COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
Obamacare Abortion Mandate on the Ropes at Supreme Court
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 25, 2014 on Breitbart.com.In one sentence, Justice Anthony Kennedy signaled he may vote to strike down Obamacare's so-called "abortion mandate," suggesting he may form the crucial swing vote in delivering a body blow to the president's signature legislative [...]
Supreme Court Hears Cases on Conscience Objections to Obamacare This Tuesday
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 24, 2014 on Breitbart.com.On Tuesday, Mar. 25, the Supreme Court will hear its next cases on President Obama's controversial signature law. These two cases involve whether it violates either federal law or the U.S. Constitution to compel Christian [...]
ACRU Applauds Ruling on Citizenship for Voting
"It's refreshing when a federal judge cites the Constitution as it was written, not in a way that distorts it to create an opposite meaning," says ACRU Chairman Susan A. Carleson.WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 21, 2014) — In a victory for election integrity, a federal judge has ruled that Arizona and [...]
Is There Wage Stagnation?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 19, 2014 on Townhall.com.Many economists, politicians and pundits assert that median wages have stagnated since the 1970s. That's a call for government to do something about it. But before we look at [...]
American Prosperity Stems from More, Full Time, Middle Class Jobs and Wages, Not from Higher Minimum Wages
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on March 19, 2014 on Forbes.com.Like all of President Obama's ideas and enthusiasms, the minimum wage law is not a new idea. It was first adopted in 1938. It never has been the foundation of American prosperity, or even a [...]
Obama's Alter Ego
ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing March 20, 2014 on The American Thinker website.Which President Obama appears at the White House podium depends on whether the incident du jour is commendable or condemnable.If it's a star-spangled victory by America's magnificent military, such as the Navy SEALs [...]
Air Force: Christians' Religious Speech Not Legally Protected Right
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 16, 2014 on Breitbart.com.Christians in the U.S. military are being told they must forfeit their First Amendment rights. Bible verses are being erased from cadets' personal dorm-room white boards, and military lawyers claim that legal protections for religion [...]