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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.

Obama's Energetic War on the Young

By |2011-04-04T09:57:02-04:00April 4th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 1, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

President Obama needs to reinvent reality, so where does he go? A college campus. And why not? With gas doubling in price toward $4 a gallon, what better place to talk energy than to backpacking cyclists at trendy, urban Georgetown University? It’s a far friendlier crowd than, say, one composed of truckers, commuters or laid-off workers.

Besides, the last time Mr. Obama spoke at Georgetown, on April 14, 2009, college officials complied with a White House request to cover up pesky Christian […]

Department of Injustice

By |2011-03-30T15:08:21-04:00March 30th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 30, 2011 on Townhall.com.

One of the requirements to become a Dayton, Ohio police officer is to successfully pass the city’s two-part written examination. Applicants must correctly answer 57 of 86 questions on the first part (66 percent) and 73 of 102 (72 percent) on the second part. Dayton’s Civil Service Board reported that 490 candidates passed the November 2010 written test, 57 of whom were black. About 231 of the roughly 1,100 test takers were black.

The U.S. Department of Justice, […]

A Big Question for 2012

By |2011-03-30T10:41:47-04:00March 30th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 30, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

If you listen to President Obama and his Democrat and liberal/left cronies carefully, a clear, consistent message comes through on what they think promotes economic growth and jobs. They believe that the way to promote economic growth and prosperity is through increased federal spending, deficits, and debt.

That is not a caricature of their position. This is precisely what they are saying. And they are true to their words.

Still Another Failure of Keynesian Economics

ACRU Files Amicus Brief Against EPA's Unconstitutional Stoppage of Home Construction

By |2011-03-29T22:41:37-04:00March 29th, 2011|

Petitioners Chantell and Michael Sackett purchased a residential lot in a residential neighborhood, zoned and permitted by local authorities for construction of their home. After they began earthwork prepatory to such construction, they received a Compliance Order from the EPA effectively ruling that moving around dry earth and fill materials on their residential lot to begin their homebuilding project somehow involved discharge of a pollutant into the navigable waters of the United States in violation of the Clean Water Act. The Sacketts were denied any hearing to contest the Compliance Order by the EPA and by federal courts. They sought a Writ of Certiorari on the grounds […]

Court Weighs Constitutionality of Law Funding Political Opposition

By |2020-04-23T21:54:03-04:00March 29th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 28, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Should taxpayer money go to fund political campaigns when another candidate raises money? It does in Arizona. Now the Supreme Court will decide whether this system violates the First Amendment in the first campaign finance case since Citizens United v. FEC.

Arizona has a system of taxpayer-funded political campaigns called “Clean Elections.” Many candidates in Arizona raise campaign money traditionally. But candidates have the option of taking taxpayer money instead, under a ballot initiative that narrowly passed, 51 percent to 49 percent, in 1998.

This […]

Ladies Who Launch

By |2011-03-28T22:15:17-04:00March 28th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published March 28, 2011 on the American Thinker website.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with a little help from her friends, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and National Security Advisor Samantha Power, is being hailed as a decisive leader for persuading an indecisive President Obama to use military force against Libya in order to prevent “a potential humanitarian crisis” by Muammar Gaddafi against his own people.

Who knew that feminists would go to war against anyone but white male Republicans and Clarence Thomas?

Why is the Commander […]

Social Security Personal Accounts and the Financial Crisis

By |2011-03-26T14:19:42-04:00March 26th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 25, 2011 on Forbes.com.

In a weekly radio address on Aug. 14 of last year, President Obama taunted Republicans on the issue of a personal savings and investment account option for Social Security, which President Bush had campaigned on successfully in 2000 and 2004. Obama said such a personal account option was “an ill-conceived idea … tying your benefits to the whims of Wall Street traders and the ups and downs of the stock market.”

Accusing Republicans of still […]

Evasion of the Body Snatchers

By |2011-03-24T21:01:21-04:00March 24th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published March 22, 2011 on Townhall.com.

Eleven years after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, on the eve of America’s great Centennial celebration, counterfeiters formed a plot to steal his body from its honored grave in Springfield, Illinois. They had plans to hold the body for ransom. The U.S. Secret Service was able, happily, to disrupt this ghoulish plot.

Today, we have a new ghoulish plot. Liberal writers are trying to steal the body of Ronald Reagan. They don’t want to hold it for ransom. Instead, they are vigorously telling us he wasn’t what […]

Honoring All our WWI Heroes

By |2011-03-24T20:19:36-04:00March 24th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published March 19, 2011 on Townhall.com.

President Obama and Vice President Biden this week paid an unannounced visit to Arlington National Cemetery. They went there to offer the thanks of a grateful nation for the service of Frank Buckles, the last known survivor of the American “Doughboys” of World War I. Buckles was barely 16 when he fibbed about his age to get into uniform.

It is altogether fitting and proper that they should do this.

That Great War was America’s baptism by fire on the world scene. Although France and […]

Economic Lunacy

By |2011-03-24T16:00:35-04:00March 24th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 23, 2011 on Townhall.com.

Economic lunacy abounds, and often the most learned, including Nobel Laureates, are its primary victims. The most recent example of economic lunacy is found in a Huffington Post article titled “The Silver Lining of Japan’s Quake” written by Nathan Gardels, editor of New Perspectives Quarterly, who has also written articles for The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Washington Post.

Mr. Gardels says, “No one — least of all someone like myself who has […]

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