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WRONG: Media Claiming Scalia Said SCOTUS to Limit Second Amendment

By |2020-04-23T21:53:44-04:00August 2nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 30, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Some in the media–including conservative media–are claiming that conservative Justice Antonin Scalia is saying the Supreme Court can limit the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

That’s not exactly what he said.

Scalia has a new book, and he was on Fox News Sunday to discuss it. Given how rarely justices give general-media interviews, it was predictable that host Chris Wallace took most of his time trying to draw Scalia out on hot-button issues, from the Court’s 5-4 (incorrect) decision upholding most of Obamacare, to abortion […]

Obama's Calculated Deception

By |2012-08-01T21:36:08-04:00August 1st, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published August 1, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Calculated Deception. That is the central theme of the Obama campaign. Calculated Deception is the term I use for Obama’s rhetorical practice of trying to take advantage of what he calculates the average person does not know, and his party-controlled, so-called mainstream media won’t report. And that can be seen over and over in the Obama campaign.

Obscuring the Worst Recovery Since the Great Depression

In Monday’s Wall Street Journal, Edward Lazear, former Bush chairman […]

How President Obama Is Deceiving You On Tax Policy

By |2012-07-31T14:39:04-04:00July 31st, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 25, 2012 on Forbes.com.

The central theme of President Obama’s tax policy has been that “the rich” (whatever that is supposed to mean) do not pay their fair share of federal taxes, and the middle class pays more as a result. But the CBO just issued a new report this month that proves him grievously wrong.

“The Distribution of Household Income and Federal Taxes, 2008 and 2009,” issued by CBO on July 12, reports that the top 1% […]

ADF Scores First Victory Against Obama's Unconstitutional HHS Mandate

By |2012-07-30T11:26:16-04:00July 30th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 28, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

On August 1, Obamacare’s latest outrage goes into effect as the “HHS Mandate” takes effect, and the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) just scored the first victory in religious liberty against this authoritarian decree days before its implementation.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a regulation under Obamacare requiring almost all employers to cover abortion, birth control, and sterilization services. There are exemptions for nonprofit “religious employers,” but this term’s definition in the regulation is so ridiculously narrow that it would include churches and synagogues, by likely […]

The Reagan Remedy for Medicaid

By |2012-07-30T11:04:56-04:00July 30th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Chairman and CEO and CCPP founder and President Susan A. Carleson was published July 28, 2012 on theAmerican Thinker website.

So many people have complained that something must be done about U.S. health care. But the truth is that a solution has been staring us in the face for years — about forty years, in fact. And it all started with Ronald Reagan.

In 1971, California was heading toward bankruptcy because of out-of-control welfare spending, so Governor Reagan tapped Robert B. Carleson to design and implement the first-ever welfare reform — and it worked. […]

Obama Promised He Wouldn't Raise Taxes on the Middle Class. He Lied.

By |2012-07-26T13:12:08-04:00July 26th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 19, 2012 on Forbes.com.

When he was asking for our vote in 2008, then candidate Barack Obama famously promised the American people, “I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” But as the Supreme Court has now authoritatively ruled, the Obamacare individual mandate, requiring […]

Failing Downward

By |2012-07-26T12:44:00-04:00July 26th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published July 25, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

President Obama thinks he is so clever in continuing to try to trick us into believing his disgraceful record on the economy and jobs is really the fault of the Republicans in Congress. You see, 10 months ago in September, 2011, Obama proposed the American Jobs Act. But Congressional Republicans refused to pass most of it. So that means that the continued high unemployment and worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression must all be […]

The Great Dissent Part V: Why the Entire Obamacare System Must Be Struck Down in Court

By |2020-04-23T21:57:08-04:00July 17th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published July 12, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

The capstone to the Great Dissent was the explanation of why the entire 2,700-page Affordable Care Act (ACA) must be struck down along with the unconstitutional Individual Mandate and the unconstitutional Medicaid Expansion.

When part of a law is found unconstitutional and invalidated by a court, severability doctrine is the set of rules under which a court determines how much of the law must fall alongside the invalid provision. While most large statutes include a severability clause that declares Congress’ wish that if part of […]

The Future of the "Affordable Care Act"

By |2012-07-11T12:03:10-04:00July 11th, 2012|

This piece is by John McClaughry, Vice President of the Ethan Allen Institute, a member of the CCPP Policy Board and former senior policy advisor to President Reagan.

The Supreme Court has now issued its startling ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare).

Four liberal justices ardently believe, with President Obama, that the constitutional power to regulate commerce authorizes Congress to require individuals to purchase government-approved health insurance, or suffer a monetary penalty for minding their own business.

Five conservative justices believe that the commerce power cannot be stretched to authorize any such penalty.

Four of these five […]

One of the Worst Supreme Court Decisions in American History

By |2012-06-29T12:00:48-04:00June 29th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published June 28, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Chief Justice John Roberts provided the critical fifth vote to uphold Obamacare in its entirety, in a case that will go down as one of the worst and most consequential cases in American history. Now the Taxing Clause of the Constitution trumps the Commerce Clause as the greatest grant of authority to the national government, one that is without any limits that a court can enforce.

We will have more columns on this decision in NFIB v. Sebelius, but this first legal analysis column goes […]

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