COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
Former Mayor Blackwell: Four Year Fight for Second Amendment
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 29, 2013 on Breitbart.com.President Barack Obama met with big-city police chiefs today calling for gun control. In response, former Cincinnati Mayor Ken Blackwell explained to Breitbart News why violating the Second Amendment doesn't make anyone safer, and [...]
Experts Aren't Deities
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 23, 2013 on Townhall.com.Let's look at experts. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was a mathematician and scientist. Newton has to be the greatest and most influential scientist who has ever lived. He laid [...]
Forget Market Failure, Our Crumbling Democracy Speaks To Political Failure
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 24, 2013 on Forbes.com.Government does not even have the power to take guns away from criminals. It can only take guns away from the victims of criminals. This [...]
Major Court Defeat for Obama: "Recess" Appointments Unconstitutional
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 25, 2013 on Breitbart.com.President Barack Obama just suffered a humiliating defeat in federal court. A top federal appeals court has removed three presidential appointees from power, and invalidated all actions they've taken over the past twelve months.One [...]
40 Years of Roe v. Wade: What Happened? And What Comes Next?
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 22, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Today marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution provides a right to have an abortion in one of its most controversial decisions in history. [...]
Obama Opens a New Term with a Loud 'Bang'
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 21, 2013 on The Washington Times website.Leave it to Barack Obama to come into his inaugural weekend with a bang, and not just on guns. He's made it clear that he intends more spending, more regulation, more radical appointees [...]
Bobby Jindal Seeks Rich State Status With Income Tax Phaseout
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 17, 2013 on Forbes.com.Nine states survive perfectly well with no state income tax at all. These include large states such as Texas and Florida, medium size states such [...]