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Expression is Not Coercion

By |2020-04-23T21:52:55-04:00January 9th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 7, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

While the nation watches to see how the new House leadership flexes its Tea Party-enhanced muscles, the legal campaign to strip the public square of any reminders of America’s Christian heritage continues apace.

On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 57-year-old cross atop the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego is unconstitutional. The decision runs counter to a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a similar case at the Mojave National Preserve, […]

NRA and Reagan Conservatives Defending Second Amendment in Court

By |2020-04-23T21:53:44-04:00January 8th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 8, 2011 on Townhall.com

The Second Amendment is a whole new ballgame in the aftermath of recent Supreme Court decisions. The NRA is taking a leading role in many lawsuits now underway by bringing in top-tier lawyers from the Reagan administration, as the biggest battles over gun rights now move into the courtroom.

For almost 200 years, the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms was sacred in American law. In addition to hunting, the right of law-abiding citizens to buy, keep and carry guns was essential for […]

Conservative Legal Team from Obamacare Case Now Fighting the EPA

By |2011-01-07T15:45:16-05:00January 7th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 7, 2011 on Townhall.com

On Dec. 30, a federal appeals court froze new EPA regulations on greenhouse gases. The team representing the State of Texas in this appeal is also the team managing the largest Obamacare lawsuit in America, led by a lawyer from the Reagan administration. This appeal is the latest reminder that America needs good judges to uphold the rule of law and stop President Obama’s ongoing power grab.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its first round of anti-business, job-killing carbon regulations last year. Those rules […]

Playing God With Catholic Hospitals

By |2011-01-06T14:11:05-05:00January 6th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 5, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

Take a case that, on the surface, looks really bad. Assign an evil motive. Ignore nuanced facts. Stir in media outcry. Demand that the government step in.

That’s the left’s recipe for putting Catholic hospitals in intensive care – the care of the pro-abortion Obama administration, that is.

On Dec. 22, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, asking the agency to investigate Catholic hospitals’ refusal to do abortions when women’s lives are […]

Saturday Night Alive?

By |2011-01-06T13:44:08-05:00January 6th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell appeared January 6, 2011, on The American Spectator website.

We all breathed a sigh of relief when the ball fell in New York’s Times Square and the holiday season this year ended without another terror attack, or attempted attack, on our homeland. You’ll recall that on Christmas Day, 2009, the notorious “underwear” bomber tried to blow up his jet over Detroit. Young Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian citizen, wanted to take down his Northwest Airlines Flight 253 right over Detroit’s airport. Had he succeeded in detonating his BVDs, his victims would not only have been the 288 passengers […]

California Court Rules Against Cross Memorial

By |2020-04-23T21:52:55-04:00January 6th, 2011|

Ninth’s Decision on Mt. Soledad Veterans Cross “Defies Common Sense,” ACRU Says

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the 57-year-old concrete cross atop the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego is unconstitutional. The decision runs counter to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a similar case at the Mojave National Preserve veterans memorial.

“This decision appears to be rooted more in a desire to rid the public square of prominent reminders of America’s religious heritage than it does in a desire to protect the sensibilities of people who happen to see the cross. It distorts the […]

Obamacare's Dirty Tricks

By |2011-01-05T15:17:29-05:00January 5th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared January 5, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

Most commentators have focused on the revelation just before Christmas that Obamacare’s end of life death panel consultations rejected by Congress were resurrected by the Obama Administration by regulatory requirement. There is no truth to the rumor that President Obama has agreed, after his term of office ends, to head up a new organization called Democrats Against Democracy.

But while this regulatory authoritarianism is, indeed, yet another dirty trick of Obamacare, it is small potatoes compared to the real dirty tricks of Obamacare. A dirty trick is defined […]

Tyranny by Decree

By |2011-01-03T16:29:55-05:00January 3rd, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 2, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

Over the past year, it has become obvious that what leftists cannot win at the ballot box, they will accomplish via bureaucratic dictate. After the U.S. Senate in 2009 rejected the massive cap-and-tax scheme on carbon credits, the Obama administration rode to the rescue of global-warming fanatics. On Dec. 7, 2009, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson issued a ruling that the EPA would begin regulating five “anthropogenic” (man-made) greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, the air we exhale. The EPA based […]

Tie Debt Ceiling Vote To Balanced Budget Amendment

By |2010-12-29T12:21:53-05:00December 29th, 2010|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell appeared December 29, 2010, on Townhall.com.

Next spring, Republicans will be faced with a serious decision over whether to vote to raise the debt ceiling.

Failing to do so could signal foreign countries that the U.S. plans to default on our debt — an act that would surely have dire economic repercussions.

On the other hand, Tea Party activists — and other conservatives — might understandably view such a vote as evidence that Republicans still don’t “get it” — and that the politicians didn’t hear them in November.

So what’s the […]

Net Neutrality Is Theft

By |2010-12-29T11:30:16-05:00December 29th, 2010|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared December 29, 2010 on The American Spectator website.

The Internet is not a natural resource. It does not grow on trees, or appear on the ground like dew on a spring morning. Nor does it operate by magic. The Internet exists only to the extent it is built, and then maintained and operated.

That requires big bucks, especially for broadband access. Broadband requires hundreds of billions if not trillions in investment to lay cables under streets, or to build and then launch satellites into orbit.

Where does that money come from? It comes from private […]

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