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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 Ongoing Disgrace That Is Obamanomics

By |2012-06-07T17:01:04-04:00June 7th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 7, 2012 on Forbes.com.

President Obama has led America into an accelerating downward spiral. Destination: Argentina. Last Friday’s calamitous jobs report was just a signpost on the way.

Argentina enjoyed the world’s fourth highest per capita GDP in 1929, on par with the U.S. at the time. But then the nation lost its way through its embrace of a leftist, union allied government, which took control of the economy and imposed wildly irresponsible taxes, spending, deficits […]

Immoral Beyond Redemption

By |2012-06-06T15:40:05-04:00June 6th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 6, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Benjamin Franklin, statesman and signer of our Declaration of Independence, said: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” John Adams, another signer, echoed a similar statement: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Are today’s Americans virtuous and moral, or have we become corrupt and vicious? Let’s think it through with a few […]

Romney's Education Choice

By |2012-06-06T13:26:40-04:00June 6th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 6, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Mitt Romney is rolling through 2012 at a faster pace than Ronald Reagan rolled through 1980. He is ahead of Reagan’s pace at this point in 1980. Reagan was carrying the mantel of a far bigger revolution, basically terminating the 50-year-old New Deal coalition and inaugurating a new era of American politics. But in the end the voters were probably right in choosing Romney as the man for this time in 2012. With the nation under threat […]

Sorry Global Warming Alarmists, the Earth Is Cooling

By |2012-06-05T10:40:00-04:00June 5th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 31, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Climate change itself is already in the process of definitively rebutting climate alarmists who think human use of fossil fuels is causing ultimately catastrophic global warming. That is because natural climate cycles have already turned from warming to cooling, global temperatures have already been declining for more than 10 years, and global temperatures will continue to decline for another two decades or more.

That is one of the most interesting conclusions to come out of the seventh International […]

Don't Bring Back Earmarks!

By |2020-04-23T21:57:09-04:00May 31st, 2012|

As a member of the Conservative Action Project, ACRU President Susan Carleson and leaders of 26 other organizations representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement are united in opposition to bringing back earmarks!

MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT: Don’t Bring Back Earmarks!

RE: Some members of congress are trying to reopen the earmark ban through an obscure legislative process. For many conservatives, the two-year moratorium on the practice of earmarking was the signature accomplishment of the new House majority elected in 2010. Yet, the current legislative push by involving Miscellaneous Tariff Bills (MTBs) is being used by the Washington establishment to reopen […]

Our Nation's Future

By |2012-05-30T12:10:16-04:00May 30th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published May 30, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Our nation is rapidly approaching a point from which there’s little chance to avoid a financial collapse. The heart of our problem can be seen as a tragedy of the commons. That’s a set of circumstances when something is commonly owned and individuals acting rationally in their own self-interest produce a set of results that’s inimical to everyone’s long-term interest. Let’s look at an example of the tragedy of the commons phenomenon and then apply it to our national problem.

ACRU Asks Supreme Court to Overturn University of Texas Racial Discrimination Policy

By |2012-05-30T11:53:01-04:00May 30th, 2012|

May 30 — The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU), in a brief filed today at the U.S. Supreme Court, asks the Court to overturn a ruling against Abigail Fisher, a white woman denied admission to the University of Texas in 2008 because of her race. Ms. Fisher had superior academic credentials to others who were admitted partly on the basis of race, thus violating her right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, the brief argues.

In Abigail Noel Fisher et al v. University of Texas at Austin, et al, the ACRU argues that race-based admission policies actually can hurt their intended beneficiaries, […]

Obama's Politics of Envy

By |2012-05-29T12:10:19-04:00May 29th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 25, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

When reality bites, you can either try to change reality or create your own.

Barack Obama claims he has presided over trillions of dollars in spending cuts. If he’s a fiscal conservative, then I’m a forward “enforcer” for an NBA playoff team.

The president, who has increased the national debt by $5 trillion – more than all previous presidents combined – points to a nutty study by a journalist named Rex Nutting, whose virtual math asserts that Mr. Obama is an advocate […]

Tea Party Wave Could Carry Texas Senate Seat for Ted Cruz

By |2020-04-23T21:54:00-04:00May 27th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published May 25, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Constantly underestimated by the Republican establishment, the Tea Party continues to prove its power in GOP primaries. First Indiana, then Nebraska. And now new polls show rising conservative star Ted Cruz potentially poised to beat ultra-wealthy Lt. Governor David Dewhurst for the open U.S. Senate seat in Texas in a classic David v. Goliath match-up.

Ted Cruz’s bio looks like he’s a character from a script for an “only in America” movie story. A Hispanic, he was born to a Cuban father who was imprisoned […]

Prepared Remarks of the Hon. Ken Blackwell

By |2020-04-23T21:52:48-04:00May 25th, 2012|

This speech by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was delivered May 24, 2012 to the American Religious Freedom Program Conference.

Good afternoon. It is good to be with so many like-minded men and women, people who are committed to defending our most essential freedom – religious liberty.

We tend naturally to focus on religious freedom issues that rise to the national level. Those cases that come before the Supreme Court rank high in public interest and command the attention of the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and other giants of the main-stream media.

One of the most unprecedented and ominous assaults […]

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