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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.

Obamacare Tragedy Primed To Further Explode the Deficit

By |2011-07-06T10:16:24-04:00July 6th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 6, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

President Obama bludgeoned Obamacare through Congress on the claim, backed by CBO, that it would not add to the deficit, even though it adopts or wildly expands three entitlement programs. As I discuss in my new book, America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, close analysis of the CBO score and additional new data indicates that, quite to the contrary, Obamacare will likely add $4 to $6 trillion to the deficit over its first 20 years, and possibly more.

Gross Media Ignorance

By |2011-07-06T09:49:58-04:00July 6th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published July 6, 2011 on Townhall.com.

There’s little that’s intelligent or informed about Time magazine editor Richard Stengel’s article “One Document, Under Siege” (June 23, 2011). It contains many grossly ignorant statements about our Constitution. If I believed in conspiracies, I’d say Stengel’s article is part of a leftist agenda to undermine respect for the founding values of our nation.

Stengel says:

“The framers were not gods and were not infallible. Yes, they gave us, and the world, a blueprint for the protection of […]

MEP Daniel Hannan Warns America

By |2011-07-05T16:41:18-04:00July 5th, 2011|

Introduction by Sen. Jim DeMint

The American Civil Rights Union and Regular Folks United recently hosted Daniel Hannan, Member of the European Parliament from Southeastern England, at the Capitol Hill Club where he delivered remarks warning Americans about the dangers of following in the steps of Europe.

Click on the video above to watch.

Time's Orwellian Story on U.S. Constitution Refuted!

By |2023-03-10T08:04:48-05:00July 3rd, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski and ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published July 2, 2011 on The Huffington Post.

Time magazine’s cover story shows the U.S. Constitution and asks, “Does it still matter?” Reading this story, we kept waiting for Emmanuel Goldstein to show up for the Two Minutes of Hate. It was difficult to discern whether we were reading Time, or Orwells’ 1984.

It portrays the Constitution as an outmoded document that we should ignore to whatever extent is expedient to pursue someone’s vision of a better society: “We cannot let the Constitution become an […]

The CBO's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb

By |2011-07-01T13:12:21-04:00July 1st, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 30, 2011 on Forbes.com.

Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued their Long Term Budget Outlook for 2011. The report closely validates my own analysis in my new book America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, released this month by HarperCollins.

CBO reports that the national debt is already the highest in history except for World War II, reaching roughly 70% of GDP this year. On our current course, CBO projects the national debt held by the public will […]

Scalia Wrong, Thomas Right on Violent Video Games

By |2020-04-23T21:52:53-04:00June 30th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 29, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Those who paint U.S. Supreme Court justices with a broad brush only prove they don’t really understand the court.

Justice Antonin Scalia was dead wrong in striking down California’s restriction on selling horribly violent video games to children. And Justice Clarence Thomas did a spectacular job of showing why the Founders would uphold this law.

California enacted a law restricting the sale of graphically violent video games to children, requiring an adult to make the purchase. One such graphic game involves the player torturing a […]

Block Grant Welfare to the States

By |2020-04-23T21:58:20-04:00June 29th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 29, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

The first step in defusing America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, the title of my new book, is to restore a booming economy. I discussed last week how to do that by applying the lessons of Reaganomics.

The next step is fundamental entitlement reform, to reduce the overwhelming future burden of exploding entitlement expenses. As I argue in the book, we will never be able to solve the entitlement crisis by simply trying to cut benefits for the […]

Why the GOP Is Right on Taxes

By |2011-06-29T09:49:36-04:00June 29th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 29, 2011 on FoxNews.com.

Congressional Republicans are standing firm on their principle that for every dollar of increase in the national debt limit, President Obama and the Democrats must agree to a dollar of spending cuts. That means if President Obama wants to increase the debt limit by $2 trillion to $3 trillion, then he will have to agree to $2 to $3 trillion in future spending cuts. But President Obama and the Democrats are insisting they won’t agree to […]

Supreme Court's Pliva Decision Is Another Blow Against Trial Lawyers

By |2023-03-10T08:04:49-05:00June 28th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 26, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Trial lawyers cannot sue drug manufacturers for defective warning labels on generics if labels were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The 5-4 Pliva v. Mensing decision announced last week was a defeat for class-action trial lawyers hoping to profit on litigation based on allegations that manufacturers violated state laws that aren’t pre-empted by federal laws or regulations.

The Supremacy Clause of the Constitution requires that so long as a federal law is constitutional, it pre-empts divergent […]

Bureaucratic Overreach Not Kids Stuff

By |2011-06-26T22:29:47-04:00June 26th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 24, 2011 on The

Washington Times website.

While 22-year-old Rory McIlroy was teeing up on June 16 during the first round of his historic victory at the U.S. Open, another drama was unfolding outside Congressional Country Club in Bethesda.

A Montgomery County inspector busted some kids for running a lemonade stand at which they were setting aside half the proceeds for pediatric cancer victims. The charge? No permit.

One of the dads involved got a $500 fine. After a TV station’s tape of the bust went viral, the […]

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