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Eric Holder Is at War with Gun Owners' Rights

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:54:01-04:00March 21st, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 20, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

This week we’ve seen confirmation that the National Rifle Association has been right all along about President Obama’s choice for attorney general to lead the Department of Justice.

Taken with Eric Holder’s arguments at the Supreme Court, and Operation Fast and Furious, the picture emerges of an inveterate opponent of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

When Holder was U.S. attorney for D.C. in 1995, he gave a speech to the Woman’s National Democratic Club about firearms. He shockingly argued that “what we need […]

ATF Wins First Round against Gun Owners in Border-State Lawsuit

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:54:02-04:00January 18th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 18, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

Gun owners just lost the first round in a court struggle with President Obama’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

ATF issued orders requiring all firearm dealers in the border states (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California) to report to ATF purchases of multiple semi-auto rifles, under the auspices of stopping Mexican drug cartels from paying operatives to buy guns in America and smuggle them into Mexico (because we all know the bang-up job Obama’s people have done stopping gun-running).

But the Firearm […]

Bat's the Way It Is for Unarmed Britons

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:54:02-04:00August 15th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published August 13, 2011 on the American Thinker blog.

In the midst of riots, arson and looting, British citizens armed themselves with … aluminum bats.

A Louisville Slugger is no match for a mob, but when your Socialist government makes it virtually impossible to own a gun, you grab whatever you can to protect yourself, your family and your property.

Online sales of aluminum bats on Amazon.com increased by 6,000 percent during the violence, according to CNN. Most British police don’t carry guns. The situation is a far cry from […]

The Gang That Won't Shoot Straight

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:54:03-04:00April 16th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published April 16, 2011 on Townhall.com.

Hollywood and Washington are rife with elites opposed to the right to bear arms for folks in flyover country “who cling to guns or religion,” as their champion in the White House described us.

Some notable exceptions include Tom Selleck, who supports the Second Amendment. He stars in the Jesse Stone film series. Selleck snuffing bad guys–what’s not to like? Jesse’s advice: “In a fight–front sight.”

In the premiere episode, Jesse’s weakness, besides drinking too much, is for a liberal city attorney who sounds […]

They're All Detroit Democrats Now

By ACRU Staff|2011-03-02T10:56:12-05:00March 2nd, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy Peter Ferrara was published March 2, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

House Republicans have fulfilled their campaign pledge to cut $100 billion in spending in the first year, passing a continuing resolution (CR) on February 19 cutting that much for this year from President Obama’s 2011 budget, which was exactly their pledge. That involves a $61 billion cut for the rest of this year from the baseline of the CR that is now funding the government through March 4.

The deficit in President Obama’s 2011 budget is […]

It's Time To Block Grant Welfare To The States

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:58:20-04:00February 26th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Director of Policy for the Carleson Center for Public Policy Peter Ferrara was published February 23, 2011 on Forbes.com.

If any liberal reform had been as wildly successful as the 1996 welfare reforms spearheaded by then House Speaker Newt Gingrich, every schoolchild in America would have been forced to memorize the details by now. The reforms of the old New Deal-era Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program involved the ultimate welfare policy dream of President Reagan and his longtime welfare guru Robert Carleson, as explained in Carleson’s recent posthumously published book Government Is […]

American Dream or Socialist Nightmare

By ACRU Staff|2011-02-26T03:32:56-05:00February 26th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 24, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

There are few things more galling than communists lecturing Americans on how we can live up to our “values.” A case in point is former Obama administration “green jobs czar” Van Jones rhapsodizing about the union rent-a-mobs in Madison, Wis., Indiana and coming to a city near you.

In his article “Introducing the ‘American Dream’ ” at the Huffington Post, Mr. Jones, who lost his White House job when his communist affiliations surfaced, says these “heroes and heroines” in the mobs will […]

Democracy Versus Liberty

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:56:54-04:00February 24th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published February 23, 2011 on Townhall.com.

It is truly disgusting for me to hear politicians, national and international talking heads and pseudo-academics praising the Middle East stirrings as democracy movements. We also hear democracy as the description of our own political system. Like the founders of our nation, I find democracy and majority rule a contemptible form of government.

You say, “Whoa, Williams, you really have to explain yourself this time!”

I’ll begin by quoting our founders on democracy. James Madison, in Federalist Paper […]

Wisconsin Showdown

By ACRU Staff|2011-02-23T09:45:51-05:00February 23rd, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published February 23, 2011 on The American Spectator website .

Nationwide, state and local government workers are paid on average 45% more than private sector workers, with an average hourly wage of $26.25, and $13.56 in hourly costs for benefits, for total hourly costs of $39.81, or $80,000 per year on average. This is true in Wisconsin as well. Indeed, the Manhattan Institute’s E.J. McMahon reports that for public school teachers in Milwaukee, the annual cost of family health coverage is $26,844, for which the teachers currently pay nothing.

Yet, state and local government workers are […]

Time to Recall AWOL Lawmakers

By ACRU Staff|2011-02-22T16:41:05-05:00February 22nd, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara was published February 22, 2011 on FoxNews.com.

Newly elected Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has moved expeditiously to propose legislation to close the state’s $3.6 billion budget deficit. But that legislation languishes in the state legislature because the Democrat minority in the state Senate has fled Wisconsin, depriving the Senate of a quorum to conduct business.

Wisconsin held an election in November, and the voters granted the Republicans a 19-14 Senate majority. But under the state Senate rules, a quorum of 20 is needed to conduct business. By refusing to even participate in Senate […]