COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
Judge Signals She'll Force Holder to Hand Over Fast & Furious Documents
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 15, 2014 on Breitbart.com.U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson was openly irritated both with Attorney General Eric Holder and with the U.S. House of Representatives over whether executive privilege allows Holder to withhold documents on Operation Fast and [...]
A Lesson on Racial Discrimination
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 14, 2014 on Townhall.com.Donald Sterling, Los Angeles Clippers owner, was recorded by his mistress making some crude racist remarks. Since then, Sterling's racist comments have dominated the news, from talk radio to [...]
The IRS Conspiracy Killers in the News Media
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 9, 2014 on The Washington Times website.After the full House of Representatives cited former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner for contempt of Congress on Wednesday, The Washington Times fittingly made it the lead story.Over at The Washington [...]
Coming End to Racial Preferences
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 7, 2014 on Townhall.com.Last week's U.S. Supreme Court 6-2 ruling in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action et al. upheld Michigan's constitutional amendment that bans racial preferences in admission to its [...]
ACRU Applauds Supreme Court Decision Upholding Public Prayer
"The Court's ruling reflects elements of the Coercion Test that we have long championed," said ACRU Chairman Susan A. Carleson.WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 5, 2014) — The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, upheld the right of local officials to begin meetings with public prayer.In [...]
Ken Tomlinson, Patriot and Voice for Truth
The American Civil Rights Union mourns the loss of a founding Policy Board member, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, who died on May 2 at age 69 after a brief illness."Ken was one of the few people in major media who believed strongly that the power of the press lay in actually [...]
ACLU's Vote-Fraud Campaign
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 30, 2014 on The Washington Times website.The American Civil Liberties Union is at it again, throwing a log in front of the accelerating — and widely supported — campaign against vote fraud.This time, the liberal group is asking for [...]