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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.

Vote Fraudsters Redouble Efforts

By |2020-04-23T22:01:20-04:00June 12th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 10, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

Even with the demise of ACORN, a lot of people are worried about voter fraud in the 2012 presidential election. That’s because the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has not really gone away since two young conservatives posing as a pimp and a prostitute administered a very painful video sting in 2009. ACORN has transmogrified into lots of little ACORN groups with misleadingly innocent names, such as Affordable Housing Centers of America (formerly ACORN Housing Corp.) and New England United for Justice.

Addressing The Various Debt-Limit Delusions

By |2011-06-11T08:28:33-04:00June 11th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 9, 2011 on Forbes.com.

Suppose you were suffering long term unemployment, and you had maxed out all of your credit cards. Would your first action this morning be (1) get out of the house to look for a job, or (2) start cutting back on expenses, or (3) focus on increasing your credit limit?

Based on their positions in the federal debt limit debate, what President Obama and Sens. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi would advise is (3) […]

Weiner's Shame Deficit

By |2011-06-09T14:42:45-04:00June 9th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published June 9, 2011 on Townhall.com.

After 10 days of playing the victim of computer hacking, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York) admitted Monday that he lied about sending lewd photos of himself to women he met online. He said that he is “deeply ashamed” and accepts responsibility for his “actions,” but will not resign from Congress, claiming that he “didn’t violate any laws or congressional rules.”

Instead of urging Weiner to resign, as several other Democrats have done, Minority House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), former Queen of Clean Swamps, referred the […]

Irksome Things

By |2011-06-08T13:12:08-04:00June 8th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published June 8, 2011 on Townhall.com.

There are a lot of things, large and small, that irk me. One of them is our tendency to evaluate a presidential candidate based on his intelligence or academic credentials. When Obama threw his hat in the ring, people thought he was articulate and smart and hailed his intellectual credentials. Just recently, when Newt Gingrich announced his candidacy, people hailed his intellectual credentials and smartness as well.

By contrast, the intellectual elite and mainstream media people see Sarah Palin […]

Last Stop for Obamacare Before Supreme Court

By |2011-06-08T12:54:47-04:00June 8th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 7, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Obamacare is likely facing its last stop before it heads to the Supreme Court in 2012. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta will hear arguments Wednesday in the biggest Obamacare case in the country.

This is the Obama administration’s appeal in Florida v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It’s the case in which President Obama suffered his most embarrassing defeat at the district court level when Judge Roger Vinson struck down not only the linchpin of Obamacare — its […]

The Coming Crash of 2013

By |2011-06-08T09:09:56-04:00June 8th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 8, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

On Inauguration Day, 2009, President Obama seemed so politically blessed by the timing of developing economic trends. I expected that based on American economic history, recovery from the recession should have occurred some time during 2009. Even the longest previous recession since the Great Depression would have resulted in a recovery in summer 2009, as the recession began in December 2007.

Moreover, prior American history had shown that the deeper the recession the stronger the recovery. […]

Democratic Press Handmaidens

By |2011-06-06T09:07:12-04:00June 6th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 3, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

You might have seen the vicious Mediscare video by now entitled “America the Beautiful.” If you haven’t, you should. It’s from folks who just the other day were chanting the mantra of “civility.” It’s a taste of what the left will be serving up as 2012 approaches.

As the song “America the Beautiful” plays, a man in a dark suit with a likeness to Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin pushes an elderly woman in a wheelchair down a sidewalk. The message on […]

First Amendment Protects Prayer, Not Obscene Violence

By |2020-04-23T21:50:22-04:00June 6th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 5, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and the rest of the framers of the Constitution would be astounded to hear a federal judge order a valedictorian’s prayer is not protected by the First Amendment, but marketing sickening video games to children is protected by the First Amendment.

On June 3, I debated Barry Lynn, president of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, on Fox News Channel. Lynn’s group represents in court an agnostic family suing a Texas school district.

Like most high schools, Medina […]

The Two Alternatives for Health Care Policy

By |2011-06-03T11:45:59-04:00June 3rd, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 2, 2011 on Forbes.com.

National health care costs have been growing faster than the economy for close to 100 years. But that cost growth accelerated over the past 50 years, soaring from 5% of GDP in 1960, to 10% in 1985, to 17% in 2009. That is the highest proportion of output devoted to health care of any country in the world, by far. Second place France comes in at 11.2% of GDP, followed by Switzerland (10.7%), […]

The Democrats' Big Government Breakout

By |2011-06-01T14:04:58-04:00June 1st, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published June 1, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

Historic battle lines are being drawn in the budget battle in Washington that too few understand. The Democrats are supporting an unprecedented breakout of Big Government taxes and spending. The Republicans are trying to draw the line at the stable level of federal taxes and spending relative to the economy that has prevailed throughout the postwar era up until now, and provided the foundation for the dominating postwar American prosperity.

At stake is whether the prosperity […]

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