COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Amendments Protecting Soldiers' Religious Rights Approved by Committee
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 7, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Congress is taking action on religious liberty in the military, a story that was originally reported by Breitbart News. New legal language passed a key committee this week and next goes to the full House [...]
Can We Get It Back?
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published June 5, 2013 on The American Spectator website.As Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon reported in their underappreciated work, It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of [...]
Obama's DC Judges: Democrats Started the Fight
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 4, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Last week we reported that President Obama's agenda may depend on how many judges he can appoint to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Today Obama nominated three legal heavyweights to fill [...]
Scalia Dissents on SCOTUS Decision Upholding DNA Samples of Arrestees
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 3, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Constitutional protections do not forbid police from taking DNA samples from those arrested for serious crimes, according to the Supreme Court in its 5-4 decision Monday in Maryland v. King.If someone is arrested on suspicion [...]
Drilled by the Quill
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 3, 2013 on The Washington Times website.As a longtime, ink-stained wretch, I'm actually glad that some of the Obama administration's bombs targeting our essential liberties found their way out of the Tea Party kill zone and were dropped instead [...]
Pentagon Denies Relationship with Anti-Christian Extremist; Instantly Complies with His Demands
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 2, 2013 on Breitbart.com.One month ago the Pentagon assured the public it was not being advised by anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein. Yet two days ago Weinstein called the Pentagon demanding that a Christian painting be removed from a [...]
Holder's Defense: Diminished Capacity?
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published June 2, 2013 on Townhall.com.U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, a former prosecutor and judge, is pleading ignorance of the law as his excuse for criminally accusing a journalist of being a journalist. Holder wants Congress to pass a law [...]
Americans Deserve the IRS
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 29, 2013 on Townhall.com.Individually, Americans do not deserve to be subservient to such a fear-mongering, intimidating and powerful agency as the Internal Revenue Service; but collectively, we do. Let's look at it.Since [...]
Obama's Agenda Depends on Packing the DC Circuit Court
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 29, 2013 on Breitbart.com.President Barack Obama is finalizing an aggressive strategy to pack a court. It's not the Supreme Court; it's the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Whether Obama's agenda succeeds or fails [...]
SCOTUS Denies Review in Planned Parenthood Funding Case
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 28, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take a case where a federal appeals court struck down an Indiana law denying Medicaid funds to abortion provider Planned Parenthood.Medicaid is a federal-state partnership where government pays [...]
Striking a Sour Note on the Boardwalk
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 28, 2013 on The Washington Times website.What do you do if you're a street fiddler who wants to play as loud as you want, and the cops tell you to pipe down?Well, you could make a federal case of [...]
Senate Confirms Rising Star, Could Be Next SCOTUS Nominee
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 26, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed Sri Srinivasan to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by a vote of 97-0, and he should already be [...]
Turning the Tables on the IRS
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 27, 2013 on The Washington Times website.It's pretty clear that the Internal Revenue Service acted illegally in its abuse of Tea Party and other conservative groups and individuals since 2009.Why else would Lois G. Lerner, director of the IRS' [...]
Time to Go for the Kill
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published May 22, 2013 on The American Spectator website.The IRS scandal provides Republicans and conservatives with the opportunity to repeal and replace Obamacare now. The House Republican majority should refuse [...]
We Are the Idiots
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 22, 2013 on Townhall.com.Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in their Forbes article "Rachel Carson's Deadly Fantasies" (9/5/2012), wrote [...]
Congress Investigating Obama Admin's Hostility to Religion in the Military
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 13, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Following 59 Members of Congress sending a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel regarding Pentagon officials meeting with an anti-Christian extremist, another group of 72 House Members has sent a second wide-ranging letter, exploring whether [...]
Hating America
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 15, 2013 on Townhall.com.Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who are accused of setting the bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon, attended the University of Massachusetts. Maybe they hated our nation before [...]
Obamacare Implodes
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published May 15, 2013 on The American Spectator website.Health policy economists are puzzled by a persistent slowdown in the growth of health care spending that seems to have started in [...]
59 Congress Members Demand Hagel Explain Meeting with Anti-Christian Extremist
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 13, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Monday morning, Congressmen Steve Scalise and John Fleming--both Republicans representing districts in Louisiana--sent a letter signed by 59 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon, demanding [...]
ACRU Asks Supreme Court to Strike Campaign Finance Limits
Political speech should have higher protection than "pornography, nude dancing and abortion," brief says.WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 13, 2013) -- In an amicus brief filed May 8, the American Civil Rights Union argues that limits on campaign donations infringe on freedom of speech.Written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, the brief [...]