COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Many to Benefit from President's Ruling, but Not Us
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 23, 2012 in The Washington Times.Checking his sundial and solar-powered calendar, Barack Obama has decided that he did not have enough time to study the impact of the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, so he killed it.Seriously. [...]
Obama's Lawyer Argues for Family Values at Supreme Court
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 11, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.Culture warriors took the upper hand against liberals and libertarians alike at the Supreme Court this week, as a moderate justice joined with conservatives and a liberal presidential administration to take a [...]
ObamaCare's Medicaid Provision 'Unconstitutional'
"Has Congress made an offer that the states could not refuse? That is the question that must be decided by this case."Jan. 17, 2012 -- The American Civil Rights Union filed its sixth brief on Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known [...]
Shocker! Supreme Court Lets Stand Lower Bench's Ban on Saying 'Jesus' Too Often in Public Prayers
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 17, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.Pastors and priests in five states cannot mention 'Jesus' more than once or twice if they pray in public at an official function after the U.S. Supreme Court stunned constitutional law experts [...]
The Che Guevara Democrat Party
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 18, 2011 on The American Spectator website.Those who contribute to, vote for, or otherwise support today's Democrat party need to catch up to the curve. These are not [...]
Presidential Nonsense
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 18, 2012 on Townhall.com.Last week, President Barack Obama, at a Capital Hilton fundraising event, told the crowd, "We can't go back to this brand of you're-on-your-own economics." Throughout my professional career as [...]
ATF Wins First Round against Gun Owners in Border-State Lawsuit
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 18, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.Gun owners just lost the first round in a court struggle with President Obama's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).ATF issued orders requiring all firearm dealers in the border states [...]
Judge Says Virginia Ballot Rules Are Unconstitutional, but Rules against GOP Candidates Anyway
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 17, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.A federal judge declared that Virginia's rules keeping Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum off Virginia's March 6 presidential primary ballot "will likely be declared unconstitutional, and that the plaintiffs will [...]
Tom Landess, R.I.P.
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 16, 2012 in The Washington Times.America lost an unsung hero on Jan. 8 with the passing of Thomas H. Landess. To say that Tom was an accomplished Southern academic would be like saying that Robert H. Goddard was a [...]
The Left's War on Voter Fraud Reform
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 16, 2012 on The American Thinker website.Pretty soon, the right to cast a meaningful vote might be just a memory.The issue at hand is ensuring that American citizens can exercise the most fundamental civil right of being an American [...]
Supremes Unanimously Reject Government Role in Choosing Ministers
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 12, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.A unanimous Supreme Court rejected the Obama administration's claim that federal bureaucrats can tell a church whom it can hire as ministers to teach its followers, even if they happen to be [...]
The Worst Economic Recovery 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 January 12, 2012 on Forbes.com.The record of President Obama's first three years in office is in, and nothing that happens now can go back and change that. What that [...]
In Greed I Trust
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 11, 2012 on Townhall.com.Last week's column started off asking: "What human motivation gets the most wonderful things done?" The answer is that human greed is what gets wonderful things done. I wasn't [...]
Homeowners Fight for Property Rights Against EPA
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 10, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.Oral arguments were heard Monday in an Idaho case that prompted Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to ask if "most ordinary homeowners would say this kind of thing can't happen in the [...]
Texas Case Suggests Court May Overhaul Voting Rights
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 9, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.Former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement told U.S. Supreme Court justices Monday that lower federal courts cannot redraw state-approved election district maps unless they can point to concrete "identifying specific statutory or [...]
Obama's Inoperative Constitution
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 9, 2012 in The Washington Times.Back in 1973, when the Nixon administration was under fire for Watergate, Press Secretary Ron Ziegler uttered an unforgettable response when caught in a lie during a news conference: "This is the operative statement. [...]
ACRU's Supreme Court Brief Says Lack of Mandate Would Doom ObamaCare
Jan. 4, 2012 -- The American Civil Rights Union filed its fifth brief challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as ObamaCare.The brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, authored by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, argues that lack of a mandate forcing individuals to [...]
Bloomberg Hides Government Causes of Financial Crisis
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 4, 2012 on The American Spectator website.On December 21, Bloomberg News breathlessly reported, "The leading Republican candidates for president have embraced an explanation of the financial crisis that [...]
I Love Greed
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 4, 2012 on Townhall.com.What human motivation gets the most wonderful things done? It's really a silly question, because the answer is so simple. It turns out that it's human greed that gets [...]
Hawkeye Hoopla and the Rueful Paul Reality
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published January 2, 2012 on the American Thinker website.My New Year's resolution is never hearing the words "Iowa caucuses" ever again.The ceaseless and breathless media reporting about which Republican presidential candidate is leading in the Iowa polls is about as [...]