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Peter Ferrara: How to Balance the Budget

By ACRU Staff|2010-08-17T11:41:46-04:00August 17th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing August 16, 2010 on The American Spectator.

President Obama’s budget proposes all-time record federal spending of $3.834 trillion for fiscal 2011, up 29 percent from fiscal 2008 and 40 percent from fiscal 2007, which was the last budget adopted by Republican congressional majorities. The deficit for the current fiscal year 2010 is estimated in the president’s own budget documents to reach nearly $1.6 trillion, the largest government deficit in world history, up from $161 billion for fiscal 2007. This is what moved Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) to say to President Obama at the Republican Retreat in Baltimore […]

Walter E. Williams: What Handouts To Cut

By ACRU Staff|2010-08-12T23:48:02-04:00August 12th, 2010|

Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing August 11, 2010 on Townhall.com.

Because of failure to heed the limitations of the U.S. Constitution, which has produced runaway federal spending, our nation sits on the precipice of disaster. Former Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming and Erskine Bowles, White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton, co-chairmen of President Obama’s debt and deficit commission, in a Washington Post article “Obama’s Debt Commission Warns of Fiscal ‘Cancer'” (July 12, 2010) said that “(A)t present, federal revenue is fully consumed by three programs: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The rest of the […]

Jan LaRue: The Manhattan Mosque and Women

By ACRU Staff|2010-08-07T12:33:33-04:00August 7th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing August 7, 2010 on The American Thinker.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the ACLU, and the go-along-to get-along throng who support building a massive mosque at Ground Zero need to explain why they’re okay with a Shariah version of Jim Crow laws for women in America. Are they ignorant or just indifferent to backers of the mosque who promote Shariah law as compatible with U.S. law?

Is their support of a thirteen-story, $100-million mosque about two hundred feet from where the World Trade Center collapsed and nearly three thousand innocents died […]

Peter Ferrara: The Proposed New York Mosque and the Constitution

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:52:56-04:00August 5th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing August 4, 2010 on FOXNews.com.

Muslim interests propose to build a 15 story mosque in Manhattan towering over the site of the 9/11 atrocity just 600 feet away. They would name the monument “Cordoba House.”

The original Great Mosque of Cordoba was built in the 10th century in Cordoba, Spain, the capital of the Muslim caliphate of al Andalus, ruling over the conquered Spaniards.

The Cordoba Mosque was the third largest mosque complex in the world at the time, built on the site of a former Christian church to commemorate […]

Ken Blackwell: Mr. President: Don't back the Dhimmicrats!

By ACRU Staff|2010-08-05T14:53:04-04:00August 5th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing August 5, 2010, on The Daily Caller.

Despite what you may think, Dhimmicrats are not Democrats. A dhimmicrat is a Western official who uses his position of power and influence to clear the pathway for the spread of shariah—the law they have in Saudi Arabia. Dhimmi is the Arabic word for the low status person—all non-Muslims—who live under sharia.

A good example of a dhimmicrat would be former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has been a tireless advocate of Arabs against Israel. Another is the Right Rev. Rowan Williams, the Church of England’s Archbishop of Canterbury, […]

Peter Ferrara: The Big Bamboozler

By ACRU Staff|2010-08-05T11:31:49-04:00August 5th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing August 4, 2010 on The American Spectator.

On Monday, at yet another campaign fundraiser, the part-time President, full-time campaigner Barack Obama told Democrat fat cats, with both hands in taxpayer pockets, that Republicans “have not come up with a single, solitary new idea to address the challenges of the American people.”

But where are Barack Obama’s new ideas? The Keynesian deficit spending of the 1970s, focused on the make-work jobs programs of the 1930s, is not exactly a new idea. Neither is socialized medicine. Neither is raising capital gains taxes, or restoring the death tax, or […]

Peter Ferrara: What If Revenue From The Rich Dries Up?

By ACRU Staff|2010-08-05T11:06:59-04:00August 5th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing August 2, 2010 on Investors.com.

President Obama says his sweeping, across-the-board increases for every major federal tax rate starting next year are necessary for “the rich” to pay their fair share. “The rich” are defined as those making more than $250,000 per year.

Those increases include a close-to-60% increase in the capital gains tax rate, counting the new 3.8% tax on investment income in ObamaCare. The tax rate on dividends would soar by nearly three times.

The top two personal income-tax rates would effectively rise nearly 20%, counting the phase-down of deductions at those income levels.

Robert Knight: The Kagan Moral Train Wreck

By ACRU Staff|2010-08-04T16:59:05-04:00August 4th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing August 3, 2010 on Townhall.com.

As we watch in disbelief, the United States Senate is about to take the Fifth on a Supreme Court nominee who has no business being near a courtroom except as a defendant.

The word from Capitol Hill is that the GOP won’t even bother with a filibuster despite evidence from Elena Kagan’s Judiciary Committee hearing that she falsified evidence used in a Supreme Court case and committed what might be perjury before that committee.

One wonders what it would take for the Senate to deny this […]

Jan LaRue: Obama's Stealth Amnesty Express

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-10T08:04:51-05:00August 3rd, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing August 2, 2010, on TownHall.com.

Amnesty is on the horizon. Open and transparent government be damned–full speed ahead. Barack Obama is throwing overboard his commitment to “an unprecedented level of openness in Government” as he pursues his ultimate goal of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

An internal draft memo to Alejandro N. Mayorkas, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), from four staff members advises him that the USCIS, under certain provisions of the “Immigration and Nationality Act,” may, among other remedies, “develop and implement a registration program […]

Ken Klukowski: Federal Court Allows Challenge to Obamacare

By ACRU Staff|2010-08-03T13:04:45-04:00August 3rd, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing August 2, 2010, on Townhall.com.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia denied the Obama administration’s motion to dismiss Virginia’s lawsuit against Obamacare. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli filed one of the three major lawsuits against President Obama’s healthcare law, focusing on the issue that the individual mandate, requiring every American to purchase health insurance, is unconstitutional.

For the reason my coauthor and I explained in the Wall Street Journal in January and last month, the Obamacare individual mandate is clearly unconstitutional. In researching this issue for our book, The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to […]