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Obama's Slow Growth Policies Have Stacked the Deck Against American Workers

By ACRU Staff|2014-01-07T11:29:17-05:00January 7th, 2014|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published December 26, 2013 on Forbes.com.

President Obama told us in his December 4 economic coming out speech on inequality, which the Huffington Post called the most important speech of his Presidency, “But we know that people’s frustrations run deeper than these most recent political battles. Their frustration is rooted in their own daily battles – to make ends meet, to pay for college, buy a home, save for retirement. It’s rooted in the nagging sense that no matter how hard they work, the deck is stacked against them. And it is rooted […]

Lies, Lies and More Presidential Lies

By ACRU Staff|2014-01-06T10:38:09-05:00January 6th, 2014|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 5, 2014 on The Washington Times website.

One bad thing about our media-mad age is that it’s difficult to keep up with all the lies we’re being told by our government. The good news is that falsehoods don’t have the legs they once had.

Remember when Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper was asked by Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat, during a hearing on March 12, 2013, “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” Mr. Clapper answered, “No […]

Militant Atheists' War on Christians and Christmas in 2013

By ACRU Staff|2013-12-24T00:02:37-05:00December 24th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published December 22, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

This Christmas season is seeing those who deny the existence of God pressing forward with a militant secular agenda, one that is intolerant–often bitterly so–of Christians in America.

Set aside for a moment the blockbuster controversy regarding Phil Robertson and “Duck Dynasty,” which is driven by a visceral rejection of Biblical Christian views on sin and sexuality. The same hostility toward Christians who believe the Bible is the Word of God is on full display this Christmas season in other respects.

Pastor Alistair Begg–one of the most famous […]

ACRU: Obama's 'Julius Caesar Option' Usurps Legislative Power

By ACRU Staff|2013-12-18T10:56:46-05:00December 18th, 2013|

EPA Has No Authority to Issue ‘Greenhouse Gas’ Rules that Congress Refused to Enact, Supreme Court Brief Says

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 18, 2013) — Under President Obama, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is violating the Constitution’s clear separation of powers by issuing “greenhouse gas” emission regulations that Congress explicitly rejected, the American Civil Rights Union argues in a brief filed Dec. 16 at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Written by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara, the brief in Utility Air Regulatory Group v U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notes that, “Our Constitution’s fundamental framework provides for the people’s representatives […]

Can the ACLU Force Catholic Hospitals to Perform Abortions?

By ACRU Staff|2013-12-06T16:35:28-05:00December 6th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 5, 2013 on The Washington Times website.

The ACLU wants Catholic hospitals to practice medicine without morals.

The American Civil Liberties Union is so upset that a Michigan baby died just after being born that the group is suing the Catholic Church for not deliberately killing the child earlier.

In a lawsuit filed on Nov. 29 against the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in U.S. District Court in Michigan, the ACLU contends that the church’s medical directives reflecting a pro-life stance against abortion resulted in negligent care for a woman with a troubled […]

Dems' Power Grab Will Cost Them the War Over the Constitution in Court

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:53:56-04:00December 6th, 2013|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published November 26, 2013 on Breitbart.com.

Winning a battle that costs you a war is no victory.

The silver lining from President Obama’s and Senate Democrats’ unprecedented power grab last week is that now a conservative Republican president can appoint a Supreme Court that will restore the Constitution to its historical place in our nation’s life, revitalizing limited government and safeguarding fundamental rights.

Had conservatives invoked the nuclear option, mainstream media outlets would have given it wall-to-wall coverage under the banner, “The Death of Democracy in America.” MSNBC hosts might have openly wept on […]

The ACLU's Not So Holy Trinity

By ACRU Staff|2013-11-26T17:47:26-05:00November 26th, 2013|

This column by Grove City College historian Paul Kengor was published December 14, 2010 on the American Spectator website.

There’s a reason why the Christmas season always brings out the atheist in the ACLU.

In a revealing American Spectator article, historian Paul Kengor uproots the American Civil Liberties Union’s historic hostility to Christmas and other public celebrations of Christianity. Here’s an excerpt:

The ACLU seems unusually active right now. What gives? Maybe it’s the Christmas season, which always seems to spring the ACLU into high gear, more miserable than usual….

I tried to ignore the latest round […]

ACRU: Obama Made Illegal Recess Appointments to NLRB

By ACRU Staff|2013-11-26T11:46:58-05:00November 26th, 2013|

Group’s Supreme Court brief supports private company against negative ruling by a National Labor Relations Board that lacked a constitutionally legal quorum.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 26, 2013) — President Obama violated the Constitution by claiming to have made three appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) when the Senate was not in recess, so a ruling made by that body is invalid, the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) argues in a friend of the court brief filed Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court. President Obama is the first President in U.S. history to try to make recess appointments that bypass Senate […]

We Must Repeal Obamacare To Make Society Much More Humane

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:57:05-04:00November 25th, 2013|

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

In a Wall Street Journal commentary on November 11, Alan Blinder purports to tell us why, despite a “botched rollout,” Obamacare is still worth it. “America cannot be a humane society if we leave 15% of our population uninsured,” he explains.

I agree that America cannot be a humane society unless we have some means to assure health care for all. But in context, his quoted statement above could not be more silly, and intellectually embarrassing.

Alan, is Princeton so intellectually corrupt these days that no one […]

Entitlement Reform, Tea Party Style

By ACRU Staff|2013-11-25T13:30:17-05:00November 25th, 2013|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published November 13, 2013 on the American Spectator website.

The Tea Party/Republican House majority was elected in 2010 to stop the runaway Obama/Progressive Democrat big government spending spree. And it has had a decisive effect in that regard, as recorded in the annual CBO budget report released last week.

Federal spending soared from $2.655 trillion in 2006, when the Democrat Congress was elected to replace the Republican Congress, to $3.6 trillion in fiscal 2011, reflecting the last spending legislation adopted by that completely Democrat Congress in the prior year, an increase of […]