COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Illegal Alien Stumps Napolitano
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing October 11, 2010 on The American Thinker website.If you thought Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano's silly remarks and bungling couldn't get any worse, you must have missed her performance on Fox's O'Reilly Factor last Wednesday night.The woman in charge [...]
What Can Rahm Be Thinking?
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing October 7, 2010, on the The Patriot Post website."Mr. Emanuel praised Mr. Obama as "the toughest leader any country could ask for in the toughest times any president has faced." He fought back tears as he thanked his wife and three [...]
Walter E. Williams: Politicians Exploit Economic Ignorance
Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing October 6, 2010 on Townhall.com.One of President Obama's campaign promises was not to raise taxes on middle-class Americans. So here's my question: If there's a corporate tax increase either in the form of "cap and trade" or income tax, does [...]
Robert Knight: Obamechanic Tinkers With Colleges
ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing October 1, 2010 on The Washington Times website.When I was in college, a professor from the Middle East was giving me advice in his office.He said, "My son (he fancied himself a mentor), truth comes in three colors: blonde, brunette and [...]
ACRU Seeks to Strike Down Obamacare
The American Civil Rights Union filed an amicus curiae brief on October 4, 2010 in the Eastern District of Virginia in support of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in the case of Commonwealth of Virginia v. Kathleen Sebelius seeking to strike down Obamacare as unconstitutional. The brief argued that the [...]
ACLU Says: Better Drunk Than Religious
ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this article on September 30, 2010.Despite the ACLU's effort to censor a "religious" speaker at a Nebraska high school, students on Wednesday (Sept. 29) got to hear a compelling account of why they should not drink and drive from a man whose brother was [...]
Jan LaRue: Is the Left Rejecting Its Pagan Base?
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing September 23, 2010 on The American Thinker website.Will Christine, the repentant "witch," or Chris, the unrepentant "Marxist," win the U.S. Senate race in Delaware?Political pundits and TV talkers are fixated on Christine O'Donnell's admission that she "dabbled into witchcraft" very [...]
Peter Ferrara: The Disgrace of the Ruling Class
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing September 22, 2010 on The American Spectator.We now have confirmation that Barack Obama truly loves poor people. Because he is creating so many of them.The Census Bureau reports that America suffers with more people in poverty now than ever before in [...]
Ken Blackwell: Leaving out God
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing September 21, 2010, on the World Magazine website.It was certainly reassuring to see the president and first lady coming out of St. John's Episcopal Church last Sunday. With all the confusion about the president's religion, we can be sure that the [...]
Ken Blackwell: Delaware GOP Rumblings
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing September 16, 2010, on The Daily Caller website.During post-election analysis, Republican luminaries stumbled badly in discussing Christine O'Donnell on the night of the Delaware senatorial primary.But Delaware Republicans had just voted. They had given their support--rather convincingly--to the clearly more conservative [...]
Edwin Meese III: Morning Bell: Constitution Day and the Perilous Future
Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III, the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, wrote this article appearing September 17, 2010 on The Heritage Foundation blog.On September 17, we celebrate the creation of our Constitution, one [...]
Peter Ferrara: Obama's War on America's Seniors
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing September 15, 2010 on The American Spectator.Seniors citizens probably provided less support for President Obama in the 2008 election than any other voter bloc. That reflects the wisdom of age. But for President Obama, apparently it's payback time, because he is [...]
Ken Blackwell: Congress Goes For Rationing
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing September 9, 2010, on The Daily Caller website."Democrats choose Death Panels..." announces Comedy Central's Jon Stewart with mock horror, "...for themselves!" It's a very funny bit. The Washington Post's Karen Tumulty plays it straight as she reports: "Ultimately, some candidates, including [...]
Peter Ferrara and Larry Hunter: How ObamaCare Guts Medicare
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara and Dr. Larry Hunter wrote this column appearing September 9, 2010 on The Wall Street Journal website.The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has attacked Senate Republican candidates for wanting "to end Medicare as we know it." And in Nevada's hotly contested Senate race, Majority Leader Harry [...]
Peter Ferrara: Fire Obama
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing September 8, 2010 on The American Spectator.House GOP Leader John Boehner created a stir last month when he called on President Obama to fire his top economic advisors, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Larry [...]
Ken Klukowski: ACLU Files Lawsuit to Stop President From Killing Terrorist Cleric
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing September 7, 2010, on Townhall.com.The ACLU is at it again.On August 30, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in D.C. President Obama has authorized U.S. forces to kill on sight Anwar Al-Aulaqi. He's [...]
Ken Blackwell: What Is President Obama Thinking?
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing September 2, 2010, on The Huffington Post website.Americans might soon have another reason to ask themselves: "What is the president thinking?"With the flourish of a veto pen, President Obama is likely to disappoint and confuse both friends and some foes this [...]
Peter Ferrara: The New American Supermajority
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing September 1, 2010 on The American Spectator.The aerial photograph does not lie. Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally drew just about as many people as any other rally ever held at the Lincoln Memorial.I took the train into town from home in [...]
Robert Knight: Uprooting Crosses, One by One
ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this article appearing August 27, 2010 on WashingtonTimes.com.While the furor over the proposed mosque at Ground Zero has New York Gov. David Paterson offering public land as a peace offering, a more familiar symbol - the cross - is systematically being uprooted around the [...]
Recalling Senator Kent Conrad: Tea Party Activists in North Dakota Fight Denial of Recall Effort
On August 30, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) filed an amicus brief in support of Tea Party activists arguing that North Dakota law does provide for recall of U.S. Senators. Tea Party activists had previously filed with the Secretary of State for approval of petitions for the recall of [...]