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Paul Ryan's Adult Conversation

By |2011-04-06T11:25:37-04:00April 6th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 6, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

Before Paul Ryan’s 2012 budget released yesterday, the Liberal Establishment was telling us that what was needed was an adult conversation on the budget and entitlements. Now that they have got their adult conversation, they can’t handle it.

The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne began the brain-dead name calling, labeling the Ryan budget “radical,” “irresponsible,” and “extreme.” This began the Post’s shameful institutional policy of not reporting to its readers what the Ryan budget actually does, as […]

President Obama & Senate Democrats Have No Excuse for "Shutting Down" the Federal Government

By |2020-04-23T21:57:13-04:00April 5th, 2011|

As a member of the Conservative Action Project, ACRU CEO Susan Carleson and leaders of 23 other organizations representing a broad cross section of the conservative movement are united in the belief that if there is a government shutdown, it will be the fault of Senate Democrats and President Obama.

MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT: President Obama & Senate Democrats Have No Excuse for “Shutting Down” the Federal Government

“From a partisan point of view, I think it would be the best thing in the world to have a shutdown.” – Former Vermont Governor and DNC Chairman Howard Dean

RE: The Republican led House […]

ACRU Brief Challenges Health Care Law

By |2011-04-04T16:39:55-04:00April 4th, 2011|

The American Civil Rights Union filed an amicus curiae brief on April 4, 2011 in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in support of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in the case of Commonwealth of Virginia v. Kathleen Sebelius seeking to strike down Obamacare as unconstitutional. The brief argued that Obamacare’s individual mandate is unconstitutional because the delegated, enumerated power in the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce does not include compelling purchase of government designated health insurance. The brief also argued that all of Obamacare should be struck down as unconstitutional as a result, because the Obamacare law did not include a […]

Obama's Energetic War on the Young

By |2011-04-04T09:57:02-04:00April 4th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 1, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

President Obama needs to reinvent reality, so where does he go? A college campus. And why not? With gas doubling in price toward $4 a gallon, what better place to talk energy than to backpacking cyclists at trendy, urban Georgetown University? It’s a far friendlier crowd than, say, one composed of truckers, commuters or laid-off workers.

Besides, the last time Mr. Obama spoke at Georgetown, on April 14, 2009, college officials complied with a White House request to cover up pesky Christian […]

Department of Injustice

By |2011-03-30T15:08:21-04:00March 30th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 30, 2011 on Townhall.com.

One of the requirements to become a Dayton, Ohio police officer is to successfully pass the city’s two-part written examination. Applicants must correctly answer 57 of 86 questions on the first part (66 percent) and 73 of 102 (72 percent) on the second part. Dayton’s Civil Service Board reported that 490 candidates passed the November 2010 written test, 57 of whom were black. About 231 of the roughly 1,100 test takers were black.

The U.S. Department of Justice, […]

A Big Question for 2012

By |2011-03-30T10:41:47-04:00March 30th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Policy Director for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 30, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

If you listen to President Obama and his Democrat and liberal/left cronies carefully, a clear, consistent message comes through on what they think promotes economic growth and jobs. They believe that the way to promote economic growth and prosperity is through increased federal spending, deficits, and debt.

That is not a caricature of their position. This is precisely what they are saying. And they are true to their words.

Still Another Failure of Keynesian Economics

ACRU Files Amicus Brief Against EPA's Unconstitutional Stoppage of Home Construction

By |2011-03-29T22:41:37-04:00March 29th, 2011|

Petitioners Chantell and Michael Sackett purchased a residential lot in a residential neighborhood, zoned and permitted by local authorities for construction of their home. After they began earthwork prepatory to such construction, they received a Compliance Order from the EPA effectively ruling that moving around dry earth and fill materials on their residential lot to begin their homebuilding project somehow involved discharge of a pollutant into the navigable waters of the United States in violation of the Clean Water Act. The Sacketts were denied any hearing to contest the Compliance Order by the EPA and by federal courts. They sought a Writ of Certiorari on the grounds […]

Court Weighs Constitutionality of Law Funding Political Opposition

By |2020-04-23T21:54:03-04:00March 29th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 28, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Should taxpayer money go to fund political campaigns when another candidate raises money? It does in Arizona. Now the Supreme Court will decide whether this system violates the First Amendment in the first campaign finance case since Citizens United v. FEC.

Arizona has a system of taxpayer-funded political campaigns called “Clean Elections.” Many candidates in Arizona raise campaign money traditionally. But candidates have the option of taking taxpayer money instead, under a ballot initiative that narrowly passed, 51 percent to 49 percent, in 1998.

This […]

The Budget Battle: How President Obama Is Trapped

By |2011-01-12T16:30:02-05:00January 12th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared January 12, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

The mistake that most commentators are making on the budget is the idea that a bill has to be passed to cut spending. For much of the 2012 budget, which Congress is now debating, that is not true. In many cases, the absence of legislation can cut spending. With Republicans thoroughly in control of one house of Congress, that legislative reality leaves them with great power to cut spending.

Moreover, today’s new political realities, as evidenced by the historic 2010 election, sharply constrain the budget positions President Obama […]

Put Blame Where It Belongs in Tucson Tragedy

By |2020-04-23T21:54:03-04:00January 12th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 12, 2011 on Townhall.com

I formerly lived twelve minutes from that Safeway grocery store in Tucson. I worked four minutes from it. My wife and I sometimes shopped there. I first met Rep. Gabrielle Giffords eight years ago when she was a state senator. “Call me Gabby,” she told me. And I did.

Now in the wake of the tragedy that left the Arizona Democrat gravely wounded and six others dead – including a federal judge, a congressional staffer, a nine year-old girl, and an elderly gentleman who shielded his wife with his […]

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