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Letting No Crisis Go to Waste

By |2013-10-21T14:57:22-04:00October 21st, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 20, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

Where others see a calamity, Obama sees golden opportunity.

Chutzpah is defined in some dictionaries as “shameless audacity.” It’s not a big enough word to describe what Barack Obama, author of the best-seller The Audacity of Hope, said after securing a GOP surrender in the fiscal showdown last week.

“We’ve got to get out of the habit of governing by crisis,” President Obama said with a straight face.

In his nearly five years as president, Mr. Obama has governed almost solely […]

ACRU: ObamaCare Violates Freedom of Religion

By |2020-04-23T21:52:41-04:00October 15th, 2013|

Brief filed on behalf of Liberty University says the cost of defying abortion order would be “crippling.”

ALEXANDRIA, VA (Oct. 15, 2013) — In an amicus brief submitted on October 9, the American Civil Rights Union asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case brought by Liberty University. Located in Lynchburg, Virginia, the Christian college contends that forcing it through the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) to fund employee health insurance that covers abortions is unconstitutional.

In Liberty University v. Lew, Sibelius, et al, the ACRU brief, written by General Counsel Peter Ferrara, notes that, “if Liberty University fails to comply with the employer mandate […]

Jimmy Carter's Change of Heart

By |2020-04-23T21:59:45-04:00October 15th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published October 13 on The Washington Times website.

With the media giving 24/7 coverage to the federal shutdown and debt-ceiling standoff, other important news is slipping under the radar.

For instance, Democrats are still vigorously waging a holy war on state voter-ID laws. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who is leading the charge, contends that such laws are designed solely to “suppress” minority votes.

He’s getting help from others who know this is false but politically advantageous. On Aug. 28, former President Jimmy Carter told a crowd commemorating the 50th […]

Racial Trade-offs

By |2013-10-10T14:33:18-04:00October 10th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 2, 2013 on Townhall.com.

Trade-offs apply to our economic lives, as well as our political lives. That means getting more of one thing requires giving up something else. Let’s look at some examples.

Black congressmen and black public officials in general, including Barack Obama, always side with teachers unions in their opposition to educational vouchers, tuition tax credits, charter schools and other measures that would allow black parents to take their children out of failing public schools. Most black politicians and many black […]

Symposium: Time to Restore Longstanding Meaning—and Sanity—to the Establishment Clause in Town of Greece v. Galloway

By |2020-04-23T21:52:41-04:00October 4th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published October 3, 2013 on SCOTUSblog.com.

Town of Greece v. Galloway is a major Establishment Clause case involving legislative prayer. If the Supreme Court takes this opportunity—as it should—to replace both the manifestly unworkable original Lemon test and its equally unworkable revision, the endorsement test, with a historically grounded, principled, and objective coercion test, then this case will be of tremendous benefit to the law and the nation.

Those who believe in fidelity to the Constitution and democratic self-rule should hope for nothing less. And although an […]

Symposium: Time to Restore Longstanding Meaning—and Sanity—to the Establishment Clause in Town of Greece v. Galloway

By |2020-04-23T21:52:41-04:00October 4th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published October 3, 2013 on SCOTUSblog.com.

Town of Greece v. Galloway is a major Establishment Clause case involving legislative prayer. If the Supreme Court takes this opportunity—as it should—to replace both the manifestly unworkable original Lemon test and its equally unworkable revision, the endorsement test, with a historically grounded, principled, and objective coercion test, then this case will be of tremendous benefit to the law and the nation.

Those who believe in fidelity to the Constitution and democratic self-rule should hope for nothing less. And although an […]

Bloomberg's Astroturf Mayors

By |2020-04-23T21:53:56-04:00October 3rd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published on October 1, 2013 on The Daily Caller website.

By now, you’d think Michael Bloomberg would have learned his lesson.

The out-of-touch New York City mayor has lately made it his business to be in everyone else’s business—whether that means trying to decide for New York residents what they are allowed to eat or drink, or trying to tell people from other states what to think of their elected officials.

More often than not, however, Mayor Bloomberg’s overreaches have been repelled. The courts struck down Bloomberg’s ban on large sodas. […]

It's the President's Fault

By |2013-10-02T12:11:40-04:00October 2nd, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published October 2, 2013 on the American Spectator website.

Day 2 of the government shutdown, and look out the window. The sun is still shining, and the sky is still blue. The birds are chirping.

The Great Government Shutdown is not that big a deal, even for the government. The federal civilian workforce includes 2.9 million bureaucrats. Out of that, only 800,000 are being furloughed, or just 27%. Even for these workers, the shutdown just amounts to a paid vacation for a few days.

Just like the overballyhood sequester, average Americans won’t notice any […]

Over Obamacare's Illegal Delay, John Boehner Must Play Hard Ball with Harry Reid

By |2023-03-10T08:04:39-05:00October 2nd, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 30, 2013 on Forbes.com.

Everyone is so sure of their opinion. But almost no one knows anything about it. With most of the news media actually participating in the partisan political wrangling, instead of reporting on it, can anyone even follow the budget/government spending/CR debate?

Most people don’t know about the big victory over spending the Republicans won in the 2011 Debt Limit battle. Federal spending exploded over Obama’s first two years in office, 2009 -2010, with an overwhelmingly Democrat Congress more than ready to spend every dime possible. […]

Cruz's Green Eggs and the Media Hambones

By |2020-04-23T21:53:56-04:00September 30th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 30, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

C-SPAN is more powerful than a fleet of little red wagons, but it felt a lot like “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” as Sen. Ted Cruz demolished the legitimacy of Obamacare in his 21-hour, 19-minute floor speech last week.

In the classic film, a naive junior senator played by Jimmy Stewart performs a heroic, overnight filibuster to expose corruption. The media suppress it and viciously attack his character. An army of wagon-pulling children try to report the truth via homespun “newspapers,” only to […]

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