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How to Liberate America from the Poverty Trap that Is Enslaving Us

By ACRU Staff|2014-04-15T10:25:01-04:00April 15th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on April 13, 2014 on Forbes.com.

In the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, for March, the Obama economy finally reached a long overdue milestone. More than six years after the latest recession began, in December, 2007, the economy has finally at long last recovered all of the jobs lost during the recession.

The gross failure is that in the 11 previous recessions since the Great Depression, the economy recovered all jobs lost during the recession after an average of 25 months after the prior jobs peak (when the recession began). So the job […]

How to Assist Evil

By ACRU Staff|2014-04-09T15:05:24-04:00April 9th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 9, 2014 on Townhall.com.

“Engineering Evil” is a documentary recently shown on the Military History channel. It’s a story of Nazi Germany’s murder campaign before and during World War II. According to some estimates, 16 million Jews and other people died at the hands of Nazis.

Though the Holocaust ranks high among the great human tragedies, most people never consider the most important question: How did Adolf Hitler and the Nazis gain the power that they needed to commit such horror? Focusing solely on the evil of […]

Obamacare Shows America Suffers from a President Dangerously Disconnected from Reality

By ACRU Staff|2014-04-04T12:00:21-04:00April 4th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on April 4, 2014 on Forbes.com.

The population of the U.S. is 314 million. On the day Obamacare was passed, the estimate of the uninsured was 60 million. So in this context, the supposed 7 million Americans signed up for insurance on the Obamacare Exchanges, even if that is a valid number, and all of those have actually started paying premiums, both of which are highly dubious, does not mean any significant success for Obamacare.

That is especially so since at least 6 million Americans have lost their health insurance due to Obamacare, so far, […]

The ACLU's Warped View of Puppy Mills and Abortion Clinics

By ACRU Staff|2014-03-28T11:09:31-04:00March 28th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 27, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

When it comes to free speech, the American Civil Liberties Union has a soft spot for animal rights protesters, but not necessarily people who advocate for human life.

In Michigan, the ACLU is fighting tooth and claw for the right of an animal rights group to protest outside a pet store. The store, you see, sells puppies.

Members of Puppy Mill Awareness (PMA) of Southeast Michigan have been picketing the Woof Woof Puppies & Boutique store in Southfield since 2011. They think […]

Militant Atheists' War on Christians and Christmas in 2013

By ACRU Staff|2013-12-24T00:02:37-05:00December 24th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published December 22, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

This Christmas season is seeing those who deny the existence of God pressing forward with a militant secular agenda, one that is intolerant–often bitterly so–of Christians in America.

Set aside for a moment the blockbuster controversy regarding Phil Robertson and “Duck Dynasty,” which is driven by a visceral rejection of Biblical Christian views on sin and sexuality. The same hostility toward Christians who believe the Bible is the Word of God is on full display this Christmas season in other respects.

Pastor Alistair Begg–one of the most famous […]

Clarence Thomas vs. Barack Obama on Gettysburg, American Greatness

By ACRU Staff|2013-11-20T12:28:45-05:00November 20th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published November 19, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

When asked last week how he ended up on the Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Clarence Thomas said, “It was totally Forrest Gump,” in a revealing–and hilarious–on-stage interview at last week’s Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention.

This full-length interview was a window into the soul of America’s most conservative High Court justice–whose remarks on Gettysburg could not draw a more stark contrast with President Barack Obama.

Thomas was the keynote speaker at last week’s annual gathering of the brightest conservative legal stars in America. He sat […]

Feeling the Pain and Assigning the Blame

By ACRU Staff|2013-11-18T13:37:21-05:00November 18th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published November 17, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

When Bill Clinton jumps off the bus over embarrassing prevarications, you know it’s getting serious.

The former president’s rebuke last week of President Obama for repeatedly lying to Americans that they could keep their health insurance policies under Obamacare shows that the Comeback Kid still has an acute ability to feel our pain. Also, that he’s prepared to throw anyone under the bus in order to get back into the White House behind Hillary’s skirt.

There is rich irony in a sitting president being lectured for […]

Obama's Insurance 'Fix' is Unconstitutional

By ACRU Staff|2013-11-18T13:22:11-05:00November 18th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published November 14, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Outlets are quoting Democratic operative Howard Dean saying of President Barack Obama suspending certain Obamacare requirements, “I wonder if he has the legal authority to do this.”

To remove all doubt: The Take Care Clause of the Constitution absolutely forbids any president from doing exactly what Obama did Thursday.

Obama said he would allow insurance companies to keep offering previously-offered insurance plans that Americans would like to keep. Nobody knows if this means all plans, or only some of them, and how the White House will make such […]

A 'Sorry' Excuse for a President

By ACRU Staff|2013-11-15T14:10:15-05:00November 15th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published November 15, 2013 on the American Thinker website.

President Obama is “sorry” that millions of Americans have had their health insurance plans cancelled despite his promises that ObamaCare would not cause this.

Is Obama sorry he’s been caught in multiple material lies about his disastrous namesake, or is it the “godly sorrow” of Scripture that “brings repentance” and rights wrongs?

Obama repeatedly has professed to be a Christian. His “pastor in chief”, Joshua DuBois, has a new book, The President’s Devotional, a compilation of devotions that he sent daily to Obama’s Blackberry since […]

Does Washington Know Best?

By ACRU Staff|2013-11-13T15:28:57-05:00November 13th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 13, 2013 on Townhall.com.

According to some estimates, there are more than 100 million traffic signals in the U.S., but whatever the number, how many of us would like Washington, in the name of public health and safety, to be in sole charge of their operation? Congress or a committee it authorizes would determine the position of traffic signals at intersections, the length of time the lights stay red, yellow and green, and what hours of the day they can be flashing red.

While you ponder that, […]