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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.

Excluding Prayer From 9/11 Memorial Compounds the Tragedy of That Day

By |2011-08-26T13:40:41-04:00August 26th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published August 25, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Do you remember what things were like in the hours and days following the 9/11 terrorist attacks? Evidently New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg does not.

While the smoke was still rising against a clear sky over Manhattan, Pennsylvania, and Washington, people were flooding to churches across the country and prayer groups spontaneously organized in neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces.

Days later, President Bush spoke at a national memorial service at our National Cathedral, and clergy of various faiths offered prayers in conjunction with the president’s […]

The Downward Spiral

By |2020-04-23T21:54:02-04:00August 24th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 24, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

Accelerating downward spiral. That is what I have been predicting for the Obama Administration for over two years. And now it’s happening. Events are spinning out of control.

Rising inflation is restricting the Fed’s options for keeping the economy high on monetary stimulus crack. The result? Fast developing market chaos.

On account of President Obama’s economic policies, the economy never recovered from the last recession. Now it may go back into full scale recession before […]

Legal Obedience

By |2023-03-10T08:04:48-05:00August 24th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 24, 2011 on Townhall.com.

What laws are we morally obligated to obey? Help with the answer can be found in “Economic Liberty and the Constitution,” a 66-page pamphlet by Jacob G. Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation.

Hornberger offers a hypothetical whereby Congress enacts a compulsory church attendance law that requires children to attend church service each Sunday. Parents are penalized if their children fail to comply. Would there be any moral or constitutional legitimacy to such a congressional […]

Don't Dial ACLU-Heavy DOJ for Voter Fraud Protection

By |2020-04-23T21:48:01-04:00August 19th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published August 19, 2011 on the American Thinker website.

If you thought the U.S. Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder was already shockingly biased toward far-left causes, get ready for a more permanent problem.

As Hans A. von Spakovsky has outlined in the first of five articles for Pajamas Media about DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, Holder has hired 16 civil service employees — not political appointees — in the Voting Rights Section. This means they will be part of the permanent bureaucracy.

It’s part of an overall trend […]

Warren Buffett's Public Disservice On Taxation

By |2011-08-19T10:22:39-04:00August 19th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 18, 2011 on Forbes.com.

Warren Buffet is performing a gross public disservice in creating urban myths about the nature of the tax system in America. Those myths will mislead millions of Americans about the fundamentals of their own country.

Buffett began his media offensive with an op-ed in the New York Times on Sunday, “Stop Coddling the Super Rich,” where he complained that taxes need to be raised on “the rich” so they can pay their fair share. […]

Purple Politics Color Colorado Rockies

By |2011-08-18T10:52:10-04:00August 18th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published August 17, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

SILVERTON, COLO.

The man in the coffee shop had the look of a no-nonsense Westerner. A retired architect, he told me he had lived in the mountains for the past few years and, like most Americans, was appalled at what was going on in Washington.

Cheerfully admitting to being a political liberal, he nonetheless agreed that America’s financial woes were caused by government profligacy, not a lack of tax revenue. He acknowledged that the nation’s credit rating was downgraded because Congress had […]

Ominous Parallels

By |2011-08-17T10:45:07-04:00August 17th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published August 17, 2011 on Townhall.com.

People are beginning to compare Barack Obama’s administration to the failed administration of Jimmy Carter, but a better comparison is to the Roosevelt administration of the 1930s and ’40s. Let’s look at it with the help of a publication from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and the Foundation for Economic Education titled “Great Myths of the Great Depression,” by Dr. Lawrence Reed.

During the first year of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, he called for increasing federal […]

Obamacare Is Going Down

By |2011-08-17T10:22:36-04:00August 17th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 17, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

As we saw, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals became the first federal appellate court to find the Obamacare individual mandate unconstitutional last Friday. I filed briefs in that case on behalf of the American Civil Rights Union urging that result. More important than the ruling is what the trend is showing. For all that matters in the end is what five Justices on the Supreme Court say.

One of the two judges voting to […]

What? Another Department of Jobs?

By |2011-08-16T21:30:13-04:00August 16th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published August 16, 2011 on The Huffington Post.

Floundering. Flopping around like a fish on deck. That’s the best description of the Obama administration this summer. The president’s now on a bus tour of the Heartland. Next, he’s slated to go to Martha’s Vineyard for a well-earned vacation.

He’s done about all the damage he can do for one summer, so let’s give him a break. The media shows the president stepping smartly off Air Force One or briskly scaling the stairway up to Air Force One. It’s intended to impress us […]

"Super Committee" Should Cut Spending, Not Raise Taxes

By |2020-04-23T21:57:11-04:00August 16th, 2011|

As a member of the Conservative Action Project, ACRU CEO Susan Carleson and leaders of 37 other organizations representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement have a united message on the “Super Committee.”

MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT: “Super Committee” should focus on Reducing Spending & Stimulating Economic Growth–not increasing taxes.

RE: The Budget Control Act of 2011 created a Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (“Super Committee”) that must vote on a plan with the goal of $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction by November 23. We believe the “Super Committee” should reduce federal spending on the way to a balanced budget, while preserving […]

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