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ACLU-Oriented Judge Throws Out Stolen Valor Act

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-10T08:04:52-05:00July 20th, 2010|

A federal judge in Denver has decided the case of a man who claimed military awards he hadn’t earned, in an unusual way, and contrary to all other courts to consider such a case. Instead of finding the defendant guilty, he threw out the law, claiming it was unconstitutional.

The facts for this article, but not the legal conclusions, come from an article in the Denver Post on 17 July. A federal judge there has heard the criminal trial of a man who falsely claimed certain military awards. Instead of find the defendant guilty, which he plainly was, the judge ruled that the […]

Jan LaRue: Holder Hangs KSM and Gitmo Around Democrats' Neck

By ACRU Staff|2010-07-20T22:20:23-04:00July 20th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote a column appearing July 14, 2010, on Townhall.com.

President Obama gave notice to the Democrat-controlled Congress on Sunday that unless it provides funding for a civilian trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center, they will suffer the consequences. Obama is helping voters remember in November that Congress is failing to fulfill his campaign promises.

What else explains why Attorney General Eric Holder told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, “there’s a real question about whether a terrorist suspect such as self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed can face the death penalty […]

Ken Blackwell: Who's Telling the Truth — NASA's Chief or the White House?

By ACRU Staff|2010-07-20T22:15:20-04:00July 20th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing July 14, 2010, on FOXNews.com.

NASA administrator Charles Bolden must have felt like Astronaut Frank Poole in the cult classic, “Space Odyssey: 2001.” In that film, the menacing computer HAL 9000 cut Poole’s tether and let him drift off into space.

In this case, it was President Obama’s press spokesman Robert Gibbs who, on Tuesday, cut off the former Marine Corps Major General. Gibbs told reporters the general was “wrong” to say that reaching out to the Muslim world was a top priority for the National Aviation and Space Administration (NASA) under the Obama administration.

Ken Blackwell: Who’s Telling the Truth — NASA’s Chief or the White House?

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-23T09:52:43-04:00July 20th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing July 14, 2010, on FOXNews.com.

NASA administrator Charles Bolden must have felt like Astronaut Frank Poole in the cult classic, “Space Odyssey: 2001.” In that film, the menacing computer HAL 9000 cut Poole’s tether and let him drift off into space.

In this case, it was President Obama’s press spokesman Robert Gibbs who, on Tuesday, cut off the former Marine Corps Major General. Gibbs told reporters the general was “wrong” to say that reaching out to the Muslim world was a top priority for the National Aviation and Space Administration (NASA) under the Obama administration.

When he was in Egypt for […]

Walter E. Williams: A Failed Obama Hero

By ACRU Staff|2010-07-20T22:13:27-04:00July 20th, 2010|

ACRU Policy Board Member Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing July 14, 2010 on Townhall.com.

Let’s think about President Obama’s failed economic stimulus program. Before getting to the nitty-gritty of why stimulus packages fail, let’s look at the failed stimulus program of Obama’s hero, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR’s Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, wrote in his diary: “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. … We have never made good on our promises. … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started … […]

Ken Blackwell: GM's Move Away from 'Government Motors'

By ACRU Staff|2010-07-20T21:02:41-04:00July 20th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing July 13, 2010, on HuffingtonPost.com.

My friend Matt Lewis recently authored a thoughtful column about General Motors. As he pointed out, regardless of how one feels about the government bailout of GM — which he and I both vigorously opposed — there is reason for optimism about the company’s future.

To be sure, there is an argument to be made for conservatives to actually root for GM’s continued failure. Presumably, this would lessen the odds that the government would attempt such a heavy-handed maneuver in the future.

But as a former Cincinnati Mayor — and […]

Ken Blackwell: Obama's "Fly Me to the Crescent Moon" Policy

By ACRU Staff|2010-07-20T18:07:17-04:00July 20th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing on Townhall.com on July 11, 2010.

Maybe it’s the Dog Days of Summer. Perhaps it’s the heat—102 degrees in Washington—that’s getting to peoples’ heads. But President Obama’s latest policy—announced by his NASA administrator, astronaut Charles Bolden, is about to melt down.

Speaking on the Arabic language network al-Jazeera, Bolden said Mr. Obama had given him his marching orders for NASA: Get American kids re-inspired to do better in math and science. Work on international cooperation. And, perhaps most important: find ways to “reach out” to the Muslim world to affirm their strong contributions to science and […]

ACRU Joins Effort to Protect Prayer

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:52:56-04:00July 20th, 2010|

A federal judge in Wisconsin held in April that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional as a violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause. On July 7, ACRU joined a brief coauthored by ACRU Fellow and Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski that makes the case as to how and why a National Day of Prayer is perfectly acceptable to the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Moreover, though, the brief makes the case as to why this lawsuit should just be dismissed without even considering the constitutional challenge, because the plaintiffs, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and several affiliated individuals, lack standing to bring this suit […]

Peter Ferrara: Are Overdue Reports Concealing ObamaCare Impact On Medicare?

By ACRU Staff|2010-07-20T17:57:54-04:00July 20th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote a column appearing on Investors.com on July 6, 2010.

Every year, the Annual Report of the Social Security Board of Trustees comes out between mid-April and mid-May. Now it’s July, and there’s no sign of this year’s report. What is the Obama administration hiding?

The annual report includes detailed information about Social Security and its financing over the next 75 years, produced by the Office of the Actuary of the Social Security Administration.

The Congressional Budget Office reported last week in its Long Term Budget Outlook that Social Security was already running a deficit this year. […]

Walter E. Williams: The Founders' Vision Versus Ours

By ACRU Staff|2020-04-23T21:54:03-04:00July 20th, 2010|

ACRU Policy Board Member Walter E. Williams wrote this column appearing on the Townhall.com website on July 7, 2010.

The celebration of our founders’ 1776 revolt against King George III and the English Parliament is over. Let’s reflect how the founders might judge today’s Americans and how today’s Americans might judge them.

In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 to assist some French refugees, James Madison, the acknowledged father of our Constitution, stood on the floor of the House to object, saying, “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of […]