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Guess Who Got Eric Holder's Briefs in a Bundle?

By |2010-12-14T14:42:52-05:00December 14th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing December 14, 2010 on The American Thinker website.

The Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has voted 212-206 to ban the Obama administration from spending any funds to try terrorism suspects in civilian court instead of military commissions. Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly all miffed and vexed.

Holder’s knots will tighten if the Senate’s continuing funding resolution also includes such a provision. The Democrats’ $1.1 trillion dollar spending bill that was just killed included a section that prohibited expending any funds for transporting foreign terrorist detainees like KSM to the U.S.

Ragin' 'n' Stagin' at the White House

By |2010-12-09T17:07:25-05:00December 9th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 9, 2010, on Townhall.com.

Liberals (or Progressives, if you prefer) have been raging at President Obama. For months they have complained that he did not show enough passion. Comic atheist Bill Maher even got racial. He wanted Mr. Obama to shove a Glock into his belt and use it to pistol whip BP execs over the oil spill. If a conservative comedian had engaged in such a blatant bit of racial stereotyping as that, he’d have been hauled up before the Sensitivity Trainers. (And besides, BP had been one of Mr. Obama’s […]

Putting a Gun to the Public's Head

By |2010-12-09T00:35:31-05:00December 9th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing December 3, 2010 on The Washington Times website.

Government’s most essential function is to protect citizens. All other services are secondary.

Camden, N.J., is one of the most dangerous cities in the nation, according to FBI statistics analyzed by CQ Press. In fact, Camden was rated the “most dangerous city in America” in 2003, 2004 and 2008, just missing the top spot in 2009. (St. Louis edged it out).

Camden has neighborhoods that aren’t safe in broad daylight, much less at night.

So what did the city fathers of […]

Moral or Immoral Government

By |2020-04-23T21:57:14-04:00December 8th, 2010|

ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing December 8, 2010 on Townhall.com.

Immorality in government lies at the heart of our nation’s problems. Deficits, debt and runaway government are merely symptoms. What’s moral and immoral conduct can be complicated, but needlessly so. I keep things simple and you tell me where I go wrong.

My initial assumption is that we each own ourselves. I am my private property and you are yours. If we accept the notion that people own themselves, then it’s easy to discover what forms of conduct are moral and […]

The Madness of Obamanomics

By |2010-12-08T14:36:43-05:00December 8th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 8, 2010 on The American Spectator website.

For two years I have been arguing here and elsewhere that Obamanomics will not work. But for Obama and the Democrats to persist in transparent error after the election tsunami and now last Friday’s catastrophic unemployment report has now veered into madness.

Obama’s unreconstructed, throwback Keynesian economics from the 1970s and even the 1930s was a proven failure 30 years ago. Bringing it back as if nothing has happened since the Keynesian intellectual high water mark in the 1960s is public policy malpractice so extreme that it deserves […]

Striking Down Individual Mandate Would Mean Ending Obamacare

By |2010-12-07T18:25:12-05:00December 7th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing December 8, 2010, on The Washington Examiner website.

Litigation over Obamacare’s individual mandate has captured the public’s attention. But the ultimate goal in challenging the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law is not the mandate; it’s severability.

This individual mandate that you must buy health insurance is the most obnoxious provision of Obamacare, eradicating the concept of limited government. If the federal government can tell you how to spend your own money to buy insurance, then it also has the power to command you how to spend the […]

Harry Reid, Your Number Is Up!

By |2010-12-07T09:34:28-05:00December 7th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 7, 2010, on Townhall.com.

It was election night 2006, and as the results came in, one U.S. Senate seat after another turned from red to blue. And finally, during the early morning hours of November 8th, the final wall was breached. Montana’s junior Senator, Republican Conrad Burns was 3,562 votes short of defeating his Democrat opponent, Jon Tester. It was the loss of this Senate seat in Montana that was the deciding seat which handed the Senate Majority Leader gavel over to Harry Reid with a 51/49 margin in the U.S. Senate. […]

Obama to Voters: Drop Dead

By |2020-04-23T21:52:55-04:00December 2nd, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 1, 2010 on The American Spectator website.

The good news is that the Democrats and the Washington Establishment have heard the message from the American people on Election Day, 2010. How could they have not? It was an epoch beginning, 1932 style rout, as predicted here first 18 months ago.

The bad news is how much trouble our country is still in. For after all of President Obama’s double talking sweet talk right after the vote, the harsh reality, inconsistent with our very democracy, is that the Democrats and the Washington Establishment are rejecting the […]

Guarding Jimmy Carter's Tongue!

By |2010-12-02T12:51:23-05:00December 2nd, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 2, 2010, on Townhall.com.

Fans of Hollywood’s imaginative take on American politics may remember the movie, Guarding Tess. That 1994 comic hit featured Shirley MacLaine as a former First Lady who was being guarded by a Secret Service detachment headed by Nicolas Cage. Tess was something of a composite figure, part feisty Bess Truman, part liberal activist Eleanor Roosevelt, and part small town belle Rosalynn Carter. Of course, Hollywood being Hollywood, no part of Tess could be mistaken for a Barbara Bush or a Nancy Reagan. Even the fictional former First Ladies […]

Minimum Wage, Maximum Folly

By |2010-12-01T13:17:11-05:00December 1st, 2010|

ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing December 1, 2010 on Townhall.com.

How about this: The law of gravity is applicable to the behavior of falling objects on the U.S. mainland but not applicable on our Pacific Ocean territories Samoa and Northern Mariana Islands. You say, “Williams, that’s lunacy! Laws are applicable everywhere; that’s why they call it a law.”

You’re right, but does the same reasoning apply to the law of demand that holds: The higher the price of something, the less people will take of it; and the lower its price, […]

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