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Robert Knight: Obamechanic Tinkers With Colleges

By |2010-10-04T15:00:49-04:00October 4th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing October 1, 2010 on The Washington Times website.

When I was in college, a professor from the Middle East was giving me advice in his office.

He said, “My son (he fancied himself a mentor), truth comes in three colors: blonde, brunette and redhead.” At the time, I was unmarried, and it seemed to make sense, although I was leery because of his reputation as a skirt-chaser. I wanted to get married, not start a harem.

Today, truth on campus may be coming in only one color: red.

The Obama […]

ACRU Seeks to Strike Down Obamacare

By |2010-10-04T13:07:38-04:00October 4th, 2010|

The American Civil Rights Union filed an amicus curiae brief on October 4, 2010 in the Eastern District of Virginia in support of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli in the case of Commonwealth of Virginia v. Kathleen Sebelius seeking to strike down Obamacare as unconstitutional. The brief argued that the delegated, enumerated power in the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce does not include compelling participation in interstate commerce by requiring purchase of government designated products and services by those who otherwise choose not to do so. It also argued that the individual mandate is not a tax under the federal government’s taxation powers, but a regulatory […]

ACLU Says: Better Drunk Than Religious

By |2020-04-23T21:52:56-04:00September 30th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this article on September 30, 2010.

Despite the ACLU’s effort to censor a “religious” speaker at a Nebraska high school, students on Wednesday (Sept. 29) got to hear a compelling account of why they should not drink and drive from a man whose brother was killed by a drunk driver.

The appearance at Lyons-Decatur Northeast High School by Keith Becker, who says he has spoken to more than 150 Nebraska schools and who makes no secret of his Christianity, was opposed by the ACLU’s local chapter when they got wind of it.

ACLU Nebraska Legal Director Amy […]

Jan LaRue: Is the Left Rejecting Its Pagan Base?

By |2010-09-23T15:21:36-04:00September 23rd, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column appearing September 23, 2010 on The American Thinker website.

Will Christine, the repentant “witch,” or Chris, the unrepentant “Marxist,” win the U.S. Senate race in Delaware?

Political pundits and TV talkers are fixated on Christine O’Donnell’s admission that she “dabbled into witchcraft” very briefly as a teenager. Whereas Chris Coons, O’Donnell’s Democratic opponent, is a self-described Marxist, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid’s “pet,” and a former “volunteer for liberation theology” in South Africa, according to Jeff Lord’s outstanding column on American Spectator.

The leftist cabal is mute about Coons’ Marxist meandering […]

Peter Ferrara: The Disgrace of the Ruling Class

By |2023-03-10T08:04:51-05:00September 22nd, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing September 22, 2010 on The American Spectator.

We now have confirmation that Barack Obama truly loves poor people. Because he is creating so many of them.

The Census Bureau reports that America suffers with more people in poverty now than ever before in its history of reporting on poverty — 44 million. That’s up nearly 4 million in the last year alone, with the poverty rate shooting up to 14.3%. One in seven Americans now suffers in poverty.

That follows the report that foreclosures hit their all time high in August, up 25% over a […]

Peter Ferrara: Obama's War on America's Seniors

By |2010-09-15T14:11:49-04:00September 15th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing September 15, 2010 on The American Spectator.

Seniors citizens probably provided less support for President Obama in the 2008 election than any other voter bloc. That reflects the wisdom of age. But for President Obama, apparently it’s payback time, because he is conducting a comprehensive economic assault on America’s senior citizens.

First He Trashed Medicare

A Democrat campaign theme this fall is that those scary Republicans want to end Medicare as we know it. But that is not possible, because President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the Democrats have already done that, in Obamacare.

Peter Ferrara and Larry Hunter: How ObamaCare Guts Medicare

By |2010-09-09T11:15:47-04:00September 9th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara and Dr. Larry Hunter wrote this column appearing September 9, 2010 on The Wall Street Journal website.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has attacked Senate Republican candidates for wanting “to end Medicare as we know it.” And in Nevada’s hotly contested Senate race, Majority Leader Harry Reid is attacking Republican Sharron Angle, saying she wants to “gut” Medicare. But Mr. Reid has already gutted it. He and his colleagues did so by passing ObamaCare.

In his analysis accompanying the recently released Annual Report of the Medicare Board of Trustees, Richard Foster, Medicare’s chief actuary, noted […]

Peter Ferrara: The Coming Obamacare Disaster

By |2010-08-19T11:30:42-04:00August 19th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing August 18, 2010 on The American Spectator.

Forthcoming for public release shortly will be my extensive study of the Obamacare legislation, “The Obamacare Disaster: An Appraisal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (Heartland Policy Study No. 128, The Heartland Institute, August 2010), available shortly at the Heartland Institute website. Following Nancy Pelosi’s dictum that we will have to pass it first to know what’s in it, I personally slogged through the thousands of pages of this legislative atrocity for the study, as well as thousands of pages of supplemental materials such as government, think tank […]

Ken Blackwell: Secretary Vilsack: Re-Hire Shirley Sherrod

By |2010-07-21T15:48:58-04:00July 21st, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing July 21, 2010, on HuffingtonPost.com.

Mark Twain warned us: Confession is good for the soul, but it’s bad for the reputation.

It’s a good thing for a certain rural Georgia peanut farmer that we didn’t have a 24/7 news cycle when he was coming up. Otherwise, Jimmy Carter’s “lust in his heart” remark would have derailed his political career.

Shirley Sherrod has just become the most famous employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Millions of Americans who have no idea who Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is know who Shirley Sherrod is.

She’s […]

Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski: The president's wooden-headed interpretation of our Constitution

By |2010-07-20T22:38:38-04:00July 20th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing July 19, 2010, on DailyCaller.com.

Sometimes you hate being right.

In chapter 4 of our book, The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency, my coauthor Ken Blackwell and I make the point that Team Obama would try to pull a fast one when it comes to Obamacare’s individual mandate that everyone reading this blog post needs to buy health insurance, or be subject to a penalty payable to your good friends at the IRS.

Ken and I first made this argument in […]

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