COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
Voter ID Terrifies Democrats
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 2, 2012 in The Washington Times.The most consequential election in our lifetime is still 10 months away, but it's clear from the Obama administration's order halting South Carolina's new photo ID law that the Democrats already have brought a [...]
Holder Race-Baiting about Obama's Re-Election, Not Voting Rights
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published December 30, 2011 on Big Government.Eric Holder's Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an all-out war on voter-ID laws and other measures to safeguard the electoral process. Although Holder's actions are purportedly to [...]
The Other Voting Right: Protecting Every Citizen's Vote by Safeguarding the Integrity of the Ballot Box
There is a saying that "people get the government they vote for." The implication of the maxim is that if undesirable or unwise legislation is enacted, if executive branch officials are inept or ineffective, or if the government is beset with widespread corruption, then such unfortunate results are the consequence [...]
Gullible Americans
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published December 28, 2011 on Townhall.com.National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Deborah Hersman has called for states to mandate a total ban on cellphone usage while driving. She has also encouraged electronics manufacturers -- via [...]
Heritage and the Individual Mandate
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 21, 2011 on The American Spectator website.I have kept the true story of the Heritage Foundation and the individual health insurance mandate under wraps for almost 20 years [...]
Newt Gingrich's Entitlement Reform Plan
This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 15, 2011 on Forbes.com.On Nov. 12, in Manchester, N.H., Newt Gingrich released his entitlement reform proposals in a 49-page, single-spaced, footnoted document to which I contributed heavily. Those [...]
The ACLU's 12 Days of Litigation
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 19, 2011 in The Daily Caller.Always imaginative, the ACLU's elves are finding new ways to step on Christmas, which they seem to regard as about as important in America as, oh, churches.This year, the liberal organization's lawyers are playing [...]