COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Sequester Hysterics
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 20, 2013 on The American Spectator website.President Obama told America yesterday morning that if the sequester goes through on March 1,It will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and [...]
The Next Citizens United? SCOTUS Takes First Amendment Challenge to Campaign Finance Law
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 19, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The Supreme Court will hear arguments in what could be the next Citizens United, considering whether a central part of the nation's foundational federal campaign-finance law violates the First Amendment.In 1971, Congress passed the Federal [...]
Lars Larson: MO Gun Control Proposal Raises Constitutional Problems
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 16, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Missouri Democrats are trying to join New York, California, and Illinois as states that oppose gun rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. National talk-radio host Lars Larson--who is not a lawyer--understands the relevant provisions of [...]
Why Celebrate Washington's Birthday?
This column by former federal judge and ACRU policy board member Richard Bender Abell was published in the Mount Vernon Gazette.A great nation — a great democracy — needs heroes to set an example — a paradigm for conduct, a coalescence of our own defining traits.Currently we live in an [...]
Federal Court Dismisses Lawsuit against Ten Commandments Display
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 15, 2013 on Breitbart.com.The Ten Commandments won in federal court this week in Dixie County, FL, which adopted a policy that allows any of its citizens to erect a display atop the county courthouse's steps. A local Christian [...]
President Obama's State of Disunion: Half of America Is in a Trance
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 15, 2013 on Forbes.com.President Reagan famously said "Government is not the answer to the problem. Government IS the problem."But keeping with his unwavering theme as the unrelenting opposite [...]
Obama and the Pirates
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 13, 2013 on The American Spectator website.Everything in this column will be established by logical proof, as in geometry. There will be no name calling, or mere assertion.You [...]
Woman Dies in Late-Term Abortion Performed by Doctor Linked to Sebelius
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 12, 2013 on Breitbart.com.According to reports, on Feb. 7th, 29-year old Jennifer Morbelli died due to complications from a late-term abortion performed by Dr. LeRoy Carhart, an abortion doctor celebrated by the left and embraced by Secretary Kathleen [...]
ACRU Issues Press Release about Brief Filed in Gun Rights Case
WASHINGTON (Feb. 11, 2013) -- In a brief filed today at the U.S. Supreme Court, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) urges the court to hear a case involving New York citizens who say their Second Amendment right to bear arms has been abridged by a state law and a [...]
ACRU Brief Says Right to Firearms Not Limited to Home
WASHINGTON (Feb. 11, 2013) -- In a brief filed today at the U.S. Supreme Court, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) urges the court to hear a case involving New York citizens who say their Second Amendment right to bear arms has been abridged by a state law and a [...]
No Compromise in New Contraception Mandate
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on February 5, 2013 on USA Today.If you missed the Obama administration's "clarified" version of the notorious "contraception mandate" last Friday, you can be forgiven. In fact, even if you delved into the [...]
The Worst Five Years 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 February 7, 2013 on Forbes.com.In February, 2009, I wrote for the Wall Street Journal an article entitled "Reaganomics versus Obamanomics." The article explained that the emerging Obamanomics was pursuing [...]
Lawyer Who Argued for Drone Strikes Angling for SCOTUS Nomination?
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 6, 2013 on Breitbart.com."What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?" -- Mark 8:36The U.S. government is claiming the power to kill American citizens without judicial review. This is a story [...]
Women in Combat
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 6, 2013 on Townhall.com.A senior Defense Department official said the ban on women in combat should be lifted because the military's goal is "to provide a level, gender-neutral playing field." I'd like [...]
The Root Cause of Gun Violence
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 6, 2013 on The American Spectator website.Aside from a few brave truth-tellers, all of the discussion in Washington boils down to one theme--Why More Power and Money Should [...]
ACLU, Unions Sue Michigan Over Right to Work Law
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 3, 2013 on the American Thinker website.Do you recall what happened at the Wisconsin state Capitol building in March 2011, when the state Senate was considering legislation to curb public employee unions?For days, union members trashed the place. They [...]
Fact Check–CNN's Blitzer: Sheriffs Can't Defy Executive Orders
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 1, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Discussing gun control, CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday told a Utah sheriff that if Barack Obama issues an executive order, that order is the law and the sheriff must obey. However, jurisprudence on this topic [...]
Obama Loses Two HHS Mandate Cases in One Week
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 3, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Obamacare's HHS Mandate lost yet again in a federal appeals court last Thursday, and then lost in a second case on Friday. These cases continue on the long road to the Supreme Court, and President [...]
Official Lies
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 30, 2013 on Townhall.com.Let's expose presidential prevarication. Earlier this year, President Barack Obama warned that Social Security checks will be delayed if Congress fails to increase the government's borrowing authority by raising [...]
Enough of This Glumness
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 30, 2013 on The American Spectator website.Conservatives are still glum about the election, and the upper hand President Obama seems to have over Republicans. But the political stage [...]