This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 24, 2011 on The

Washington Times website.

While 22-year-old Rory McIlroy was teeing up on June 16 during the first round of his historic victory at the U.S. Open, another drama was unfolding outside Congressional Country Club in Bethesda.

A Montgomery County inspector busted some kids for running a lemonade stand at which they were setting aside half the proceeds for pediatric cancer victims. The charge? No permit.

One of the dads involved got a $500 fine. After a TV station’s tape of the bust went viral, the […]

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published June 24, 2011 on Townhall.com.

Roughly 14 million people are formally labeled as unemployed, but “there’s probably 22 million to 23 million people who are unemployed, mal-employed or under-employed,” said Andrew Sum, an economics professor at Northeastern University in Boston, as reported by DailyCaller.com.

The professor didn’t define “mal-employed,” but I’m thinking it includes the over-employed–those in full-time jobs way over their heads who screw up life for the rest of us.

Consider Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, who’s blown through nearly $2 trillion taxpayer dollars trying […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 22, 2011 on FoxNews.com.

America’s gross federal debt is already bumping up against the national debt limit of $14.3 trillion. But with the federal government already running a deficit of 43 cents out of every dollar of federal spending, if President Obama’s budget of $3.8 trillion, or $3,818 billion, is going to be financed, clearly a lot more national debt is going to be needed.

Speaker John Boehner, however, is holding firm on his position to allow a debt […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published June 22, 2011 on Townhall.com. This column was co-authored by Bob Morrison.

Frank Mickens took NBC to task for its censorship of “Under God” and “Indivisible” from the Pledge of Allegiance over the weekend. Mickens is a news anchor for CBS affiliate WFMY-TV in Greensboro , North Carolina . He did what our free press is supposed to do: hold accountable those in power. We need more intrepid journalists like Frank Mickens.

NBC had presented a wonderful video montage showing our brave soldiers defending us in foreign lands and interspersed with […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published June 21, 2011 on The Huffington Post website.

President Obama got a good laugh from his liberal audience at the nationally televised meeting of his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. At least all those who joined in the laughter there had jobs.

“Shovel-ready was not as… uh… shovel-ready as we expected,” the president jibed.

He certainly seemed to be a good sport about it all. One half expected the Daily Show‘s puckish Jon Stewart to chime in: “Maybe you better not quit your day job, dude!” There’s a real problem […]

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 22, 2011 on Townhall.com.

The late South African economist William Hutt, in his 1964 book, The Economics of the Colour Bar, said that one of the supreme tragedies of the human condition is that those who have been the victims of injustices and oppression “can often be observed to be inflicting not dissimilar injustices upon other races.”

Born in 1936, I’ve lived through some of our openly racist history, which has included racist insults, beatings and lynchings. Tuskegee Institute records show that between […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 22, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

In my new book, America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, I argue that the first step in defusing the bomb, and averting the coming bankruptcy of America, is to restore America’s world leading economic prosperity. Only another economic boom can hope to generate enough revenue to finance essential continuing obligations. And only another boom can reduce dependency sufficiently to enable us to make the necessary spending cuts to reduce the overwhelming deficits, debt and other liabilities that threaten the […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 21, 2011 on Townhall.com.

The failures of federal, state and local officials of both major parties, over many years, have primed a ticking bankruptcy bomb for America that will explode the American Dream if we don’t disarm it.

But it is not too late to reverse course and avert the coming bankruptcy of America. That will require fundamental structural reforms of all levels of government, and our most politically sensitive entitlement programs. If we do this right, thoroughly modernized […]