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ACRU Asks Governors to Rethink Photo ID Vetoes

By |2012-08-17T14:59:17-04:00August 17th, 2012|

On July 25, 2012, the ACRU sent letters to four governors who vetoed legislation requiring photo voter IDs in order to deter vote fraud, asking them to rethink their opposition to these common-sense laws. ACRU policy board members former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III and former Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell joined ACRU Chairman and CEO Susan A. Carleson in signing the letters. Click on the names of Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, Missouri Gov. Jeremiah Nixon, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer and North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue to download […]

When It Comes to the Jobless Numbers, President Obama Isn't Talking Straight

By |2012-08-15T15:40:40-04:00August 15th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 9, 2012 on Forbes.com.

“This morning we learned that our businesses created 172,000 new jobs in the month of July,” President Obama bragged regarding last Friday’s jobs report. “That means we’ve now created 4.5 million over the last 29 months and 1.1 million new jobs this year.”

You should have learned by now on your own that you can’t believe a word the man says. If it is not outright false, it is cast out of context to […]

No, Romney Won't Raise Your Taxes $2,000

By |2012-08-08T14:34:48-04:00August 8th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 8, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

In a campaign stop at Rollins College in Florida last week, Barack Obama suggested that the middle class should resent Mitt Romney’s tax proposals:

“I want everybody to understand here — he’s not asking you to pay an extra $2,000 [in taxes] to reduce our deficit; he’s not asking you to pay an additional $2,000 to help care for our seniors; he’s not asking you to pay an additional $2,000 in order to rebuild America or […]

ACRU's Meese, Blackwell, Carleson Urge Governors to Rethink Voter ID Law Vetoes

By |2012-08-07T22:38:55-04:00August 7th, 2012|

Letter Calls “Suppress the Minority Vote” Allegations “Utter Nonsense”

JULY 25, 2012 — The American Civil Rights Union today is sending letters to four of five governors who vetoed legislation requiring photo voter IDs in order to deter vote fraud. A fifth letter, to New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch, was discarded after the legislature voted to overturn his veto and the bill became law, subject to Department of Justice approval.

Signed by ACRU policy board members former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III, former Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and ACRU Chairman Susan A. Carleson, the letters were mailed to Minnesota Gov. Mark […]

How Times Have Changed

By |2012-08-07T22:26:33-04:00August 7th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 1, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Having been born in 1936 has allowed me to witness both societal progress and retrogression. High on the list of things made better in our society are the great gains in civil liberties and economic opportunities, especially for racial minorities and women. People who are now deemed poor have a level of material wealth that would have been a pipe dream to yesteryear’s poor. But despite the fact that today’s Americans have achieved an unprecedented level of prosperity, we have […]

Obama's Calculated Deception

By |2012-08-01T21:36:08-04:00August 1st, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 1, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Calculated Deception. That is the central theme of the Obama campaign. Calculated Deception is the term I use for Obama’s rhetorical practice of trying to take advantage of what he calculates the average person does not know, and his party-controlled, so-called mainstream media won’t report. And that can be seen over and over in the Obama campaign.

Obscuring the Worst Recovery Since the Great Depression

In Monday’s Wall Street Journal, Edward Lazear, former Bush chairman […]

How President Obama Is Deceiving You On Tax Policy

By |2012-07-31T14:39:04-04:00July 31st, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 25, 2012 on Forbes.com.

The central theme of President Obama’s tax policy has been that “the rich” (whatever that is supposed to mean) do not pay their fair share of federal taxes, and the middle class pays more as a result. But the CBO just issued a new report this month that proves him grievously wrong.

“The Distribution of Household Income and Federal Taxes, 2008 and 2009,” issued by CBO on July 12, reports that the top 1% […]

ADF Scores First Victory Against Obama's Unconstitutional HHS Mandate

By |2012-07-30T11:26:16-04:00July 30th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 28, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

On August 1, Obamacare’s latest outrage goes into effect as the “HHS Mandate” takes effect, and the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) just scored the first victory in religious liberty against this authoritarian decree days before its implementation.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a regulation under Obamacare requiring almost all employers to cover abortion, birth control, and sterilization services. There are exemptions for nonprofit “religious employers,” but this term’s definition in the regulation is so ridiculously narrow that it would include churches and synagogues, by likely […]

The Reagan Remedy for Medicaid

By |2012-07-30T11:04:56-04:00July 30th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Chairman and CEO and CCPP founder and President Susan A. Carleson was published July 28, 2012 on theAmerican Thinker website.

So many people have complained that something must be done about U.S. health care. But the truth is that a solution has been staring us in the face for years — about forty years, in fact. And it all started with Ronald Reagan.

In 1971, California was heading toward bankruptcy because of out-of-control welfare spending, so Governor Reagan tapped Robert B. Carleson to design and implement the first-ever welfare reform — and it worked. […]

Obama Promised He Wouldn't Raise Taxes on the Middle Class. He Lied.

By |2012-07-26T13:12:08-04:00July 26th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 19, 2012 on Forbes.com.

When he was asking for our vote in 2008, then candidate Barack Obama famously promised the American people, “I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” But as the Supreme Court has now authoritatively ruled, the Obamacare individual mandate, requiring […]

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