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The Constitution or Good Ideas?

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:57:05-04:00April 30th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 30, 2014 on Townhall.com.

Let me run through a few good ideas. I think it’s a good idea for children to eat healthful, wholesome foods. In the raising of our daughter, before-dinner treats were fresh vegetables, and after-dinner treats were mostly fruits.

I arrive at my gym sometime between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m., at least four times a week, to lift weights and use the treadmill. During the warmer months, the treadmill is substituted by a weekly total of 40 to 60 miles on my bike. […]

Senator Cruz's Energy Bill Promotes Energy Liberation, Job Creation, and Prosperity for America

By ACRU Staff|2014-04-25T12:52:16-04:00April 25th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on April 24, 2014 on Forbes.com.

On March 27, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the American Energy Renaissance Act, providing for comprehensive liberation of energy producers to maximize energy production, job creation and prosperity for America. A companion bill was introduced in the House by Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK).

Despite the war-like hostility of the Obama Administration to the traditional carbon based energy that fueled the industrial revolution, the entrepreneurship and modern technology of America’s private economy is producing a boom in oil and gas production that is overwhelming President Obama. America has already surged […]

ACRU: Court Upholds Michigan Voters' Right to End Race Quotas

By ACRU Staff|2014-04-23T13:43:59-04:00April 23rd, 2014|

WASHINGTON D.C. (APRIL 23, 2014) — The American Civil Rights Union, which filed a brief in the case, hailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-2 ruling on Tuesday upholding a Michigan constitutional amendment approved by voters that stops preferential treatment of minorities at publicly funded institutions, including colleges.

The measure, Proposal 2, was approved by a 58 to 42 percent vote in 2009.

On July 1, 2013, the ACRU submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara in Bill Schuette, Attorney General of Michigan v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. The brief argues that the amendment is constitutional even […]

ACRU: White House Rewriting of ObamaCare Violates Constitutional Separation of Powers

By ACRU Staff|2014-04-22T15:40:21-04:00April 22nd, 2014|

“Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that Congress gives up its designated legislative authority whenever a president decides to legislate on his own.” — American Civil Rights Union Chairman Susan A. Carleson

Washington, D.C. (April 22, 2014) — In an amicus brief filed in U.S. District Court in Wisconsin, the ACRU has joined Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and two organizations in support of a lawsuit filed by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) that challenges a rule issued by the Obama Administration allowing federal health insurance subsidies for lawmakers and some congressional staff members.

The brief, written by attorney Joel C. Mandelman, notes that the Affordable […]

Nevada Pushes Back against the Federal Leviathan

By ACRU Staff|2014-04-21T11:17:31-04:00April 21st, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 18, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

Anyone worried about the rapidly growing power of the federal government under President Obama and the militarization of federal law enforcers had to take heart last week.

It was quite a sight when hundreds of citizens, many of them on horseback, converged near the Mesquite, Nev., ranch of Cliven Bundy in reaction to the federal government’s massive show of force against the cattleman.

At issue is Mr. Bundy’s refusal since 1993 to pay for federal permits to graze his cattle on land, some of it designated […]

Who's Not Wild about Harry?

By ACRU Staff|2014-04-21T10:39:09-04:00April 21st, 2014|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing April 19, 2014 on The American Thinker website.

Muzzling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for calling Americans “domestic terrorists” is the last thing Republicans fighting for control of the Senate in November should want.

Reid railed at the Americans standing with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy after about 200 heavily-armed federal agents arrived to seize his cattle for nonpayment of grazing fees on federal land.

An American-owned herd of cattle eating grass and fertilizing public land is treated as a threat to national security. Yet, trespassing foreigners, from who knows […]

Equality in Discipline

By ACRU Staff|2014-04-18T10:05:26-04:00April 18th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 16, 2014 on Townhall.com.

George Leef, director of research for the North Carolina-based John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, authored a Forbes op-ed article titled “Obama Administration Takes Groupthink To Absurd Lengths.” The subtitle is “School Discipline Rates Must Be ‘Proportionate.'” Let’s examine some of the absurdity of the Obama administration’s take on student discipline.

Last January, the departments of Justice and Education published a “guidance” letter describing how schools can meet their obligations under federal law to administer student discipline without discriminating on the […]

How to Liberate America from the Poverty Trap that Is Enslaving Us

By ACRU Staff|2014-04-15T10:25:01-04:00April 15th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on April 13, 2014 on Forbes.com.

In the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, for March, the Obama economy finally reached a long overdue milestone. More than six years after the latest recession began, in December, 2007, the economy has finally at long last recovered all of the jobs lost during the recession.

The gross failure is that in the 11 previous recessions since the Great Depression, the economy recovered all jobs lost during the recession after an average of 25 months after the prior jobs peak (when the recession began). So the job […]

ACRU: Leave Clergy Housing Allowance Alone

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:52:38-04:00April 14th, 2014|

Freedom from Religion Foundation is “trying to use the federal courts to destroy religious freedom and independence from government control,” said American Civil Rights Union Chairman Susan A. Carleson.

Washington, D.C. (April 14, 2014) — An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rule allowing clergy to have a tax-exempt housing allowance is a reasonable accommodation of religion, not an unconstitutional establishment of religion, the ACRU argued in a federal court brief filed on April 9.

The brief, filed by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Kenneth A. Klukowski on behalf of the Liberty Institute, asks the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a ruling by Senior U.S. […]

How to Assist Evil

By ACRU Staff|2014-04-09T15:05:24-04:00April 9th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published April 9, 2014 on Townhall.com.

“Engineering Evil” is a documentary recently shown on the Military History channel. It’s a story of Nazi Germany’s murder campaign before and during World War II. According to some estimates, 16 million Jews and other people died at the hands of Nazis.

Though the Holocaust ranks high among the great human tragedies, most people never consider the most important question: How did Adolf Hitler and the Nazis gain the power that they needed to commit such horror? Focusing solely on the evil of […]