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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.

How Does President Obama's Economic Recovery Compare to Those of Other Presidents?

By |2013-08-07T09:41:02-04:00August 7th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published August 4, 2013 on Forbes.com.

President Obama is on a national economic policy speaking tour, with a series of speeches across the country on finally getting the economy growing again, now in his fifth year in office. It is a subject long overdue.

President Obama and his paid spokespeople like to point out that the economy is doing better now than during the depths of the last recession, which ended in official records four years ago! But economies always do […]

Culture Clash in the High Country

By |2013-08-05T11:21:21-04:00August 5th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published August 5, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

OURAY, Colo. — Just because the mountain air is thin at 7,800 feet and the New Age is evident in various ways doesn’t mean that Coloradans have totally lost their sense of reality.

In Ouray, for example, a town that is arguably the most scenic in the nation (nickname: “the Switzerland of America”) the town council on July 15 adopted a moratorium on retail marijuana shops.

Colorado’s voters, who went for Barack Obama in 2012, also legalized possession and sales, but they […]

Citizens Claim Pentagon Forced Them to Shut Down Charity for Deployed Soldiers

By |2013-07-31T06:03:28-04:00July 31st, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 28, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

A Virginia woman has shut down a website for a charity operation meant to help American troops deployed in Afghanistan in response to what she describes as harassment and intimidation from U.S. military leadership.

Breitbart News‘s Liz Sheld reported in May on how Virginia woman RoxAnne Christley organized an effort to help provide hometown comforts for troops in Afghanistan. Christley heard that an Afghanistan hospital unit lacked clean bed sheets, with some supplies bloodstained or torn. Thus, she organized a charitable […]

There's an Economic Boom Lurking Once President Obama's Second Term Ends

By |2013-07-30T07:14:31-04:00July 30th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published July 28, 2013 on Forbes.com.

The magician’s trick is deception, based on misdirection and distraction. He draws your attention over here, while he is carrying out the trick over there. President Obama’s economic policy speech last week at Knox College in Galesville, Ill. was a classic case of such misdirection, distraction, and deception.

He talked a lot about championing the middle class, a ploy he learned from Saul Alinsky, while all his policies have been trashing the middle class. […]

Holder Declares War on Texas, Ignores Supreme Court

By |2020-04-23T21:58:16-04:00July 26th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 25, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Attorney General Eric Holder has launched a war against Texas, and in doing so is defying the Supreme Court of the United States. The imminent judicial beat-down of Holder highlights that this case is not about the rule of law and instead abuses the federal courts for political purposes to rile up the far left and demonize Republicans.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) was enacted pursuant to the Constitution’s Fifteenth Amendment, making it illegal to deny someone’s voting rights due to race. Under […]

Military Censors Christian Chaplain, Atheists Call for Punishment

By |2020-04-23T21:52:42-04:00July 26th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 24, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

A Christian chaplain in the military is being officially censored for engaging in free speech, and anti-Christian activists are demanding he be punished.

Lt. Col. Kenneth Reyes is a Christian chaplain currently serving in the U.S. Air Force. He is stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. As an ordained clergyman whose duties are to provide religious instruction and spiritual counseling, he has a page on the base’s website called “Chaplain’s Corner.”

Reyes recently wrote an essay entitled, “No Atheists in Foxholes: Chaplains Gave […]

Court Rules for Hobby Lobby in HHS Mandate Case, Supreme Court Next?

By |2013-07-24T11:44:43-04:00July 24th, 2013|

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

Home-retailer Hobby Lobby–owned by the Green family, who are devout Christians–just dealt the Obamacare HHS mandate a devastating one-two punch. It’s likely the Obama administration will have no choice but to now petition the U.S. Supreme Court–where President Barack Obama’s signature legislation is in danger of suffering a humiliating defeat.

The HHS mandate is not in the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare); it’s a regulation implementing a plain-vanilla section of the ACA requiring “preventive services”–and requires all employers to cover abortion-related services.

Many […]

When Government Grows Like Kudzu

By |2013-07-22T11:41:09-04:00July 22nd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published July 22, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

The federal government is growing like kudzu. That’s the Japanese ivy plant that’s taking over roadsides all over the south and is even invading the north.

Kudzu does some good, holding the ground and so on, but the price is steep: It kills the other plants, trees and bushes by smothering them. It’s kind of pretty in the summer, like the topiary animals at Disney World, full of fanciful shapes. In the states that have cold winters, though, it leaves a tangled mess […]

ACLU Official Blasts Marathon Bombing Case Investigation

By |2013-07-22T11:30:51-04:00July 22nd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published July 21, 2013 on the American Thinker website.

There’s not much that doesn’t outrage the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), whether it’s the “not guilty” verdict in the George Zimmerman trial or America’s continued reluctance to shed its Christian heritage.

In Boston, however, the ACLU seems to have a special knack for eyebrow-raising stances.

Take ACLU of Massachusetts board member Nancy Ryan. According to the Boston Herald, Ms. Ryan is incensed that the FBI has been questioning classmates of a man charged with lying to investigators […]

Obama's Pants on Fire in White House Obamacare Speech

By |2013-07-21T19:27:47-04:00July 21st, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 18, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

On Thursday, President Barack Obama said of his health care law: “Despite all the evidence that the law is working the way it’s supposed to,” there are critics out there. He says they must be doing it for purely political reasons. That sound you hear is the fire alarm going off in the White House.

Shortly after the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) was signed into law on Mar. 23, 2010, the administration announced that the massive Title VIII of the law–the CLASS Act […]

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