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Former Mayor Blackwell: Four Year Fight for Second Amendment

By |2020-04-23T21:53:43-04:00January 31st, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 29, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

President Barack Obama met with big-city police chiefs today calling for gun control. In response, former Cincinnati Mayor Ken Blackwell explained to Breitbart News why violating the Second Amendment doesn’t make anyone safer, and how Second Amendment supporters can protect their rights against the White House’s onslaught.

Blackwell served as mayor of the Queen City, then later served under conservative icon Jack Kemp as an Undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and then U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human […]

Forget Market Failure, Our Crumbling Democracy Speaks To Political Failure

By |2020-04-23T21:53:59-04:00January 28th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 24, 2013 on Forbes.com.

Government does not even have the power to take guns away from criminals. It can only take guns away from the victims of criminals. This is not a matter of opinion. It is an unchallengeable fact.

Addictive drugs are illegal. But they are everywhere in America. Even in rural America, and the Bible Belt. We even find them in prisons. And the greatest gun crime has been in the cities with the strictest gun […]

40 Years of Roe v. Wade: What Happened? And What Comes Next?

By |2013-01-22T16:54:47-05:00January 22nd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 22, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution provides a right to have an abortion in one of its most controversial decisions in history. More than 50 million unborn children have been aborted since Roe was decided on Jan. 22, 1973.

Polls provide conflicting data as to where Americans stand on this issue, largely because many Americans don’t understand Roe or what overruling it would mean. Many young people are not even familiar with […]

Obama Opens a New Term with a Loud 'Bang'

By |2020-04-23T21:53:59-04:00January 21st, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 21, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

Leave it to Barack Obama to come into his inaugural weekend with a bang, and not just on guns. He’s made it clear that he intends more spending, more regulation, more radical appointees and less national defense in his second term. The word “overreach” is going to be one of the most overused words in the English language.

Since he just fired a load of executive orders on gun control like shotgun pellets at a duck hunt, it’s time to ask a few […]

Bobby Jindal Seeks Rich State Status With Income Tax Phaseout

By |2013-01-21T11:16:38-05:00January 21st, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 17, 2013 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. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is now proposing to make his state the 10th in America with no state income tax, phasing out both personal and corporate state income taxes.

Clergy Declares Holy War on NRA

By |2020-04-23T21:53:59-04:00January 21st, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published January 21, 2013 on Townhall.com.

The battle to demonize the National Rifle Association became a religious crusade when the Rev. Jim Wallis, CEO of Sojourners and “progressive” spiritual advisor to President Obama, convened some clergy for a witch trial.

As a foreword, if you join the NRA, as about 250,000 folks have done in the past few weeks, you’ll be affirming your support for the Second Amendment, not the Nicene Creed.

Wallis rounded up a posse of […]

SCOTUS Takes Major Constitutional Case on Treaty Powers

By |2013-01-21T09:58:09-05:00January 21st, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 18, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments in Bond v. United States, a case raising serious issues of federal power under the U.S. Constitution.

This case is about a woman who discovered her husband was having an affair, then attempted to poison the mistress at her home. The mistress survived, but while local prosecutors could charge the woman with attempted murder, battery, trespass, and other state crimes, the U.S. Attorney for that district stepped in and charged this woman with using chemical […]

Obama's Gun Control Campaign Doomed to Fail

By |2020-04-23T21:58:16-04:00January 17th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 17, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday revealed his national gun control proposal, one loaded with divisive rhetoric and exploiting children onstage to push his agenda, which ignores the most effective ways to stop gun violence.

Obama had a full-dress press event, joined by children on stage as a backdrop to give the impression that what he proposes is the best way to protect children and to reinforce his rhetoric that those opposing new gun controls are not putting children first. He vilified the “gun lobby” and claimed that a […]

To Win the Debt-Ceiling Debate, We Must Discredit Obama's Debt Dishonesty

By |2013-01-14T13:54:07-05:00January 14th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 11, 2013 on Forbes.com.

President Obama tells the nation that Congress must increase the debt limit because they “should pay the bills that they have already racked up.” Let me translate that into household economics.

You find yourself reaching the debt limit on your credit card. But you have become addicted to spending each month two thirds more than you earn. So you got to keep charging on that card.

So you write to the credit card company […]

NRA Gears Up for Gun Control Fight with White House

By |2020-04-23T21:53:59-04:00January 10th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on January 10, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is mobilizing for a massive four-front conflict with President Barack Obama over the Constitution and gun rights after a made-for-TV meeting today at the White House between Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Eric Holder, and a top NRA operative.

Obama appointed Biden–who throughout his career has opposed gun rights–to lead his gun-control task force after the horribly tragic Newtown shooting. Biden and Holder met Thursday with Jim Baker, director of the Federal Affairs Division of […]

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