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National Histrionic

By |2011-05-09T10:56:23-04:00May 9th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 6, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

A couple of years ago, I let my National Geographic subscription lapse because of the magazine’s relentless earth worship. But I missed the superb photos, crisp writing and mind- boggling statistics, so I started getting it again.

Boy, am I getting it. After perusing the May issue, I’m once again ashamed to be human. People, people, people! We’re carbonizing the clouds! We’re wrecking the coral reefs! We’re reducing the polar bear’s habitat to the size of a McDonald’s parking lot! We’re scooping sand […]

Reaganomics Vs. Obamanomics: Facts And Figures

By |2011-05-06T08:42:49-04:00May 6th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 5, 2011 on Forbes.com.

In February 2009 I wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal entitled “Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics,” which argued that the emerging outlines of President Obama’s economic policies were following in close detail exactly the opposite of President Reagan’s economic policies. As a result, I predicted that Obamanomics would have the opposite results of Reaganomics. That prediction seems to be on track.

When President Reagan entered office in 1981, he faced actually much worse […]

Obama's War on Oil

By |2011-05-04T09:54:49-04:00May 4th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 4, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

As a guest on a black radio talk show recently, I suggested that someone ask President Obama what his plan is for bringing down high gasoline prices.

What a gaffe that question would be. The current high gas prices, and more, are precisely the President’s plan.

President Obama’s Secretary of Energy is former Berkeley physics professor Steven Chu, who said in 2008, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline […]

Interrogation Not Litigation Led to Osama

By |2011-05-03T16:22:57-04:00May 3rd, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published May 4, 2011 on the American Thinker blog.

Osama bin Laden is dead because President Obama followed the rules of war and the policies and procedures left to him by President George W. Bush rather than the rules of civil procedure.

During a White House press briefing Sunday night, a senior administration official credited post-9/11 “detainees” with providing the links of information that led to bin Laden’s $1 million compound in Pakistan. According to a transcript of the call, a senior administration official said:

“Detainees in the post-9/11 period […]

Obama's Oily View of America

By |2020-04-23T21:57:12-04:00May 2nd, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 29, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

When Barack Obama is in flyover country, if you close your eyes, you can almost hear a moderate Republican on the stump. But when he’s on the Left Coast, the real Obama surfaces, bristling with praise for confiscatory taxation, redistributing wealth and ever bigger government.

It was in San Francisco, after all, that he let slip his famous gaffe on April 6, 2008, about rural Pennsylvanians clinging to “guns and religion.” And it was in San Francisco last week that he told a […]

Why Paul Ryan's Medicare Is So Much Better Than Obama's

By |2011-05-02T08:35:47-04:00May 2nd, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 28, 2011 on Forbes.com.

At his Facebook town hall campaign stop in Palo Alto, California on April 20, President Barack Obama lambasted the 2012 budget proposal of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, which ultimately leads to a balanced budget without tax increases. Obama said regarding the Ryan budget plan, “No I don’t think it is particularly courageous. Because…nothing is easier than solving a problem on the backs of people who are poor or people who are powerless […]

The Celebrity Apprentice Blinked

By |2011-04-28T13:04:15-04:00April 28th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published April 28, 2011 on the American Thinker blog.

After holding out for two-and-a-half years, President Obama released his mysteriously secreted long form “certificate of live birth” after being pressured to do so by Donald Trump, billionaire business mogul and star of “The Apprentice” TV show.

Obama said we’ve been “distracted” long enough by “sideshows and carnival barkers.”

The disclosure raises a few million dollar questions.

What’s the big secret? Comparing the long form “certificate of live birth” to the short form “certification of live birth,” which has been […]

What Professor Obama Doesn't Understand

By |2011-04-27T08:12:53-04:00April 27th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 27, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

President Obama’s self-congratulatory “economic recovery” is way too little, way too late. By historical standards for the American economy, we should be in the second year now of a booming economic recovery. Instead the economy is still struggling to get off the ground, and what is booming instead is prices and inflation.

If you listen to what President Obama is saying in his reelection campaign, which is already underway in his town hall tour across America, […]

Supreme Court Hints at Obamacare Impact in Sovereign Immunity Cases

By |2011-04-25T14:29:59-04:00April 25th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 23, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Federal law allows state officials to sue each other in federal court, but it’s unconstitutional to sue a state for refusing to allow misbehaving inmates to attend religious services. Thus said the Supreme Court in two decisions this week, both by a 62 vote. (Justice Elena Kagan was recused from both cases.) And they could affect Obamacare.

Under the doctrine of sovereign immunity, the 11th Amendment makes any state immune from being sued in federal court without the state’s consent. These cases are 11th Amendment cases.

America's Ever Expanding Welfare Empire

By |2011-04-23T17:38:07-04:00April 23rd, 2011|

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

A fundamental misconception about America’s welfare state misleads millions of voters to reflexively support ever bigger and more generous government. William Voegeli fingers the attitude in his book, Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State: “no matter how large the welfare state, liberal politicians and writers have accused it of being shamefully small” and “contemptibly austere.”

Barbara Ehrenreich expresses the attitude in her book, Nickled and Dimed: “guilt doesn’t go anywhere near far enough; the […]

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