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Forget Market Failure, Our Crumbling Democracy Speaks To Political Failure

By |2020-04-23T21:53:59-04:00January 28th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 24, 2013 on Forbes.com.

Government does not even have the power to take guns away from criminals. It can only take guns away from the victims of criminals. This is not a matter of opinion. It is an unchallengeable fact.

Addictive drugs are illegal. But they are everywhere in America. Even in rural America, and the Bible Belt. We even find them in prisons. And the greatest gun crime has been in the cities with the strictest gun […]

40 Years of Roe v. Wade: What Happened? And What Comes Next?

By |2013-01-22T16:54:47-05:00January 22nd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 22, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution provides a right to have an abortion in one of its most controversial decisions in history. More than 50 million unborn children have been aborted since Roe was decided on Jan. 22, 1973.

Polls provide conflicting data as to where Americans stand on this issue, largely because many Americans don’t understand Roe or what overruling it would mean. Many young people are not even familiar with […]

Bobby Jindal Seeks Rich State Status With Income Tax Phaseout

By |2013-01-21T11:16:38-05:00January 21st, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 17, 2013 on Forbes.com.

Nine states survive perfectly well with no state income tax at all. These include large states such as Texas and Florida, medium size states such as Tennessee and Washington, and smaller states, in terms of population, such as New Hampshire, Nevada, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Alaska. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is now proposing to make his state the 10th in America with no state income tax, phasing out both personal and corporate state income taxes.

Clergy Declares Holy War on NRA

By |2020-04-23T21:53:59-04:00January 21st, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published January 21, 2013 on Townhall.com.

The battle to demonize the National Rifle Association became a religious crusade when the Rev. Jim Wallis, CEO of Sojourners and “progressive” spiritual advisor to President Obama, convened some clergy for a witch trial.

As a foreword, if you join the NRA, as about 250,000 folks have done in the past few weeks, you’ll be affirming your support for the Second Amendment, not the Nicene Creed.

Wallis rounded up a posse of […]

SCOTUS Takes Major Constitutional Case on Treaty Powers

By |2013-01-21T09:58:09-05:00January 21st, 2013|

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

On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in Bond v. United States, a case raising serious issues of federal power under the U.S. Constitution.

This case is about a woman who discovered her husband was having an affair, then attempted to poison the mistress at her home. The mistress survived, but while local prosecutors could charge the woman with attempted murder, battery, trespass, and other state crimes, the U.S. Attorney for that district stepped in and charged this woman with using chemical […]

Obama's Gun Control Campaign Doomed to Fail

By |2020-04-23T21:58:16-04:00January 17th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 17, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday revealed his national gun control proposal, one loaded with divisive rhetoric and exploiting children onstage to push his agenda, which ignores the most effective ways to stop gun violence.

Obama had a full-dress press event, joined by children on stage as a backdrop to give the impression that what he proposes is the best way to protect children and to reinforce his rhetoric that those opposing new gun controls are not putting children first. He vilified the “gun lobby” and claimed that a […]

To Win the Debt-Ceiling Debate, We Must Discredit Obama's Debt Dishonesty

By |2013-01-14T13:54:07-05:00January 14th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 11, 2013 on Forbes.com.

President Obama tells the nation that Congress must increase the debt limit because they “should pay the bills that they have already racked up.” Let me translate that into household economics.

You find yourself reaching the debt limit on your credit card. But you have become addicted to spending each month two thirds more than you earn. So you got to keep charging on that card.

So you write to the credit card company […]

NRA Gears Up for Gun Control Fight with White House

By |2020-04-23T21:53:59-04:00January 10th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 10, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is mobilizing for a massive four-front conflict with President Barack Obama over the Constitution and gun rights after a made-for-TV meeting today at the White House between Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Eric Holder, and a top NRA operative.

Obama appointed Biden–who throughout his career has opposed gun rights–to lead his gun-control task force after the horribly tragic Newtown shooting. Biden and Holder met Thursday with Jim Baker, director of the Federal Affairs Division of […]

President Obama's Re-Election Is Powerful Evidence of Democracy Failure

By |2013-01-07T21:44:13-05:00January 7th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 3, 2013 on Forbes.com.

“Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions….Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the forum of the ‘new, wonderful good society’ which shall now be Rome’s, interpreted to mean ‘more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'”

Roman statesman […]

Why the 2nd Amendment

By |2020-04-23T21:53:45-04:00January 3rd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 2, 2013 on Townhall.com.

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings, said: “The British are not coming. … We don’t need all these guns to kill people.” Lewis’ vision, shared by many, represents a gross ignorance of why the framers of the Constitution gave us the Second Amendment. How about a few quotes from the period and you decide whether our Founding Fathers harbored a fear of foreign tyrants.

Alexander Hamilton: “The best we can hope for concerning […]

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