ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 14, 2010 on Townhall.com.

Federal Court Judge Henry Hudson granted America an early Christmas present on December 13 by declaring the individual mandate in Obamacare unconstitutional.

The individual mandate is the provision that requires all individuals without employer-provided health insurance to purchase health insurance with all of the benefits and provisions as specified by the federal government. Hudson ruled that the federal government does not have the power to impose this under any of the enumerated powers of the Constitution.

In regard to federal authority to regulate interstate commerce under […]

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 9, 2010, on Townhall.com.

Liberals (or Progressives, if you prefer) have been raging at President Obama. For months they have complained that he did not show enough passion. Comic atheist Bill Maher even got racial. He wanted Mr. Obama to shove a Glock into his belt and use it to pistol whip BP execs over the oil spill. If a conservative comedian had engaged in such a blatant bit of racial stereotyping as that, he’d have been hauled up before the Sensitivity Trainers. (And besides, BP had been one of Mr. Obama’s […]

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing December 3, 2010 on The Washington Times website.

Government’s most essential function is to protect citizens. All other services are secondary.

Camden, N.J., is one of the most dangerous cities in the nation, according to FBI statistics analyzed by CQ Press. In fact, Camden was rated the “most dangerous city in America” in 2003, 2004 and 2008, just missing the top spot in 2009. (St. Louis edged it out).

Camden has neighborhoods that aren’t safe in broad daylight, much less at night.

So what did the city fathers of […]

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 8, 2010 on The American Spectator website.

For two years I have been arguing here and elsewhere that Obamanomics will not work. But for Obama and the Democrats to persist in transparent error after the election tsunami and now last Friday’s catastrophic unemployment report has now veered into madness.

Obama’s unreconstructed, throwback Keynesian economics from the 1970s and even the 1930s was a proven failure 30 years ago. Bringing it back as if nothing has happened since the Keynesian intellectual high water mark in the 1960s is public policy malpractice so extreme that it deserves […]

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski wrote this column appearing December 8, 2010, on The Washington Examiner website.

Litigation over Obamacare’s individual mandate has captured the public’s attention. But the ultimate goal in challenging the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law is not the mandate; it’s severability.

This individual mandate that you must buy health insurance is the most obnoxious provision of Obamacare, eradicating the concept of limited government. If the federal government can tell you how to spend your own money to buy insurance, then it also has the power to command you how to spend the […]

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 7, 2010, on Townhall.com.

It was election night 2006, and as the results came in, one U.S. Senate seat after another turned from red to blue. And finally, during the early morning hours of November 8th, the final wall was breached. Montana’s junior Senator, Republican Conrad Burns was 3,562 votes short of defeating his Democrat opponent, Jon Tester. It was the loss of this Senate seat in Montana that was the deciding seat which handed the Senate Majority Leader gavel over to Harry Reid with a 51/49 margin in the U.S. Senate. […]