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Charity on the Chopping Block

By |2012-12-26T10:00:59-05:00December 26th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 22, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

With the “fiscal cliff” looming, Washington is looking under every rock for new forms of “revenue.”

Nothing appears sacred, not even mortgage and charitable deductions, which some are recasting as “loopholes.” Ending the mortgage deduction when the housing market is finally showing signs of recovery would be like giving a cancer patient strychnine to make him feel better.

Even worse would be ending the charitable deduction, for the simple reason that this deduction encourages private-sector benevolence, which the federal government under President […]

A Hundred Percent of Nothing

By |2012-12-20T15:19:22-05:00December 20th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published December 19, 2012 on Townhall.com.

JoAnn Watson, Detroit city council member, said, “Our people in an overwhelming way supported the re-election of this president, and there ought to be a quid pro quo.” In other words, President Obama should send the nearly bankrupted city of Detroit millions in taxpayer bailout money. But there’s a painful lesson to be learned from decades of political hustling and counsel by intellectuals and urban experts.

In 1960, Detroit’s population was 1.6 million. Blacks were 29 percent, and whites […]

Fewer Guns, More Crime

By |2012-12-20T13:15:43-05:00December 20th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 19, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

To President Obama, the word “politics” means anyone who disagrees with him, as in the phrase “It is time to put politics aside.” Whenever he says that, he is really saying “It is time to put aside anyone who disagrees with me on this issue.”

Our hearts are all still hurting over the mass shooting and murder of 20 innocent small children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. But it was in the […]

Conservatives Denounce Voting for Boehner's Plan B

By |2012-12-20T09:05:43-05:00December 20th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on December 19, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Prominent conservative leaders, including former attorney general Edwin Meese III, Ken Blackwell of the Conservative Action Project, Brent Bozell of ForAmerica, Colin Hanna of Let Freedom Ring, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, David Bossie of Citizens United, Gary Bauer of American Values, Jim Backlin of the Christian Coalition of America, Richard Viguerie of ConservativeHQ.com, Al Regnery of the Paul Revere Project, and Andy Roth of the Club for Growth, among a myriad of others, scheduled a press conference this afternoon to denounce Speaker […]

ACRU Mourns Policy Board Founder Robert H. Bork

By |2012-12-19T13:24:35-05:00December 19th, 2012|

“America has lost a great man and a great legal mind,” said Susan A. Carleson, chairman and CEO of the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) upon the death today of Judge Robert H. Bork. “We at the ACRU have lost a great friend. Our thoughts and prayers are with his dear wife Mary Ellen and his children.”

Judge Bork, along with former Attorney General Edwin Meese III, the late James Q. Wilson and several other leading figures, assisted the late Robert B. Carleson in founding the ACRU in 1998 to defend civil rights for all Americans and to counter the ACLU and other leftist groups […]

Firearm Phobes Exploit School Shooting

By |2012-12-18T11:02:57-05:00December 18th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published December 18, 2012 on Townhall.com.

When’s the last time you heard about a deranged gunman going on a shooting spree at a shooting range? Other than a spoof article on the Onion, a shooting range isn’t the preferred venue for a murderous shooting rampage.

Despite all of the shooters, guns and ammo, I feel safer at a shooting range than just about anywhere else. It doesn’t require expert analysis to understand why gun-free areas, not shooting ranges, are the preferred venues of those who want to murder as many victims […]

ACRU Files Brief Protecting Integrity of Elections

By |2020-04-23T21:59:27-04:00December 17th, 2012|

Dec. 17, 2012 — The American Civil Rights Union filed a brief on Dec. 14 at the United States Supreme Court in Arizona v. The Intertribal Council of Arizona in support of Arizona’s Proposition 200, which requires prospective voters to provide satisfactory evidence of citizenship to register to vote.

Download the brief here. (PDF)

Appeals Court Oral Arguments Signal Trouble for Obamacare HHS Mandate

By |2020-04-23T21:52:46-04:00December 16th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on December 15, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

A top federal appeals court signaled Friday that it might act on Obamacare’s HHS Mandate–requiring employers to cover birth control and abortion-related services.

After repeated assurances that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would not mandate abortion or people of faith violating their religious beliefs, the Obama administration issued a mandate requiring both, when Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued a rule from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) saying that a vague provision in the ACA requiring employers provide “preventive care” means that employer healthcare policies must […]

ACRU Brief Supports Arizona's Citizenship Law for Voting in Federal Elections

By |2020-04-23T21:59:33-04:00December 14th, 2012|

(Alexandria, VA) – The American Civil Rights Union filed a brief today with the United States Supreme Court in Arizona v. The Intertribal Council of Arizona in support of Arizona’s Proposition 200, which requires prospective voters to provide satisfactory evidence of citizenship to register to vote. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a District Court ruling upholding that state law, concluding that federal election law preempts Proposition 200 in regard to federal elections.

“While states continue to move forward in preventing voter fraud by passing Voter ID laws, purging deceased voters from their rolls and blocking non-citizens from casting ballots, liberal groups and activists […]

Our Government-Created Financial Crisis

By |2012-12-13T23:13:53-05:00December 13th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published December 12, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Suppose you saw a building on fire. Would you seek counsel from the arsonist who set it ablaze for advice on how to put it out? You say, “Williams, you’d have to be a lunatic to do that!” But that’s precisely what we’ve done: turned to the people who created our fiscal crisis to fix it. I have never read a better account of our doing just that than in John A. Allison’s new book, The Financial Crisis and the […]

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