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Paul Ryan's Adult Conversation

By |2011-04-06T11:25:37-04:00April 6th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 6, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

Before Paul Ryan’s 2012 budget released yesterday, the Liberal Establishment was telling us that what was needed was an adult conversation on the budget and entitlements. Now that they have got their adult conversation, they can’t handle it.

The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne began the brain-dead name calling, labeling the Ryan budget “radical,” “irresponsible,” and “extreme.” This began the Post’s shameful institutional policy of not reporting to its readers what the Ryan budget actually does, as […]

Obama's Energetic War on the Young

By |2011-04-04T09:57:02-04:00April 4th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 1, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

President Obama needs to reinvent reality, so where does he go? A college campus. And why not? With gas doubling in price toward $4 a gallon, what better place to talk energy than to backpacking cyclists at trendy, urban Georgetown University? It’s a far friendlier crowd than, say, one composed of truckers, commuters or laid-off workers.

Besides, the last time Mr. Obama spoke at Georgetown, on April 14, 2009, college officials complied with a White House request to cover up pesky Christian […]

Department of Injustice

By |2011-03-30T15:08:21-04:00March 30th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 30, 2011 on Townhall.com.

One of the requirements to become a Dayton, Ohio police officer is to successfully pass the city’s two-part written examination. Applicants must correctly answer 57 of 86 questions on the first part (66 percent) and 73 of 102 (72 percent) on the second part. Dayton’s Civil Service Board reported that 490 candidates passed the November 2010 written test, 57 of whom were black. About 231 of the roughly 1,100 test takers were black.

The U.S. Department of Justice, […]

A Big Question for 2012

By |2011-03-30T10:41:47-04:00March 30th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 30, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

If you listen to President Obama and his Democrat and liberal/left cronies carefully, a clear, consistent message comes through on what they think promotes economic growth and jobs. They believe that the way to promote economic growth and prosperity is through increased federal spending, deficits, and debt.

That is not a caricature of their position. This is precisely what they are saying. And they are true to their words.

Still Another Failure of Keynesian Economics

The Budget Battle: How President Obama Is Trapped

By |2011-01-12T16:30:02-05:00January 12th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared January 12, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

The mistake that most commentators are making on the budget is the idea that a bill has to be passed to cut spending. For much of the 2012 budget, which Congress is now debating, that is not true. In many cases, the absence of legislation can cut spending. With Republicans thoroughly in control of one house of Congress, that legislative reality leaves them with great power to cut spending.

Moreover, today’s new political realities, as evidenced by the historic 2010 election, sharply constrain the budget positions President Obama […]

The Constitution Did Not Condone Slavery

By |2011-01-10T13:28:52-05:00January 10th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and Family Research Council Senior Fellow Bob Morrison was published January 9, 2011, on The American Thinker website.

“There’s nothing new under the sun,” said President Harry Truman, “there’s only history we haven’t learned yet.” The history we haven’t learned yet was on display on page one of the Washington Post. Post writers Philip Rucker and David Farenthold reported on the reading of the Constitution by newly sworn in Members of the 112th Congress.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) led the novel exercise and defended the decision not to read those portions […]

Conservative Legal Team from Obamacare Case Now Fighting the EPA

By |2011-01-07T15:45:16-05:00January 7th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 7, 2011 on Townhall.com

On Dec. 30, a federal appeals court froze new EPA regulations on greenhouse gases. The team representing the State of Texas in this appeal is also the team managing the largest Obamacare lawsuit in America, led by a lawyer from the Reagan administration. This appeal is the latest reminder that America needs good judges to uphold the rule of law and stop President Obama’s ongoing power grab.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its first round of anti-business, job-killing carbon regulations last year. Those rules […]

Playing God With Catholic Hospitals

By |2011-01-06T14:11:05-05:00January 6th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 5, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

Take a case that, on the surface, looks really bad. Assign an evil motive. Ignore nuanced facts. Stir in media outcry. Demand that the government step in.

That’s the left’s recipe for putting Catholic hospitals in intensive care – the care of the pro-abortion Obama administration, that is.

On Dec. 22, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, asking the agency to investigate Catholic hospitals’ refusal to do abortions when women’s lives are […]

Saturday Night Alive?

By |2011-01-06T13:44:08-05:00January 6th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell appeared January 6, 2011, on The American Spectator website.

We all breathed a sigh of relief when the ball fell in New York’s Times Square and the holiday season this year ended without another terror attack, or attempted attack, on our homeland. You’ll recall that on Christmas Day, 2009, the notorious “underwear” bomber tried to blow up his jet over Detroit. Young Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian citizen, wanted to take down his Northwest Airlines Flight 253 right over Detroit’s airport. Had he succeeded in detonating his BVDs, his victims would not only have been the 288 passengers […]

Obamacare's Dirty Tricks

By |2011-01-05T15:17:29-05:00January 5th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared January 5, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

Most commentators have focused on the revelation just before Christmas that Obamacare’s end of life death panel consultations rejected by Congress were resurrected by the Obama Administration by regulatory requirement. There is no truth to the rumor that President Obama has agreed, after his term of office ends, to head up a new organization called Democrats Against Democracy.

But while this regulatory authoritarianism is, indeed, yet another dirty trick of Obamacare, it is small potatoes compared to the real dirty tricks of Obamacare. A dirty trick is defined […]

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