COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Ken Blackwell: Secretary Vilsack: Re-Hire Shirley Sherrod
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing July 21, 2010, on HuffingtonPost.com.Mark Twain warned us: Confession is good for the soul, but it's bad for the reputation.It's a good thing for a certain rural Georgia peanut farmer that we didn't have a 24/7 news cycle when he was [...]
Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski: The president's wooden-headed interpretation of our Constitution
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing July 19, 2010, on DailyCaller.com.Sometimes you hate being right.In chapter 4 of our book, The Blueprint: Obama's Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency, my coauthor Ken Blackwell and I make [...]
Ken Blackwell: Obama Rips Off "Faux Lifers" Fig Leaves
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing July 17, 2010, on Townhall.com.Last spring, President Obama managed to corral the votes of a half dozen formerly pro-life Democrats in the House of Representatives for his takeover of health care. Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI) had been a staunch supporter of [...]
Ken Blackwell: It's Not Only About the Economy, Stupid
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing July 15, 2010, on The American Spectator website, Spectator.org.James Carville, Bill Clinton's political strategist supposedly coined the now infamous: "It's the economy, stupid." This admittedly smart strategy, widely attributed to have won Clinton the Presidency, is now being chanted, mantra-like, by [...]
ACLU-Oriented Judge Throws Out Stolen Valor Act
A federal judge in Denver has decided the case of a man who claimed military awards he hadn't earned, in an unusual way, and contrary to all other courts to consider such a case. Instead of finding the defendant guilty, he threw out the law, claiming it was unconstitutional.The facts [...]
Jan LaRue: Holder Hangs KSM and Gitmo Around Democrats' Neck
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote a column appearing July 14, 2010, on Townhall.com.President Obama gave notice to the Democrat-controlled Congress on Sunday that unless it provides funding for a civilian trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center, they will suffer the consequences. [...]
Ken Blackwell: Who's Telling the Truth — NASA's Chief or the White House?
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing July 14, 2010, on FOXNews.com.NASA administrator Charles Bolden must have felt like Astronaut Frank Poole in the cult classic, "Space Odyssey: 2001." In that film, the menacing computer HAL 9000 cut Poole's tether and let him drift off into space.In this [...]
Ken Blackwell: Who’s Telling the Truth — NASA’s Chief or the White House?
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing July 14, 2010, on FOXNews.com. NASA administrator Charles Bolden must have felt like Astronaut Frank Poole in the cult classic, "Space Odyssey: 2001." In that film, the menacing computer HAL 9000 cut Poole's tether and let him drift off into space. [...]
Walter E. Williams: A Failed Obama Hero
ACRU Policy Board Member Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing July 14, 2010 on Townhall.com.Let's think about President Obama's failed economic stimulus program. Before getting to the nitty-gritty of why stimulus packages fail, let's look at the failed stimulus program of Obama's hero, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR's Treasury Secretary, [...]
Ken Blackwell: GM's Move Away from 'Government Motors'
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing July 13, 2010, on HuffingtonPost.com.My friend Matt Lewis recently authored a thoughtful column about General Motors. As he pointed out, regardless of how one feels about the government bailout of GM — which he and I both vigorously opposed — there [...]
Ken Blackwell: Obama's "Fly Me to the Crescent Moon" Policy
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on July 11, 2010.Maybe it's the Dog Days of Summer. Perhaps it's the heat—102 degrees in Washington—that's getting to peoples' heads. But President Obama's latest policy—announced by his NASA administrator, astronaut Charles Bolden, is about to melt down.Speaking on [...]
ACRU Joins Effort to Protect Prayer
A federal judge in Wisconsin held in April that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional as a violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause. On July 7, ACRU joined a brief coauthored by ACRU Fellow and Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski that makes the case as to how and [...]
Peter Ferrara: Are Overdue Reports Concealing ObamaCare Impact On Medicare?
ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote a column appearing on Investors.com on July 6, 2010.Every year, the Annual Report of the Social Security Board of Trustees comes out between mid-April and mid-May. Now it's July, and there's no sign of this year's report. What is the Obama administration hiding?The annual [...]
Walter E. Williams: The Founders' Vision Versus Ours
ACRU Policy Board Member Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing on the Townhall.com website on July 7, 2010.The celebration of our founders' 1776 revolt against King George III and the English Parliament is over. Let's reflect how the founders might judge today's Americans and how today's Americans might judge [...]
Ken Klukowski: Red-state Dems should save themselves, oppose Kagan
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on WashingtonExaminer.com on July 5, 2010.There remain three big issues weighing against Solicitor-General Elena Kagan's confirmation to the Supreme Court. Given these three factors, Democratic senators in red states would do themselves a favor by voting against her.During her hearings, [...]
Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski: Opposing Obama's Blueprint by Celebrating American Exceptionalism
ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on BigGovernment.com on July 4, 2010.On the Fourth of July, we don't only celebrate the birth of our nation. We celebrate American exceptionalism—everything that makes the United States the greatest nation on earth. In [...]
Ken Klukowski: The Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, and Guns
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on BigGovernment.com on June 30, 2010.This week's historic Supreme Court case on gun rights has pivotal implications for Elena Kagan's Supreme Court confirmation hearings. From now on, the biggest battles over the Second Amendment will be won or lost in [...]
Jan LaRue: Dreams of Obama
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote a column appearing on Townhall.com on June 29, 2010.For several weeks the temperature in the hill country of central Texas has been in the 90's with high humidity. Daily clouds promise rain, but so far all they've produced is oppressive discomfort accompanied by [...]
Ken Klukowski: The Gun Rights Decision in McDonald v. Chicago
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on June 29, 2010.On June 28, the Supreme Court handed down the most consequential decision of this term in the historic gun-rights case, McDonald v. Chicago. Now the Second Amendment right to own a gun extends against every [...]
Ken Klukowski: Court Gets Federal Honest-Services Law Half-Right
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on June 28, 2010.On June 24, the Supreme Court sent back for a new hearings one of the Enron villains, Jeffrey Skilling, and two other unrelated defendants. The Court did this in part by severely curtailing the scope [...]