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Ken Blackwell: Leaving out God

By |2010-09-21T17:18:25-04:00September 21st, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing September 21, 2010, on the World Magazine website.

It was certainly reassuring to see the president and first lady coming out of St. John’s Episcopal Church last Sunday. With all the confusion about the president’s religion, we can be sure that the very liberal historic parish will provide a warm welcome to the first family. And they’re unlikely to hear anything as unsettling as “God d____ America” coming from St. John’s elegantly carved pulpit.

Folk wisdom tells us there are no atheists in foxholes. President Obama has surely been feeling like a combat soldier in recent […]

Ken Blackwell: Delaware GOP Rumblings

By |2020-04-23T21:52:56-04:00September 21st, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing September 16, 2010, on The Daily Caller website.

During post-election analysis, Republican luminaries stumbled badly in discussing Christine O’Donnell on the night of the Delaware senatorial primary.

But Delaware Republicans had just voted. They had given their support–rather convincingly–to the clearly more conservative O’Donnell in a hotly contested primary election. Where was the unity that night?

Her opponent, Mike Castle, is surely a prominent Delaware Republican. A veteran of the Governor’s Mansion and the holder of the state’s only seat in Congress, Castle should have won in a walk. But restive […]

Edwin Meese III: Morning Bell: Constitution Day and the Perilous Future

By |2020-04-23T21:57:14-04:00September 19th, 2010|

Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III, the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, wrote this article appearing September 17, 2010 on The Heritage Foundation blog.

On September 17, we celebrate the creation of our Constitution, one of the greatest governing documents ever conceived by the hand of man. This is the day we commemorate the birth of the United States as a nation, based on the rule of law and dedicated to the preservation of personal liberty, political freedom, economic opportunity, and the natural rights with which […]

Peter Ferrara: Obama's War on America's Seniors

By |2010-09-15T14:11:49-04:00September 15th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing September 15, 2010 on The American Spectator.

Seniors citizens probably provided less support for President Obama in the 2008 election than any other voter bloc. That reflects the wisdom of age. But for President Obama, apparently it’s payback time, because he is conducting a comprehensive economic assault on America’s senior citizens.

First He Trashed Medicare

A Democrat campaign theme this fall is that those scary Republicans want to end Medicare as we know it. But that is not possible, because President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the Democrats have already done that, in Obamacare.

Ken Blackwell: Congress Goes For Rationing

By |2010-09-09T15:41:00-04:00September 9th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing September 9, 2010, on The Daily Caller website.

“Democrats choose Death Panels…” announces Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart with mock horror, “…for themselves!” It’s a very funny bit. The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty plays it straight as she reports: “Ultimately, some candidates, including incumbents, will have to be left for dead so that the parties can spend where it might still make a difference.”

Then, there’s Michael Barone in the Washington Examiner. Mr. Barone has probably forgotten more about American politics than most political commentators will ever know. The editor for 40 years […]

Peter Ferrara and Larry Hunter: How ObamaCare Guts Medicare

By |2010-09-09T11:15:47-04:00September 9th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara and Dr. Larry Hunter wrote this column appearing September 9, 2010 on The Wall Street Journal website.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has attacked Senate Republican candidates for wanting “to end Medicare as we know it.” And in Nevada’s hotly contested Senate race, Majority Leader Harry Reid is attacking Republican Sharron Angle, saying she wants to “gut” Medicare. But Mr. Reid has already gutted it. He and his colleagues did so by passing ObamaCare.

In his analysis accompanying the recently released Annual Report of the Medicare Board of Trustees, Richard Foster, Medicare’s chief actuary, noted […]

Peter Ferrara: Fire Obama

By |2010-09-08T17:51:51-04:00September 8th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing September 8, 2010 on The American Spectator.

House GOP Leader John Boehner created a stir last month when he called on President Obama to fire his top economic advisors, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Larry Summers, because of the Administration’s disastrous economic performance. But while Summers is, indeed, a clueless Keynesian, and Geithner is a career bureaucrat, they are not the source of the problem. The source of the problem is the Godfather of the Administration’s economic policies, President Obama himself.

Consequently, what is needed is not to fire […]

Ken Klukowski: ACLU Files Lawsuit to Stop President From Killing Terrorist Cleric

By |2010-09-08T17:40:47-04:00September 8th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing September 7, 2010, on Townhall.com.

The ACLU is at it again.

On August 30, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in D.C. President Obama has authorized U.S. forces to kill on sight Anwar Al-Aulaqi. He’s the U.S.-born radical imam who supposedly lives in Yemen right now, calling for terrorist attacks on American citizens and who’s implicated in the Fort Hood massacre and other terrorist attacks.

The ACLU argues that Al-Aulaqi is an American citizen, and as such the government cannot kill him without […]

Ken Blackwell: What Is President Obama Thinking?

By |2010-09-03T18:55:28-04:00September 3rd, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing September 2, 2010, on The Huffington Post website.

Americans might soon have another reason to ask themselves: “What is the president thinking?”

With the flourish of a veto pen, President Obama is likely to disappoint and confuse both friends and some foes this fall; an interesting choice given his approval-rating challenges.

How will President Obama manage to infuriate some conservatives and many liberals all at once? By vetoing a defense spending bill — a bill that would please some national defense conservatives by supporting our troops and please liberals by foolishly […]

Peter Ferrara: The New American Supermajority

By |2020-04-23T21:57:14-04:00September 2nd, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing September 1, 2010 on The American Spectator.

The aerial photograph does not lie. Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally drew just about as many people as any other rally ever held at the Lincoln Memorial.

I took the train into town from home in Northern Virginia, packed in like in those Tokyo subway video clips, even though I was late. I marched down to the Memorial from the nearest subway stop at Foggy Bottom, where the D.C. bureaucrats had helpfully disabled the steep escalators from the underground tubes to greet the half a million or more celebrants […]

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