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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.

Socialism's State of the Union

By |2020-04-23T21:57:13-04:00January 31st, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 28, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

Socialism – the abolishment of private property – sometimes advances at the point of a gun. At other times, it advances by co-opting the language of freedom.

In his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, President Obama paid homage to the free market and families while driving home his central point that government knows best.

He began and ended with stories of individuals doing great things. He even said families are important and called for a five-year freeze on domestic […]

Mike Lee for Senate Judiciary Committee

By |2011-01-26T16:40:32-05:00January 26th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 26, 2011 on Townhall.com.

It’s a positive sign of the times that constitutional expert Mike Lee of Utah was elected to the U.S. Senate. To make full use of Senator Lee’s extraordinary knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell should appoint Senator Lee to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee. And Lee may be the first of many, as there’s already a 2012 Senate candidate with credentials to match Senator Lee.

Mike Lee has credentials in constitutional law unmatched in the U.S. Senate. The son of former […]

Can Our Nation Be Saved?

By |2023-03-10T08:04:49-05:00January 26th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams was published January 26, 2011 on Townhall.com.

National debt is over $14 trillion, the federal budget deficit is $1.4 trillion and, depending on whose estimates are used, the unfunded liability or indebtedness of the federal government (mostly in the form of obligations for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and prescription drugs) is estimated to be between $60 and $100 trillion.

Those entitlements along with others account for nearly 60 percent of federal spending. They are what Congress calls mandatory or non-discretionary spending. Then there’s discretionary spending, half of […]

Appeasing the Gods, Hawaii Style

By |2011-01-26T15:33:20-05:00January 26th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 25, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

In the state where pagan natives once threw people off cliffs to placate the gods, the Hawaiian state Senate has voted to end the practice of opening its sessions with prayer.

It’s probably just silly Internet prattle that some of the more intemperate civil liberties advocates want to follow this up by throwing pastors into Kilauea, the volcano home of the fire goddess Pele.

The Jan. 21 vote came after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) threatened to sue because of […]

Why Today Is 1979, Not 1995

By |2011-01-26T10:54:54-05:00January 26th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared January 26, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

In 1979, of course, Jimmy Carter was the incumbent President, and no sophisticated, intelligent person in Washington thought Ronald Reagan had a serious chance of beating him. The RNC was convinced Reagan would be another Goldwater, and its entire focus was to deny him the 1980 nomination. You know what happened.

In 1995, President Clinton had just suffered a shocking, historic defeat in the midterms, with the Republicans taking both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years. At first, he seemed to be on the […]

Obama Justice Department Must Probe Child Porn at MTV

By |2020-04-23T21:52:54-04:00January 25th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 25, 2011 on The Patriot Post website.

The child porn allegations made against MTV for its “Skins” show must be investigated by the Obama Justice Department. Child pornography is not protected by the First Amendment, and producing child porn is a crime. Whether these allegations are true or not, even allegations of it are something most responsible businesses don’t want to be associated with, and they’re chasing advertisers away from this latest attempt to redefine what’s allowed on television.

The latest TV scandal […]

Obama and the 'Constitutional' House of Horrors

By |2011-01-24T19:47:46-05:00January 24th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue appeared January 24, 2011 on Townhall.com.

January 22nd was the 38th anniversary of the mother of all absurd Supreme Court rulings, Roe. v. Wade. Unsurprisingly, America’s most pro-abortion President even chose to celebrate Roe in a public statement while ignoring the atrocities uncovered in a Philadelphia abortion clinic a few days earlier.

The Philadelphia clinic isn’t one of those illegal “back-alley” clinics the pro-abortion crowd howls about whenever they’re trying to defeat a reasonable regulation of abortion. No. This “squalid” hell-hole was operated by a licensed medical doctor.

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, […]

When Science Goes Mad

By |2011-01-24T14:51:53-05:00January 24th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 21, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

On any given day, scientists jolt us with new findings – and possibilities.

The white coats in China are busily creating chimeras, the offspring of humans mated with animals (via Petri dish) in order to develop vaccines. With cloning and genetic engineering upon us, the question of whether something should be done is fast being eclipsed by what can be done. But we must keep asking the first question as if our lives depend on it.

In 1943, in “The Abolition […]

Second Amendment is Insurance Against Government Tyranny

By |2020-04-23T21:53:44-04:00January 21st, 2011|

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

Gun-control legislation is back after the Tucson tragedy. Congress must confront the reality that the courts have declared two reasons for the Second Amendment right to bear arms. One is self-defense, and the other — whether you like it or not — is enabling the American people to resist tyranny.

A depraved monster gunned down innocent people in Arizona. And predictably, several gun-control laws are being introduced.

Since the Constitution expressly guarantees the right to obtain and possess firearms, Congress must understand the Second Amendment […]

Why We're a Divided Nation

By |2011-01-19T14:42:45-05:00January 19th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams was published January 19, 2011 on Townhall.com.

Some Americans have strong, sometimes unyielding preferences for Mac computers, while most others have similarly strong preferences for PCs and wouldn’t be caught dead using a Mac. Some Americans love classical music and hate rock and roll. Others have opposite preferences, loving rock and roll and consider classical music as hoity-toity junk. Then there are those among us who love football and Western movies, and find golf and cooking shows to be less than manly. Despite these, and many other strong […]

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