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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.

The Great Depression Was Ended by the End of World War II, Not the Start of It

By |2013-12-03T12:55:11-05:00December 3rd, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published November 30, 2013 on Forbes.com.

A common fallacy is that the Great Depression was ended by the explosive spending of World War II. But World War II actually institutionalized the sharp decline in the standard of living caused by the Depression. The Depression was actually ended, and prosperity restored, by the sharp reductions in spending, taxes and regulation at the end of World War II, exactly contrary to the analysis of Keynesian so-called economists.

True, unemployment did decline at the start of World War II. But that was a statistical residue of […]

Masking Totalitarianism

By |2023-03-10T08:04:39-05:00November 27th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 27, 2013 on Townhall.com.

One of the oldest notions in the history of mankind is that some people are to give orders and others are to obey. The powerful elite believe that they have wisdom superior to the masses and that they’ve been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Their agenda calls for an attack on the free market and what it implies — voluntary exchange. Tyrants do not trust that people acting voluntarily will do what the tyrant thinks they should do. […]

Do Americans Prefer Deception?

By |2013-11-27T11:36:33-05:00November 27th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 20, 2013 on Townhall.com.

There’s more to the deceit and dishonesty about Social Security and Medicare discussed in my recent columns. Congress tells us that one-half (6.2 percent) of the Social Security tax is paid by employees and that the other half is paid by employers, for a total of 12.4 percent. Similarly, we are told that a Medicare tax of 1.45 percent is levied on employees and that another 1.45 percent is levied on employers. The truth of the matter is that the burden of both taxes […]

'Signal and Manifest Mercies'

By |2013-11-26T21:11:27-05:00November 26th, 2013|

Giving thanks to God for America’s blessings has a long pedigree, from observances in Jamestown, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts in the 17th Century, and at the dawn of our new nation.

On Sept. 25, 1789, the day after the House of Representatives passed the Bill of Rights, Elias Boudinot, president of the Congress from 1782 to 1783, raised a motion to request that President George Washington “recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.”

The measure passed both Houses of Congress with a […]

The ACLU's Not So Holy Trinity

By |2013-11-26T17:47:26-05:00November 26th, 2013|

This column by Grove City College historian Paul Kengor was published December 14, 2010 on the American Spectator website.

There’s a reason why the Christmas season always brings out the atheist in the ACLU.

In a revealing American Spectator article, historian Paul Kengor uproots the American Civil Liberties Union’s historic hostility to Christmas and other public celebrations of Christianity. Here’s an excerpt:

The ACLU seems unusually active right now. What gives? Maybe it’s the Christmas season, which always seems to spring the ACLU into high gear, more miserable than usual….

I tried to ignore the latest round […]

ACRU: Obama Made Illegal Recess Appointments to NLRB

By |2013-11-26T11:46:58-05:00November 26th, 2013|

Group’s Supreme Court brief supports private company against negative ruling by a National Labor Relations Board that lacked a constitutionally legal quorum.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 26, 2013) — President Obama violated the Constitution by claiming to have made three appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) when the Senate was not in recess, so a ruling made by that body is invalid, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) argues in a friend of the court brief filed Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court. President Obama is the first President in U.S. history to try to make recess appointments that bypass Senate […]

We Must Repeal Obamacare To Make Society Much More Humane

By |2020-04-23T21:57:05-04:00November 25th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published November 18, 2013 on Forbes.com.

In a Wall Street Journal commentary on November 11, Alan Blinder purports to tell us why, despite a “botched rollout,” Obamacare is still worth it. “America cannot be a humane society if we leave 15% of our population uninsured,” he explains.

I agree that America cannot be a humane society unless we have some means to assure health care for all. But in context, his quoted statement above could not be more silly, and intellectually embarrassing.

Alan, is Princeton so intellectually corrupt these days that no one […]

Entitlement Reform, Tea Party Style

By |2013-11-25T13:30:17-05:00November 25th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published November 13, 2013 on the American Spectator website.

The Tea Party/Republican House majority was elected in 2010 to stop the runaway Obama/Progressive Democrat big government spending spree. And it has had a decisive effect in that regard, as recorded in the annual CBO budget report released last week.

Federal spending soared from $2.655 trillion in 2006, when the Democrat Congress was elected to replace the Republican Congress, to $3.6 trillion in fiscal 2011, reflecting the last spending legislation adopted by that completely Democrat Congress in the prior year, an increase of […]

Clarence Thomas vs. Barack Obama on Gettysburg, American Greatness

By |2013-11-20T12:28:45-05:00November 20th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published November 19, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

When asked last week how he ended up on the Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Clarence Thomas said, “It was totally Forrest Gump,” in a revealing–and hilarious–on-stage interview at last week’s Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention.

This full-length interview was a window into the soul of America’s most conservative High Court justice–whose remarks on Gettysburg could not draw a more stark contrast with President Barack Obama.

Thomas was the keynote speaker at last week’s annual gathering of the brightest conservative legal stars in America. He sat […]

Feeling the Pain and Assigning the Blame

By |2013-11-18T13:37:21-05:00November 18th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published November 17, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

When Bill Clinton jumps off the bus over embarrassing prevarications, you know it’s getting serious.

The former president’s rebuke last week of President Obama for repeatedly lying to Americans that they could keep their health insurance policies under Obamacare shows that the Comeback Kid still has an acute ability to feel our pain. Also, that he’s prepared to throw anyone under the bus in order to get back into the White House behind Hillary’s skirt.

There is rich irony in a sitting president being lectured for […]

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