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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.

A Dictionary to Educate the Politically Incorrect

By |2023-05-20T09:37:56-04:00April 25th, 2007|

Eric Langborgh provides an invaluable service in setting out the history of political correctness and explaining its potential to poison the freedoms traditionally enjoyed in this country, starting but unfortunately not ending with freedom of speech. In the paper he links by Bill Lind, two points immediately struck home with me. As Lind writes:

[I]n classical economic Marxism, certain groups, i.e. workers and peasants, are a priori good, and other groups, i.e., the bourgeoisie and capital owners, are evil. In the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness, certain groups are good – feminist women,…blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals. These groups are determined to be “victims,” and therefore […]

The Origins and History of Political Correctness

By |2023-05-20T09:37:56-04:00April 25th, 2007|

Ever wonder what was the impetus for the rampant political correctness that afflicts our land? Whence comes the movement that has subverted the Constitution and America’s traditional values and understanding of freedom in favor of “multiculturalism,” “diversity,” and “tolerance”?

After all, these are important questions. The phrase, “know thy enemy,” comes to mind.

I had the privilege to hear Bill Lind of the Free Congress Foundation speak on this topic a number of years ago at a conference I organized for Accuracy in Academia. As he said in that speech, titled “The Origins of Political Correctness”:

The fact of […]

Reagan on Gun Control and Self-Defense

By |2023-05-20T09:37:57-04:00April 25th, 2007|

My thanks to blogger Mark Alexander and his Patriot Post for digging up this great quote from our last truly great president, Ronald Reagan, concerning gun control:

“You won’t get gun control by disarming law-abiding citizens. There’s only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up and if you don’t actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time… It’s a nasty truth, but those who seek to inflict harm are not fazed by gun controllers. I happen to know this from personal experience.”

It seems to me that Reagan would have […]

The Tillman Hearing: You Guys Are Heroes and Everything, But Please Surrender by Next Year.

By |2023-05-20T09:37:57-04:00April 25th, 2007|

In the name of the robust debate the ACRU hopes to foster, I want to respond to a comment posted by “Repack Rider,” who disagrees with my assessment of the Tillman hearing. His remarks are set out in full in the comment section to my original Tillman blog.

My view of the hearing is that it was mostly a charade, designed ostensibly to laud Tillman and his comrades, but actually to smear our armed services as corrupt — and thus indirectly, but significantly, undermine support for the war we have asked them to fight.

The principal thrust of Repack Rider’s criticism is that […]

Walter Williams: 'How Reasserting Parental Rights May Prevent Future Campus Massacres'

By |2023-05-20T09:37:57-04:00April 25th, 2007|

ACRU Policy Board member, Walter Williams, writes that there is a critical element that has so far been ignored concerning the mass murder at Viriginia Tech (aka Virigina Polytechnic Institute) last week :

The 32 murders at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) shocked the nation, but what are some of the steps that can be taken to reduce the probability that such a massacre will happen again? A large portion of the blame can be laid at the feet of the VPI administration and its campus security personnel, who failed to warn students, faculty and staff.

Long before the massacre, VPI administration, security and some faculty […]

Zero Cheers for Congress

By |2023-05-20T09:37:57-04:00April 24th, 2007|

My colleague John Armor points out that the often clueless Ninth Circuit deserves one cheer for its ruling in support of Arizona’s honest voter law. John may be too generous to note that this is one cheer more than Congress deserves for its “work,” some of which is, unfortunately, on display this afternoon.

Case in point: the Pat Tillman hearing. Tillman left behind a lucrative NFL career to volunteer to fight in Afghanistan. There he was killed in combat. His death was initially reported to have come about in a firefight with the enemy. It turned out that this report was false; […]

John Edwards' two Americas (cont'd)

By |2023-05-20T09:37:58-04:00April 24th, 2007|

In fact, Mr. Edwards is correct about there being two Americas. One pays taxes, the other doesn’t.

Liberals of Mr. Edwards’ stripe talk at length about how upper income citizens don’t pay their “fair share,” but are studiously silent about how much they DO pay, and what the ephemeral phrase “fair share” is supposed to mean.

Here are the “two Americas” in actual facts and figures: One America — the top half of wage earners — pays virtually all the country’s federal income tax (97% to be exact). The other America is getting, for practical purposes, a free […]

John Edwards' two Americas

By |2023-05-20T09:37:58-04:00April 24th, 2007|

Former Senator John Edwards has made a name for himself speaking about the “two Americas.” While I have not seen any very specific explanation of what these two Americas are, it’s reasonably clear that, in Mr. Edwards’ view, America No. 1 consists of rapacious, oppressive Robber Baron-wannabees, and America No. 2 consists of millions in the struggling proletariat skrimping by on whatever crumbs America No. 1 deigns to toss their way.

At least that’s what I used to understand the two Americas to be. Now I know differently.

America No. 1 consists of people who get $400 haircuts, and America No. 2 consists […]

John Armor: One Cheer for the Ninth Circuit On Arizona's Honest-Voter Law

By |2023-05-20T09:37:58-04:00April 24th, 2007|

It is not very often that the American Civil Rights Union has kind words for the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Nor does the US Supreme Court have many kind words for them, either. That Court reverses decisions of that Circuit more than all other Circuits combined.

But every rule has its exceptions. And a unanimous decision of a panel of the Ninth Circuit upholding an Arizona law on voter IDs causes us to say, “One cheer for the Ninth Circuit.”

A widely reported AP story entitled, “Ruling lets Arizona require proof of citizenship of voters,” tells part […]

Though you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will still find her way back.

By |2023-05-20T09:37:59-04:00April 23rd, 2007|

Scott Johnson, writing yesterday on Power Line, puts yet more skids under the liberal reaction to the murders at Virginia Tech. In particular, Scott quotes Mark Steyn as Steyn laughs out loud at Yale’s reaction to the shootings — a reaction that, in terms of unadulterated nonsense, tops even the calls for yet more gun regulation that the Virginia Tech episode itself proves don’t work. As Scott observes:

Mark Steyn devotes his weekly Sun-Times column to the political and cultural infantilization of American society manifested in events related to the Virginia Tech massacre. He urges us to get “realistic about reality.”…He notes […]

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