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The American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU) is dedicated to defending the constitutional rights of all Americans. ACRU stands against harmful, anti-constitutional ideologies that have taken hold in our nation’s courts, culture, and bureaucracies. We defend and promote free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment, and national sovereignty.

ACRU Supports Hobby Lobby Against ObamaCare Contraceptive Mandate

By |2020-04-23T21:52:39-04:00January 28th, 2014|

“Individuals have Free Exercise rights with respect to their for-profit businesses.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 28, 2014) – The Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate unconstitutionally violates the religious freedom of a Christian family that owns a chain of craft stores and a chain of Christian bookstores, the American Civil Rights Union argues in a brief submitted today to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, the brief in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., Mardel Stores Inc., David Green, et al. notes that the Green family’s refusal to offer insurance coverage of abortifacients to […]

When Wendy Warred with a Woman

By |2020-04-23T21:52:39-04:00January 27th, 2014|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing January 25, 2014 on The American Thinker website.

One can learn a lot about State Sen. Wendy Davis, the Democratic candidate for governor of Texas, from her battles.

Davis has been battling to restore her tarnished image as a result of nonstop media attention after a column by Wayne Slater in the Dallas Morning News on Jan. 20. The mostly kid-gloves piece revealed some lies and material omissions in Davis’s “I am woman, hear me roar” resume.

For one, Davis downplayed embellishing and lying on her […]

Obama Should Stop Taking Credit: Health Savings Accounts Are Driving Down Costs

By |2014-01-21T12:00:00-05:00January 21st, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on January 21, 2014 on the Forbes website.

In his economic address at the Washington Navy Yard on September 16, President Obama bragged that “Health care costs are growing at the slowest rate in 50 years,” and attributed that to his Affordable Care Act, “which has helped to keep down the rise in health care costs to their lowest level in 50 years,” he claimed. He reiterated that in his press conference on November 14. His chief economist Jason Furman echoed that line in arguing that Obamacare is slowing health inflation in […]

Income Inequality

By |2023-03-10T08:04:39-05:00January 15th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 15, 2014 on Townhall.com.

Democrats plan to demagogue income inequality and the wealth gap for political gain in this year’s elections. Most of what’s said about income inequality is stupid or, at best, ill-informed. Much to their disgrace, economists focusing on measures of income inequality bring little light to the issue. Let’s look at it.

Income is a result of something. As such, results alone cannot establish whether there is fairness or justice. Take a simple example to make the point. Suppose Tom, […]

Why Economic Growth is Exponentially More Important Than Income Inequality

By |2014-01-15T12:50:06-05:00January 15th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published January 14, 2014 on Forbes.com.

In 1900, we had no airplanes, no computers, no cellphones, no internet. We had only rudimentary versions of cars, trucks, telephones, even cameras.

But in the last century, 1900 to 2000, as Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon report in their under appreciated work, It’s Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years, real per capita GDP in the U.S. grew by nearly 7 times, meaning the American standard of living grew by that much as well. The authors explain,

Supreme Court to Decide if Abortion Buffer Zones Violate Pro-Life Free Speech

By |2020-04-23T21:52:39-04:00January 15th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 14, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

Members of American Civil Liberties Union like to bill themselves as the ultimate protectors of the First Amendment, defending hard-core pornography as “free speech” and even the possession of child pornography. Go ahead, ask them. They only oppose the “production” of that demonic product.

Even the ACLU has its limits beyond the usual commonly cited exceptions of crying “fire” falsely in a crowded theater or making threats of violence.

The ACLU has long been comfortable with the ultimate violence committed inside the […]

Politics and Minimum Wage

By |2014-01-09T18:54:21-05:00January 9th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 8, 2014 on Townhall.com.

There’s little debate among academic economists about the effect of minimum wages. University of California, Irvine economist David Neumark has examined more than 100 major academic studies on the minimum wage. He reports that 85 percent of the studies “find a negative employment effect on low-skilled workers.” A 1976 American Economic Association survey found that 90 percent of its members agreed that increasing the minimum wage raises unemployment among young and unskilled workers. A 1990 survey reported in the American Economic Review (1992) found […]

Barack Obama's Presidency is a Complete Failure by His Own, Self-Imposed Standards

By |2014-01-07T11:55:00-05:00January 7th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published December 31, 2013 on Forbes.com.

At the end of 2013, after serving five years, Barack Obama is a complete failure as President, by his own standards, as reflected in his own words.

How many times has President Obama told us that he is “fighting for the middle class”? But real median family income has been in a continuous downward spiral since he became President, actually falling more since the recession ended in the summer of 2009 according to the National Bureau of Economic Research than during the recession. That has added […]

Dumb Politicians Won't Get Elected

By |2014-01-07T11:44:43-05:00January 7th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published December 25, 2013 on Townhall.com.

Politicians can be progressives, liberals, conservatives, Democrats or Republicans, and right-wingers. They just can’t be dumb. The American people will never elect them to office. Let’s look at it.

For years, I used to blame politicians for our economic and social mess. That changed during the 1980s as a result of several lunches with Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., which produced an epiphany of sorts.

At the time, I had written several columns highly critical of farm subsidies and […]

Obama's Slow Growth Policies Have Stacked the Deck Against American Workers

By |2014-01-07T11:29:17-05:00January 7th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published December 26, 2013 on Forbes.com.

President Obama told us in his December 4 economic coming out speech on inequality, which the Huffington Post called the most important speech of his Presidency, “But we know that people’s frustrations run deeper than these most recent political battles. Their frustration is rooted in their own daily battles – to make ends meet, to pay for college, buy a home, save for retirement. It’s rooted in the nagging sense that no matter how hard they work, the deck is stacked against them. And it is rooted […]

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