COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Reckless Congress Makes Case for Recall
ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing December 17, 2010 on The Washington Times website.If ever a Congress epitomized the need for more accountability, it's the 111th lame-duck gang. Sorry, that's unfair to gangsters. With most Americans distracted by holiday plans, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, [...]
Don't Start on START — Until Next Year
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 17, 2010, on The Patriot Post website.Americans can tell when we are being lied to. We're being lied to when Harry Reid tells us that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia is a bit of unfinished business that [...]
The ACLU's Not-So-Holy Trinity
Professor of Political Science Paul Kengor wrote this column appearing December 14, 2010 on The American Spectator website.The ACLU seems unusually active right now. What gives? Maybe it's the Christmas season, which always seems to spring the ACLU into high gear, more miserable than usual.I tried to ignore the latest [...]
The New Big Picture
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 15, 2010 on The American Spectator website.Events have moved so fast in the post-election fallout that the last seven days have seen the political cards completely reshuffled. A new big picture has emerged of the political and economic battleground for [...]
Death Knell for Obamacare?
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 14, 2010 on Townhall.com.Federal Court Judge Henry Hudson granted America an early Christmas present on December 13 by declaring the individual mandate in Obamacare unconstitutional.The individual mandate is the provision that requires all individuals without employer-provided health insurance to purchase [...]
Court Strikes Down Obamacare
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Monday struck down as unconstitutional the individual mandate in President Obama's health care takeover scheme, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The individual mandate is the provision that all individuals without employer provided health insurance purchase health insurance [...]
Guess Who Got Eric Holder's Briefs in a Bundle?
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing December 14, 2010 on The American Thinker website.The Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has voted 212-206 to ban the Obama administration from spending any funds to try terrorism suspects in civilian court instead of military commissions. Attorney General Eric Holder [...]
Ragin' 'n' Stagin' at the White House
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 9, 2010, on Townhall.com.Liberals (or Progressives, if you prefer) have been raging at President Obama. For months they have complained that he did not show enough passion. Comic atheist Bill Maher even got racial. He wanted Mr. Obama to shove [...]
Putting a Gun to the Public's Head
ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing December 3, 2010 on The Washington Times website.Government's most essential function is to protect citizens. All other services are secondary.Camden, N.J., is one of the most dangerous cities in the nation, according to FBI statistics analyzed by CQ Press. In fact, [...]
Moral or Immoral Government
ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing December 8, 2010 on Townhall.com.Immorality in government lies at the heart of our nation's problems. Deficits, debt and runaway government are merely symptoms. What's moral and immoral conduct can be complicated, but needlessly so. I [...]
The Madness of Obamanomics
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 8, 2010 on The American Spectator website.For two years I have been arguing here and elsewhere that Obamanomics will not work. But for Obama and the Democrats to persist in transparent error after the election tsunami and now last Friday's [...]
Striking Down Individual Mandate Would Mean Ending Obamacare
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing December 8, 2010, on The Washington Examiner website.Litigation over Obamacare's individual mandate has captured the public's attention. But the ultimate goal in challenging the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law is not the [...]
Harry Reid, Your Number Is Up!
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 7, 2010, on Townhall.com.It was election night 2006, and as the results came in, one U.S. Senate seat after another turned from red to blue. And finally, during the early morning hours of November 8th, the final wall was breached. [...]
Obama to Voters: Drop Dead
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 1, 2010 on The American Spectator website.The good news is that the Democrats and the Washington Establishment have heard the message from the American people on Election Day, 2010. How could they have not? It was an epoch beginning, 1932 [...]
Guarding Jimmy Carter's Tongue!
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 2, 2010, on Townhall.com.Fans of Hollywood's imaginative take on American politics may remember the movie, Guarding Tess. That 1994 comic hit featured Shirley MacLaine as a former First Lady who was being guarded by a Secret Service detachment headed by [...]
Minimum Wage, Maximum Folly
ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing December 1, 2010 on Townhall.com.How about this: The law of gravity is applicable to the behavior of falling objects on the U.S. mainland but not applicable on our Pacific Ocean territories Samoa and Northern Mariana [...]
Liberal Lid Won't Fit on Boiling Tea Pot
ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing November 27, 2010 on The Washington Times website.Whew. Liberals are breathing a sigh of relief after the Associated Press released a poll this past week showing that Tea Partiers are out of step with the rest of America. Doctrinaire liberal: "We [...]
The American Civil Rights Union Files Amicus Brief to Strike Down Obamacare
The American Civil Rights Union filed an amicus curiae brief on November 19 in the Federal District Court in the Northern District of Florida in the case of State of Florida, et al. v. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services supporting 20 states who have joined in that lawsuit [...]
New Jersey Supreme Court Rules State Constitution's Recall Law Unconstitutional
ACRU will file amicus brief when case involving effort to recall Sen. Robert Menendez is appealed to U.S. Supreme Court.The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled 4-2 on Thursday that a provision in the state Constitution providing for recall of all elected officials, including Congressmen and U.S. Senators, was unconstitutional, overruling [...]
Madame Ovary of the Minority
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing November 17, 2010 on The American Thinker website.Republicans are giddy about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi becoming Minority Leader of House Democrats. It was her legislative agenda that got the Dems hammered in the election.Republicans should seize the opportunity to drive [...]