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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.

Blast It! ACLU Protects Teeth-Rattling Car Music

By |2020-04-23T21:52:53-04:00May 15th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 14, 2011 on The Daily Caller website.

In its long history of empowering nuisances that shatter civility, the ACLU has chalked up another victory.

This time, it’s a statewide noise abatement law in Florida aimed at the rolling boom boxes whose subwoofers give unwary bystanders an overall massage, often accompanied by obscenities.

As the Tampa Tribune’s Keith Morelli neatly summarizes:

“The throbbing, molar-rattling bass punctuated with profanity laced lyrics coming from the car in front of you carries the same weight as a political candidate driving down the […]

Throw Out the Bums Before Election Day

By |2011-05-15T20:16:44-04:00May 15th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 13, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

In Wymore, Neb., voters got fed up with a councilman who kept leaving meetings. So, on Tuesday, they voted him out in a recall election. It’s part of a nationwide pattern as people discover that they don’t have to wait until the next election to throw the bums out. In Chattanooga, Tenn., a recall effort against Democratic Mayor Ron Littlefield has been tied up in court since September. Organizers who filed an appeal are not giving up, and they say they expect the case […]

ACRU Files Brief Supporting Florida's Challenge to Obamacare

By |2011-05-11T14:17:13-04:00May 11th, 2011|

The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) filed an amicus curiae brief today in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in support of Florida and other states in the case of State of Florida, et al. v HHS, et al. seeking to strike down Obamacare.

“The brief argues that Obamacare’s individual mandate is unconstitutional because the delegated, enumerated power in the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce does not include compelling people to buy government-designated health insurance,” said ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, who wrote the brief.

The Heartland Institute recently published a book-length study by Mr. Ferrara entitled The Obamacare Disaster: […]

The Incredible Shrinking Recovery

By |2011-05-11T08:08:17-04:00May 11th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 11, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

There was President Obama at a recent fundraiser telling his star-struck enablers, look at me, after just two and a half years, I got the economy growing again. He didn’t tell them that the pitiful 1.7% annualized real growth rate in the first quarter compares to 7.1% annualized real growth at the same point in President Reagan’s recovery.

Over the first 7 quarters of the Reagan recovery, the economy boomed at a real growth rate of […]

National Histrionic

By |2011-05-09T10:56:23-04:00May 9th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published May 6, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

A couple of years ago, I let my National Geographic subscription lapse because of the magazine’s relentless earth worship. But I missed the superb photos, crisp writing and mind- boggling statistics, so I started getting it again.

Boy, am I getting it. After perusing the May issue, I’m once again ashamed to be human. People, people, people! We’re carbonizing the clouds! We’re wrecking the coral reefs! We’re reducing the polar bear’s habitat to the size of a McDonald’s parking lot! We’re scooping sand […]

Reaganomics Vs. Obamanomics: Facts And Figures

By |2011-05-06T08:42:49-04:00May 6th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 5, 2011 on Forbes.com.

In February 2009 I wrote an article for The Wall Street Journal entitled “Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics,” which argued that the emerging outlines of President Obama’s economic policies were following in close detail exactly the opposite of President Reagan’s economic policies. As a result, I predicted that Obamanomics would have the opposite results of Reaganomics. That prediction seems to be on track.

When President Reagan entered office in 1981, he faced actually much worse […]

Obama's War on Oil

By |2011-05-04T09:54:49-04:00May 4th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published May 4, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

As a guest on a black radio talk show recently, I suggested that someone ask President Obama what his plan is for bringing down high gasoline prices.

What a gaffe that question would be. The current high gas prices, and more, are precisely the President’s plan.

President Obama’s Secretary of Energy is former Berkeley physics professor Steven Chu, who said in 2008, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline […]

Interrogation Not Litigation Led to Osama

By |2011-05-03T16:22:57-04:00May 3rd, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published May 4, 2011 on the American Thinker blog.

Osama bin Laden is dead because President Obama followed the rules of war and the policies and procedures left to him by President George W. Bush rather than the rules of civil procedure.

During a White House press briefing Sunday night, a senior administration official credited post-9/11 “detainees” with providing the links of information that led to bin Laden’s $1 million compound in Pakistan. According to a transcript of the call, a senior administration official said:

“Detainees in the post-9/11 period […]

Obama's Oily View of America

By |2020-04-23T21:57:12-04:00May 2nd, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 29, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

When Barack Obama is in flyover country, if you close your eyes, you can almost hear a moderate Republican on the stump. But when he’s on the Left Coast, the real Obama surfaces, bristling with praise for confiscatory taxation, redistributing wealth and ever bigger government.

It was in San Francisco, after all, that he let slip his famous gaffe on April 6, 2008, about rural Pennsylvanians clinging to “guns and religion.” And it was in San Francisco last week that he told a […]

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