This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 2, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

Over the past year, it has become obvious that what leftists cannot win at the ballot box, they will accomplish via bureaucratic dictate. After the U.S. Senate in 2009 rejected the massive cap-and-tax scheme on carbon credits, the Obama administration rode to the rescue of global-warming fanatics. On Dec. 7, 2009, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson issued a ruling that the EPA would begin regulating five “anthropogenic” (man-made) greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, the air we exhale. The EPA based […]

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell appeared December 29, 2010, on Townhall.com.

Next spring, Republicans will be faced with a serious decision over whether to vote to raise the debt ceiling.

Failing to do so could signal foreign countries that the U.S. plans to default on our debt — an act that would surely have dire economic repercussions.

On the other hand, Tea Party activists — and other conservatives — might understandably view such a vote as evidence that Republicans still don’t “get it” — and that the politicians didn’t hear them in November.

So what’s the […]

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared December 29, 2010 on The American Spectator website.

The Internet is not a natural resource. It does not grow on trees, or appear on the ground like dew on a spring morning. Nor does it operate by magic. The Internet exists only to the extent it is built, and then maintained and operated.

That requires big bucks, especially for broadband access. Broadband requires hundreds of billions if not trillions in investment to lay cables under streets, or to build and then launch satellites into orbit.

Where does that money come from? It comes from private […]

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 23, 2010, on Townhall.com.

In August of this year, Admiral Michael Mullens, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, advised Congress that “The National debt is the biggest threat to our national security.” In November, voter sentiment against the debt and deficit led to an historic rebuke of Congressional incumbents. In December, the President’s Debt Commission laid out in stark terms the imminent economic impact of continued deficit spending.

Apparently rejecting these clarion calls, the President and Congress acted in the lame-duck session to cut not one dime of federal spending, […]

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 22, 2010 on The American Spectator website.

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revoked its regulatory approval of the drug Avastin to treat late stage, metastatic breast cancer. Each year, the practicing oncologists chosen by 17,500 American women to save them from their life-threatening, heavily progressed cancer prescribe Avastin to treat them.

The FDA explained that it was revoking approval of the drug for that use because it decided that the drug does not provide “a sufficient benefit in slowing disease progression to outweigh the significant risk to patients.” Risk? The drug is […]

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 19, 2010, on The American Thinker website.

It was a great event at the White House last June. Sir Paul McCartney came to be honored by President Obama. And he thrilled the glittering company with his rendering of that classic Beatles hit — “Michelle.”

Sir Paul cooed to our First Lady the lines that say, “I love you, I love you, I love you!” He later joked that he might be the first man ever punched out by a president. (That questionable honor actually goes to the […]

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 17, 2010, on The Patriot Post website.

Americans can tell when we are being lied to. We’re being lied to when Harry Reid tells us that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia is a bit of unfinished business that the Senate must ratify because it’s “urgent.” Urgent? If that had been the case, why didn’t Mr. Reid bring the measure up last summer? Or last fall?

Last summer, too many Americans might have had fresh memories of the “Hamburger Summit” that President Obama held with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. […]

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 15, 2010 on The American Spectator website.

Events have moved so fast in the post-election fallout that the last seven days have seen the political cards completely reshuffled. A new big picture has emerged of the political and economic battleground for the next two years. Facing off in the Main Event are President Barack Obama and incoming House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI). For the first time in his life, President Obama is finding himself intellectually overmatched.

The Bush Tax Cuts: The Final Word and Beyond

For how many years have Barack Obama, […]

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 14, 2010 on Townhall.com.

Federal Court Judge Henry Hudson granted America an early Christmas present on December 13 by declaring the individual mandate in Obamacare unconstitutional.

The individual mandate is the provision that requires all individuals without employer-provided health insurance to purchase health insurance with all of the benefits and provisions as specified by the federal government. Hudson ruled that the federal government does not have the power to impose this under any of the enumerated powers of the Constitution.

In regard to federal authority to regulate interstate commerce under […]