COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
ACRU: Hobby Lobby Ruling Is a 'Win for Religious Liberty'
ObamaCare's abortifacient mandate violated Religious Freedom Restoration Act, ACRU's brief said.WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 30, 2014) — In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Hobby Lobby's constitutional right not to be forced to violate the conscience of the company's Christian owners."The ObamaCare order would have imposed ruinous fines [...]
As Maine Goes, So Goes the Nation
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 27, 2014 on The Washington Times website.LEWISTON, MAINE — Like a bottle tossed in a faraway sea, Washington's recklessness keeps washing up elsewhere, such as the great state of Maine.The federal government's refusal to enforce immigration laws has prompted [...]
Abandoned Americans
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing June 30, 2014 on The American Thinker website.When did the United States run out of Americans in need of assistance?"One in five children under age 18, or 21.3%, are living in poverty in the United States, according to the latest [...]
ACRU: Court Gets It Mostly Right in NLRB Case
9-0 Ruling Says President Cannot Make "Recess Appointments" When Senate Is Not in Recess.WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 26, 2014) — The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision to rebuke President Obama for making executive recess appointments while the Senate was not in recess is a victory for the rule of law, American [...]
#Truth Campaign Exposes the Truth About Jim Crow
Report reveals history and misuse of a shameful time in America's history. WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 19, 2014) — A new report by the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) clearly explains the sordid reality of the Jim Crow era and how liberals have distorted its history for their own purposes. The [...]
Linking the Dollar to Gold: Completing the Recipe for Restoring an Economic Boom for America
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on June 21, 2014 on Forbes.com.Alexander Hamilton was America's first Secretary of Treasury under President George Washington. When he first entered office in 1789, America was an agricultural nation of just 4 million still broke from its financially costly victory [...]
Scalia: Supreme Court Making Major Change to Constitution's Religious Liberty Protections
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 16, 2014 on Breitbart.com.Today the Supreme Court denied review in an important First Amendment case, Elmbrook School District v. Doe. But there's big news in a dissent that accompanied this denial, declaring that big change is underway for [...]
Unanimous Supreme Court Holds Pro-Life Susan B. Anthony List Can Continue Legal Challenge
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 16, 2014 on Breitbart.com.The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List (SBA) was investigated for allegedly violating an Ohio election law banning false speech in campaign messages. It has now won on an issue at the Supreme Court that allows [...]
Supreme Court Affirms Police Officer's Felony Conviction for Buying Gun for Law-Abiding Uncle
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 16, 2014 on Breitbart.com.When purchasing a firearm, federal law makes it a crime to make any false statement about "any fact material to the lawfulness of the sale." Bruce Abramski is a former police officer in Virginia who [...]
Who Owns You?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 11, 2014 on Townhall.com.Darcy Olsen, president of the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute, and Richard Garr, president of Neuralstem, a biotech company, wrote "Right to Try experimental drugs" in USA Today (5/28/2014). They pointed [...]
President Obama's Plan to "De-develop" America Shifts into High Gear
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on June 9, 2014 on Forbes.com.President Obama's own Administration officially reports that the U.S. economy DECLINED by 1% in the first quarter of this year. That follows 1.9% reported total annual growth for all of 2013.The U.S. economy sustained a [...]
Petty Annoyances
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 4, 2014 on Townhall.com.Most who read my columns think that I'm only annoyed by politicians, growing government and Americans who have little respect or love for liberty and our Constitution. There are [...]
The Economics of Replacing Obamacare: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on June 1, 2014 on Forbes.com.Republicans have not unified behind a single bill to replace Obamacare because conservatives have been debating among themselves exactly what the components of that bill should be. The ongoing collapse of Obamacare, economically and politically, [...]
A Snapshot of Islamic 'Justice'
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 30, 2014 on The Washington Times website.The world is full of cruelty, but something unfolding in Sudan should interest even jaded observers.If a million deaths are a statistic, and a single death is a tragedy, this case puts a [...]
White Privilege
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 28, 2014 on Townhall.com.What would you think if your 8-year-old came home and told you that "white privilege is something that white people have, meaning they have an advantage in a lot [...]
Transform the VA into a Pro-Growth Model for First Rate Health Care
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on May 25, 2014 on Forbes.com.The VA (Veterans Administration) scandals show why so many people have been so highly motivated for so long to fight against Obamacare. That is because of the perfectly rational fear that Obamacare will end up [...]
Ken Blackwell Destroys MSNBC Gun Control Narrative in One Response
This column by Caleb Howe was published May 26, 2014 on TruthRevolt.org.On MSNBC this afternoon, commentator and Republican politician Ken Blackwell was on as part of panel discussion about guns and gun control in the wake of this weekend's killing spree in Santa Barbara. Host Craig Melvin runs down a [...]
America's Budding Tyrants
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 21, 2014 on Townhall.com.From the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have always started out supporting free speech, and why is easy to understand. Speech is vital for the realization of their goals [...]
Bible Ban Lifted in FL's Broward County Schools
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 19, 2014 on Breitbart.com.Following Breitbart News' May 5 story that Broward County Public Schools had banned students from reading the Bible and that lawyers from Liberty Institute were threatening to sue, and our May 14 update when the [...]
President Obama's Global Warming Calculated Deception Means Democrats Have Abandoned Working People
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on May 18, 2014 on Forbes.com.John Coleman, Co-Founder of the Weather Channel, commented on May 8 about Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show on global warming a week ago (aka the National Climate Assessment and its mainstream media "coverage"), saying,"The sky [...]