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Obamanomics: Economics For Dummies

By |2012-06-28T22:44:03-04:00June 28th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 28, 2012 on Forbes.com.

President Obama’s June 14 address in Cleveland presented his foundational economic policy arguments for this fall’s campaign. We will hear those same rhetorical points over and over this year, at least until his pollsters realize they are doing more harm than good.

The marker Obama himself laid down for judging his economic policies is whether they would serve “to create strong, sustained growth…pay down our long-term debt…[and] generate good, middle class jobs….” Last […]

Supreme Court Upholds Socialized Medicine

By |2012-06-28T17:44:37-04:00June 28th, 2012|

June 28, 2012 — “The Supreme Court today affirmed the fundamental dishonesty of our politics,” said Peter Ferrara, general counsel for the American Civil Rights Union, which filed seven amicus briefs challenging the Affordable Care Act.

“Before Obamacare passed, the President of the United States told the whole country on TV that the individual mandate is not a tax. After Obamacare passed, Barack Obama sent his lawyers into courts all over America to argue that it is constitutional because it is a tax.

“The Supreme Court of the United States just endorsed this fundamental dishonesty of our politics. The President intimidated Chief Justice John Roberts […]

Obama's Perverse Plan for Permanent Recession

By |2012-06-27T14:52:51-04:00June 27th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 27, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

President Obama told the nation in his June 14 economic policy address in Cleveland that his economic policy plans for a second term would “create strong sustained growth;…pay down our long term debt; and most of all…generate good, middle-class jobs….” He then spent almost an hour describing policies that would do just the opposite.

He did not begin the speech with much credibility on how to achieve those goals. He has been President for almost four […]

ACLU Loses Challenge to Indiana's Sex Offender Social Media Law

By |2012-06-27T10:05:16-04:00June 27th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 27, 2012 on the American Thinker website.

In a victory over odd men in raincoats, a federal judge has upheld Indiana’s 2008 law barring convicted sex offenders from using Facebook, MySpace, and other social media. A class-action suit had been filed against the statute by the American Civil Liberties Union’s Indiana chapter, which immediately threatened to appeal.

“Social networking, chat rooms, and instant messaging programs have effectively created a ‘virtual playground’ for sexual predators to lurk,” wrote U.S. Judge Tanya Walton Pratt in her 18-page June 22 ruling in […]

Partial Defeat for Arizona at Supreme Court

By |2020-04-23T21:58:17-04:00June 26th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 25, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Major provisions of Arizona’s S.B. 1070 were held unenforceable by the Supreme Court because they conflict with federal law, though the Court unanimously upheld its most controversial provision. So the biggest immigration case in U.S. history was a mixed result, one in which President Barack Obama won more than Governor Jan Brewer, in a case reminding us that America’s Supreme Court is anything but conservative.

Two important points at the outset about Arizona v. United States that the media isn’t discussing.

First, this case […]

Court Upholds Key Provision in Arizona Case, ACRU Says

By |2020-04-23T21:58:17-04:00June 25th, 2012|

Ruling in Arizona v. United States lets officers check immigration status during lawful stops, while striking down other elements of SB 1070.

WASHINGTON — “We’re disappointed in much of today’s ruling, but the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the key right of law enforcement officials to inquire as to immigration status during traffic stops,” said Susan A. Carleson, Chairman and CEO of the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU), which filed a Supreme Court brief in February in support of Arizona.

“If the federal government won’t do the job of enforcing our border, we believe Arizona and other states have the constitutional right to defend it themselves,” […]

U.S. Still Stuck in Recession

By |2012-06-25T11:07:47-04:00June 25th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 22, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

This latest recession started in December 2007. Since the Great Depression 75 years ago, recessions in America have lasted an average of 10 months, with the longest previously lasting 16 months, not counting this latest spooky downturn.

The National Bureau of Economic Research, the recognized scorekeeper of recessions, declared this latest recession over in June 2009, which would make it the longest recession since the Great Depression. The historical precedent in America […]

ACLU Friends Sex Offenders

By |2020-04-23T21:52:48-04:00June 15th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 14, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

Well, there they go again, carrying water for their army of odd men in raincoats. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Indiana is suing to strike down a state law forbidding convicted sex offenders from using social media such as Facebook.

The state argues that allowing released felons on social media opens up opportunities for them to troll for children on the Internet.

“It’s hard to come up with an example of a sexual predator who doesn’t use some form of […]

The Supreme Court and Obamacare: Eight Possible Outcomes

By |2012-06-15T08:15:17-04:00June 15th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 13, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Everyone is now waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to hand down its decision in NFIB v. Sebelius, the name of the case frequently referred to simply as “Obamacare.”

Lawyers argued four issues before the justices who will decide the fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and there are eight possible outcomes. Some are more likely than others, and some are more consequential than others.

In fact, one would change this country forever.

But aside from that one apocalyptic scenario, there are several outcomes […]

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