COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Clergy Declares Holy War on NRA
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published January 21, 2013 on Townhall.com.The battle to demonize the National Rifle Association became a religious crusade when the Rev. Jim Wallis, CEO of Sojourners and "progressive" spiritual advisor to President Obama, convened some clergy for a witch trial.As a [...]
SCOTUS Takes Major Constitutional Case on Treaty Powers
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 18, 2013 on Breitbart.com.On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in Bond v. United States, a case raising serious issues of federal power under the U.S. Constitution.This case is about a woman who discovered her [...]
Overcoming Obama's Obduracy
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 16, 2013 on The American Spectator website.President Obama said at his increasingly notorious press conference on Monday, "America cannot afford another debate with this Congress about whether or [...]
Obama's Gun Control Campaign Doomed to Fail
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 17, 2013 on Breitbart.com.President Barack Obama on Wednesday revealed his national gun control proposal, one loaded with divisive rhetoric and exploiting children onstage to push his agenda, which ignores the most effective ways to stop gun violence.Obama [...]
Dishonest Educators
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 9, 2013 on Townhall.com.Nearly two years ago, U.S. News & World Report came out with a story titled "Educators Implicated in Atlanta Cheating Scandal." It reported that "for 10 years, hundreds of [...]
To Win the Debt-Ceiling Debate, We Must Discredit Obama's Debt Dishonesty
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 11, 2013 on Forbes.com.President Obama tells the nation that Congress must increase the debt limit because they "should pay the bills that they have already racked up." Let [...]
NRA Gears Up for Gun Control Fight with White House
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 10, 2012 on Breitbart.com.The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is mobilizing for a massive four-front conflict with President Barack Obama over the Constitution and gun rights after a made-for-TV meeting today at the White House between [...]
President Obama's Re-Election Is Powerful Evidence of Democracy Failure
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 3, 2013 on Forbes.com."Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and [...]
Why the 2nd Amendment
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 2, 2013 on Townhall.com.Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings, said: "The British are not coming. ... We don't need all these guns to kill people." Lewis' [...]
Tax Cuts and Duplicity
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 2, 2013 on The American Spectator website.Neither President Obama nor any other Democrat ever proposed any middle class tax cut in the fiscal cliff negotiations. All that was [...]
New York Times: Throw Off Bondage of "Evil" Constitution
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 1, 2012 on Breitbart.com.The biggest liberal newspaper in the country has printed a column from a top progressive scholar calling on the American people to ignore the Constitution with its "evil provisions," revealing the far-left agenda for [...]
Federal Appeals Court Sides with Religious Liberty on HHS Mandate
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 1, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Just last week Breitbart News reported on the threat to religious liberty from the HHS Mandate: starting today, Hobby Lobby is subject to penalties of $1.3 million per day for its owners refusing to [...]
Hobby Lobby Defies Obama Administration with Civil Disobedience for Religious Liberty
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on December 28, 2012 on Breitbart.com."We must obey God rather than men!"--Acts 5:29.Now that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied Hobby Lobby's application for an emergency injunction protecting them from Obamacare's HHS Mandate on abortion and birth control, [...]
"Assault Weapon" Is Just a PR Stunt Meant to Fool the Gullible
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 28, 2012 on Forbes.com.Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) has announced that she will be introducing legislation to reenact the ban on so-called assault weapons that she authored in 1994. [...]
Justice Sotomayor Denies Hobby Lobby Request on HHS Mandate
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on December 27, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied Hobby Lobby's emergency application to be exempted from the HHS Mandate on abortion services, but that should not be considered a sign that the HHS Mandate will [...]
Is President Obama Really A Socialist? Let's Analyze Obamanomics
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 20, 2012 on Forbes.com.President Obama says that income taxes must be raised on the rich because they don't pay their fair share. The indisputable facts from official government [...]
Charity on the Chopping Block
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 22, 2012 on The Washington Times website.With the "fiscal cliff" looming, Washington is looking under every rock for new forms of "revenue."Nothing appears sacred, not even mortgage and charitable deductions, which some are recasting as "loopholes." Ending the mortgage [...]
A Hundred Percent of Nothing
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published December 19, 2012 on Townhall.com.JoAnn Watson, Detroit city council member, said, "Our people in an overwhelming way supported the re-election of this president, and there ought to be a quid pro quo." In [...]
Fewer Guns, More Crime
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 19, 2012 on The American Spectator website.To President Obama, the word "politics" means anyone who disagrees with him, as in the phrase "It is time to put politics [...]
Conservatives Denounce Voting for Boehner's Plan B
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on December 19, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Prominent conservative leaders, including former attorney general Edwin Meese III, Ken Blackwell of the Conservative Action Project, Brent Bozell of ForAmerica, Colin Hanna of Let Freedom Ring, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, [...]