COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
The Constitution or Good Ideas?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 30, 2014 on Townhall.com.Let me run through a few good ideas. I think it's a good idea for children to eat healthful, wholesome foods. In the raising of our daughter, before-dinner treats [...]
Senator Cruz's Energy Bill Promotes Energy Liberation, Job Creation, and Prosperity for America
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on April 24, 2014 on Forbes.com.On March 27, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the American Energy Renaissance Act, providing for comprehensive liberation of energy producers to maximize energy production, job creation and prosperity for America. A companion bill was introduced [...]
ACRU: Court Upholds Michigan Voters' Right to End Race Quotas
WASHINGTON D.C. (APRIL 23, 2014) — The American Civil Rights Union, which filed a brief in the case, hailed the U.S. Supreme Court's 6-2 ruling on Tuesday upholding a Michigan constitutional amendment approved by voters that stops preferential treatment of minorities at publicly funded institutions, including colleges.The measure, Proposal 2, [...]
ACRU: White House Rewriting of ObamaCare Violates Constitutional Separation of Powers
"Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that Congress gives up its designated legislative authority whenever a president decides to legislate on his own." — American Civil Rights Union Chairman Susan A. CarlesonWashington, D.C. (April 22, 2014) — In an amicus brief filed in U.S. District Court in Wisconsin, the [...]
Nevada Pushes Back against the Federal Leviathan
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 18, 2014 on The Washington Times website.Anyone worried about the rapidly growing power of the federal government under President Obama and the militarization of federal law enforcers had to take heart last week.It was quite a sight when hundreds [...]
Who's Not Wild about Harry?
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing April 19, 2014 on The American Thinker website.Muzzling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for calling Americans "domestic terrorists" is the last thing Republicans fighting for control of the Senate in November should want.Reid railed at the Americans standing with [...]
Equality in Discipline
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 16, 2014 on Townhall.com.George Leef, director of research for the North Carolina-based John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, authored a Forbes op-ed article titled "Obama Administration Takes Groupthink To Absurd [...]
How to Liberate America from the Poverty Trap that Is Enslaving Us
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on April 13, 2014 on Forbes.com.In the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, for March, the Obama economy finally reached a long overdue milestone. More than six years after the latest recession began, in December, 2007, the economy has [...]
ACRU: Leave Clergy Housing Allowance Alone
Freedom from Religion Foundation is "trying to use the federal courts to destroy religious freedom and independence from government control," said American Civil Rights Union Chairman Susan A. Carleson. Washington, D.C. (April 14, 2014) — An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rule allowing clergy to have a tax-exempt housing allowance is [...]
How to Assist Evil
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 9, 2014 on Townhall.com."Engineering Evil" is a documentary recently shown on the Military History channel. It's a story of Nazi Germany's murder campaign before and during World War II. According to some [...]
Obamacare Shows America Suffers from a President Dangerously Disconnected from Reality
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on April 4, 2014 on Forbes.com.The population of the U.S. is 314 million. On the day Obamacare was passed, the estimate of the uninsured was 60 million. So in this context, the supposed 7 million Americans signed up for insurance [...]
Sex and Race Equality
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 2, 2014 on Townhall.com.There are several race and sex issues that need addressing. Let's look at a few of them with an ear to these questions: Should we insist upon equal treatment [...]
The ACLU's Warped View of Puppy Mills and Abortion Clinics
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 27, 2014 on The Washington Times website.When it comes to free speech, the American Civil Liberties Union has a soft spot for animal rights protesters, but not necessarily people who advocate for human life.In Michigan, the ACLU is fighting [...]