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A Budget America Can't Live Without

By |2020-04-23T21:58:18-04:00March 28th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Chairman and CEO and CCPP founder and President Susan A. Carleson was published March 28, 2012 on Townhall.com.

The House Republican Study Committee (RSC) has proposed a federal budget that not only can America live with – it cannot live without.

It is a serious plan with responsible measures for achieving fiscal sanity in an appropriate and reasonable time frame. The RSC budget will reach balance in just five years, as opposed to balancing the federal budget in 10 years at the earliest under Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s proposal.

This is not pie-in-the-sky thinking – our […]

ACLU Gins Up Contraception Controversy in Arizona

By |2012-03-27T08:31:46-04:00March 27th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 27, 2012 on The Daily Caller website.

While the Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of Obamacare and the nation reels from the Obama administration’s order that Catholic hospitals must provide contraceptives and abortifacients to their employees, the ACLU of Arizona is attacking a proposal to restore employers’ freedom of conscience.

House Bill 2625, sponsored by Republican State Senator Debbie Lesko, would allow all Arizona employers to opt out of the federal contraception mandate. To the ACLU, this is tantamount to shutting off medical care to women.

The ACLU has […]

Supreme Court Sides with ACRU in EPA Case

By |2012-03-23T08:06:49-04:00March 23rd, 2012|

“This is a great victory for property rights and against abuses of federal power,” said Susan A. Carleson, Chairman and CEO of the American Civil Rights Union, which filed a friend of the court brief in Sackett v. EPA.

March 21–The Supreme Court ruled today in favor of an Idaho couple, Chantell and Mike Sackett, who were building a home in a residential neighborhood but had fallen victim to an Environmental Protection Agency compliance order. Their building permit was revoked after the EPA charged that they had violated the Clean Water Act by filling in their lot with rocks and dirt.

High Court to Hear Affirmative Action Case

By |2012-02-23T14:59:44-05:00February 23rd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 22, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

Every racially based preference system – aka Affirmative Action programs – in the country could be struck down when the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Fisher v. University of Texas this fall.

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution were passed after the Civil War. These Reconstruction Era amendments abolished slavery, defined U.S. citizenship, extended part of the Bill of Rights to the states, and–most important here–declared due process and equal protection of the law to be rights of all persons in this country, […]

ACRU Files Supreme Court Briefs Defending Arizona and Challenging ObamaCare

By |2012-02-13T15:32:15-05:00February 13th, 2012|

Feb. 13 — An American Civil Rights Union brief filed today at the U.S. Supreme Court argues that Arizona has the right to enforce existing federal law regarding illegal immigrants. The Justice Department had sued Arizona over its new law directing law enforcement personnel to ask for proof of citizenship when stopping people for law violations.

The brief, authored by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, states:

“Arizona is ground zero for the illegal immigration tidal wave, with over one-third of all illegal border crossings in the nation in that state alone. This includes gang members in Mexican drug cartels and criminals fleeing their home countries […]

With Many Claiming His Mantle, It's Important to Get Reagan Right

By |2012-02-04T16:00:53-05:00February 4th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 6, 2012 in The Washington Times.

Ronald Reagan, who would have turned 101 on Feb. 6, no doubt would have been amused by the number and ideological diversity of people claiming some part of the Reagan mantle.

Barack Obama has been doing it for years.

In an interview with Nevada’s Reno Gazette-Journal on Jan. 17, 2008, President Obama said:

“I don’t want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what’s different are the times. … I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory […]

Delta Force Hero Can't Speak at West Point Because of His Christian Beliefs

By |2012-02-02T09:37:16-05:00February 2nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 1, 2012 on The Huffington Post website.

A three-star Army general and war hero cannot speak at West Point because he’s an outspoken Christian. So the Obama administration’s hostility toward religion — and especially Christians — continues even to the detriment of our men and women in uniform.

Lieutenant General William G. (“Jerry”) Boykin is like an action-movie hero. When the super-elite Delta Force was formed in late 1970s — our top counter-insurgent military unit that the Pentagon still does not officially discuss […]

Obama's Calculated Deception

By |2023-03-10T08:04:46-05:00February 1st, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 1, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Calculated deception as a central public manipulation strategy practiced by President Obama involves the President taking advantage of what he thinks the average person doesn’t know and won’t be told by a compliant media. Such calculated deception was central to last week’s State of the Union Address. That address is useful only as an outline of the President’s reelection strategy.

A powerful practical answer will come at the end of March in the form of House […]

Is Kagan Signaling Her Recusal on Obamacare?

By |2012-01-23T16:53:03-05:00January 23rd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 23, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

Justice Elena Kagan did not participate in the Supreme Court’s recent decision not to grant a motion from one of the participants in the upcoming consideration of the constitutionality of Obamacare.

In today’s weekly orders from the Court, one of the many amicus groups filing briefs in this case, Freedom Watch, filed a motion asking for permission to share part of the oral argument time when oral arguments are presented on March 26, 27, and 28. This motion was predictably denied, as it almost always is.

Many to Benefit from President's Ruling, but Not Us

By |2012-01-23T15:26:43-05:00January 23rd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 23, 2012 in The Washington Times.

Checking his sundial and solar-powered calendar, Barack Obama has decided that he did not have enough time to study the impact of the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, so he killed it.

Seriously. That was the excuse for halting a project that could have created 20,000 jobs, brought 830,000 barrels of oil a day to Texas refineries and helped free America from unstable dictators’ stranglehold on our energy supply.

This from the man who had to hurry, hurry, hurry and jam […]

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