This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and Family Research Council Senior Fellow Bob Morrison was published January 9, 2011, on The American Thinker website.

“There’s nothing new under the sun,” said President Harry Truman, “there’s only history we haven’t learned yet.” The history we haven’t learned yet was on display on page one of the Washington Post. Post writers Philip Rucker and David Farenthold reported on the reading of the Constitution by newly sworn in Members of the 112th Congress.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) led the novel exercise and defended the decision not to read those portions […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]