COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
50 Years After MLK's Landmark Civil Rights Speech, Obama's Words Don't Match His Deeds
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 3, 2013 on Forbes.com.The Bible wisely says, "By their fruits, you shall know them." In President Obama's August 28 Address on the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's breakthrough 1963 Civil Rights speech, we heard lofty words about good [...]
ACRU: Supreme Court Should Clear Way to Clean Up N.J. Slum
Township Broke No Federal Law in Redeveloping Blighted Housing Project, Group ArguesWASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 4, 2013) — In a Supreme Court brief submitted Tuesday, Sept. 3, the American Civil Rights Union argues that local officials did not violate the Fair Housing Act when they demolished residences in a blighted, mixed-race [...]
'Stand Your Ground' when Liberals Attack
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 2, 2013 on The Washington Times website.Americans have a right to their beliefs without left-wing reproach.Warning: Taking corporate donations may be hazardous to your constitutional freedom of speech.A case in point is the American Legislative Exchange Council, a Washington-based [...]
A Minority View
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 28, 2013 on Townhall.com.This week begins my 34th year serving on George Mason University's distinguished economics faculty. You might imagine my surprise when I received a letter from its Office of Equity [...]
The Federal Government's Reaction to Bitcoin Is An Acknowledgement of the Dollar's Vulnerability
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 25, 2013 on Forbes.com.The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee has private alternative currencies in its crosshairs. The Chairman, Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) and Ranking Member, Senator [...]
Democrats and Lawlessness
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 21, 2013 on The American Spectator website.In the third of the six films of the Star Wars saga, the Sith Lord who has infiltrated to become the ruling [...]
Progressives and Blacks
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 21, 2013 on Townhall.com.Sometimes I wonder when black people will reject the patronizing insults of white progressives and their black handmaidens. After CNN's Piers Morgan's interview with the key witness in the [...]
The Coming Liberation: Health Care for All without Obamacare
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 18, 2013 on Forbes.com.Obamacare was pushed through on the promise of universal health coverage for everyone. But the CBO now scores Obamacare as leaving 30 million uninsured even [...]
Thank You, Speaker Boehner
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 14, 2013 on The American Spectator website.A highly illuminating article in Monday's Wall Street Journal by Stephen Moore explained the newly transformed federal budget realities, and the reasons [...]
Energy Manipulation
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 14, 2013 on Townhall.com.Why is it that natural gas sells in the U.S. for $3.94 per 1,000 cubic feet and in Europe and Japan for $11.60 and $17, respectively? Part of the [...]
Will Democrat Voters Support Obama's Suspension of Democracy and Calculated Deception?
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 11, 2013 on Forbes.com.On July 18, President Obama held an event at the White House to promote Obamacare. It was Calculated Deception writ large, which is Obama's rhetorical [...]
Federal Judge Rules Bloomberg's NYC 'Stop-and-Frisk' Unconstitutional
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 12, 2013 on Breitbart.com.U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin today invalidated Mayor Mike Bloomberg's "stop-and-frisk" policy as a violation of the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment.As Scheindlin begins the 192-page opinion:The goals of liberty and safety may be in tension, [...]
Holder Does End-Run Around Congress on Federal Drug Laws
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 12, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Attorney General Eric Holder has just announced an end-run around Congress and given the far left one of its priority action-items, announcing he will not prosecute drug crimes unconnected to gangs or violence. Ironically, he [...]
ACRU Urges Court to Clarify the Right to Carry
Maryland law reduces Second Amendment's guarantee of right to bear arms largely to home and hearth, group contends in court brief.WASHINGTON, D.C. - Maryland is unconstitutionally restricting citizens' right of self defense outside the home, argues an American Civil Rights Union amicus brief submitted Monday to the U.S. Supreme Court.In [...]
How to Fix the Republican Party
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 7, 2013 on The American Spectator website.Why does the Republican Party keep nominating all these loser candidates, like Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney? Why did Republican [...]
Congress, States, And Even Obama's DOJ Rally To Prayer-Givers' Defense
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 8, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Congress, half of the states across the nation, and many others are rallying to defend public prayer in a major case at the U.S. Supreme Court. Even the Obama administration weighed in with a surprising [...]
ACRU Asks Court to Use 'Coercion Test' in Freedom to Pray Case
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Aug. 6, 2013) -- Is allowing prayer at public meetings an example of the free exercise of religion as guaranteed by the First Amendment or an illegal governmental establishment of religion?To assist courts in threading this needle, the ACRU is promoting a unique, new doctrine called the Coercion [...]
NRA Takes Case Against Obama's ATF to Supreme Court
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 5, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The National Rifle Association (NRA) sued the Obama administration's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) over a federal law denying law-abiding young adults their Second Amendment right to own a handgun. After fighting [...]
How Does President Obama's Economic Recovery Compare to Those of Other Presidents?
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 4, 2013 on Forbes.com.President Obama is on a national economic policy speaking tour, with a series of speeches across the country on finally getting the economy growing again, [...]
Culture Clash in the High Country
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published August 5, 2013 on The Washington Times website.OURAY, Colo. -- Just because the mountain air is thin at 7,800 feet and the New Age is evident in various ways doesn't mean that Coloradans have totally lost their sense of reality.In [...]