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ACLU Aims to Force All Doctors to Take Human Life

By ACRU Staff|2014-07-17T16:14:07-04:00July 17th, 2014|

(Editor’s note: The following excerpt is from a column by Wesley J. Smith on NationalReview.com on July 15, 2014.)

The wailing and gnashing of teeth over the very modest Hobby Lobby case shows that it was a precursor for the real game that is afoot: forcing those with religious beliefs against abortion and assisted suicide (among other “interventions”) to participate or get out of medicine. No conscience allowed.

Proof of the pending attack on religious liberty comes with an email I received (by accident, I am sure) from the ACLU of Washington trolling for clients to become litigants in lawsuits aimed at breaking […]

Time to End the Export-Import Bank's Crony Agenda

By ACRU Staff|2014-07-17T15:39:57-04:00July 17th, 2014|

Congress has a chance to stop one of the worst examples of corporate favoritism and big government distortion of the free market. The Export-Impact Bank’s authority expires at the end of September. In a Memo for the Movement signed by ACRU President, Susan Carleson, the Conservative Action Project explains why Congress should reject a forthcoming bid by Senate liberals to keep alive this corruption-inducing agency.

The memo reads:

Current Event:

Corporate powerhouses and their allies in the Obama administration and Congress seek to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States before the Bank’s current authority expires at the end of September. The Export-Import […]

The Kindness of Strangers Has Its Limits

By ACRU Staff|2014-07-14T12:05:49-04:00July 14th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published July 11, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

TURNER, MAINE — They say the South is the friendliest place in America, and they’re probably right. The Midwest isn’t far behind, but the civility line defies latitudes or longitudes.

It comes down roughly to the difference between city and country folk — although exceptions abound. Across the USA and Canada, I’ve found that people outside core metropolitan areas are much more likely to initiate or respond to friendly entreaties.

On my family’s recent trip back to the D.C. area from Western Maine, we stopped at […]

Video: Blackwell Debates Immigration on Fox News

By ACRU Staff|2014-07-14T11:29:14-04:00July 14th, 2014|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell, Tea Party Activist David Webb and Dallas Tea Party activist Katrina Pierson debate immigration.

Tax Reform: Restoring Booming Economic Growth, and the American Dream

By ACRU Staff|2014-07-09T15:13:29-04:00July 9th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published on July 7, 2014 on Forbes.com.

Before America dropped off the gold standard in 1971, long term real economic growth averaged nearly 4%. At that long term growth rate, our economic production would more than double after 20 years. After 30 years, GDP would more than triple. After 40 years, a generation, total U.S. economic output would nearly quadruple.

Nothing could be more important for the middle class, working people, and the poor, then reestablishing that long term rate of economic growth. Yet, Obama and his economic policies have America limping along at barely half […]

Spending and Morality

By ACRU Staff|2014-07-09T14:26:24-04:00July 9th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published July 9, 2014 on Townhall.com.

During last year’s budget negotiation meetings, President Barack Obama told House Speaker John Boehner, “We don’t have a spending problem.” When Boehner responded with “But, Mr. President, we have a very serious spending problem,” Obama replied, “I’m getting tired of hearing you say that.” In one sense, the president is right. What’s being called a spending problem is really a symptom of an unappreciated deep-seated national moral rot. Let’s examine it with a few questions.

Is it moral for Congress to forcibly use […]

Economic Freedom

By ACRU Staff|2014-07-02T13:35:18-04:00July 2nd, 2014|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published July 2, 2014 on Townhall.com.

A couple of years ago, President Barack Obama, speaking on the economy, told an audience in Osawatomie, Kansas: “‘The market will take care of everything,’ they tell us… But here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It has never worked… I mean, understand, it’s not as if we haven’t tried this theory.” To believe what the president and many others say about the market’s not working requires that one be grossly uninformed or dishonest.

The key features of a free market system are private […]

ACRU: Hobby Lobby Ruling Is a 'Win for Religious Liberty'

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:50:46-04:00June 30th, 2014|

ObamaCare’s abortifacient mandate violated Religious Freedom Restoration Act, ACRU’s brief said.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 30, 2014) — In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Hobby Lobby’s constitutional right not to be forced to violate the conscience of the company’s Christian owners.

“The ObamaCare order would have imposed ruinous fines on Hobby Lobby and other companies merely because the owners refused to violate their religious beliefs by paying for abortion drugs,” said Susan A. Carleson, American Civil Rights Union Chairman. “This is a win for religious liberty.”

“Obama’s beleaguered Affordable Care Act includes a requirement that all employers offering insurance must make […]

As Maine Goes, So Goes the Nation

By ACRU Staff|2014-06-30T13:17:55-04:00June 30th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published June 27, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

LEWISTON, MAINE — Like a bottle tossed in a faraway sea, Washington’s recklessness keeps washing up elsewhere, such as the great state of Maine.

The federal government’s refusal to enforce immigration laws has prompted Republican Gov. Paul LePage to take his own steps in this semirural New England state of about 1.3 million people.

Mr. LePage, whose colorful rhetoric often gets him into hot water, decreed that any Maine municipality that gives general-assistance money to illegal aliens will lose money for all general-assistance-aided programs.

With […]

Abandoned Americans

By ACRU Staff|2014-06-30T12:41:26-04:00June 30th, 2014|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing June 30, 2014 on The American Thinker website.

When did the United States run out of Americans in need of assistance?

“One in five children under age 18, or 21.3%, are living in poverty in the United States, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau.” Americans are increasingly dependent on some form of welfare, are unemployed or underemployed, losing their health insurance, their homes and life savings. America’s veterans are left to die while awaiting care in VA hospitals while VA officials received bonuses after falsifying their records.

Nonetheless, […]