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Why Celebrate Washington's Birthday?

By |2013-02-17T22:28:53-05:00February 17th, 2013|

This column by former federal judge and ACRU policy board member Richard Bender Abell was published in the Mount Vernon Gazette.

A great nation — a great democracy — needs heroes to set an example — a paradigm for conduct, a coalescence of our own defining traits.

Currently we live in an anti-heroic age. Egalitarianism presides. The great American Revolution was about Liberty — not egalitarianism. The latter was part and parcel of the French and Soviet Revolutions. We sought Liberty as God given — Liberty under God; the French and the Soviets sought freedom from God. Their legacy is that of a hecatomb of […]

Federal Court Dismisses Lawsuit against Ten Commandments Display

By |2013-02-17T22:08:48-05:00February 17th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 15, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

The Ten Commandments won in federal court this week in Dixie County, FL, which adopted a policy that allows any of its citizens to erect a display atop the county courthouse’s steps. A local Christian man paid to put a six-ton (12,000 lbs.) stone Ten Commandments display there in 2006.

The ACLU sued on behalf of an anonymous North Carolina ACLU member who said he planned to buy property in that area and had to see the display when he went to the county courthouse. […]

President Obama's State of Disunion: Half of America Is in a Trance

By |2013-02-16T15:16:27-05:00February 16th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 15, 2013 on Forbes.com.

President Reagan famously said “Government is not the answer to the problem. Government IS the problem.”

But keeping with his unwavering theme as the unrelenting opposite of Reagan in every way, what President Obama told us in his State of the Union (SOTU) this week can be most accurately summed up as “Government is not the problem, government is the answer.”

Please, print out the transcript and read it in black and white. […]

Obama and the Pirates

By |2013-02-15T07:18:24-05:00February 15th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 13, 2013 on The American Spectator website.

Everything in this column will be established by logical proof, as in geometry. There will be no name calling, or mere assertion.

You probably heard again last night that President Obama still thinks “the rich,” a crass term implying low class social envy, do not pay their “fair share.” He has been barnstorming America saying precisely that for his more than four years in office now. But the indisputable facts from official government sources say […]

Woman Dies in Late-Term Abortion Performed by Doctor Linked to Sebelius

By |2013-02-14T22:55:04-05:00February 14th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 12, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

According to reports, on Feb. 7th, 29-year old Jennifer Morbelli died due to complications from a late-term abortion performed by Dr. LeRoy Carhart, an abortion doctor celebrated by the left and embraced by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

At a press conference held on Feb. 11th in Germantown, MD, it was reported Morbelli had learned there was some abnormality with her unborn child and chose to have an abortion 33 weeks into her pregnancy. (With modern technology, a child becomes viable outside the womb around 20 weeks.)

ACRU Issues Press Release about Brief Filed in Gun Rights Case

By |2023-03-10T08:04:42-05:00February 12th, 2013|

WASHINGTON (Feb. 11, 2013) — In a brief filed today at the U.S. Supreme Court, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) urges the court to hear a case involving New York citizens who say their Second Amendment right to bear arms has been abridged by a state law and a court ruling limiting gun rights to inside the home.

Written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, the brief notes that the Second Circuit Court, in upholding a district court ruling, “failed to follow the plain language of District of Columbia v. Heller (2008).” The court “limited the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms […]

ACRU Brief Says Right to Firearms Not Limited to Home

By |2023-03-10T08:04:42-05:00February 11th, 2013|

WASHINGTON (Feb. 11, 2013) — In a brief filed today at the U.S. Supreme Court, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) urges the court to hear a case involving New York citizens who say their Second Amendment right to bear arms has been abridged by a state law and a court ruling limiting gun rights to inside the home.

Written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, the brief notes that the Second Circuit Court, in upholding a district court ruling, “failed to follow the plain language of District of Columbia v. Heller (2008).” The court “limited the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms to […]

No Compromise in New Contraception Mandate

By |2020-04-23T21:52:45-04:00February 11th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on February 5, 2013 on USA Today.

If you missed the Obama administration’s “clarified” version of the notorious “contraception mandate” last Friday, you can be forgiven. In fact, even if you delved into the text of the new proposal, you probably emerged more muddled than before. The “clarification” is simple recrafting of language; the law’s religious liberty problems have not been fixed. The government’s message is the same as before: provide the medical services we demand, even if it means violating your faith and beliefs, […]

The Worst Five Years Since the Great Depression

By |2013-02-11T13:48:45-05:00February 11th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published February 7, 2013 on Forbes.com.

In February, 2009, I wrote for the Wall Street Journal an article entitled “Reaganomics versus Obamanomics.” The article explained that the emerging Obamanomics was pursuing exactly the opposite of every policy of the enormously successful Reaganomics, and predicted that it would produce exactly the opposite results.

Well, the results are in, and under President Obama the American people have now suffered the worst 5 years since the Great Depression, as first explained by Steve […]

Lawyer Who Argued for Drone Strikes Angling for SCOTUS Nomination?

By |2013-02-06T22:08:35-05:00February 6th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 6, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

“What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?” — Mark 8:36

The U.S. government is claiming the power to kill American citizens without judicial review. This is a story about hypocrisy. And it’s the tale of two lawyers: President Barack Obama and State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh.

While the Constitution only allows targeting of citizens under the most restrictive circumstances during war, the leading lawyer who made the argument that President Obama has this lethal power–Koh–was […]

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