COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Don't Bring Back Earmarks!
As a member of the Conservative Action Project, ACRU President Susan Carleson and leaders of 26 other organizations representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement are united in opposition to bringing back earmarks!MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT: Don't Bring Back Earmarks!RE: Some members of congress are trying to reopen [...]
Our Nation's Future
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 30, 2012 on Townhall.com.Our nation is rapidly approaching a point from which there's little chance to avoid a financial collapse. The heart of our problem can be seen as a tragedy of [...]
ACRU Asks Supreme Court to Overturn University of Texas Racial Discrimination Policy
May 30 -- The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU), in a brief filed today at the U.S. Supreme Court, asks the Court to overturn a ruling against Abigail Fisher, a white woman denied admission to the University of Texas in 2008 because of her race. Ms. Fisher had superior academic [...]
Obama's Politics of Envy
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 25, 2012 on The Washington Times website.When reality bites, you can either try to change reality or create your own.Barack Obama claims he has presided over trillions of dollars in spending cuts. If he's a fiscal conservative, then I'm [...]
Tea Party Wave Could Carry Texas Senate Seat for Ted Cruz
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 25, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Constantly underestimated by the Republican establishment, the Tea Party continues to prove its power in GOP primaries. First Indiana, then Nebraska. And now new polls show rising conservative star Ted Cruz potentially poised to beat [...]
Prepared Remarks of the Hon. Ken Blackwell
This speech by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was delivered May 24, 2012 to the American Religious Freedom Program Conference.Good afternoon. It is good to be with so many like-minded men and women, people who are committed to defending our most essential freedom - religious liberty.We tend naturally to focus [...]
ACLU Declares New War on Single-Sex Education
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 23, 2012 on The Washington Times website.Boys and girls have the same needs, desires and temperaments, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).Any observable disparities can be traced to soft bigotry, such as thinking that boys typically throw [...]
Hugo Chavez in America: A 2nd Obama Term Means No Independent Judiciary
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 24, 2012 on Forbes.com.President Obama's most blatant first term abuses can be struck down by the check on Presidential power by an independent judiciary. For example, last year [...]
Should Black People Tolerate This?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 23, 2012 on Townhall.com.Each year, roughly 7,000 blacks are murdered. Ninety-four percent of the time, the murderer is another black person. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, between 1976 and 2011, [...]
The Wisconsin Turning Point
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 23, 2012 on The American Spectator website.The recall election for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is scheduled for June 5. That election is now a crucial battleground for the [...]
Kansas Leads Way Against Ballot Fraud
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 18, 2012 on The Washington Times website.Kansas is one of those schizophrenic states that produce movers and shakers on both sides of the aisle, plus a lot of moderates like Viagra pitchman Bob Dole. The same state that has [...]
Fast and Furious: Why Eric Holder Will Lose the Legal Fight
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 17, 2012 on Breitbart.com.Federal courts could soon decide a fight between Congress and Attorney General Eric Holder on the Operation Fast and Furious gun-running scandal. If Republicans persevere, this is a battle that Holder should lose in what [...]
Pyrrhic Victory for the ACLU in Texas?
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 17, 2012 on the American Thinker website.In Lewisville, Texas, there will be a benediction and invocation at the graduation ceremony on June 3rd this year, but thanks to the ACLU, the program will call them something else."Our attorneys have [...]
Different Rules for D.C.?
This column by ACRU Chairman and CEO and CCPP founder and President Susan A. Carleson was published May 16, 2012 on the American Thinker website.Just in case anyone needs any more surprises, liberal hypocrisy has again been unearthed in -- of all places -- Washington, D.C.!Last August, the Army Corps [...]
Should We Obey All Laws?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 16, 2012 on Townhall.com.Let's think about whether all acts of Congress deserve our respect and obedience. Suppose Congress enacted a law -- and the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional -- requiring American [...]
Obama's Debacle
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 16, 2012 on The American Spectator website.Obama has already succeeded in fundamentally transforming America, from a prosperous nation that draws people the world over, voting with their feet, [...]
Rep. Paul Ryan Schools Georgetown on How to Help the Poor
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 10, 2012 on Forbes.com.On April 26, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan delivered the 2012 Whittington Lecture at Georgetown University focused on his 2013 budget and its implications [...]
Taking a Chisel to the Ten Commandments
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 9, 2012 on The Washington Times website.God Almighty needs an editor, according to a federal judge in Virginia. At least, He does when the Ten Commandments are on government property.The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had sued the Giles [...]
Mitt Romney, Conservative Cultural Icon
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 9, 2012 on The American Spectator website.Obamunistas are saying that Obama is cool, and Romney is not. But cool to whom? Cool is in the eye of the [...]
Leftist Race-Baiters
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 9, 2012 on Townhall.com.MSNBC's Chris Matthews, in a recent debate with former Republican National Chairman Michael Steele, called the Republican Party the "grand wizard crowd." Grand wizard is the title given to [...]