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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.

Court Rejects Judicially Mandated Cap and Trade

By |2011-06-21T21:38:59-04:00June 21st, 2011|

This excerpt by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 20, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Judges cannot make their own cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions, but only because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is already doing it, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a major global-warming case.

Several states, led by New York and Connecticut, pursued a tenuous theory in court, arguing that, since carbon emissions cause global warming, which in turn leads to natural disasters, misery and death, then courts ought to be able to fix it as a public nuisance.

The states sued five of America’s largest power […]

Navigating a Rocky Media Landscape

By |2011-06-18T18:54:35-04:00June 18th, 2011|

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

When I was a reporter years ago in Ocean City, Md., I learned the hard way that freedom of the press can be expensive.

In the dark days of winter, ad revenue was scarce. Both weekly papers lived to a great extent off the city’s legal ads. Our editorials regularly chided Mayor Harry Kelley, while our competitor paper remained mayor-friendly. So when Mr. Kelley got teed off, he yanked our legal ads but not the competing paper’s. I can still recall racing with […]

How Obamacare Will Further Explode the Deficit

By |2011-06-17T14:03:54-04:00June 17th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 16, 2011 on Forbes.com.

President Obama bludgeoned Obamacare through Congress on the claim, backed by the Congressional Budget Office, 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 available this week from HarperCollins, America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, close analysis of the CBO score and other new numbers indicates that, quite to the contrary, Obamacare will likely add $4 to $6 trillion to the […]

The Problem with the Republican Party

By |2011-06-15T15:07:04-04:00June 15th, 2011|

This excerpt by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski and ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published June 14, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Second of a series of three excerpts from Resurgent: How Constitutional Conservatism Can Save America, published by Threshold Editions of Simon & Schuster.

Most would expect that a book written by two Republicans discussing the Constitution, history, politics and policy would lambaste the Democratic Party, and especially President Obama as the most liberal president in American history. They’re right; that’s exactly what we do.

But we also take our fellow Republicans to task. We’re loyal Republicans, but we’re compelled […]

Our Moral Dilemma

By |2011-06-15T14:11:53-04:00June 15th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 15, 2011 on Townhall.com.

Most of our nation’s problems are a direct result of our being immune, hostile or indifferent to several moral questions. Let’s start out with the simple and move to the more complex. Or, stated another way, let’s begin with questions that generate the least hostility, moving to those that generate the greatest.

If a person benefits from a hamburger, a suit of clothing, an apartment or an education, who should be forced to pay for it? I believe the […]

America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb

By |2011-06-15T10:35:02-04:00June 15th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 15, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

My new book, America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, published by HarperCollins, went on sale this week. The book begins by explaining the overwhelming tidal wave of government spending, taxes, deficits and debt swamping our economy and threatening ultimate bankruptcy for America. But this book is not just about the problems, but also about the solutions.

Defusing the ticking bankruptcy bomb that is threatening to explode American prosperity will require first creating another economic boom to restore traditional […]

Book Review: Confronting National Debt Now

By |2011-06-15T10:03:52-04:00June 15th, 2011|

This column by Wes Vernon was published June 10, 2011 on The Washington Times website, and reviews ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara’s new book.

AMERICA’S TICKING BANKRUPTCY BOMB: HOW THE LOOMING DEBT CRISIS THREATENS THE AMERICAN DREAM – AND HOW WE CAN TURN THE TIDE BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE

By Peter Ferrara

Broadside Books, $25.99, 415 pages

The timing for release of this book could not be better. The debt ceiling’s claimed deadline approaches as Congress wrangles over how or whether to confront the consequences in a meaningful […]

Recovery and Resurgence Starts with the Family

By |2011-06-15T08:26:47-04:00June 15th, 2011|

This excerpt by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski and ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published June 13, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

First of a series of three excerpts from “Resurgent: How Constitutional Conservatism Can Save America,” published by Threshold Editions of Simon & Schuster.

There are many trying to define the current political crisis as entirely about the cost of government and size of government. They fail to understand the big picture of the interdependent nature of the American body politic and the precepts that are absolutely essential to sustaining limited government over a multigenerational time span.

America cannot recover […]

America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb

By |2011-06-14T12:31:43-04:00June 14th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 14, 2011 on FoxNews.com.

The failures of federal, state and local officials of both major parties, over many years, have primed a ticking bankruptcy bomb for America that will explode the American Dream if we don’t disarm it. But it is not too late to reverse course and avert the coming bankruptcy of America.

Reversing course will require fundamental structural reforms of all levels of government, and our most politically sensitive entitlement programs, including Social Security, Medicare, the continuing […]

Supreme Court Says Officials' Speech Is Not Protected by First Amendment

By |2020-04-23T21:50:22-04:00June 14th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 13, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Nevada’s law barring public officials from voting–or officially speaking–for or against issues where they have a personal stake is okay under the First Amendment, according to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan, the high court considered whether Nevada’s recusal statute for public officials violates those officials’ free speech rights.

The measure requires officials not to vote or advocate on matters where a family member or relationships with others that are “substantially similar” to family ties could profit from the official […]

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