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Second Amendment is Insurance Against Government Tyranny

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:53:44-04:00January 21st, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 20, 2011 on The Washington Examiner website.

Gun-control legislation is back after the Tucson tragedy. Congress must confront the reality that the courts have declared two reasons for the Second Amendment right to bear arms. One is self-defense, and the other — whether you like it or not — is enabling the American people to resist tyranny.

A depraved monster gunned down innocent people in Arizona. And predictably, several gun-control laws are being introduced.

Since the Constitution expressly guarantees the right to obtain and possess firearms, Congress must understand the Second Amendment […]

Why We're a Divided Nation

By ACRU Staff|2011-01-19T14:42:45-05:00January 19th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams was published January 19, 2011 on Townhall.com.

Some Americans have strong, sometimes unyielding preferences for Mac computers, while most others have similarly strong preferences for PCs and wouldn’t be caught dead using a Mac. Some Americans love classical music and hate rock and roll. Others have opposite preferences, loving rock and roll and consider classical music as hoity-toity junk. Then there are those among us who love football and Western movies, and find golf and cooking shows to be less than manly. Despite these, and many other strong […]

Welcoming Hu Jintao

By ACRU Staff|2011-01-19T11:03:55-05:00January 19th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published January 19, 2011, on The American Thinker website.

It was twenty-two years ago, in the spring of 1989, that thousands of Chinese students gathered in Beijing’s Tienanmen Square to demand democracy. The students even fashioned their own 30-foot high replica of America’s Statue of Libety. It represented the aspirations for democracy of young Chinese. They yearned to join young people in Poland, East Germany, and the then-united nation of Czechoslovakia. It was a time when it seemed the winds of hope and change might sweep away tyranny from the whole world.

Death and Liberalism

By ACRU Staff|2011-01-19T10:38:24-05:00January 19th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara appeared January 19, 2011 on The American Spectator website.

Imagine if Sarah Palin or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh had said the following about a Democrat candidate running for Governor of Florida:

That Scott down there that’s running for Governor of Florida. Instead of running for Governor of Florida, they ought to have him and shoot him. Put him against the wall and shoot him. He stole billions of dollars from the United States government and he’s running for Governor of Florida. He’s a millionaire and a billionaire. He’s no hero. He’s a damn crook.

If […]

Recall Sheriff Dupnik

By ACRU Staff|2011-01-17T11:03:24-05:00January 17th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 14, 2011 on The Washington Times website.

A lot of people are wondering what to do about Clarence Dupnik, sheriff of Pima County, Ariz. He’s the left-wing lawman who shot off his mouth and blamed everyone to the right of President Obama for the Jan. 8 massacre in Tucson. Last April, he boasted that he would not enforce S.B. 1070, the state’s immigration enforcement law, which he called “racist,” “stupid” and “disgusting.” In September, he accused Tea Party members of being bigots.

Name-calling is one thing. More seriously, Sheriff […]

A Bright Idea: Rescue the Incandescents

By ACRU Staff|2011-01-13T19:08:31-05:00January 13th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell was published January 13, 2011, on The American Thinker website.

Why is Paris known as the City of Light? Is it because the U.S. Congress banned Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulbs, so he had to take his invention offshore?

Well, not actually. Thomas Edison was an honoree at the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition, and he did go up in the Eiffel Tower. The Italian government conferred a knighthood at that event on the man who gave the world a brighter idea.

No, Congress in the 1880s would not have […]

Shooting "Solutions" Exploit Tragedy, Ignore Grief

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-10T08:04:50-05:00January 13th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue appeared January 13, 2011 on The American Thinker website.

We are a nation in grief once again, mourning Saturday’s mass shooting in Tucson Arizona.

But we will get through it if we do what Americans always do — call on a merciful and loving God, honor those who died, care for survivors and their families, recognize the heroes, and seek justice. It doesn’t take an expert in grief counseling to know pain and what helps or hinders getting through the process.

Three months ago my husband of almost 51 years died […]

Put Blame Where It Belongs in Tucson Tragedy

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:54:03-04:00January 12th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 12, 2011 on Townhall.com

I formerly lived twelve minutes from that Safeway grocery store in Tucson. I worked four minutes from it. My wife and I sometimes shopped there. I first met Rep. Gabrielle Giffords eight years ago when she was a state senator. “Call me Gabby,” she told me. And I did.

Now in the wake of the tragedy that left the Arizona Democrat gravely wounded and six others dead – including a federal judge, a congressional staffer, a nine year-old girl, and an elderly gentleman who shielded his wife with his […]

NRA and Reagan Conservatives Defending Second Amendment in Court

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:53:44-04:00January 8th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 8, 2011 on Townhall.com

The Second Amendment is a whole new ballgame in the aftermath of recent Supreme Court decisions. The NRA is taking a leading role in many lawsuits now underway by bringing in top-tier lawyers from the Reagan administration, as the biggest battles over gun rights now move into the courtroom.

For almost 200 years, the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms was sacred in American law. In addition to hunting, the right of law-abiding citizens to buy, keep and carry guns was essential for […]

NPR: All PC Things Considered

By ACRU Staff|2010-10-25T19:21:05-04:00October 25th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing October 22, 2010, on the World Magazine website.

National Public Radio is a monument to political correctness. Its acronym might better be thought of as “not professionally responsible.” It is not a left-leaning organization. The Leaning Tower of Pisa leans. NPR has fallen over completely for the “progressive” agenda. It is supine. Horizontal. And the actions of NPR president Vivian Schiller in firing Juan Williams are just the most public example of NPR’s bias.

Juan Williams has done more than any other journalist to chronicle the history of the civil rights movement, to show the […]