Why I Take Obama's 'Common' Offenses Against Officers Personally

By |2011-05-16T15:02:51-04:00May 16th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published May 16, 2011 on the American Thinker blog.

President Obama continues to use the White House as a platform to dishonor police officers.

On May 11, Obama and First Lady Michele welcomed a rap poet who celebrates cop killers to the White House. Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., known professionally as “Common,” performed a few days before thousands of police officers arrived in Washington for “National Police Week,” the annual memorial to honor fallen officers.

Common’s “A Song for Assata” is his ode to cop killer Joanne Deborah Chesimard, aka […]

Throw Out the Bums Before Election Day

By |2011-05-15T20:16:44-04:00May 15th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 13, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

In Wymore, Neb., voters got fed up with a councilman who kept leaving meetings. So, on Tuesday, they voted him out in a recall election. It’s part of a nationwide pattern as people discover that they don’t have to wait until the next election to throw the bums out. In Chattanooga, Tenn., a recall effort against Democratic Mayor Ron Littlefield has been tied up in court since September. Organizers who filed an appeal are not giving up, and they say they expect the case […]

The Incredible Shrinking Recovery

By |2011-05-11T08:08:17-04:00May 11th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 11, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

There was President Obama at a recent fundraiser telling his star-struck enablers, look at me, after just two and a half years, I got the economy growing again. He didn’t tell them that the pitiful 1.7% annualized real growth rate in the first quarter compares to 7.1% annualized real growth at the same point in President Reagan’s recovery.

Over the first 7 quarters of the Reagan recovery, the economy boomed at a real growth rate of […]

National Histrionic

By |2011-05-09T10:56:23-04:00May 9th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 6, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

A couple of years ago, I let my National Geographic subscription lapse because of the magazine’s relentless earth worship. But I missed the superb photos, crisp writing and mind- boggling statistics, so I started getting it again.

Boy, am I getting it. After perusing the May issue, I’m once again ashamed to be human. People, people, people! We’re carbonizing the clouds! We’re wrecking the coral reefs! We’re reducing the polar bear’s habitat to the size of a McDonald’s parking lot! We’re scooping sand […]

Reaganomics Vs. Obamanomics: Facts And Figures

By |2011-05-06T08:42:49-04:00May 6th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 5, 2011 on Forbes.com.

In February 2009 I wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal entitled “Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics,” which argued that the emerging outlines of President Obama’s economic policies were following in close detail exactly the opposite of President Reagan’s economic policies. As a result, I predicted that Obamanomics would have the opposite results of Reaganomics. That prediction seems to be on track.

When President Reagan entered office in 1981, he faced actually much worse […]

Obama's War on Oil

By |2011-05-04T09:54:49-04:00May 4th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 4, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

As a guest on a black radio talk show recently, I suggested that someone ask President Obama what his plan is for bringing down high gasoline prices.

What a gaffe that question would be. The current high gas prices, and more, are precisely the President’s plan.

President Obama’s Secretary of Energy is former Berkeley physics professor Steven Chu, who said in 2008, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline […]

Interrogation Not Litigation Led to Osama

By |2011-05-03T16:22:57-04:00May 3rd, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published May 4, 2011 on the American Thinker blog.

Osama bin Laden is dead because President Obama followed the rules of war and the policies and procedures left to him by President George W. Bush rather than the rules of civil procedure.

During a White House press briefing Sunday night, a senior administration official credited post-9/11 “detainees” with providing the links of information that led to bin Laden’s $1 million compound in Pakistan. According to a transcript of the call, a senior administration official said:

“Detainees in the post-9/11 period […]

Why Paul Ryan's Medicare Is So Much Better Than Obama's

By |2011-05-02T08:35:47-04:00May 2nd, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 28, 2011 on Forbes.com.

At his Facebook town hall campaign stop in Palo Alto, California on April 20, President Barack Obama lambasted the 2012 budget proposal of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, which ultimately leads to a balanced budget without tax increases. Obama said regarding the Ryan budget plan, “No I don’t think it is particularly courageous. Because…nothing is easier than solving a problem on the backs of people who are poor or people who are powerless […]

The Celebrity Apprentice Blinked

By |2011-04-28T13:04:15-04:00April 28th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published April 28, 2011 on the American Thinker blog.

After holding out for two-and-a-half years, President Obama released his mysteriously secreted long form “certificate of live birth” after being pressured to do so by Donald Trump, billionaire business mogul and star of “The Apprentice” TV show.

Obama said we’ve been “distracted” long enough by “sideshows and carnival barkers.”

The disclosure raises a few million dollar questions.

What’s the big secret? Comparing the long form “certificate of live birth” to the short form “certification of live birth,” which has been […]

What Professor Obama Doesn't Understand

By |2011-04-27T08:12:53-04:00April 27th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 27, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

President Obama’s self-congratulatory “economic recovery” is way too little, way too late. By historical standards for the American economy, we should be in the second year now of a booming economic recovery. Instead the economy is still struggling to get off the ground, and what is booming instead is prices and inflation.

If you listen to what President Obama is saying in his reelection campaign, which is already underway in his town hall tour across America, […]

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