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Peter Ferrara and Larry Hunter: How ObamaCare Guts Medicare

By |2010-09-09T11:15:47-04:00September 9th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara and Dr. Larry Hunter wrote this column appearing September 9, 2010 on The Wall Street Journal website.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has attacked Senate Republican candidates for wanting “to end Medicare as we know it.” And in Nevada’s hotly contested Senate race, Majority Leader Harry Reid is attacking Republican Sharron Angle, saying she wants to “gut” Medicare. But Mr. Reid has already gutted it. He and his colleagues did so by passing ObamaCare.

In his analysis accompanying the recently released Annual Report of the Medicare Board of Trustees, Richard Foster, Medicare’s chief actuary, noted […]

Peter Ferrara: Fire Obama

By |2010-09-08T17:51:51-04:00September 8th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing September 8, 2010 on The American Spectator.

House GOP Leader John Boehner created a stir last month when he called on President Obama to fire his top economic advisors, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Larry Summers, because of the Administration’s disastrous economic performance. But while Summers is, indeed, a clueless Keynesian, and Geithner is a career bureaucrat, they are not the source of the problem. The source of the problem is the Godfather of the Administration’s economic policies, President Obama himself.

Consequently, what is needed is not to fire […]

Ken Blackwell: What Is President Obama Thinking?

By |2010-09-03T18:55:28-04:00September 3rd, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing September 2, 2010, on The Huffington Post website.

Americans might soon have another reason to ask themselves: “What is the president thinking?”

With the flourish of a veto pen, President Obama is likely to disappoint and confuse both friends and some foes this fall; an interesting choice given his approval-rating challenges.

How will President Obama manage to infuriate some conservatives and many liberals all at once? By vetoing a defense spending bill — a bill that would please some national defense conservatives by supporting our troops and please liberals by foolishly […]

Peter Ferrara: The New American Supermajority

By |2020-04-23T21:57:14-04:00September 2nd, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing September 1, 2010 on The American Spectator.

The aerial photograph does not lie. Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally drew just about as many people as any other rally ever held at the Lincoln Memorial.

I took the train into town from home in Northern Virginia, packed in like in those Tokyo subway video clips, even though I was late. I marched down to the Memorial from the nearest subway stop at Foggy Bottom, where the D.C. bureaucrats had helpfully disabled the steep escalators from the underground tubes to greet the half a million or more celebrants […]

Robert Knight: Uprooting Crosses, One by One

By |2010-08-31T12:27:53-04:00August 31st, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this article appearing August 27, 2010 on WashingtonTimes.com.

While the furor over the proposed mosque at Ground Zero has New York Gov. David Paterson offering public land as a peace offering, a more familiar symbol – the cross – is systematically being uprooted around the country.  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled Aug. 18 that placing crosses where Utah state troopers died violates the Establishment Clause.

The 14 crosses, 12 feet tall and bearing a trooper’s name, have been erected by the privately funded Utah Highway […]

Recalling Senator Kent Conrad: Tea Party Activists in North Dakota Fight Denial of Recall Effort

By |2010-08-31T12:16:22-04:00August 31st, 2010|

On August 30, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) filed an amicus brief in support of Tea Party activists arguing that North Dakota law does provide for recall of U.S. Senators. Tea Party activists had previously filed with the Secretary of State for approval of petitions for the recall of Senator Kent Conrad. They were denied by the Secretary of State citing
an opinion from the state Attorney General that the North Dakota Constitution did not provide for the recall of U.S. Senators. However, the state Constitution expressly states that recall applies to “all elected officials of the state.”
The Recall Committee sued the Secretary of State seeking enforcement […]

Robert Knight: U.S. Was Born a Christian Nation

By |2010-08-30T10:04:09-04:00August 30th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this article appearing August 29, 2010 on CNN.com.

Will Bunch’s CNN.com tirade earlier this week against television host Glenn Beck and David Barton — the founder and president of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization that emphasizes history’s “moral, religious and constitutional heritage” — for allegedly creating “pseudo history” reveals more about Mr. Bunch than it does about what Mr. Beck and Mr. Barton are presenting.

Mr. Bunch seems, above all, to be annoyed that many people are no longer staying on the liberal plantation of secularized American history. He offers little in the way of […]

Walter E. Williams: Who Cares About Our Future?

By |2010-08-25T17:32:03-04:00August 25th, 2010|

Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing August 25, 2010 on Townhall.com.

My column titled “What Handouts to Cut?” created a number of angry responses, and for the first time in my life, I had some, not much, sympathy for political cowardice. Most letters were from senior citizens angered by my suggestion that they were receiving handouts and those handouts be cut.

Federal tax receipts for 2009 totaled $2.1 trillion. The largest items in the federal budget were Social Security ($710 billion), national defense ($689 billion), Medicare ($456 billion) and Medicaid ($327 billion). The primary recipients of federal […]

Jan LaRue: Speaker of the Institutionalized

By |2010-08-22T22:23:09-04:00August 22nd, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing August 22, 2010 on The American Thinker website.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is a national embarrassment with a long train of gaffes and abuses. It can give you angina to bear in mind that she’s two heartbeats from the presidency. Beats one and two are stressors enough.

Pelosi told a San Francisco radio station on Tuesday that she wants to know who’s funding those opposed (make that nearly 70 percent of Americans) to building a mega mosque at Ground Zero. Said the Speaker:

“But there is no question […]

Peter Ferrara: The Coming Obamacare Disaster

By |2010-08-19T11:30:42-04:00August 19th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing August 18, 2010 on The American Spectator.

Forthcoming for public release shortly will be my extensive study of the Obamacare legislation, “The Obamacare Disaster: An Appraisal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (Heartland Policy Study No. 128, The Heartland Institute, August 2010), available shortly at the Heartland Institute website. Following Nancy Pelosi’s dictum that we will have to pass it first to know what’s in it, I personally slogged through the thousands of pages of this legislative atrocity for the study, as well as thousands of pages of supplemental materials such as government, think tank […]

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