townhall.com.

Dishonesty, lying and cheating are not treated with the right amount of opprobrium in today’s society. To gain an appreciation for the significance of honesty and trust, consider what our day-to-day lives would be like if we couldn’t trust anyone. When we purchase a bottle of 100 pills from our pharmacist, how many of us bother to count the pills? We pull in to a gasoline station and pay $35 for 10 gallons of gasoline. How do we know for sure whether we in fact received 10 […]

The Fight to Defund Is a Fight for Liberty

By |2013-09-23T09:56:55-04:00September 23rd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published September 22, 2013 on the American Thinker website.

Texas doesn’t have an ObamaCare Exchange — we have the Alamo.

Sen. Ted Cruz is our contemporary William B. Travis, commandant of the Alamo and defender of liberty. Standing with Cruz to defund ObamaCare are Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Think of them as Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, and company.

These super-smart senators, like the majority of Americans, get it. ObamaCare is the greatest […]

Conservatives Rescuing Obama

By |2013-09-20T07:16:57-04:00September 20th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 18, 2013 on Forbes.com.

Obamacare has not even gone into effect yet, and there it lies substantively smashed on the floor in ruins. The cost of health insurance on the Obamacare Exchanges for next year is already soaring, for those states that will have Obamacare Exchanges opening on October 1. Obamacare also already promises to limit access to health care for those with Obamacare health insurance next year, meaning you won’t have the same access to the same doctors and hospitals that you have with health insurance today.

Thought Obama promised if you like […]

Supreme Court to Consider New Obamacare Case

By |2023-03-10T08:04:40-05:00September 19th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published September 18, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Obamacare is before the U.S. Supreme Court again. On Thursday, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) lawyers filed the first viable petition for Supreme Court review involving Kathleen Sebelius’ HHS Mandate, which requires employers to provide abortion-related insurance coverage, even if those employers have a religious objection to abortion.

Section 1001 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) requires all large employers to offer “preventive services” to their employees or face enormous financial penalties. With President Obama’s approval, Sebelius issued a regulation that defined preventive services […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Coming Liberation: Health Care for All without Obamacare

By |2020-04-23T21:57:06-04:00August 21st, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 18, 2013 on Forbes.com.

Obamacare was pushed through on the promise of universal health coverage for everyone. But the CBO now scores Obamacare as leaving 30 million uninsured even 10 years after implementation!

In fact, Obamacare will increase the uninsured rather than reduce them. Former CBO Chief Douglas Holtz-Eakin published a study in 2011 arguing that more than 40 million workers will lose their employer provided health insurance under the incentives of Obamacare. That is because […]

Thank You, Speaker Boehner

By |2013-08-16T13:05:54-04:00August 16th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 14, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

A highly illuminating article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal by Stephen Moore explained the newly transformed federal budget realities, and the reasons for them. Bottom line: the Republican House Majority elected in a New Deal sized landslide in 2010 has been successful in doing what the voters elected it to do—turn around the explosive Obama Democrat runaway spending spree of 2009-2010. But this is just a first step in restoring American prosperity, and […]

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