This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 25, 2011 on Forbes.com.

In a weekly radio address on Aug. 14 of last year, President Obama taunted Republicans on the issue of a personal savings and investment account option for Social Security, which President Bush had campaigned on successfully in 2000 and 2004. Obama said such a personal account option was “an ill-conceived idea … tying your benefits to the whims of Wall Street traders and the ups and downs of the stock market.”

Accusing Republicans of still […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published March 22, 2011 on Townhall.com.

Eleven years after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, on the eve of America’s great Centennial celebration, counterfeiters formed a plot to steal his body from its honored grave in Springfield, Illinois. They had plans to hold the body for ransom. The U.S. Secret Service was able, happily, to disrupt this ghoulish plot.

Today, we have a new ghoulish plot. Liberal writers are trying to steal the body of Ronald Reagan. They don’t want to hold it for ransom. Instead, they are vigorously telling us he wasn’t what […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published March 19, 2011 on Townhall.com.

President Obama and Vice President Biden this week paid an unannounced visit to Arlington National Cemetery. They went there to offer the thanks of a grateful nation for the service of Frank Buckles, the last known survivor of the American “Doughboys” of World War I. Buckles was barely 16 when he fibbed about his age to get into uniform.

It is altogether fitting and proper that they should do this.

That Great War was America’s baptism by fire on the world scene. Although France and […]

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 23, 2011 on Townhall.com.

Economic lunacy abounds, and often the most learned, including Nobel Laureates, are its primary victims. The most recent example of economic lunacy is found in a Huffington Post article titled “The Silver Lining of Japan’s Quake” written by Nathan Gardels, editor of New Perspectives Quarterly, who has also written articles for The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Washington Post.

Mr. Gardels says, “No one — least of all someone like myself who has […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the CCPP Peter Ferrara was published March 21, 2011 on PajamasMedia.com.

The House Republican leadership needs to get over their paralyzing fear of a government shutdown, which is based on the liberal media narrative of the politics of the 1995 shutdown. That shutdown eventually transformed annual $200 billion deficits for more than a decade into $560 billion in budget surpluses over four years. That resulted because Clinton caved in to Republican budget cut demands, and even to Republican tax cuts that spurred the economy and long term revenue growth. The shutdown was […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the CCPP Peter Ferrara was published March 23, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

For two years now, I have been arguing in this column and elsewhere that President Obama’s economic policies were a throwback to the 1970s, and so were going to produce the same result as the 1970s — the worsening cycles of inflation and recession known as stagflation. With last week’s reports regarding the Producer Price Index and the Consumer Price Index, those results are now here.

But these developments are just several further spins in an accelerating downward spiral for America […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published March 17, 2011 on Forbes.com.

Next year the baby boomers begin to retire on Medicare in earnest, and the year after that on Social Security. For decades now, the federal government’s own official reports have been showing that Social Security would not be able to pay all promised benefits to the baby boomers without dramatic, unsustainable tax increases.

Last year, for the first time since President Reagan saved the program in 1983, Social Security began running a cash deficit. Under what the government’s actuaries call intermediate assumptions, those deficits […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published March 17, 2011 on The Patriot Post website.

“I don’t think anybody disputes that Gaddafi has more firepower than the opposition,” President Obama said at a recent White House news conference.

“I believe that Gaddafi is on the wrong side of history [emphasis added]. I believe that the Libyan people are anxious for freedom and the removal of somebody who has suppressed them for decades now. We are going to be in contact with the opposition, as well as in consultation with the international community, to try to achieve the goal […]

This column by Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and ACRU General Counsel and Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy Peter Ferrara was published March 16, 2011 in The Wall Street Journal.

By the end of last year, President Obama was faced with the utter failure of his economic policies. The unemployment rate in mid-December was 9.8%, marking the 16th straight month it was at 9.5% or above-the longest run since the Great Depression.

Particularly hard hit are African-Americans, among whom the unemployment rate has persisted at 15% or above. Among Hispanics the rate has persisted […]