ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing July 14, 2010, on FOXNews.com.

NASA administrator Charles Bolden must have felt like Astronaut Frank Poole in the cult classic, “Space Odyssey: 2001.” In that film, the menacing computer HAL 9000 cut Poole’s tether and let him drift off into space.

In this case, it was President Obama’s press spokesman Robert Gibbs who, on Tuesday, cut off the former Marine Corps Major General. Gibbs told reporters the general was “wrong” to say that reaching out to the Muslim world was a top priority for the National Aviation and Space Administration (NASA) under the Obama administration.

ACRU Policy Board Member Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing July 14, 2010 on Townhall.com.

Let’s think about President Obama’s failed economic stimulus program. Before getting to the nitty-gritty of why stimulus packages fail, let’s look at the failed stimulus program of Obama’s hero, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR’s Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, wrote in his diary: “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. … We have never made good on our promises. … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started … […]

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing July 13, 2010, on HuffingtonPost.com.

My friend Matt Lewis recently authored a thoughtful column about General Motors. As he pointed out, regardless of how one feels about the government bailout of GM — which he and I both vigorously opposed — there is reason for optimism about the company’s future.

To be sure, there is an argument to be made for conservatives to actually root for GM’s continued failure. Presumably, this would lessen the odds that the government would attempt such a heavy-handed maneuver in the future.

But as a former Cincinnati Mayor — and […]

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on July 11, 2010.

Maybe it’s the Dog Days of Summer. Perhaps it’s the heat—102 degrees in Washington—that’s getting to peoples’ heads. But President Obama’s latest policy—announced by his NASA administrator, astronaut Charles Bolden, is about to melt down.

Speaking on the Arabic language network al-Jazeera, Bolden said Mr. Obama had given him his marching orders for NASA: Get American kids re-inspired to do better in math and science. Work on international cooperation. And, perhaps most important: find ways to “reach out” to the Muslim world to affirm their strong contributions to science and […]

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote a column appearing on Investors.com on July 6, 2010.

Every year, the Annual Report of the Social Security Board of Trustees comes out between mid-April and mid-May. Now it’s July, and there’s no sign of this year’s report. What is the Obama administration hiding?

The annual report includes detailed information about Social Security and its financing over the next 75 years, produced by the Office of the Actuary of the Social Security Administration.

The Congressional Budget Office reported last week in its Long Term Budget Outlook that Social Security was already running a deficit this year. […]