Issue: Economic Liberty
None of our constitutional freedoms would be possible without economic liberty and the protection of private property through the rule of law. The Constitution was intentionally designed to limit the power of the federal government, but we now have a government incapable of restraint.
Excessive taxation and regulation limit our choices and erode our most fundamental liberties. Liberal judges are inflicting the micro-management that our Founders fought to prevent, and the nation’s debt is threatening America’s very ability to function as a self-governing, free republic. These things must change.
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News & Commentary
02/ 1/12: Obama's Calculated Deception
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 1, 2012 on The American Spectator website. Calculated deception as a central public manipulation strategy practiced by President...
01/23/12: Many to Benefit from President's Ruling, but Not Us
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 23, 2012 in The Washington Times. Checking his sundial and solar-powered calendar, Barack Obama has decided that he did not have enough time to study the impact of the...
01/18/12: The Che Guevara Democrat Party
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 18, 2011 on The American Spectator website. Those who contribute to, vote for, or otherwise support today's Democrat...
01/18/12: Presidential Nonsense
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 18, 2012 on Townhall.com. Last week, President Barack Obama, at a Capital Hilton fundraising event, told the crowd, "We can't go back...
01/13/12: The Worst Economic Recovery Since The Great Depression
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 12, 2012 on Forbes.com. The record of President Obama's first three years in office is in, and nothing...
01/12/12: In Greed I Trust
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 11, 2012 on Townhall.com. Last week's column started off asking: "What human motivation gets the most wonderful things done?" The answer is...
01/ 5/12: Bloomberg Hides Government Causes of Financial Crisis
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 4, 2012 on The American Spectator website. On December 21, Bloomberg News breathlessly reported, "The leading Republican candidates...
01/ 4/12: I Love Greed
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 4, 2012 on Townhall.com. What human motivation gets the most wonderful things done? It's really a silly question, because the answer is...
12/14/11: Our Marxist Wizard of Oz
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 14, 2011 on The American Spectator website. His mother was an unabashed hippie from 1960s central casting. His...
12/12/11: Obama Channels Hugo Chavez, Shows Why He Can't Lead on the Economy
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 8, 2011 on Forbes.com. On Tuesday, President Obama went to Osawatomie High School in Kansas to deliver an...
11/18/11: There Are No Longer Any Excuses for Obamanomics
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 17, 2011 on Forbes.com. The history of America's recessions is provided at the website of the National Bureau...
11/10/11: Media Parrot Obama Financial Crisis Campaign Propaganda
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 10, 2011 on Forbes.com. At the October 11 GOP Presidential primary debate on Bloomberg TV, Karen Tumulty of...
11/ 9/11: The Texas Tea Party Debate
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 9, 2011 on The American Spectator website. In 1858, U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas was facing a tough...
11/ 9/11: Ignorance Exploited
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 9, 2011 on Townhall.com. Many Wall Street occupiers are echoing the Communist Party USA's call to "Save the nation! Tax corporations! Tax...
11/ 8/11: How to Achieve Higher Wages for Working People
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 3, 2011 on Forbes.com. In Chapter 1 of my recent book, America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, I write, "I...
10/31/11: Perry's Game-Changing Plan for Jobs and Growth
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published October 28, 2011 on Townhall.com. Governor Rick Perry unveiled his plan for fundamental tax reform with an optional flat tax. This bold proposal...
10/30/11: The GOP Jobs Plan Vs. Obama's
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 28, 2011 on Forbes.com. Senate Republicans have taken the lead in proposing a Jobs Plan alternative to President...
10/26/11: Profits Are for People
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 26, 2011 on Townhall.com. The Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are demanding "people before profits" — as if profit motivation were the source...
10/26/11: A Balanced Budget Amendment Should Make Tax & Debt Increases Difficult
As a member of the Conservative Action Project, CEO Susan Carleson and leaders of 28 other organizations, representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement, are united in supporting a Balanced Budget Amendment that actually reins in national spending...
10/19/11: Nothing but a Political Ploy
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 19, 2011 on The American Spectator website. President Obama's so-called Jobs Plan has nothing to do with jobs...
10/19/11: Pitting Us Against Each Other
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 19, 2011 on Townhall.com. President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have led increasingly successful efforts to pit Americans against one another...
10/14/11: The New Republican Vision for Modern Social Safety Nets
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 13, 2011 on Forbes.com. A new consensus is emerging among Republicans for fundamental entitlement reform providing for modern,...
10/14/11: Cain's '9-9-9' Tax Reform Plan Is Unconstitutional
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published October 13, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website. Herman Cain's signature 9-9-9 proposal has two problems. First, it's unconstitutional, and second, it's not conservative because it transforms Washington from...
10/12/11: McCotter Trailblazes Social Security Prosperity
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 12, 2011 on The American Spectator website. On September 12, the pioneering Rep. Thaddeus McCotter introduced trailblazing legislation...
10/ 5/11: Social Security Disaster
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 5, 2011 on Townhall.com. Politicians who are principled enough to point out the fraud of Social Security, referring to it as a...
09/29/11: Economic Growth, Not Income Redistribution, Is What Helps Us All
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 29, 2011 on Forbes.com. President Obama is proving a fundamental economic principle proven as well by President Reagan,...
09/29/11: The Financial Mess in the US and Europe
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published September 28, 2011 on Townhall.com. What's the common thread between Europe's financial mess, particularly among the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain),...
09/27/11: Washington's Weasel Words
This column by Susan A. Carleson, CEO of the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) and Chairman of the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP), was published September 26, 2011 on Townhall.com. Confusion is the politician's favorite device; clarity, the statesman's...
09/22/11: Correcting President Obama's Myriad Tax Fallacies
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 22, 2011 on Forbes.com. An emerging, disabling problem with our democracy is that increasingly we cannot even engage...
09/21/11: His Biggest Big Lies
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 21, 2011 on The American Spectator website. If you work hard, play by the rules, save your money,...
09/15/11: Instead of Obama's Jobs Plan, Pass Something that Will Work
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 15, 2011 on Forbes.com. President Barack Obama's first, nearly $1 trillion "stimulus" bill enacted in February, 2009, was...
09/14/11: Braindead on Arrival
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 14, 2011 on The American Spectator website. If President Obama's jobs plan is such a good idea, then...
09/ 9/11: The Equality of Reaganomics, and Fallacious Leftist Dissent
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published September 9, 2011 on Forbes.com. For the last two weeks, we have discussed the broad prosperity throughout society produced...
09/ 1/11: More on the Certain Equality of Reaganomics
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 31, 2011 on Forbes.com. Last week we discussed the broad prosperity throughout society produced by Reaganomics and the...
08/29/11: The Equality Of Reaganomics
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 25, 2011 on Forbes.com. For over 20 years now, major media institutions have been reporting growing inequality in...
08/24/11: The Downward Spiral
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 24, 2011 on The American Spectator website. Accelerating downward spiral. That is what I have been predicting for...
08/19/11: Warren Buffett's Public Disservice On Taxation
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 18, 2011 on Forbes.com. Warren Buffet is performing a gross public disservice in creating urban myths about the...
08/17/11: Ominous Parallels
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 17, 2011 on Townhall.com. People are beginning to compare Barack Obama's administration to the failed administration of Jimmy Carter, but a better...
08/16/11: "Super Committee" Should Cut Spending, Not Raise Taxes
As a member of the Conservative Action Project, ACRU CEO Susan Carleson and leaders of 37 other organizations representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement have a united message on the "Super Committee."MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT: "Super Committee"...
08/12/11: Wasteful Politicians, And The Fed's Coming Recession
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 11, 2011 on Forbes.com. The Tea Party-dominated Republican House majority already acted in the spring to solve America's...
08/10/11: Obama Downgraded, Tea Party Vindicated
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 10, 2011 on The American Spectator website. President Obama achieved the historic downgrading of America's credit rating the...
08/ 5/11: A Budget Cutting Deal That Boosts Federal Spending
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 4, 2011 on Forbes.com. How is it possible that we can "cut" federal spending by $2 trillion over...
08/ 3/11: Cruel Laws
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 3, 2011 on Townhall.com. What does it take to be able to own and operate a taxi and earn $30,000, $40,000 or...
08/ 3/11: The Disgrace of Obamanomics
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for The Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 3, 2011 on The American Spectator website. Last Friday's report on economic growth for the second quarter of...
07/31/11: 'Clean' Balanced Budget Amendment Could Be Trap for Conservatives
This article by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski and ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published July 31, 2011 on BigGovernment.com. Liberals are trying to kill the prospect of a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) in the ongoing battle over...
07/28/11: President Obama Is No Longer Tethered To Reality
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 28, 2011 on Forbes.com. President Barack Obama's speech to the nation Monday night was highly disturbing. Because read...
07/27/11: Job Destruction Makes Us Richer
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published July 27, 2011 on Townhall.com. Here's what President Barack Obama said about our high rate of unemployment in an interview with NBC's Ann...
07/27/11: Don't Blame the House
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for The Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 27, 2011 on The American Spectator website. The indisputable facts show that Congressional Republicans have done their job....
07/18/11: It's About Jobs, Stupid!
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published July 18, 2011 on The Huffington Post and The Patriot Post. America has a growth deficit. As the latest job report shows unemployment reached 9.2% -- the highest rate of...
07/15/11: How to Serve the Needy at a Fraction of the Cost
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 14, 2011 on the Investors Business Daily website. Our nation's entitlement programs, from Social Security to Medicare to...
07/13/11: How To Solve Our Growth And Jobs Deficit
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published July 13, 2011 on The Huffington Post. As President Barack Obama lectured us with foolish notions -- such as attempting to reduce America's $14.4 trillion deficit by focusing carefully poll-tested,...
07/13/11: Reaganomics Is the Only Answer
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 13, 2011 on The American Spectator website. The extended stagnation of the American economy is starting to look...
07/ 7/11: Fallacies Of Economic Equality That Promote Poverty
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 7, 2011 on Forbes.com. "The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before...
07/ 6/11: Obamacare Tragedy Primed To Further Explode the Deficit
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 6, 2011 on The American Spectator website. President Obama bludgeoned Obamacare through Congress on the claim, backed by...
07/ 1/11: The CBO's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 30, 2011 on Forbes.com. Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued their Long Term Budget Outlook for...
06/29/11: Block Grant Welfare to the States
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 29, 2011 on The American Spectator website. The first step in defusing America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, the title...
06/29/11: Why the GOP Is Right on Taxes
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 29, 2011 on FoxNews.com. Congressional Republicans are standing firm on their principle that for every dollar of increase...
06/28/11: Supreme Court's Pliva Decision Is Another Blow Against Trial Lawyers
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 26, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website. Trial lawyers cannot sue drug manufacturers for defective warning labels on generics if labels were approved by the U.S. Food and...
06/24/11: Obama's Debt Limit Scare Tactics
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 22, 2011 on FoxNews.com. America's gross federal debt is already bumping up against the national debt limit of...
06/22/11: Reaganomics' Resurgence
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 22, 2011 on The American Spectator website. In my new book, America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, I argue that...
06/22/11: America's Coming Bankruptcy
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 21, 2011 on Townhall.com. The failures of federal, state and local officials of both major parties, over many...
06/15/11: Our Moral Dilemma
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 15, 2011 on Townhall.com. Most of our nation's problems are a direct result of our being immune, hostile or indifferent to several...
06/15/11: America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 15, 2011 on The American Spectator website. My new book, America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, published by HarperCollins, went...
06/15/11: Book Review: Confronting National Debt Now
This column by Wes Vernon was published June 10, 2011 on The Washington Times website, and reviews ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara's new book. AMERICA'S TICKING BANKRUPTCY BOMB: HOW...
06/14/11: America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 14, 2011 on FoxNews.com. The failures of federal, state and local officials of both major parties, over many...
06/11/11: Addressing The Various Debt-Limit Delusions
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 9, 2011 on Forbes.com. Suppose you were suffering long term unemployment, and you had maxed out all of...
06/ 8/11: The Coming Crash of 2013
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 8, 2011 on The American Spectator website. On Inauguration Day, 2009, President Obama seemed so politically blessed by...
06/ 1/11: The Democrats' Big Government Breakout
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 1, 2011 on The American Spectator website. Historic battle lines are being drawn in the budget battle in...
06/ 1/11: Do We Deserve Our Fate?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 1, 2011 on Townhall.com. The latest Social Security Trustees Report tells us that the program will be insolvent by the year 2037....
05/25/11: Common Sense Versus Nonsense
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 25, 2011 on Townhall.com. William J. McGee, the consumer advocate on the Department of Transportation's Future of Aviation Advisory Committee wrote "Forcing...
05/20/11: How The Government Created A Financial Crisis
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 19, 2011 on Forbes.com. Facing double digit inflation, double digit interest rates and soon to be double digit...
05/11/11: The Incredible Shrinking Recovery
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...
05/ 6/11: Reaganomics Vs. Obamanomics: Facts And Figures
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...
05/ 4/11: Obama's War on Oil
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...
05/ 2/11: Obama's Oily View of America
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 29, 2011 on The Washington Times website. When Barack Obama is in flyover country, if you close your eyes, you can almost hear a moderate Republican on the stump....
04/27/11: What Professor Obama Doesn't Understand
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...
04/23/11: America's Ever Expanding Welfare Empire
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 22, 2011 on Forbes website. A fundamental misconception about America's welfare state misleads millions of voters to reflexively...
04/21/11: EPA Mandates are Killing Jobs in Coal-Powered Ohio
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published April 19, 2011 on The Cincinnati Enquirer website. During a recent speech at Cleveland State focused on small business in Ohio, President Barack Obama described a goal of "knocking down...
04/21/11: Justices against Court-Imposed Cap-and-Trade
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 19, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website. It appeared yesterday during oral arguments in a case raising important constitutional and political issues that members of the U.S. Supreme...
04/20/11: Economics and Property Rights at Center of Supreme Court's Microsoft Case
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 18, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website. Property rights and economics are at the heart of a Microsoft case that pitted a top Bush lawyer against top Clinton...
04/20/11: Obama's Taxes and America's Jobs
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 20, 2011 on The American Spectator website. Between President Obama's political campaign speech on the budget last week,...
04/15/11: Obama's Budget Speech Frames The Debate For 2012
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 14, 2011 on Forbes.com. President Obama's budget speech Wednesday fatefully framed the debate for 2012. House Budget Committee...
04/13/11: The Welfare Reform Model for Medicaid
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara and Vice President for Policy at Americans for Prosperity Phil Kerpen was published April 13, 2011 in The Wall Street Journal....
04/ 6/11: Paul Ryan's Adult Conversation
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...
04/ 5/11: President Obama & Senate Democrats Have No Excuse for "Shutting Down" the Federal Government
As a member of the Conservative Action Project, ACRU CEO Susan Carleson and leaders of 23 other organizations representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement are united in the belief that if there is a government shutdown, it...
03/29/11: Court Weighs Constitutionality of Law Funding Political Opposition
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 28, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website. Should taxpayer money go to fund political campaigns when another candidate raises money? It does in Arizona. Now the Supreme Court...
03/26/11: Social Security Personal Accounts and the Financial Crisis
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 25, 2011 on Forbes.com. In a weekly radio address on Aug. 14 of last year, President Obama taunted...
03/25/11: Hamilton vs. Jefferson, on Welfare Reform
This column by Susan A. Carleson, CEO of the ACRU and the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP), was published March 25, 2011 on the American Thinker website. With federal and state budgets exploding, welfare reform is once again on...
03/24/11: Economic Lunacy
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 23, 2011 on Townhall.com. Economic lunacy abounds, and often the most learned, including Nobel Laureates, are its primary victims. The most recent...
03/24/11: Budget Nuclear Option: Shut Down Obama Until the Election
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the CCPP Peter Ferrara was published March 21, 2011 on PajamasMedia.com. The House Republican leadership needs to get over their paralyzing fear of a government shutdown, which is based on...
03/23/11: America's Accelerating Downward Spiral
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the CCPP Peter Ferrara was published March 23, 2011 on The American Spectator website. For two years now, I have been arguing in this column and elsewhere that President Obama's...
03/19/11: A Winning Plan For Social Security Reform
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published March 17, 2011 on Forbes.com. Next year the baby boomers begin to retire on Medicare in earnest, and the year after that on Social Security. For decades now, the federal...
03/16/11: Make the Bush Tax Cuts Permanent
This column by Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and ACRU General Counsel and Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy Peter Ferrara was published March 16, 2011 in The Wall Street Journal. By the end...
03/16/11: Continuing Stubborn Ignorance
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 16, 2011 on Townhall.com. Within the past decade, I've written three columns titled "Deception 101," "Stubborn Ignorance," and "Exploiting Public Ignorance," all...
03/16/11: Slouching Towards Argentina
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy Peter Ferrara was published March 16, 2011 on The American Spectator website. Argentina enjoyed the world's fourth highest per capita GDP in 1929,...
03/12/11: Unions Show No Class in Wisconsin 'War'
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 11, 2011 on The Washington Times website. "I'm not going to lie to you, this is going to get ugly." So predicts "Goldfish," a Daily Kos blogger who boasts...
03/11/11: The Anachronism Of State Income Taxes
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy Peter Ferrara was published March 9, 2011 on Forbes.com. Nine states survive perfectly well with no state income tax at all. These include...
03/10/11: Obama Energy Non-Policy Hurting America
As a member of the Conservative Action Project, ACRU CEO Susan Carleson and leaders of 31 other organizations representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement are united in opposing the Obama administration's actions on energy policy that are...
03/ 9/11: Handouts, Morality and Common Sense
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 9, 2011 on Townhall.com. Whether Americans realize it or not, the last decade's path of congressional spending is unsustainable. Spending must be...
03/ 9/11: Terrorists With Union Cards?
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published March 8, 2011 on The Patriot Post website. The response of our State Department spokesman, P.J. Crowley, to the murder of two U.S. Airmen and the wounding of two others...
03/ 9/11: Bush Tax Cuts Still Working — For Now
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published March 9, 2011 on The American Spectator website. During President Obama's 2008 campaign, he termed the Bush tax cuts "the failed policies of the past." But last December, with the...
03/ 5/11: Public Employee Unions
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 3, 2011 on Townhall.com. With all of the union strife in Wisconsin, Indiana and New Jersey, and indications of more to come,...
03/ 3/11: Gutting Medicare By Refusing To Pay The Bills
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published March 3, 2011 on Forbes.com. The full extent of the future cuts to Medicare under ObamaCare is revealed in the little noticed 2010 Financial Report of the U.S. Government, released...
03/ 2/11: They're All Detroit Democrats Now
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy Peter Ferrara was published March 2, 2011 on The American Spectator website. House Republicans have fulfilled their campaign pledge to cut $100 billion...
02/26/11: It's Time To Block Grant Welfare To The States
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy Peter Ferrara was published February 23, 2011 on Forbes.com. If any liberal reform had been as wildly successful as the 1996 welfare reforms...
02/16/11: Good Morning, Suckers
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published February 16, 2011 on The American Spectator website. President Obama's budget released on Monday proposes to spend $3.73 trillion for 2012. He can't say Bush made him do that. That...
02/ 6/11: Reagan's Communism Rollback a Model for Tea Party
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 4, 2011 on The Washington Times website. Years ago, when I was a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, I got to sit down with Martin...
02/ 4/11: What Reagan Would Do
This column by ACRU Chairman/CEO Susan A. Carleson and ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 4, 2011 on Townhall.com. We knew things weren't good, but nearly one seventh of all Americans on food stamps? Forty-three million people? That's...
01/31/11: Socialism's State of the Union
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 28, 2011 on The Washington Times website. Socialism - the abolishment of private property - sometimes advances at the point of a gun. At other times, it advances by...
01/26/11: Can Our Nation Be Saved?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams was published January 26, 2011 on Townhall.com. National debt is over $14 trillion, the federal budget deficit is $1.4 trillion and, depending on whose estimates are...
01/26/11: Why Today Is 1979, Not 1995
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared January 26, 2011 on The American Spectator website. In 1979, of course, Jimmy Carter was the incumbent President, and no sophisticated, intelligent person in Washington thought Ronald Reagan had a serious...
12/29/10: Tie Debt Ceiling Vote To Balanced Budget Amendment
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...
12/23/10: America's Financial Future: Our Choice... But Not For Long
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...
12/20/10: Obama, McCartney, and the Taxman!
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...
12/15/10: The New Big Picture
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...
12/ 9/10: Ragin' 'n' Stagin' at the White House
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 9, 2010, on Townhall.com. Liberals (or Progressives, if you prefer) have been raging at President Obama. For months they have complained that he did not show enough passion. Comic atheist...
12/ 8/10: The Madness of Obamanomics
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 8, 2010 on The American Spectator website. For two years I have been arguing here and elsewhere that Obamanomics will not work. But for Obama and the Democrats to persist...
12/ 2/10: Obama to Voters: Drop Dead
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 1, 2010 on The American Spectator website. The good news is that the Democrats and the Washington Establishment have heard the message from the American people on Election Day, 2010....
12/ 1/10: Minimum Wage, Maximum Folly
ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing December 1, 2010 on Townhall.com. How about this: The law of gravity is applicable to the behavior of falling objects on the U.S. mainland but...
11/15/10: Getting Our Fiscal House in Order
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing November 14, 2010, on The Huffington Post website. On November 2, the American people sent a resounding message to Washington D.C. that the era of reckless spending must stop. We all...
11/10/10: Stop the Obama Tax Hikes
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing November 10, 2010 on The American Spectator website. Let us survey the wreckage of Obamanomics, which followed in detail the opposite of every policy of Reaganomics. Unemployment has been near 10%...
10/18/10: Make Them Agree to Kill the Death Tax
ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing October 15, 2010 on The Washington Times website and in the print edition on October 18, 2010. As election day approaches and many incumbents contemplate the death of their political careers,...
10/15/10: The Political Suicide of President Obama
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing October 15, 2010, on The Patriot Post website. Liberals sit down with the New York Times the way Catholics enter the confessional: To make a clean breast of their sins and...
10/15/10: So Much Worse Than Carter
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing October 13, 2010 on The American Spectator website. The most important fact to take from the September unemployment report released last week is that almost three years after the recession began...
10/ 6/10: Walter E. Williams: Politicians Exploit Economic Ignorance
Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing October 6, 2010 on Townhall.com. One of President Obama's campaign promises was not to raise taxes on middle-class Americans. So here's my question: If there's a corporate tax increase either...
10/ 6/10: Peter Ferrara: President Obama's Tax Piracy
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing October 6, 2010 on The American Spectator website. Starting on January 1, 2011, President Obama's economic recovery policy will begin the implementation of comprehensive, across the board, tax rate increases for...
09/29/10: Peter Ferrara: The December Surprise, Middle Class Tax Hikes
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing September 29, 2010 on The American Spectator website. Remember this? "I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form...
09/29/10: Robert Knight: Ralphie vs. The Socialist Elect
ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this article appearing September 28, 2010 on the Washington Times website. The shrill attacks on Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell tell us a lot about the growing panic among intelligentsia of both parties...
09/22/10: I WANT YOUR MONEY, THE MOVIE
I WANT YOUR MONEY is a provocative political documentary film by award-winning Director Ray Griggs, slated for release in theatres in select markets nationwide on October 15. Griggs has assembled an all-star cast of prominent voices from America's broad-based conservative...
09/22/10: Peter Ferrara: The Disgrace of the Ruling Class
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing September 22, 2010 on The American Spectator. We now have confirmation that Barack Obama truly loves poor people. Because he is creating so many of them. The Census Bureau reports that...
09/ 8/10: Peter Ferrara: Fire Obama
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing September 8, 2010 on The American Spectator. House GOP Leader John Boehner created a stir last month when he called on President Obama to fire his top economic advisors, Treasury Secretary...
08/25/10: Walter E. Williams: Who Cares About Our Future?
Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing August 25, 2010 on Townhall.com. My column titled "What Handouts to Cut?" created a number of angry responses, and for the first time in my life, I had some, not...
08/17/10: Peter Ferrara: How to Balance the Budget
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing August 16, 2010 on The American Spectator. President Obama's budget proposes all-time record federal spending of $3.834 trillion for fiscal 2011, up 29 percent from fiscal 2008 and 40 percent from...
08/12/10: Walter E. Williams: What Handouts To Cut
Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing August 11, 2010 on Townhall.com. Because of failure to heed the limitations of the U.S. Constitution, which has produced runaway federal spending, our nation sits on the precipice of disaster....
08/ 5/10: Peter Ferrara: The Big Bamboozler
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing August 4, 2010 on The American Spectator. On Monday, at yet another campaign fundraiser, the part-time President, full-time campaigner Barack Obama told Democrat fat cats, with both hands in taxpayer pockets,...
08/ 5/10: Peter Ferrara: What If Revenue From The Rich Dries Up?
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing August 2, 2010 on Investors.com.President Obama says his sweeping, across-the-board increases for every major federal tax rate starting next year are necessary for "the rich" to pay their fair share. "The...
08/ 2/10: Peter Ferrara: Beware the Balanced Budget Deal
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing July 29, 2010, on Wall Street Journal Online. Washington's traditional approach to balancing the budget is to negotiate an agreement on a package of benefit cuts and tax increases. President Obama's...
07/29/10: Peter Ferrara: The Timeless Principles of American Prosperity
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing July 28, 2010 on Spectator.org. We know, based on economic experience, theory, and logic, how to create another economic boom that will last 25 years, or a generation into the future....
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