COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
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 [...]
ACLU Sings Harmony with Violent Lyricist
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 13, 2014 on The Washington Times website.In a case of attempted murder headed for the New Jersey Supreme Court, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wants violent lyrics written by the accused to be protected as "free speech" and [...]
Governed by Rules, Not Men
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 12, 2014 on Townhall.com.What kind of rules should govern our lives? I'd argue that the best rules are those that we'd be satisfied with if our very worst enemy were in charge [...]
On Track to Restart the Cold War
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on March 12, 2014 on The American Spectator website.On economic policy, President Obama has consistently and thoroughly followed just the opposite of everything Reagan did. And that is why he has consistently and thoroughly gotten the opposite of Reagan's results.Reagan [...]
ACRU: IRS, U.S. Court Overreached on Obamacare Exchanges
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 11, 2014) — In a brief filed Monday at the Fourth District U.S. Court of Appeals, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) argues that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has ignored Congress on Obamacare and violated the constitutional separation of powers.Even though the Affordable Care Act (ACA) [...]
Riding the Rails to Insolvency at High Speed
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 7, 2014 on The Washington Times website.The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) says in a new report that the light-rail "Purple Line" expanding Washington, D.C.'s rail system further into the Maryland suburbs will cost $1 billion more than originally estimated.Well, [...]
Obama Democrats Versus Kennedy Democrats
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on March 10, 2014 on Forbes.com.In promoting his economic program in the early 1960s, President Kennedy told the American people,"It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today, and tax revenues are too low and the soundest [...]
Solutions to Black Education
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 26, 2014 on Townhall.com.A fortnight ago, my column focused on how Philadelphia's schoolteachers have joined public-school teachers in cities such as Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, Columbus, New York and Washington in changing [...]
The Period of No Global Warming Will Soon Be Longer Than the Period of Actual Global Warming
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on February 24, 2014 on Forbes.com.If you look at the record of global temperature data, you will find that the late 20th Century period of global warming actually lasted about 20 years, from the late 1970s to the late 1990s. [...]
America's Constitutional Crisis
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on February 21, 2014 on Forbes.com.President Obama famously has a pen and a phone. And if he had the same powers that Hugo Chavez had, that would be all he would need to impose Hugo Chavez's programs on America, unilaterally [...]
Positioning the Coming Myths
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on February 19, 2014 on The American Spectator website. Personal matters have led me to spend more time in Southern California recently. There my eyes have been opened to new developing trends in American culture with political implications. On my [...]
Concealing Evil
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 19, 2014 on Townhall.com.Evil acts are given an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding socialistic expressions, such as spreading the wealth, income redistribution, caring for the less fortunate, and the will of [...]
The Unenviable Role of Liberal Apologist for Obama Policies
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 21, 2014 on The Washington Times website.It's getting harder every day to be a liberal.Having to defend Obamacare is enough to exhaust the hardiest soul. Trying to explain President Obama's foreign policy would give anybody -- even a creative [...]
Rousing Those Moribund 'Monuments Men'
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published February 21, 2014 on the American Thinker website.American liberty is under assault as President Obama runs roughshod over a Congress as passive as the statuary adorning its halls.Like our Founders, Congress needs the energizing force of liberty. They might [...]