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Replacing Speaker Boehner

By |2012-12-13T22:48:49-05:00December 13th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 12, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

John Boehner is a good man in a hard place. He has served in public office as a lifelong conservative, not a RINO. His position on the Obama tax increases has been better than almost any other Republican who has been speaking out lately, given the Obama/Democrat election victories — close loopholes and deductions for $800 billion in new revenue over a decade, but no increases in rates.

But face it. Boehner is no match for […]

Seventh Circuit Rules in NRA's Favor in Illinois Gun Law Case

By |2020-04-23T21:54:00-04:00December 13th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on December 5, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

The National Rifle Association just won a major court case in Chicago, providing a huge victory for Second Amendment proponents and gun owners.

Illinois is one of the most anti-gun states in America. Its hostility toward the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is demonstrated in a state law that forbids the carrying of firearms outside the home. There are narrow exceptions for classes of persons such as police officers, or under restrictions that keep the firearm from being readily usable, such […]

Free Speech vs. Sound of Silence

By |2020-04-23T21:52:46-04:00December 10th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 7, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

In George Orwell’s futuristic novel 1984, a tyrannical government masks its activities through the use of Newspeak — saying or doing something opposite of a word’s meaning.

The Ministry of Plenty oversees rationing and starvation; the Ministry of Peace wages war; the Ministry of Truth dispenses propaganda; and the Ministry of Love conducts torture. The operative slogans are: “War is peace,” “Freedom is slavery,” and “Ignorance is strength.”

A current variant comes to mind, courtesy of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) […]

Why America Is Going to Miss the Bush Tax Cuts

By |2012-12-10T11:35:05-05:00December 10th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 6, 2012 on Forbes.com.

President Obama seems to have a strategy to terminate all of the Bush tax cuts, not just those for “the rich,” as he has been saying since 2008. He is offering the Republicans exactly zero concessions in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. No spending cuts, no entitlement reform, no compromise on the rates. It is entirely my way or the highway, and if the Republicans refuse to do everything exactly as he demands, he […]

Planting the Seeds of His Own Demise

By |2023-03-10T08:04:44-05:00December 10th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published December 5, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Stop that cringing! I can already see the light at the end of the tunnel. And it’s not pretty for today’s neo-Marxist Democrat party.

The man you see before you as your President today bears a striking resemblance to the main character in a Greek tragedy. He so reeks of hubris. Every word that drops from his lips speaks a haughty derision of the lesser beings not benighted to be a cog in his political machine. […]

Federal Appeals Court Likely to Invalidate Obama's Recess Appointments

By |2012-12-06T13:15:16-05:00December 6th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on December 5, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

President Barack Obama made headlines months ago when he installed controversial nominees to key government positions, bypassing the U.S. Senate by declaring the Senate in recess so that Senate confirmation was not needed. Today a federal appeals court signaled that it might rule Obama’s move unconstitutional, and remove those officials from power.

The U.S. Constitution says that Congress can by statute allow minor government players–“inferior officers”–to be appointed by the president, by Cabinet officers, or by the courts. But high-level administrative officials–called “principal officers”–must […]

Future Generations

By |2012-12-05T13:49:54-05:00December 5th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published December 5, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Is there any reason for today’s Americans to care about what happens to tomorrow’s Americans? After all, what have tomorrow’s Americans done for today’s Americans? Moreover, since tomorrow’s Americans don’t vote, we can dump on them with impunity. That’s a vision that describes the actual behavior of today’s Americans. It would be seen as selfish, callous and ruthless only if it were actually articulated. Let’s look at it.

Businesses, as well as most nonprofit enterprises, by law are required […]

Deceitful Debate over Women in Combat

By |2012-12-03T10:38:25-05:00December 3rd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published November 30, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

Oblivious to important differences between men and women, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the Department of Defense to lift all combat exemptions for women.

Not putting women into combat deprives them of their constitutional rights, the ACLU is arguing on behalf of four servicewomen in a complaint filed Tuesday in a federal court in San Francisco.

“It’s harming women in the field now,” said Elizabeth Gill, a staff attorney with ACLU Northern California, to U.S. News & World Report. […]

ACRU Files Supreme Court Brief in Major Property Rights Case

By |2012-11-29T21:58:42-05:00November 29th, 2012|

WASHINGTON, DC (Nov. 30, 2012) — In a case with profound implications for property owners, the American Civil Rights Union filed a brief at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, Nov. 28 arguing that bureaucrats so violated a Florida man’s constitutional rights against seizure of his property without proper compensation that it amounts to “extortion.”

The brief in Coy A. Koontz v. St. John’s River Water Management District, written by ACRU General Counsel Peter J. Ferrara, argues that state officials required conditions for issuing land use permits that constitute a “taking” prohibited under the Fifth Amendment.

In 1972, Coy Koontz bought 14.9 acres of land […]

ACRU Supreme Court Brief Calls Florida Permit Denial 'Extortion'

By |2012-11-29T21:46:46-05:00November 29th, 2012|

Nov. 30, 2012 – In a case with profound implications for property owners, the American Civil Rights Union filed a brief on Nov. 28 at the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that bureaucrats so violated a Florida man’s constitutional rights against seizure of his property without proper compensation that it amounts to “extortion.”

The brief in Coy A. Koontz v. St. John’s River Water Management District, written by ACRU General Counsel Peter J. Ferrara, argues that state officials required conditions for issuing land use permits that constitute a stark “taking” prohibited under the Fifth Amendment.

Susan A. Carleson, Chairman and CEO of […]

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