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ACRU Asks Holder to Investigate Connecticut Mayor's Comments

By |2012-10-29T12:53:54-04:00October 29th, 2012|

On October 12th, Bridgeport, Conn. Mayor Bill Finch was caught on tape arguably boasting that he would guarantee U.S. Senate candidate Christopher Murphy however many Bridgeport votes it took for Murphy to win the election in November. On Oct. 24, ACRU Chairman Susan A. Carleson wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. asking the Justice Department to make inquiries and to monitor the voting process in Bridgeport from now until Election Day.

Click here for the letter. (PDF)

ACLU Says Father-Daughter Dance 'Contrary to Federal Law'

By |2012-10-22T22:51:33-04:00October 22nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 22, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

If you want to see what the new normal looks like when the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) calls the shots, look no further than Cranston, R.I. That city of 80,000, the third-largest in the Ocean State, is at the epicenter of the ACLU’s war on the normal.

It makes a perverse sort of sense, because Cranston reportedly is the inspiration for Quahog, R.I., the fictitious setting of Seth MacFarlane’s vulgar, anti-family Fox TV comedy “Family Guy.” Mr. MacFarlane, who has been […]

A Modest Proposal

By |2020-04-23T21:57:07-04:00October 15th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 10, 2012 on Townhall.com.

California was once the land of opportunity, but it is going down the tubes. Several of California’s prominent cities have declared bankruptcy, such as Vallejo, Stockton, Mammoth Lakes and San Bernardino. Others are on the precipice, and that includes Los Angeles, California’s largest city. California’s 2012 budget deficit is expected to top $28 billion, and its state debt is $618 billion. That’s more than twice the size of New York’s state debt, which itself is the second-highest in the nation.

Obama's Real Unemployment Rate Is 14.7%, and a Recession's on the Way

By |2012-10-15T13:08:37-04:00October 15th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 11, 2012 on Forbes.com.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported last Friday that 114,000 new jobs were created last month, according to its Establishment Survey of business payrolls that has been emphasized by the Obama Administration. That is pitifully weak, especially for what is supposed to be the fourth year of a recovery (the National Bureau of Economic Research scored the recession as officially over in June, 2009).

As economist John Lott noted at FoxNews.com on October […]

ACRU Brief Asks Supreme Court to Hear Colleges' Case against HHS Contraception Mandate

By |2012-10-15T12:57:13-04:00October 15th, 2012|

Lower federal courts erred in dismissing two colleges’ challenges to the Obama Administration’s contraception mandate, the ACRU argues in an amicus brief filed on Oct. 12 at the U.S. Supreme Court. The brief in Wheaton College and Belmont Abbey College v. Kathleen Sebelius states that:

“Both rulings under review permit expansion of the power of the executive branch far beyond its constitutional limits. Specifically, by dismissing the Colleges’ complaints, the ruling below places in the hands of an executive agency a vast power to strip the court of jurisdiction to review executive regulations.”

The ACRU’s brief notes that the lower courts […]

SCOTUS Likely to Strike Racial Preferences in University Admissions

By |2012-10-12T09:50:28-04:00October 12th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on October 11, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Government preferring one racial group over another in college admissions may be about to end, in what would be a historic move by the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts said that Supreme Court precedent requires that “there has to be a logical end point to your use of race. What is the logical end point? When will I know that you’ve reached a critical mass?” The government’s inability to answer that question might mean that the end point will come in a few months when the Court hands […]

Obama's Coming Crash: The President's Recession Of 2013

By |2012-10-08T09:00:26-04:00October 8th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was published October 3, 2012 on the Investor’s Business Daily website.

So far, Obamanomics has produced the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression. But if Obamanomics is not stopped, next year it will produce renewed recession.

Unemployment will consequently soar back into double digits, and the deficit will rocket to over $2 trillion, the highest by far in world history, as revenues plunge with the economy in the face of escalating public assistance expenditures. That will further explode the national debt, steering us on […]

Obama's Medicaid Plan Exposes Him as an Enemy of the Poor

By |2012-10-07T19:00:14-04:00October 7th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 5, 2012 on Forbes.com.

As in so much else, Progressives hold an outdated conception of the debate over entitlements. They conceive it as the Left supporting generous entitlements for seniors and the poor with no questions asked, no obligations expected, versus the right supporting no safety net at all, let private charity handle it, and if some of the poor have to starve, and some of the sick suffer or die without health care, because private charity is inadequate, so […]

Restoring the American Dream

By |2012-10-07T18:06:34-04:00October 7th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published October 5, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

President Obama told a sleepwalking America in his Democrat Convention Acceptance speech:

I won’t pretend the path I’m offering is quick or easy. I never have. You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth. And the truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve the challenges that have built up over the decades.

But here is the […]

Feds Have No Right to Punish Social Security Recipients for Not Taking Medicare, ACRU Argues to Supreme Court

By |2012-10-01T14:17:52-04:00October 1st, 2012|

People shouldn’t have their Social Security benefits withheld or have to repay past benefits if they don’t participate in Medicare Part A, a brief filed at the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday by the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) argues. Written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, the brief says the Social Security Administration overreached by issuing a manual that places an unlawful condition on recipients. The brief in Brian Hall v. Kathleen Sebelius asks the Court to issue a writ of certiorari to hear the case.

“Retirees who fail to enroll in, or who withdraw from, Medicare Part A would lose all of their Social […]

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