ACRU Staff, Author at American Constitutional Rights Union

Congress Investigating Obama Admin's Hostility to Religion in the Military

By ACRU Staff|2013-05-20T12:18:33-04:00May 20th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 13, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Following 59 Members of Congress sending a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel regarding Pentagon officials meeting with an anti-Christian extremist, another group of 72 House Members has sent a second wide-ranging letter, exploring whether these infringements on religious liberty violate both federal law and the Constitution.

The first letter demanded that Hagel explain why Pentagon brass met with anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein. It highlighted various disturbing statements Weinstein has made–most of which were first reported by Breitbart News–such as calling Christians “monsters,” and claiming […]

Hating America

By ACRU Staff|2013-05-16T09:01:55-04:00May 16th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 15, 2013 on Townhall.com.

Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who are accused of setting the bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon, attended the University of Massachusetts. Maybe they hated our nation before college, but if you want lessons on hating America, college attendance might be a good start. Let’s look at it.

“We need to think very, very clearly about who the enemy is. The enemy is the United States of America and everyone who supports it.” That’s taught to University of […]

Obamacare Implodes

By ACRU Staff|2013-05-16T08:14:26-04:00May 16th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Welfare Reform (CCWR) Peter Ferrara was published May 15, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

Health policy economists are puzzled by a persistent slowdown in the growth of health care spending that seems to have started in mid-2005, and accelerated since then. The Wall Street Journal summarized it on Monday, saying, “The health [spending] growth rate has flattened out at about 3.9% over the last three years–a record low since the 1960s and down from the old normal of 6.2% to 9.7% in the 2000s.”

Economists thought at first that the […]

59 Congress Members Demand Hagel Explain Meeting with Anti-Christian Extremist

By ACRU Staff|2013-05-15T07:53:15-04:00May 15th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 13, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Monday morning, Congressmen Steve Scalise and John Fleming–both Republicans representing districts in Louisiana–sent a letter signed by 59 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon, demanding answers regarding Pentagon officials’ meeting with an anti-Christian extremist.

This story began two weeks ago when Breitbart News reported on at least one such meeting. Since that time it has become a growing controversy, as Breitbart News reported additional disturbing details. Now Congress is weighing in.

The Scalise-Fleming letter […]

ACRU Asks Supreme Court to Strike Campaign Finance Limits

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:52:44-04:00May 14th, 2013|

Political speech should have higher protection than “pornography, nude dancing and abortion,” brief says.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 13, 2013) — In an amicus brief filed May 8, the American Civil Rights Union argues that limits on campaign donations infringe on freedom of speech.

Written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, the brief in Shaun McCutcheon and Federal Election Committee v. Federal Election Commission sides with plaintiff Shaun McCutcheon, who is appealing a September ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia upholding the federal campaign contribution law.

Mr. McCutcheon had wanted to donate more money to three […]

ACRU Asks Supreme Court to Strike Campaign Finance Limits

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:52:44-04:00May 14th, 2013|

Political speech should have higher protection than “pornography, nude dancing and abortion,” brief says.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 13, 2013) — In an amicus brief filed May 8, the American Civil Rights Union argues that limits on campaign donations infringe on freedom of speech.

Written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, the brief sides with plaintiff Shaun McCutcheon, who is appealing a September ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia upholding the federal campaign contribution law.

Mr. McCutcheon challenged the aggregate limit ($74,600) on contributions to non-candidate committees because he wanted to contribute $25,000 each to three Republican political committees […]

House Republicans Prove Effective At Restraining Runaway Democrat Spending

By ACRU Staff|2013-05-14T06:28:03-04:00May 14th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 9, 2013 on Forbes.com.

House Republicans are proving effective in restraining the runaway federal spending desired by President Obama and Congressional Democrats. That does not remotely mean that the House Republican majority has solved Washington’s spending, deficit and debt problems. But while they looked helpless at the turn of the year when Obama and the Democrats rolled over them in enacting Obama/Democrat tax increases on capital investment, official federal government budget numbers show that the House Republican majority […]

Congress Must Tell Pentagon to Protect Troops' First Amendment Rights

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:53:45-04:00May 14th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 11, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

The Pentagon has now fully reversed its previous declarations and is now claiming it has no policy either way on whether proselytizing is allowed in the military. Given the contradictory statements on this issue and other instances of disallowing Christian expression in the military (including an Air Force ban on sharing the gospel), it’s imperative Congress permanently secure enduring protections for those serving in the armed forces.

Last week, Breitbart News broke the story that Pentagon officials held a meeting on Apr. 23, 2013, with […]

Benghazi's Media Maze

By ACRU Staff|2013-05-13T23:05:29-04:00May 13th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 13, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

You just knew press coverage of the congressional hearing on the Benghazi cover-ups last Wednesday would be nonexistent or squirrely, right?

It was mostly the latter, so break out the nuts.

After the hearing, an ABC radio segment utterly ignored the content. Three State Department whistleblowers had exposed alarming contradictions in the official White House account, but ABC News led with a clip of Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Democrat, who said the hearing was politically motivated, followed by a GOP spokesman […]

Obama's Rising Inequality

By ACRU Staff|2013-05-09T10:25:13-04:00May 9th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 8, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

The day after his second inauguration, the New York Times and the Washington Post blared about Obama’s speech heralding a new vision and agenda for equality in America. But apparently the Left is happy with just words.

Official U.S. government data shows that inequality is rising sharply under President Obama. It was stable under Bush. But Obamanomics has brought back exactly the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

Obama proclaimed in that second […]

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