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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.

Gullible Americans

By |2011-12-28T16:51:42-05:00December 28th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published December 28, 2011 on Townhall.com.

National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Deborah Hersman has called for states to mandate a total ban on cellphone usage while driving. She has also encouraged electronics manufacturers — via recommendations to the CTIA — The Wireless Association and the Consumer Electronics Association — to develop features that “disable the functions of portable electronic devices within reach of the driver when a vehicle is in motion.” That means she wants to be able to turn off your cellphone while you’re driving.

Heritage and the Individual Mandate

By |2011-12-21T11:03:07-05:00December 21st, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 21, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

I have kept the true story of the Heritage Foundation and the individual health insurance mandate under wraps for almost 20 years now, because up until now it has been too costly to tell it. But now it is too costly not to tell it.

This is not an attack on Heritage, which has long since mended its ways. But the story is now centrally relevant to the Republican presidential primaries.

In 1993, I was […]

Newt Gingrich's Entitlement Reform Plan

By |2020-04-23T21:58:19-04:00December 20th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 15, 2011 on Forbes.com.

On Nov. 12, in Manchester, N.H., Newt Gingrich released his entitlement reform proposals in a 49-page, single-spaced, footnoted document to which I contributed heavily. Those proposals reflect my life’s work at such institutions as the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation and John Goodman’s National Center for Policy Analysis, devoted to making government smaller, particularly through politically viable entitlement reforms. (You can read more about them in my book America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb).

The ACLU's 12 Days of Litigation

By |2020-04-23T21:52:50-04:00December 20th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 19, 2011 in The Daily Caller.

Always imaginative, the ACLU’s elves are finding new ways to step on Christmas, which they seem to regard as about as important in America as, oh, churches.

This year, the liberal organization’s lawyers are playing off the traditional carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” with an ACLU version, “The 12 Days of Religious Liberty.” It’s not a song, just a litany of religious cases.

Here’s their exquisitely multicultural explanation:

During what is often referred to as the holiday season, a variety of […]

Playing the Race Card before Election Day

By |2020-04-23T21:59:34-04:00December 19th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 19, 2011 in The Washington Times.

Is it racist to require people to show a photo ID when they vote? You need a photo ID for nearly any meaningful transaction, such as cashing checks, including government checks. If this simple requirement “suppresses” the vote, maybe we need to ask why it’s such a great idea to push for universal suffrage for every adult who is merely breathing.

Of course, even this latter requirement would suppress the vote in Chicago and New Orleans, where dead people get to vote all the […]

Our Marxist Wizard of Oz

By |2011-12-14T10:17:45-05:00December 14th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 14, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

His mother was an unabashed hippie from 1960s central casting. His father was an openly avowed Communist from Kenya. While his father wasn’t around much, his devoutly progressive grandparents arranged for him to be mentored during his adolescent years by a dues paying member of the U.S. Communist Party, Frank Marshall Davis.

When he went to college, he was attracted to the Marxist professors and student activists, according to his own published memoirs. When he graduated, […]

Obama Channels Hugo Chavez, Shows Why He Can't Lead on the Economy

By |2011-12-12T15:23:13-05:00December 12th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 8, 2011 on Forbes.com.

On Tuesday, President Obama went to Osawatomie High School in Kansas to deliver an address framing the economic issues for the 2012 election. He was following in the footsteps of turn of the century “progressive” Teddy Roosevelt, who spoke at that same site 100 years ago to rail against big corporations and the privileged, while calling for “fair play” for ordinary Americans.

But the speech only showed why Obama can’t lead America on the […]

Holder's Choice: Name a Fast and Furious Special Prosecutor or Face Impeachment

By |2020-04-23T21:54:02-04:00December 10th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published December 9, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Official Obama administration explanations for Operation Fast and Furious keep changing with each new wave of revelations. If Attorney General Eric Holder won’t appoint a special prosecutor, this scandal could end in his impeachment.

Republican congressmen put Holder in a vice-grip Thursday during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, interrogating him over the notorious gun-running scandal into Mexico.

This latest round of questions came after the Department of Justice (DOJ) dumped another 1,000 pages of Fast and Furious documents requested months ago by Congress. […]

Organizing the Takers Against the Makers

By |2011-12-07T10:46:58-05:00December 7th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 7, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

The brilliant Chavistas at the Center for American Progress have revealed the reelection strategy for President Jimmy Carter II. This time they are going to get the 1980 election right. Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin enlighten us with their publication, “The Path to 270: Demographics versus Economics in the 2012 Presidential Election.”

The authors recognize the grave political difficulties created by “the perceived inability of the Obama Administration’s policies to spark real recovery,” creating “serious doubts […]

Free to Die?

By |2011-12-07T10:26:00-05:00December 7th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published December 7, 2011 on Townhall.com.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, in his New York Times column titled “Free to Die” (9/15/2011), pointed out that back in 1980, his late fellow Nobel laureate Milton Friedman lent his voice to the nation’s shift to the political right in his famous 10-part TV series, “Free To Choose.” Nowadays, Krugman says, “‘free to choose’ has become ‘free to die.'”

He was referring to a GOP presidential debate in which Rep. Ron Paul was asked what should be done […]

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