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Racial Trade-offs

By |2013-10-10T14:33:18-04:00October 10th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published October 2, 2013 on Townhall.com.

Trade-offs apply to our economic lives, as well as our political lives. That means getting more of one thing requires giving up something else. Let’s look at some examples.

Black congressmen and black public officials in general, including Barack Obama, always side with teachers unions in their opposition to educational vouchers, tuition tax credits, charter schools and other measures that would allow black parents to take their children out of failing public schools. Most black politicians and many black […]

Symposium: Time to Restore Longstanding Meaning—and Sanity—to the Establishment Clause in Town of Greece v. Galloway

By |2020-04-23T21:52:41-04:00October 4th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published October 3, 2013 on SCOTUSblog.com.

Town of Greece v. Galloway is a major Establishment Clause case involving legislative prayer. If the Supreme Court takes this opportunity—as it should—to replace both the manifestly unworkable original Lemon test and its equally unworkable revision, the endorsement test, with a historically grounded, principled, and objective coercion test, then this case will be of tremendous benefit to the law and the nation.

Those who believe in fidelity to the Constitution and democratic self-rule should hope for nothing less. And although an […]

Symposium: Time to Restore Longstanding Meaning—and Sanity—to the Establishment Clause in Town of Greece v. Galloway

By |2020-04-23T21:52:41-04:00October 4th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published October 3, 2013 on SCOTUSblog.com.

Town of Greece v. Galloway is a major Establishment Clause case involving legislative prayer. If the Supreme Court takes this opportunity—as it should—to replace both the manifestly unworkable original Lemon test and its equally unworkable revision, the endorsement test, with a historically grounded, principled, and objective coercion test, then this case will be of tremendous benefit to the law and the nation.

Those who believe in fidelity to the Constitution and democratic self-rule should hope for nothing less. And although an […]

Bloomberg's Astroturf Mayors

By |2020-04-23T21:53:56-04:00October 3rd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published on October 1, 2013 on The Daily Caller website.

By now, you’d think Michael Bloomberg would have learned his lesson.

The out-of-touch New York City mayor has lately made it his business to be in everyone else’s business—whether that means trying to decide for New York residents what they are allowed to eat or drink, or trying to tell people from other states what to think of their elected officials.

More often than not, however, Mayor Bloomberg’s overreaches have been repelled. The courts struck down Bloomberg’s ban on large sodas. […]

It's the President's Fault

By |2013-10-02T12:11:40-04:00October 2nd, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published October 2, 2013 on the American Spectator website.

Day 2 of the government shutdown, and look out the window. The sun is still shining, and the sky is still blue. The birds are chirping.

The Great Government Shutdown is not that big a deal, even for the government. The federal civilian workforce includes 2.9 million bureaucrats. Out of that, only 800,000 are being furloughed, or just 27%. Even for these workers, the shutdown just amounts to a paid vacation for a few days.

Just like the overballyhood sequester, average Americans won’t notice any […]

Cruz's Green Eggs and the Media Hambones

By |2020-04-23T21:53:56-04:00September 30th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published September 30, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

C-SPAN is more powerful than a fleet of little red wagons, but it felt a lot like “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” as Sen. Ted Cruz demolished the legitimacy of Obamacare in his 21-hour, 19-minute floor speech last week.

In the classic film, a naive junior senator played by Jimmy Stewart performs a heroic, overnight filibuster to expose corruption. The media suppress it and viciously attack his character. An army of wagon-pulling children try to report the truth via homespun “newspapers,” only to […]

Honesty and Trust

By |2013-09-29T23:09:36-04:00September 29th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 25, 2013 on Townhall.com.

Dishonesty, lying and cheating are not treated with the right amount of opprobrium in today’s society. To gain an appreciation for the significance of honesty and trust, consider what our day-to-day lives would be like if we couldn’t trust anyone. When we purchase a bottle of 100 pills from our pharmacist, how many of us bother to count the pills? We pull in to a gasoline station and pay $35 for 10 gallons of gasoline. How do we know for sure whether we in fact received 10 […]

The Fight to Defund Is a Fight for Liberty

By |2013-09-23T09:56:55-04:00September 23rd, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published September 22, 2013 on the American Thinker website.

Texas doesn’t have an ObamaCare Exchange — we have the Alamo.

Sen. Ted Cruz is our contemporary William B. Travis, commandant of the Alamo and defender of liberty. Standing with Cruz to defund ObamaCare are Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Think of them as Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, and company.

These super-smart senators, like the majority of Americans, get it. ObamaCare is the greatest […]

Conservatives Rescuing Obama

By |2013-09-20T07:16:57-04:00September 20th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published September 18, 2013 on Forbes.com.

Obamacare has not even gone into effect yet, and there it lies substantively smashed on the floor in ruins. The cost of health insurance on the Obamacare Exchanges for next year is already soaring, for those states that will have Obamacare Exchanges opening on October 1. Obamacare also already promises to limit access to health care for those with Obamacare health insurance next year, meaning you won’t have the same access to the same doctors and hospitals that you have with health insurance today.

Thought Obama promised if you like […]

Supreme Court to Consider New Obamacare Case

By |2023-03-10T08:04:40-05:00September 19th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published September 18, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Obamacare is before the U.S. Supreme Court again. On Thursday, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) lawyers filed the first viable petition for Supreme Court review involving Kathleen Sebelius’ HHS Mandate, which requires employers to provide abortion-related insurance coverage, even if those employers have a religious objection to abortion.

Section 1001 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) requires all large employers to offer “preventive services” to their employees or face enormous financial penalties. With President Obama’s approval, Sebelius issued a regulation that defined preventive services […]

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