COMMENTARY AND OP-EDS
Supreme Court Likely to Restore Freedom to Pray at Public Events
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published November 7, 2013 on Breitbart.com.Those seeking the right to pray at government events consistent with their religious beliefs seem poised for a major victory after the Nov. 6 oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Town of Greece v. [...]
Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Public Prayer
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published November 5, 2013 on Breitbart.com.When does the Constitution not allow religious speech or displays in the public square or at public events?This week, the Supreme Court will hear a case on prayer at legislative events, but the actual arguments [...]
Congressionally Duped Americans
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 6, 2013 on Townhall.com.Last week's column, "Is There a Way Out?", generated quite a few responses, some a bit angry. Some people were offended by my reference to Social Security and Medicare [...]
The Obamacare Chaos I Warned About Calls For Obama To Apologize To Ted Cruz
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published October 28, 2013 on Forbes.com.Obamacare was sold to credulous "Progressives" on the grounds that it was the way to achieve universal health insurance coverage for all Americans. But the Congressional Budget Office scored the legislation as leaving 30 million uninsured [...]
Victory Over Obamacare: How To Embarrass The Democrats Into Funding The Government
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published October 04, 2013 on Forbes.com.Those of you who are supposedly outraged or indignant over the partial government shutdown, or have friends or neighbors who are outraged or indignant, I can tell you all how YOU can fix it. All you [...]
Failure To Raise The Debt Ceiling Will NOT Bring About Federal Default
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published October 15, 2013 on Forbes.com.When you open your monthly bill from Visa or Mastercard, have you ever thought of telling the credit card company you cannot possibly pay even the minimum balance due, and you are going to have to [...]
Is There a Way Out?
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 30, 2013 on Townhall.com.According to a recent Fox News poll, 73 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country, up 20 points from 2012. Americans sense that there's a [...]
ACLU to New York Cops: Drop Dead
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 27, 2013 on The Washington Times website.Imagine that it was Sept. 12, 2001, and you opened your newspaper, gazed in horror at the many photos of unspeakable carnage at the World Trade Center's twin towers, and found this story: [...]
Shutdown Hysterics And Debt Drama Queens: What Happens Next?
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published October 22, 2013 on Forbes.com.After all the dire predictions of doom and gloom, all the hysterics and drama queens, the end result of the great government shutdown/debt limit battle was no real substantive change, except for one, big, fat, new, [...]
Loving and Hating America
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 23, 2013 on Townhall.com.As I've documented in the past, many leftist teachers teach our youngsters to hate our country. For example, University of Hawaii Professor Haunani-Kay Trask counseled her students, "We need [...]
Letting No Crisis Go to Waste
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 20, 2013 on The Washington Times website.Where others see a calamity, Obama sees golden opportunity.Chutzpah is defined in some dictionaries as "shameless audacity." It's not a big enough word to describe what Barack Obama, author of the best-seller The [...]
ACRU: ObamaCare Violates Freedom of Religion
Brief filed on behalf of Liberty University says the cost of defying abortion order would be "crippling."ALEXANDRIA, VA (Oct. 15, 2013) — In an amicus brief submitted on October 9, the American Civil Rights Union asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case brought by Liberty University. Located in [...]
Jimmy Carter's Change of Heart
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 13 on The Washington Times website.With the media giving 24/7 coverage to the federal shutdown and debt-ceiling standoff, other important news is slipping under the radar.For instance, Democrats are still vigorously waging a holy war on state voter-ID laws. [...]
Racial Trade-offs
This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 2, 2013 on Townhall.com.Trade-offs apply to our economic lives, as well as our political lives. That means getting more of one thing requires giving up something else. Let's look at some examples.Black [...]
Symposium: Time to Restore Longstanding Meaning—and Sanity—to the Establishment Clause in Town of Greece v. Galloway
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published October 3, 2013 on SCOTUSblog.com.Town of Greece v. Galloway is a major Establishment Clause case involving legislative prayer. If the Supreme Court takes this opportunity—as it should—to replace both the manifestly unworkable original Lemon test and its equally unworkable [...]
Symposium: Time to Restore Longstanding Meaning—and Sanity—to the Establishment Clause in Town of Greece v. Galloway
This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published October 3, 2013 on SCOTUSblog.com.Town of Greece v. Galloway is a major Establishment Clause case involving legislative prayer. If the Supreme Court takes this opportunity—as it should—to replace both the manifestly unworkable original Lemon test and its equally unworkable [...]
Bloomberg's Astroturf Mayors
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published on October 1, 2013 on The Daily Caller website.By now, you'd think Michael Bloomberg would have learned his lesson.The out-of-touch New York City mayor has lately made it his business to be in everyone else's business—whether that means trying to [...]
It's the President's Fault
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published October 2, 2013 on the American Spectator website.Day 2 of the government shutdown, and look out the window. The sun is still shining, and the sky is still blue. The birds are chirping.The Great Government Shutdown is not that big [...]
Over Obamacare's Illegal Delay, John Boehner Must Play Hard Ball with Harry Reid
This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 30, 2013 on Forbes.com.Everyone is so sure of their opinion. But almost no one knows anything about it. With most of the news media actually participating in the partisan political wrangling, instead of reporting on it, can anyone even [...]
Cruz's Green Eggs and the Media Hambones
This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 30, 2013 on The Washington Times website.C-SPAN is more powerful than a fleet of little red wagons, but it felt a lot like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" as Sen. Ted Cruz demolished the legitimacy of Obamacare in his [...]