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Saturday Night Alive?

By |2011-01-06T13:44:08-05:00January 6th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell appeared January 6, 2011, on The American Spectator website.

We all breathed a sigh of relief when the ball fell in New York’s Times Square and the holiday season this year ended without another terror attack, or attempted attack, on our homeland. You’ll recall that on Christmas Day, 2009, the notorious “underwear” bomber tried to blow up his jet over Detroit. Young Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian citizen, wanted to take down his Northwest Airlines Flight 253 right over Detroit’s airport. Had he succeeded in detonating his BVDs, his victims would not only have been the 288 passengers […]

California Court Rules Against Cross Memorial

By |2020-04-23T21:52:55-04:00January 6th, 2011|

Ninth’s Decision on Mt. Soledad Veterans Cross “Defies Common Sense,” ACRU Says

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the 57-year-old concrete cross atop the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego is unconstitutional. The decision runs counter to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a similar case at the Mojave National Preserve veterans memorial.

“This decision appears to be rooted more in a desire to rid the public square of prominent reminders of America’s religious heritage than it does in a desire to protect the sensibilities of people who happen to see the cross. It distorts the […]

Obamacare's Dirty Tricks

By |2011-01-05T15:17:29-05:00January 5th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared January 5, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

Most commentators have focused on the revelation just before Christmas that Obamacare’s end of life death panel consultations rejected by Congress were resurrected by the Obama Administration by regulatory requirement. There is no truth to the rumor that President Obama has agreed, after his term of office ends, to head up a new organization called Democrats Against Democracy.

But while this regulatory authoritarianism is, indeed, yet another dirty trick of Obamacare, it is small potatoes compared to the real dirty tricks of Obamacare. A dirty trick is defined […]

Tyranny by Decree

By |2011-01-03T16:29:55-05:00January 3rd, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 2, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

Over the past year, it has become obvious that what leftists cannot win at the ballot box, they will accomplish via bureaucratic dictate. After the U.S. Senate in 2009 rejected the massive cap-and-tax scheme on carbon credits, the Obama administration rode to the rescue of global-warming fanatics. On Dec. 7, 2009, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson issued a ruling that the EPA would begin regulating five “anthropogenic” (man-made) greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, the air we exhale. The EPA based […]

Tie Debt Ceiling Vote To Balanced Budget Amendment

By |2010-12-29T12:21:53-05:00December 29th, 2010|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell appeared December 29, 2010, on Townhall.com.

Next spring, Republicans will be faced with a serious decision over whether to vote to raise the debt ceiling.

Failing to do so could signal foreign countries that the U.S. plans to default on our debt — an act that would surely have dire economic repercussions.

On the other hand, Tea Party activists — and other conservatives — might understandably view such a vote as evidence that Republicans still don’t “get it” — and that the politicians didn’t hear them in November.

So what’s the […]

Net Neutrality Is Theft

By |2010-12-29T11:30:16-05:00December 29th, 2010|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared December 29, 2010 on The American Spectator website.

The Internet is not a natural resource. It does not grow on trees, or appear on the ground like dew on a spring morning. Nor does it operate by magic. The Internet exists only to the extent it is built, and then maintained and operated.

That requires big bucks, especially for broadband access. Broadband requires hundreds of billions if not trillions in investment to lay cables under streets, or to build and then launch satellites into orbit.

Where does that money come from? It comes from private […]

Federal Regulators Wage War on Christmas

By |2020-04-23T21:57:13-04:00December 28th, 2010|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published December 27, 2010 on Townhall.com

It’s worth noting not only that the War on Christmas has continued, but now federal regulators have joined the wrong side. Christians should get far more aggressive in fighting back, because the Constitution is on their side.

Various outlets have reported throughout December that regulators from the Federal Reserve told privately-owned banks that they can’t have Christmas displays. It’s illegal for government agents to do that.

The Federal Reserve is a public-private hybrid. In one sense, it’s a private bank with money reserves, and also serves as […]

Supernatural Hand in Christmas Atheism

By |2023-03-10T08:04:50-05:00December 25th, 2010|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 23, 2010 on The Washington Times website.

“In the beginning, the devil created. …” Wait a minute. That’s not how the Bible begins.

Or creation for that matter. Genesis 1:1 reads: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

The point here is that God is the Creator. The devil is only a spoiler, a cad who lives to destroy truth, beauty and life and to devour human souls. That’s his job, and he does it all too well. He creates nothing but sorrow and regret.

1 Peter 5:8 […]

Christmas Wise Guys

By |2010-12-23T14:07:52-05:00December 23rd, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column that will appear on Townhall.com.

Two thousand years ago, wise men came from the East bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to honor Christ’s birth. A beautiful new Christmas song asks, “Where’s the Line to See Jesus?”

From the beginning, some in the line have been neither wise nor bearing gifts.

Herod tried to kill Him. Irreligious zealots now want Him ostracized from public life (see here,

here, here, here, here, and here). Some all-knowing atheists want Him “demythologized.” Yes. Folks […]

America's Financial Future: Our Choice… But Not For Long

By |2010-12-23T10:02:41-05:00December 23rd, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 23, 2010, on Townhall.com.

In August of this year, Admiral Michael Mullens, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, advised Congress that “The National debt is the biggest threat to our national security.” In November, voter sentiment against the debt and deficit led to an historic rebuke of Congressional incumbents. In December, the President’s Debt Commission laid out in stark terms the imminent economic impact of continued deficit spending.

Apparently rejecting these clarion calls, the President and Congress acted in the lame-duck session to cut not one dime of federal spending, […]

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