ACRU Staff, Author at American Constitutional Rights Union

Supreme Court may be Tiring of Atheist Activist Newdow

By ACRU Staff|2011-03-15T10:38:24-04:00March 15th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 10, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Atheist activist Michael Newdow, a controversial lawyer who once received significant media attention, may have worn out his welcome at the U.S. Supreme Court this week.

Although many lawyers who argue before the Supreme Court only do so once, a select group of perhaps 20 elite lawyers repeatedly appear before the court. The court often welcomes cases offered by these top-shelf attorneys, knowing that the justices will read polished briefs and hear well-reasoned arguments, which assist the court in reaching the correct result.

Newdow’s name […]

Unions Show No Class in Wisconsin 'War'

By ACRU Staff|2011-03-12T20:02:00-05:00March 12th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 11, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

“I’m not going to lie to you, this is going to get ugly.” So predicts “Goldfish,” a Daily Kos blogger who boasts of spending two weekends in Madison, Wisc., “on the Front Lines of the Class War.” Now, “Goldfish” is predicting a general strike, like the ones in Greece whenever the bankrupt government tries to cut ruinous spending.

A bigger fish, film director Michael Moore, announced on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show on Wednesday that, “This is war. This is class war,” […]

The Anachronism Of State Income Taxes

By ACRU Staff|2011-03-11T16:12:42-05:00March 11th, 2011|

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

Nine states survive perfectly well with no state income tax at all. These include large states such as Texas and Florida, medium-size states such as Tennessee and Washington, and smaller states, in terms of population, such as New Hampshire, Nevada, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Alaska. This policy should now be extended to the other 41 states.

Income taxes are the most economically destructive of all taxes. That is because income levies tax directly the reward […]

Obama Energy Non-Policy Hurting America

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:57:13-04:00March 10th, 2011|

As a member of the Conservative Action Project, ACRU CEO Susan Carleson and leaders of 31 other organizations representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement are united in opposing the Obama administration’s actions on energy policy that are hurting America.

MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT: Obama Energy Non-Policy Hurting America

RE: With the Administration showing little indication it will allow drilling to resume in the Gulf of Mexico at any point in the near future, its lack of political will to drill is undermining our efforts for energy independence, which compromises our national security and jeopardizes our economic recovery.

Issue-in-Brief: […]

Handouts, Morality and Common Sense

By ACRU Staff|2011-03-09T15:36:02-05:00March 9th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 9, 2011 on Townhall.com.

Whether Americans realize it or not, the last decade’s path of congressional spending is unsustainable. Spending must be reined in, but what spending should be cut? The Republican majority in the House of Representatives fear being booted out of office and are understandably timid. Their rule for whom to cut appears to be: Look around to see who are the politically weak handout recipients.

The problem is that those cuts won’t put much of a dent in overall […]

Terrorists With Union Cards?

By ACRU Staff|2011-03-09T15:17:54-05:00March 9th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published March 8, 2011 on The Patriot Post website.

The response of our State Department spokesman, P.J. Crowley, to the murder of two U.S. Airmen and the wounding of two others in Germany was firmly noncommittal. Crowley was unwilling to call the incident terrorism.

After all, he said, you wouldn’t call the shooter who killed federal judge John Roll, and five other people and who seriously wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson a terrorist, would you?

According to many witnesses, the assailant in Germany yelled “Allahu Akhbar” (Arabic for “God is […]

Bush Tax Cuts Still Working — For Now

By ACRU Staff|2011-03-09T15:04:24-05:00March 9th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published March 9, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

During President Obama’s 2008 campaign, he termed the Bush tax cuts “the failed policies of the past.” But last December, with the economy in shambles under the Keynesian, throwback, 1970s-style economic policies of Obamanomics, it was the Bush tax cuts he turned to, agreeing to extend the tax cuts for everyone for two more years. That was directly contrary to his 2008 campaign pledge to allow the tax cuts to expire for singles making over $200,000 per year, and for couples making over $250,000.

At the time […]

Bush Tax Cuts Still Working — For Now

By ACRU Staff|2011-03-09T15:04:24-05:00March 9th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published March 9, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

During President Obama’s 2008 campaign, he termed the Bush tax cuts “the failed policies of the past.” But last December, with the economy in shambles under the Keynesian, throwback, 1970s-style economic policies of Obamanomics, it was the Bush tax cuts he turned to, agreeing to extend the tax cuts for everyone for two more years. That was directly contrary to his 2008 campaign pledge to allow the tax cuts to expire for singles making over $200,000 per year, and for couples making over $250,000.

At the time […]

Public Employee Unions

By ACRU Staff|2011-03-05T19:05:34-05:00March 5th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 3, 2011 on Townhall.com.

With all of the union strife in Wisconsin, Indiana and New Jersey, and indications of more to come, it might be time to shed a bit of light on unions as an economic unit.

First, let’s get one important matter out of the way. I value freedom of association, and non-association, even in ways that are not always popular and often deemed despicable. I support a person’s right to be a member or not be a member of […]

Gutting Medicare By Refusing To Pay The Bills

By ACRU Staff|2011-03-03T18:50:52-05:00March 3rd, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published March 3, 2011 on Forbes.com.

The full extent of the future cuts to Medicare under ObamaCare is revealed in the little noticed 2010 Financial Report of the U.S. Government, released in December by the Treasury Department. What the data in that report show effectively is that under current law Medicare will be rendered dysfunctional in future years by draconian, arbitrary cuts in payments to doctors and hospitals for the promised health care for America’s seniors. The essential health care needed by the sickest to save their very lives or their […]

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