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Obama's Real Unemployment Rate Is 14.7%, and a Recession's on the Way

By |2012-10-15T13:08:37-04:00October 15th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 11, 2012 on Forbes.com.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported last Friday that 114,000 new jobs were created last month, according to its Establishment Survey of business payrolls that has been emphasized by the Obama Administration. That is pitifully weak, especially for what is supposed to be the fourth year of a recovery (the National Bureau of Economic Research scored the recession as officially over in June, 2009).

As economist John Lott noted at FoxNews.com on October […]

SCOTUS Likely to Strike Racial Preferences in University Admissions

By |2012-10-12T09:50:28-04:00October 12th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on October 11, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Government preferring one racial group over another in college admissions may be about to end, in what would be a historic move by the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts said that Supreme Court precedent requires that “there has to be a logical end point to your use of race. What is the logical end point? When will I know that you’ve reached a critical mass?” The government’s inability to answer that question might mean that the end point will come in a few months when the Court hands […]

Obama's Coming Crash: The President's Recession Of 2013

By |2012-10-08T09:00:26-04:00October 8th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was published October 3, 2012 on the Investor’s Business Daily website.

So far, Obamanomics has produced the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression. But if Obamanomics is not stopped, next year it will produce renewed recession.

Unemployment will consequently soar back into double digits, and the deficit will rocket to over $2 trillion, the highest by far in world history, as revenues plunge with the economy in the face of escalating public assistance expenditures. That will further explode the national debt, steering us on […]

Obama's Medicaid Plan Exposes Him as an Enemy of the Poor

By |2012-10-07T19:00:14-04:00October 7th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 5, 2012 on Forbes.com.

As in so much else, Progressives hold an outdated conception of the debate over entitlements. They conceive it as the Left supporting generous entitlements for seniors and the poor with no questions asked, no obligations expected, versus the right supporting no safety net at all, let private charity handle it, and if some of the poor have to starve, and some of the sick suffer or die without health care, because private charity is inadequate, so […]

Restoring the American Dream

By |2012-10-07T18:06:34-04:00October 7th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 5, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

President Obama told a sleepwalking America in his Democrat Convention Acceptance speech:

I won’t pretend the path I’m offering is quick or easy. I never have. You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth. And the truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve the challenges that have built up over the decades.

But here is the […]

ACLU Sues to Stop Citizenship Question on Michigan Ballots

By |2020-04-23T21:52:47-04:00October 1st, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 28, 2012 on the American Thinker website.

Only citizens of the United States can legally vote in federal elections. So Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson added a yes/no question on ballot applications that asks: “Are you a United States citizen?”

According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan, this simple requirement is “an election day disaster in the making.” So the ACLU did what it usually does, which is to sue.

Filed on behalf of the UAW International, which includes the radical Service […]

Why Senior Citizens Should Prefer Ryan's Medicare Plan to Obama's

By |2012-09-27T22:43:12-04:00September 27th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 27, 2012 on Forbes.com.

DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz described the Medicare reforms proposed by GOP Vice-Presidential nominee and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as “literally a death trap for seniors.” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that Ryan’s reforms would “change Medicare as we know it.”

But it was Obamacare that already changed Medicare as we know it, transforming it literally into a death trap for seniors. Obamacare cut Medicare by $716 billion […]

Perpetuating Falsehoods

By |2012-09-26T17:07:45-04:00September 26th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 26, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

All the Republicans are offering, President Obama tells us over and over, are the same old, failed policies that got us into this mess in the first place. At the Democrat convention, Obama told us about the Republican economic plan, “all they have to offer is the same prescription they’ve had for the last thirty years.”

And who was President 30 years ago? That would be Ronald Wilson Reagan. So you see, Obama is attacking not […]

Understanding Economics

By |2012-09-26T16:52:54-04:00September 26th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published September 26, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Here’s a question: If there’s a disaster, a war, a severe drought or some other calamity that restricts future supplies of a commodity — such as oil, coffee or corn — what is the intelligent thing for people to do right away? If you said “use less now and try to produce more,” you’d be absolutely correct. That’s not rocket science, but understanding the machinery involved in getting people to do so is a bit more challenging.

The best […]

Appeasement Trumps First Amendment

By |2020-04-23T21:50:21-04:00September 23rd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 21, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

I was driving into Washington the other day when a radio clip of Hillary Rodham Clinton got my attention. The secretary of state was emoting hotly, using terms such as “disgusting” and “reprehensible.”

At first, I thought Bill Clinton might have released a candid memoir, but I soon realized that the former first lady was talking about the crude 14-minute “Innocence of Muslims” video that liberals blamed solely for the deadly attacks on U.S. embassies and riots across the Muslim world. Mrs. […]

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