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Professor Who? Federal Appeals Court Schools Obama on Constitutional Law

By |2012-04-05T09:53:39-04:00April 5th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published April 4, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

Now it’s a duel. A federal appeals court just called out President Barack Obama over his disturbing comments on the Supreme Court this week.

Last week, a number of us in the courtroom during oral arguments realized that Obamacare was in trouble.

Conservative lawyers, like me, were delighted. As for some lawyers on the left, like Jeffrey Toobin, you’d have thought they were at a funeral.

Evidently concurring with all of us that his signature law is in jeopardy, Obama launched a preemptive […]

Slow Economic Recovery: What's Taking So Long?

By |2012-04-05T08:55:42-04:00April 5th, 2012|

Reagan v. Obama: In a CBN.com story by Jennifer Wilson published on April 3, 2012, ACRU’s Peter Ferrara compares policies and results, and tells CBN News that we’re in “the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression.”

WASHINGTON — This year, the economy is adding some 245,000 jobs a month, the best job growth in two years. And even though their incomes haven’t gone up, Americans are spending more.

But if you compare this recovery to others since World War II, many analysts ask — what’s taken so long?

Some point the finger at President Obama’s economic policies.

Obama's Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament

By |2012-04-04T15:29:09-04:00April 4th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published April 4, 2012 on The American Spectator website.

Perhaps you do not know that President Obama has asked the Pentagon to develop plans to reduce America’s nuclear arsenal by up to 80 percent. That would ultimately leave America with just about 300 nuclear weapons, down from a high of over 31,000 at the height of the Cold War.

In 2010, President Obama completed negotiations with Russia for a New Start Treaty, which reduces America’s nuclear warheads to 1,550. There were effectively no reductions in […]

Obamacare Day 3: Court May Strike Down Entire Law, Not Just Mandate

By |2012-03-30T18:35:15-04:00March 30th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published March 28, 2012 on Breitbart.com.

If the Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare’s individual mandate (which is very likely after yesterday), will it also strike down President Obama’s entire 2,700-page law? The justices signaled they might do so during the third day of Supreme Court arguments.

Most of the time when part of a law is invalid, courts “sever” that part from the rest of the law and save the rest. This ruling of “severability” often coincides with the law at issue having a severability clause, where Congress declares that if […]

Washington Post Misleads Readers About Paul Ryan, Tax Rates and Deficits

By |2012-03-30T13:52:39-04:00March 30th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published March 29, 2012 on Forbes.com.

The Washington Post proclaimed editorially on March 21, “There is no credible path to deficit reduction without a combination of spending cuts and revenue increases.” They insisted that this “is the fundamental failure of the budget blueprint released Tuesday by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan.”

But this criticism is factually wrong as a matter of simple mathematics. Under CBO’s score of the Ryan budget, federal revenues virtually double over the next 10 years from […]

Profiling

By |2012-03-28T10:14:03-04:00March 28th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published March 28, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Right now, there isn’t enough known about the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a black, by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old part-Hispanic, during his neighborhood watch tour in an Orlando, Fla., suburb. If evidence emerges that Zimmerman’s actions were not justified, he should be prosecuted and punished; however, there’s a larger issue that few people understand or have the courage to acknowledge, namely that black and young has become synonymous with crime and, hence, suspicion. To make […]

ACLU Gins Up Contraception Controversy in Arizona

By |2012-03-27T08:31:46-04:00March 27th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published March 27, 2012 on The Daily Caller website.

While the Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of Obamacare and the nation reels from the Obama administration’s order that Catholic hospitals must provide contraceptives and abortifacients to their employees, the ACLU of Arizona is attacking a proposal to restore employers’ freedom of conscience.

House Bill 2625, sponsored by Republican State Senator Debbie Lesko, would allow all Arizona employers to opt out of the federal contraception mandate. To the ACLU, this is tantamount to shutting off medical care to women.

The ACLU has […]

High Court to Hear Affirmative Action Case

By |2012-02-23T14:59:44-05:00February 23rd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 22, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

Every racially based preference system – aka Affirmative Action programs – in the country could be struck down when the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Fisher v. University of Texas this fall.

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution were passed after the Civil War. These Reconstruction Era amendments abolished slavery, defined U.S. citizenship, extended part of the Bill of Rights to the states, and–most important here–declared due process and equal protection of the law to be rights of all persons in this country, […]

With Many Claiming His Mantle, It's Important to Get Reagan Right

By |2012-02-04T16:00:53-05:00February 4th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published February 6, 2012 in The Washington Times.

Ronald Reagan, who would have turned 101 on Feb. 6, no doubt would have been amused by the number and ideological diversity of people claiming some part of the Reagan mantle.

Barack Obama has been doing it for years.

In an interview with Nevada’s Reno Gazette-Journal on Jan. 17, 2008, President Obama said:

“I don’t want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what’s different are the times. … I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory […]

Delta Force Hero Can't Speak at West Point Because of His Christian Beliefs

By |2012-02-02T09:37:16-05:00February 2nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell and ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published February 1, 2012 on The Huffington Post website.

A three-star Army general and war hero cannot speak at West Point because he’s an outspoken Christian. So the Obama administration’s hostility toward religion — and especially Christians — continues even to the detriment of our men and women in uniform.

Lieutenant General William G. (“Jerry”) Boykin is like an action-movie hero. When the super-elite Delta Force was formed in late 1970s — our top counter-insurgent military unit that the Pentagon still does not officially discuss […]

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