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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 […]

Policies Meant to Achieve Equality Are Very Unfair to the Least Equal

By |2012-11-29T19:23:03-05:00November 29th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 29, 2012 on Forbes.com.

Steve Moore begins his brilliant new book, Who’s the Fairest of Them All? The Truth About Opportunity, Taxes and Wealth In America, quoting President Obama saying, “We’ve sought to ensure that every citizen can count on some basic measure of security. We do this because we recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at any moment, might face hard times, might face bad luck, might face a crippling illness […]

Good Day for a Fiscal Cliff Hanging

By |2012-11-28T14:08:09-05:00November 28th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 28, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

It seems like everyone is piling on my college friend Grover because they can’t wait to abandon the tax pledge not to raise taxes that he sponsors, and that they took so gleefully when they were unknowns trying to break into politics.

It seems that way because any time any Republican does it he is lionized all over the Democrat party-controlled press. But Grover is right that it is just the usual handful of malcontent sell […]

Democracy and Majority Rule

By |2012-11-26T10:51:27-05:00November 26th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 21, 2012 on Townhall.com.

President Barack Obama narrowly defeated Gov. Mitt Romney in the popular vote 51 percent to 48 percent. In the all-important Electoral College, the difference was larger, with Obama winning 303 electoral votes and Romney 206. Let’s not think so much about the election’s outcome but instead ask: What’s so good about democracy and majority rule?

How many decisions in our day-to-day lives would we like to be made through majority rule or the democratic process? How about the decision […]

Left Likes Fuzzy Math on Election Day

By |2020-04-23T21:59:33-04:00November 26th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published November 23, 2012 on The Washington Times website.

Pawing through the ashes of Mitt Romney’s defeat, it’s clear that if the Republican Party wants to compete nationally, it has to do several things, such as re-message timeless traditional values, attract more young and minority voters — particularly Hispanics — and do a better job of getting out the vote.

This will be moot if the integrity of the voting process is not restored.

From Republican Rep. Allen B. West’s improbable recount loss in South Florida, to reports of voting-machine irregularities, […]

Federal Courts Split on Religious Liberty and Obamacare

By |2020-04-23T21:52:46-04:00November 26th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on November 25, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Can an American citizen exercise his religion through his privately-owned business? The fate of Obamacare’s disturbing HHS contraception mandate turns on that question, and now the federal courts are split on the answer regarding an issue very likely to end up at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Since the Supreme Court (wrongly) upheld Obamacare’s Individual Mandate as a tax in NFIB v. Sebelius, a second round of litigation has commenced going after several other aspects of the federal government’s takeover of America’s healthcare system. Of […]

Justice Alito Discusses Obama Administration at Federalist Society Convention

By |2020-04-23T21:52:47-04:00November 23rd, 2012|

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

President Barack Obama’s lawyers are claiming vast and sweeping powers in arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to Justice Samuel Alito in an address to the Federalist Society last week.

Celebrating its 30th anniversary as America’s premiere conservative and libertarian debate organization, the Federalist Society held its National Lawyers Convention on Nov. 15, 16, and 17 in Washington, D.C. Alito headlined the gala dinner at the Marriot Wardman Park, his third such appearance filling an annual speaking spot that in recent years has also been filled by […]

For the Republicans There's an Opportunity at the Fiscal Cliff

By |2012-11-23T12:02:34-05:00November 23rd, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 22, 2012 on Forbes.com.

The fiscal cliff will not be a new topic to regular readers of this column. I have been writing about it for almost two years, including with publication of my short book in the Encounter Broadside series, Obama and the Crash of 2013.

What is new is the recognition that only free market Republicans can save our economy from hurtling downward off that cliff, if they get aggressive now about promoting their correct economic […]

Laboratories of Democracy

By |2012-11-21T15:32:55-05:00November 21st, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 21, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

The lesson of the 20th century is that Marxism was tried and tried and tried, and failed and failed and failed. But that lesson is lost on the true believer Barack Obama and his Democrat Party. Supposedly a forward looking progressive, Obama is dragging America back into cutting edge ideas from the late 19th century, already proven wrong to everyone except those in Obama’s freeze dried corner of American culture.

What else can we make of […]

Obamacare Will Create Two Americas for Healthcare

By |2020-04-23T21:48:00-04:00November 16th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published on November 14, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

If Obamacare survives the 2016 election after it is fully implemented, there will be two healthcare systems in America from which our citizens will choose.

As former Ohio Treasurer Ken Blackwell and I explained months ago, the fifty states can freely choose whether to participate in two central pillars of Obamacare. Conservative governors will be glad in the end, if they hold true to their principles to reject this big-government takeover of healthcare.

First, Obamacare expands taxpayer-funded healthcare under Medicaid. The one part of Obamacare that the […]

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