COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
The Constitution Did Not Condone Slavery
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and Family Research Council Senior Fellow Bob Morrison was published January 9, 2011, on The American Thinker website."There's nothing new under the sun," said President Harry Truman, "there's only history we haven't learned yet." The history we haven't learned yet was on [...]
Expression is Not Coercion
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 7, 2011 on The Washington Times website.While the nation watches to see how the new House leadership flexes its Tea Party-enhanced muscles, the legal campaign to strip the public square of any reminders of America's Christian heritage continues apace.On [...]
NRA and Reagan Conservatives Defending Second Amendment in Court
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 8, 2011 on Townhall.comThe Second Amendment is a whole new ballgame in the aftermath of recent Supreme Court decisions. The NRA is taking a leading role in many lawsuits now underway by bringing in top-tier lawyers from the [...]
Conservative Legal Team from Obamacare Case Now Fighting the EPA
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 7, 2011 on Townhall.comOn Dec. 30, a federal appeals court froze new EPA regulations on greenhouse gases. The team representing the State of Texas in this appeal is also the team managing the largest Obamacare lawsuit in America, [...]
Playing God With Catholic Hospitals
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 5, 2011 on The Washington Times website.Take a case that, on the surface, looks really bad. Assign an evil motive. Ignore nuanced facts. Stir in media outcry. Demand that the government step in.That's the left's recipe for putting Catholic [...]
Saturday Night Alive?
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell appeared January 6, 2011, on The American Spectator website.We all breathed a sigh of relief when the ball fell in New York's Times Square and the holiday season this year ended without another terror attack, or attempted attack, on our homeland. You'll [...]
California Court Rules Against Cross Memorial
Ninth's Decision on Mt. Soledad Veterans Cross "Defies Common Sense," ACRU SaysA three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the 57-year-old concrete cross atop the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego is unconstitutional. The decision runs counter to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling [...]
Obamacare's Dirty Tricks
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared January 5, 2011 on The American Spectator website.Most commentators have focused on the revelation just before Christmas that Obamacare's end of life death panel consultations rejected by Congress were resurrected by the Obama Administration by regulatory requirement. There is no truth [...]
Tyranny by Decree
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 2, 2011 on The Washington Times website.Over the past year, it has become obvious that what leftists cannot win at the ballot box, they will accomplish via bureaucratic dictate. After the U.S. Senate in 2009 rejected the massive cap-and-tax [...]
Tie Debt Ceiling Vote To Balanced Budget Amendment
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell appeared December 29, 2010, on Townhall.com.Next spring, Republicans will be faced with a serious decision over whether to vote to raise the debt ceiling.Failing to do so could signal foreign countries that the U.S. plans to default on our debt -- an [...]
Net Neutrality Is Theft
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared December 29, 2010 on The American Spectator website.The Internet is not a natural resource. It does not grow on trees, or appear on the ground like dew on a spring morning. Nor does it operate by magic. The Internet exists only [...]
Federal Regulators Wage War on Christmas
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published December 27, 2010 on Townhall.comIt's worth noting not only that the War on Christmas has continued, but now federal regulators have joined the wrong side. Christians should get far more aggressive in fighting back, because the Constitution is on [...]
Supernatural Hand in Christmas Atheism
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 23, 2010 on The Washington Times website."In the beginning, the devil created. ..." Wait a minute. That's not how the Bible begins.Or creation for that matter. Genesis 1:1 reads: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."The [...]
Christmas Wise Guys
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column that will appear on Townhall.com.Two thousand years ago, wise men came from the East bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to honor Christ's birth. A beautiful new Christmas song asks, "Where's the Line to See Jesus?"From the beginning, some in [...]
America's Financial Future: Our Choice… But Not For Long
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 23, 2010, on Townhall.com.In August of this year, Admiral Michael Mullens, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, advised Congress that "The National debt is the biggest threat to our national security." In November, voter sentiment against the debt and [...]
The Death Panel's First Murder
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 22, 2010 on The American Spectator website.Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revoked its regulatory approval of the drug Avastin to treat late stage, metastatic breast cancer. Each year, the practicing oncologists chosen by 17,500 American women to [...]
Obama, McCartney, and the Taxman!
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 19, 2010, on The American Thinker website.It was a great event at the White House last June. Sir Paul McCartney came to be honored by President Obama. And he thrilled the glittering company with his rendering of that classic Beatles [...]
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 [...]