COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
ACLU Loses Effort to Keep Non-Americans on Voter Rolls
The Supreme Court has rejected the ACLU appeal of a Circuit Court decision upholding the Georgia Voter ID law. This law requires new voters to present documentation to show they are both citizens and residents. The ACLU attacked this law, and similar laws in other states, claiming that such laws [...]
Robert Knight: Call It What It Is: Rationed Health Care
Fresh from grabbing much of the U.S. auto and banking industries, the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats are moving briskly toward nationalized health care.
Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski: Equating Conservatives with Terrorists
Recent events reveal how far to the left President Obama really is. When the president's Cairo speech, taken with his reactions to the deaths of an abortion doctor and a U.S. soldier, are weighed against his Department of Homeland Security report and his Supreme Court decisions, a pattern emerges. The president is indicating that conservatives can in many ways be equated with terrorists. Such a comparison is outrageous, and the possibility that this mindset could end up on the U.S. Supreme Court makes it all the more dangerous.
Ken Blackwell: Arm Our Military Recruiters
The contrast between President Obama's reaction to the murder of a late-term abortionist and the murder of a U.S. Army Recruiter could not be more stark. Obama raced to send U.S. Marshals into abortion facilities. He denounced the murder in the strongest terms in a statement which is posted on the White House website:
Ken Klukowski: Gun Issue Heats Up for Sotomayor as NRA Appeals to Supreme Court
This week a federal appeals court held that the Second Amendment does not apply to state or city gun laws. Supporters of Judge Sonia Sotomayor incorrectly argue that this affirms her recent gun-control case. Now the NRA is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case, and in doing so heats up the gun-rights issue to potentially become the dominant topic in Sotomayor's confirmation hearings.
Peter Ferrara: Sonia the Player Umpire
The 2005 nomination hearings for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts provided a moment of unifying clarity for our politically and ideologically riven nation. Roberts explained the role of a judge as like an umpire in a baseball game. The umpire is supposed to call balls and strikes and fairly and objectively apply the rules of the game. The umpire is not supposed to get in the game and play for one team or another, whatever his personal "empathies" might be. This immediately calmed the nomination atmosphere, as the entire nation, including liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans, seemed to join in saying "Amen," that is exactly what a judge is supposed to do.
Jan LaRue: Sotomayor and White Wise Guys
If you believe the myth that Democrats are champions of equality for women, racial minorities, and folks with "compelling" life stories, maybe you've been spending more time tracking Big Foot than judicial nominations.
Ken Blackwell: Obama Declares War on America's Gun Owners With Supreme Court Pick
President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor is a declaration of war against America's gun owners and the Second Amendment to our Constitution. If gun owners mobilize and unite, it's possible (though unlikely) to stop this radical nominee
Ken Klukowski: Sotomayor Confirmation: It's All in the Numbers
The White House is touting the fact that Judge Sonia Sotomayor has a longer judicial record than any of the current justices on the Court. That fact, however, endangers her confirmation because of what it will mean for pro-gun senators during the August recess.
Ken Klukowski and Ken Blackwell: Specter's Switch Means the Future of the Supreme Court Hangs In the Balance
Arlen Specter's switch to the Democratic Party is a political earthquake that will have far-reaching consequences for a host of policy and political issues. Of all these, none is more significant than the potential consequences for the United States Supreme Court. As a result of this decision, the future of the Supreme Court may ironically rest with... the Supreme Court.
Horace Cooper: A Fitting Memorial That Honors Sacrifice
While most Americans readily embrace the opportunity to honor our nation's fallen, increasingly some have become critical if not hostile to this effort, particularly when religion or expressions of faith are involved.
Peter Ferrara: Will Obama Seize the Radio Stations Next?
When President Obama announced his new budget a few weeks ago involving record spending, tax increases, deficits and debt, he did so with soaring rhetoric about spending cuts (non-existent), tax cuts for 95% of workers (misleading), and cutting the deficit in half in 5 years (good luck). This misdirection rhetoric is now a common Obama pattern.
John Armor On the Air in Huntington, WV
John Armor will be discussing Freedom to Listen on April 21, 2009 at 7:35am ET on The Tom Roten Show. The show can be heard on 800 AM WVHU out of Huntington, WV. Tune in if you live in the area or listen live online.
Ken Blackwell: Judge Shocks America's Conscience
Recently, a federal court issued a decision that may be the next Supreme Court case in the War on Terror. The court ruled that terrorists held by the U.S. military in Afghanistan are entitled to the writ of habeas corpus, extending a panoply of rights to these detainees. This ruling could have a stunning impact on this and future wars, and bears out just how wrong last year's major Supreme Court habeas case was.
Jan LaRue: The Pain in Spain Falls Mainly from Koh's Brain
The pain of facing criminal prosecution in Spain has ended for six senior Bush administration officials who allegedly provided "legal cover for the torture of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay," according to The Washington Post. What remains of greater concern for all Americans is the core legal philosophy behind the prosecution and Harold Hongju Koh, President Barack Obama's nominee to be legal advisor to the U.S. Department of State.
John Armor: The Myth of Public Airways
People who don't know much about freedom of the press (or don't care much about it) often say that the government has a right to regulate the content of broadcast media because "the public owns the airways." If that were true, the government would have a right to censor your personal phone calls and e-mails.
The ACRU to Talk About Freedom to Listen On the Air
On Sunday, April 12, 2009, at 4:30pm ET, John Armor will be on "Liberty Watch Radio," which can be heard on 690 KVOI in Tuscon, AZ, 930 KAPR in Douglas, AZ, and 1240 KJAA in Tuscon, AZ. He will be discussing both Freedom to Listen and Save Radio Free America. [...]
Peter Ferrara On the Air in Wisconsin
On Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 5:09pm ET, Peter Ferrara will be on the Vicki McKenna Show on WIBA Madison and WISN Milwaukee. He will be discussing his Sunday Washington Times column and FreedomtoListen.org. Tune in if you live around Madison or Milwaukee or listen live online.
Peter Ferrara on G. Gordon Liddy
On Tuesday, April 7, 2009, at 12:30pm ET, ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara will be discussing his Washington Times column and FreedomtoListen.org. Tune in with your local affiliate or listen live online.
Peter Ferrara: Rush's fans have rights, too
While President Obama's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prepares to attack conservative talk radio with some version of the Fairness Doctrine, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in open court last week may have thrown a bombshell into those plans.