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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.

Attack the Deficits: The Fierce Urgency of Now

By |2010-11-08T20:10:45-05:00November 8th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing November 8, 2010, on Townhall.com.

Appearing Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Senator-elect Rand Paul (R-KY) told host Christiane Amanpour he would push for a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

This is an idea whose time has come. In 1994, Republicans campaigned — and won — on a balanced budget amendment (as part of the Contract with America). Back then, the deficit was just $203 billion. Today, the national deficit is at $1.4 trillion (that’s roughly $3,500 for each American, and some $14,000 for each family of four in deficit spending […]

Does First Amendment Require Selling Violent Video Games to Children?

By |2020-04-23T21:50:22-04:00November 4th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing November 3, 2010 on Townhall.com

Many newer video games depict graphic violence, such as torturing and defiling women and children. These games are sold to kids. The Supreme Court is considering whether the First Amendment forbids states from restricting the sale of these games to minors.

With modern technology, newer video games can look very realistic. Some of these games are graphic in the extreme, in which the player can maim, kill, dismember, torture, or– believe it or not– sexually assault someone.

In response to parents’ outrage over some of these shocking video […]

Pay No Attention to the Communists Behind the Curtain

By |2010-11-01T22:52:37-04:00November 1st, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing November 1, 2010 on The American Thinker website.

The evidence is overwhelming. The media interest is zero. The UFO strategy is in force.

Let me explain.

I’m talking about the unsolved Weather Underground murder of San Francisco Police Officer Brian V. McDonnell. A bomb placed on Feb. 16, 1970 outside the Golden Gate Park police station ripped through Sgt. McDonnell, who died two days later. His killers never paid a price.

Apart from simple justice, here’s why this open case still matters. According to testimony by undercover FBI agent […]

Pulling Back the Curtain on Obama's Audacity

By |2010-11-01T11:50:42-04:00November 1st, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing October 29, 2010 on The Washington Times website.

One of the most memorable scenes in The Wizard of Oz is when Toto yanks on the curtain to reveal the bogus wizard faking a larger-than-life image. In 2008, the media played the role of the curtain, shielding Barack Obama. Not enough Americans saw his thin resume, lifelong radical connections, sealed college records or brief U.S. Senate voting record, which the National Journal pegged to the left of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont Democrat.

At the time, the terrier gamely pulling the curtain was […]

Marco Rubio is the Second Hispanic Democrats are Trying to Keep Down

By |2010-10-30T11:53:31-04:00October 30th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing October 29, 2010, on BigGovernment.com

It’s been revealed that the Obama White House is trying to beat Marco Rubio to keep Hispanic-Americans from having a choice when it comes to political parties. This is the second time Democrats have done this, and the fact that they’re willing to take down another minority candidate to do so shows that it’s the Democrats, not Republicans, who are trying to keep minorities down in America today.

With the White House’s approval, President Bill Clinton tried to convince Congressman Kendrick Meek–an African-American Democrat–to drop out of the U.S. […]

More Respect for the President, Please!

By |2010-10-27T19:07:28-04:00October 27th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing October 27, 2010, on The Patriot Post website.

President Barack Obama began his term with the highest of accolades in the press. Hard Ball host, TV’s Chris Matthews, felt a tingle go up and down his leg whenever Mr. Obama speaks. Newsweek’s Evan Thomas said he hovered over the nations, like “a sort of god.” All too soon, however, the President came crashing down, like Icarus in Greek legend. Young Icarus flew too close to the sun and the wax that attached the feathers to his homemade wings melted. Icarus plunged into the sea. President Obama […]

Ohio Government Censors Pro-Life Group, Court Battle Begins

By |2020-04-23T21:58:20-04:00October 27th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing October 26, 2010, on Townhall.com.

Congressman Steve Driehaus broke faith with his constituents in the Cincinnati, Ohio area, by voting for the big-government monstrosity known as Obamacare. The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List (SBAL) has run billboards condemning Driehaus’ vote, asserting that Obamacare funds abortion. SBAL is correct that Obamacare does fund abortion under a federal court ruling that covers Ohio.

Ohio has a law making it a crime to publicize a false statement. On suspicion that SBAL’s statement was a lie, the Ohio Elections Commission has launched an investigation in an attempt to […]

NPR: All PC Things Considered

By |2010-10-25T19:21:05-04:00October 25th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing October 22, 2010, on the World Magazine website.

National Public Radio is a monument to political correctness. Its acronym might better be thought of as “not professionally responsible.” It is not a left-leaning organization. The Leaning Tower of Pisa leans. NPR has fallen over completely for the “progressive” agenda. It is supine. Horizontal. And the actions of NPR president Vivian Schiller in firing Juan Williams are just the most public example of NPR’s bias.

Juan Williams has done more than any other journalist to chronicle the history of the civil rights movement, to show the […]

ACLU Outrage: Illinois Recall Proposal "Unconstitutional"

By |2010-10-23T16:02:50-04:00October 23rd, 2010|

By ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight

Buckling under constituent heat to deal with corruption exemplified by the multiple-count indictment of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), Illinois legislators gave final approval on Oct. 15 to put a recall of governors law on the November 2 ballot.

The ACLU is rattling its sword, warning that the measure would lead to expensive litigation, which is the ACLU’s standard way of pressuring public officials without even filing a lawsuit. Illinois ACLU Legal Director Harvey Grossman suggested the legislature start over with a new draft, according to the Associated Press. The recall law is expected to pass, however.

Recalling Senator Kent Conrad

By |2010-10-20T19:33:08-04:00October 20th, 2010|

Tea Party organizers in North Dakota go to court today in their attempted recall of four-term Sen. Kent Conrad. Oral arguments were heard this morning in the North Dakota Supreme Court in the case of RecallND v. Jaegar arising out of the refusal by North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaegar to begin the recall process upon the proper filing by The Committee to Recall Senator Conrad. The Committee is seeking a court order to allow the recall process to proceed.

The issue of recall of United States Senators is now before two state Supreme Courts, as oral argument was heard in May before the New […]

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