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More Respect for the President, Please!

By |2010-10-27T19:07:28-04:00October 27th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing October 27, 2010, on The Patriot Post website.

President Barack Obama began his term with the highest of accolades in the press. Hard Ball host, TV’s Chris Matthews, felt a tingle go up and down his leg whenever Mr. Obama speaks. Newsweek’s Evan Thomas said he hovered over the nations, like “a sort of god.” All too soon, however, the President came crashing down, like Icarus in Greek legend. Young Icarus flew too close to the sun and the wax that attached the feathers to his homemade wings melted. Icarus plunged into the sea. President Obama […]

Ohio Government Censors Pro-Life Group, Court Battle Begins

By |2020-04-23T21:58:20-04:00October 27th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing October 26, 2010, on Townhall.com.

Congressman Steve Driehaus broke faith with his constituents in the Cincinnati, Ohio area, by voting for the big-government monstrosity known as Obamacare. The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List (SBAL) has run billboards condemning Driehaus’ vote, asserting that Obamacare funds abortion. SBAL is correct that Obamacare does fund abortion under a federal court ruling that covers Ohio.

Ohio has a law making it a crime to publicize a false statement. On suspicion that SBAL’s statement was a lie, the Ohio Elections Commission has launched an investigation in an attempt to […]

NPR: All PC Things Considered

By |2010-10-25T19:21:05-04:00October 25th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing October 22, 2010, on the World Magazine website.

National Public Radio is a monument to political correctness. Its acronym might better be thought of as “not professionally responsible.” It is not a left-leaning organization. The Leaning Tower of Pisa leans. NPR has fallen over completely for the “progressive” agenda. It is supine. Horizontal. And the actions of NPR president Vivian Schiller in firing Juan Williams are just the most public example of NPR’s bias.

Juan Williams has done more than any other journalist to chronicle the history of the civil rights movement, to show the […]

ACLU Outrage: Illinois Recall Proposal "Unconstitutional"

By |2010-10-23T16:02:50-04:00October 23rd, 2010|

By ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight

Buckling under constituent heat to deal with corruption exemplified by the multiple-count indictment of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), Illinois legislators gave final approval on Oct. 15 to put a recall of governors law on the November 2 ballot.

The ACLU is rattling its sword, warning that the measure would lead to expensive litigation, which is the ACLU’s standard way of pressuring public officials without even filing a lawsuit. Illinois ACLU Legal Director Harvey Grossman suggested the legislature start over with a new draft, according to the Associated Press. The recall law is expected to pass, however.

Recalling Senator Kent Conrad

By |2010-10-20T19:33:08-04:00October 20th, 2010|

Tea Party organizers in North Dakota go to court today in their attempted recall of four-term Sen. Kent Conrad. Oral arguments were heard this morning in the North Dakota Supreme Court in the case of RecallND v. Jaegar arising out of the refusal by North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaegar to begin the recall process upon the proper filing by The Committee to Recall Senator Conrad. The Committee is seeking a court order to allow the recall process to proceed.

The issue of recall of United States Senators is now before two state Supreme Courts, as oral argument was heard in May before the New […]

Angle Wins, Toomey Loses?

By |2010-10-20T16:10:37-04:00October 20th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing October 20, 2010 on The American Spectator website.

Harry Reid didn’t just vote for the failed, wasted, trillion dollar stimulus. As Senate Majority Leader, he led its enactment. And he didn’t just vote for President Obama’s record smashing federal spending, deficits, and debt. As Senate Majority Leader he led their enactment. And he didn’t just vote for the TARP bailouts. As Senate Majority Leader even then, he led their enactment.

And Harry Reid didn’t just support Obamacare. He, again, led its enactment.

Now in two weeks the voters of Nevada will have their chance to […]

Leftists, Progressives and Socialists

By |2010-10-20T13:42:06-04:00October 20th, 2010|

ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing October 20, 2010 on Townhall.com.

One of the greatest sources of confusion and deception is the difference between leftists, progressives, socialists, communists and fascists. I thought about this as I caught a glimpse of the Oct. 2 “One Nation” march on Washington. The participants proudly marched with banners, signs and placards reading “Socialists,” “Ohio U Democratic Socialists,” “International Socialists Organization,” “Socialist Party USA,” “Build A Socialist Alternative” and other signs expressing support for socialism and communism. They had stands where they sold booklets under the titles of […]

How to Really Reform the U.N.

By |2010-10-18T15:34:20-04:00October 18th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing October 16, 2010, on The American Thinker website.

President Obama famously responded to a question about “American exceptionalism.” Asked by a reporter if he believed in it, Mr. Obama replied, “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.” It was as if he’d just gotten back from Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average.

So if America’s exceptional and so are the Greeks and the Brits — and presumably, too, are the Bangladeshis and the […]

Make Them Agree to Kill the Death Tax

By |2010-10-18T10:01:13-04:00October 18th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing October 15, 2010 on The Washington Times website and in the print edition on October 18, 2010.

As election day approaches and many incumbents contemplate the death of their political careers, it’s a good time to remind them of their unfinished work in fending off a massive tax increase, and in particular, the death tax. In fact, they should be hounded about this at every campaign stop.

The death tax was reduced to zero in 2010, but will lurch from its grave on Jan. 1, 2011 and haunt small businesses worth $1 […]

The Political Suicide of President Obama

By |2010-10-15T20:39:01-04:00October 15th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing October 15, 2010, on The Patriot Post website.

Liberals sit down with the New York Times the way Catholics enter the confessional: To make a clean breast of their sins and to ask for absolution. Except that the Gray Lady offers no promise of confidentiality.

President Obama has given an interview to the Times Magazine that will appear in full only next Sunday. Already, however, his quoted remarks are causing a political earthquake. He confesses that he did not realize there was “no such thing as a shovel-ready project” when he asked […]

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