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Titanic Misappropriation of Reagan

By |2012-04-15T22:23:26-04:00April 15th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published April 13 2012 on The Washington Times website.

The Titanic went down 100 years ago, on April 15, 1912. It took just two hours and 40 minutes for the sea to swallow the ship that “God Himself couldn’t sink.”

It’s taken longer – a few decades – to sink the United States under massive debt, but we’re not at the sea bottom – yet. What happens in November may well determine whether we go there.

Politicians often cloak themselves in the mantle of statesmen from other eras who exemplified virtues […]

Reagan Staffer Admonishes Obama's Comparing Class Warfare To Reagan Tax Policy

By |2012-04-13T14:37:29-04:00April 13th, 2012|

The Carleson Center for Public Policy issued a press release on April 13, 2012. Susan A. Carleson, Chariman and CEO of the ACRU and Chairman and President of Carleson Center for Public Policy, released the following statement:

“Ronald Reagan understood human nature and that increasing tax rates drives people to find more and more ways to keep their money. By using legitimate tax loopholes unavailable to the average American, the very rich often escaped paying any taxes at all. Reagan thought that this was fundamentally wrong and he took steps as president to increase the fairness of the tax code by closing those loopholes and lowering […]

The Buffett Rule: Obama's Community Organizer Understanding of Taxation

By |2012-04-12T23:15:51-04:00April 12th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 12, 2012 on Forbes.com.

President Obama has a community organizer understanding of America’s taxes. His rhetoric doesn’t recognize that under our tax system the earnings from capital investment are taxed not once, but multiple times.

First, by the corporate income tax, then again by the individual income tax through the tax on dividends, then if you sell the capital investment, through the capital gains tax, then when you die, by the death tax. When he complains that the rich […]

Why Obama Hates Paul Ryan

By |2012-04-11T19:50:26-04:00April 11th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 11, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Barack Obama’s address on April 3 at the Associated Press luncheon in Washington D.C. demonstrated why our politics and our country today are seriously dysfunctional, and only the American people can fix it at the ballot box. Find the transcript online and print it out as I did.

I will show below why it reveals that the President, in fact, does not understand the major issues facing the country, indeed, he actually can’t even discuss them […]

SCOTUS Rules Strip Searches Before Incarceration Constitutional

By |2012-04-10T22:54:05-04:00April 10th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 9, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

The Supreme Court narrowly sided with police, holding on April 2nd that the Fourth Amendment allows strip searches for anyone taken to jail if that person will mingle with the other inmates.

Years ago, an arrest warrant was issued against Albert Florence when he fell behind in paying a fine for a criminal conviction. He later finished paying the fine, but somehow that fact fell through the cracks and the warrant was not rescinded. When running a background check during a traffic stop years later, […]

The Truth about 'Stand Your Ground' Laws

By |2020-04-23T21:54:01-04:00April 10th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 10, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Sadly, some are exploiting the Trayvon Martin shooting to target self-defense laws that protect innocent lives. These statutes safeguard law-abiding and peaceable citizens, and are not to blame in the tragic Florida incident. Stand Your Ground laws did not apply in that situation, and statements to the contrary are irresponsible and misinformed.

In some states, the law imposes a duty to retreat from physical confrontations. Whether in your home or on the street, if you stand and fight, you […]

Why the Supreme Court Will Strike Down All of Obamacare

By |2020-04-23T21:58:18-04:00April 6th, 2012|

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

Barack Obama made a national laughingstock out of himself with his recent comments on the Obamacare law now before the Supreme Court. Obama said on Monday, “I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.” (emphasis added).

President Obama is not stupid. But he thinks you are. He knows the Obamacare health […]

ACRU Urges Supreme Court to Adopt 'Coercion Test'

By |2020-04-23T21:52:49-04:00April 5th, 2012|

March 14 – In an amicus brief submitted today to the U.S. Supreme Court, the American Civil Rights Union argues for a new constitutional standard protecting religious freedom.

The case, Mount Soledad Memorial Association v. Steve Trunk, et al, involves the cross at the Mt. Soledad veterans memorial in San Diego, which the ACLU and other groups want torn down. The Court may decide to hear the case later this year.

The ACRU’s argument – the ‘Coercion Test’ – is that public religious expression does not violate the Constitution’s prohibition against establishment of religion unless it involves coercion. ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, author of […]

Professor Who? Federal Appeals Court Schools Obama on Constitutional Law

By |2012-04-05T09:53:39-04:00April 5th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 4, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Now it’s a duel. A federal appeals court just called out President Barack Obama over his disturbing comments on the Supreme Court this week.

Last week, a number of us in the courtroom during oral arguments realized that Obamacare was in trouble.

Conservative lawyers, like me, were delighted. As for some lawyers on the left, like Jeffrey Toobin, you’d have thought they were at a funeral.

Evidently concurring with all of us that his signature law is in jeopardy, Obama launched a preemptive […]

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