This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published February 16, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

President Obama’s budget released on Monday proposes to spend $3.73 trillion for 2012. He can’t say Bush made him do that. That proposed spending is an undeniable fact that reveals who he is, which he successfully hid from 53% of voters in 2008.

Campaigning in 2008 he promised voters that his plan involved a “net spending cut.” That net spending cut translated into $836 billion in increased spending this year from 2008, according to President Obama’s own budget documents. That is a federal spending increase of nearly […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published February 9, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

While Americans across the country are holding celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of President Reagan, President Obama and his media allies are peddling the line that he is just like Reagan. So let’s try this thought experiment. Suppose Obama did follow in the tradition of Reagan, Thatcher, and what could have been his ideal mentor, Jack Kemp.

Suppose as a result that President Obama embraced reducing tax rates, cutting spending, slashing unnecessary regulatory burdens and restrictions, and maintaining a strong dollar, anti-inflation monetary […]

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue appeared February 9, 2011 on the American Thinker website.

Bill O’Reilly’s interview of President Obama on Fox News just prior to the Super Bowl confirmed that he remains a self-absorbed leftist.

Now that he’s ardently denied moving to the political center, maybe pundits and Republicans like Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will finally get it, unless they naively believe he’s been there all along.

Obama’s responses qualified for more penalty flags than were thrown during the game. His reaction to the crisis in Egypt is similar to his comment about the […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 6, 2011 on the The Washington Examiner website.

Florida’s Obamacare court ruling presents President Obama with a risky proposition.

Because the federal court accepted our argument that the individual mandate cannot be severed from the rest of the law–and thus that the whole law must be struck down– Obama may try saving most of his signature legislation by sacrificing its heart.

In Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking-Glass,” Alice encounters the Bread-and-Butterfly. This creature’s wings are thin slices of bread, its body is made of crust, and […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 4, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

Years ago, when I was a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, I got to sit down with Martin Anderson, one of Ronald Reagan’s closest advisers.

We were discussing what had happened at Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1986, when Reagan met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The two men left without an arms treaty after discussing ways to reduce ballistic-missile arsenals. There even was talk, as today, of eliminating nuclear weapons entirely.

Reagan’s willingness to negotiate with the communist […]

This column by ACRU Chairman/CEO Susan A. Carleson and ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 4, 2011 on Townhall.com.

We knew things weren’t good, but nearly one seventh of all Americans on food stamps? Forty-three million people?

That’s the news this week from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which noted that only 30 million were on food stamps as recently as 2008. For Big Government fans, this news should trigger a high five. But wait – many of those high fivers are lamenting the “epidemic of obesity” among the poor. Remember, liberalism need not be consistent or effective; […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published February 3, 2011 on the BIG PEACE website.

We’re about to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth. As much as I would like to praise that great and good man, I have to wonder what he would do about Egypt?

Would he shepherd Egypt along the path to democracy–as he did successfully with South Korea and the Philippines? Or would he maintain a “constructive engagement” policy with Mubarak as he attempted with the apartheid regime in South Africa? That policy frankly failed, and we had to await F.W. de […]

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams was published February 2, 2011 on Townhall.com.

In my “Black Education Disaster” column (12/22/10), I presented National Assessment of Educational Progress test data that demonstrated that an average black high school graduate had a level of reading, writing and math proficiency of a white seventh- or eighth-grader. The public education establishment bears part of the responsibility for this disaster, but a greater portion is borne by black students and their parents, many of whom who are alien and hostile to the education process.

Let’s look at the […]