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The Left's War on Voter Fraud Reform

By |2020-04-23T21:48:00-04:00January 16th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published January 16, 2012 on The American Thinker website.

Pretty soon, the right to cast a meaningful vote might be just a memory.

The issue at hand is ensuring that American citizens can exercise the most fundamental civil right of being an American — casting a vote with the assurance that it will count and not be canceled by an illegitimate vote.

The ACLU has filed three lawsuits seeking to overturn a new Florida law that tightens the integrity of the ballot box, while the Obama Justice Department has scotched South […]

Supremes Unanimously Reject Government Role in Choosing Ministers

By |2020-04-23T21:52:50-04:00January 13th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 12, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

A unanimous Supreme Court rejected the Obama administration’s claim that federal bureaucrats can tell a church whom it can hire as ministers to teach its followers, even if they happen to be schoolchildren.

Writing for the court in its decision on the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC, Chief Justice John Roberts said the First Amendment bars such authoritarian dictates through a “ministerial exception” to federal employment laws.

“The members of a religious group put their faith in the hands of their ministers,” […]

The Worst Economic Recovery Since The Great Depression

By |2012-01-13T12:59:39-05:00January 13th, 2012|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published January 12, 2012 on Forbes.com.

The record of President Obama’s first three years in office is in, and nothing that happens now can go back and change that. What that record shows is that President Obama, with his throwback, old-fashioned, 1970s Keynesian economics, has put America through the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression.

The recession started in December, 2007. Go to the website of the National Bureau of Economic Research (

In Greed I Trust

By |2012-01-12T11:58:02-05:00January 12th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published January 11, 2012 on Townhall.com.

Last week’s column started off asking: “What human motivation gets the most wonderful things done?” The answer is that human greed is what gets wonderful things done. I wasn’t talking about fraud, theft, dishonesty, special privileges from government or other forms of despicable behavior. I was talking about people trying to get as much as they can for themselves.

Think about greed and racial discrimination. In 1947, when the Brooklyn Dodgers hired Jackie Robinson, why did racial discrimination by […]

Homeowners Fight for Property Rights Against EPA

By |2023-03-10T08:04:47-05:00January 12th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 10, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

Oral arguments were heard Monday in an Idaho case that prompted Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to ask if “most ordinary homeowners would say this kind of thing can’t happen in the United States?”

Alito’s unusual query came as the court heard from advocates on both sides of Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, which pits the federal Leviathan against an Idaho couple trying to build a house on land they own.

Alito continued with a perfect summary of the absurdity of this case:

“You […]

Texas Case Suggests Court May Overhaul Voting Rights

By |2020-04-23T21:58:18-04:00January 10th, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published January 9, 2012 on The Washington Examiner website.

Former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement told U.S. Supreme Court justices Monday that lower federal courts cannot redraw state-approved election district maps unless they can point to concrete “identifying specific statutory or constitutional violations.”

Instead, Clement said during oral arguments on Perry v. Perez, two federal district judges have nullified the will of the people in Texas. The evident frustration of at least some of the Supreme Court justices suggests they agree with Gov. Rick Perry that state sovereignty must be restored.

Clement represented Perry […]

Hawkeye Hoopla and the Rueful Paul Reality

By |2012-01-02T15:11:12-05:00January 2nd, 2012|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue was published January 2, 2012 on the American Thinker website.

My New Year’s resolution is never hearing the words “Iowa caucuses” ever again.

The ceaseless and breathless media reporting about which Republican presidential candidate is leading in the Iowa polls is about as trivial as a tractor pull in Treynor. Iowans are good people, but let’s get some perspective here.

Recall that Mike Huckabee, winner of the 2008 corn caucuses, is hosting a show on Fox News rather than playing bass guitar on his “Hail to the Chief” CD.

The Other Voting Right: Protecting Every Citizen's Vote by Safeguarding the Integrity of the Ballot Box

By |2020-04-23T21:59:34-04:00December 30th, 2011|

There is a saying that “people get the government they vote for.” The implication of the maxim is that if undesirable or unwise legislation is enacted, if executive branch officials are inept or ineffective, or if the government is beset with widespread corruption, then such unfortunate results are the consequence of the electorate’s decision regarding whom to trust with the powers and prestige of public office. The Constitution does not forbid people from enacting wrongheaded policies. If voters elect leaders that fail them, then the citizenry is saddled with the consequences of its choice until the next election. Such is the reality in a democratic republic.

Ignorance Exploited

By |2011-11-09T10:01:21-05:00November 9th, 2011|

This column by ACRU Policy Board Member and Professor of Economics Dr. Walter E. Williams was published November 9, 2011 on Townhall.com.

Many Wall Street occupiers are echoing the Communist Party USA’s call to “Save the nation! Tax corporations! Tax the rich!” There are other Americans, on both the left and the right — for example, President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner — who call for reductions in corporate taxes. But the University of California, Berkeley’s pretend economist Robert Reich disagrees, saying, “The economy needs two whopping corporate tax cuts right now as much as someone with a serious heart […]

How to Achieve Higher Wages for Working People

By |2011-11-08T20:33:47-05:00November 8th, 2011|

This column by ACRU General Counsel and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy (CCPP) Peter Ferrara was published November 3, 2011 on Forbes.com.

In Chapter 1 of my recent book, America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, I write, “I fully accept the ‘liberal’ premise that prosperity and opportunity must be available to all Americans. A booming economy that benefits just a few at the top is no success. The American Dream must be for all, or it is inoperative.”

What is needed, I further suggested, is a rising tide that lifts all boats, in President Kennedy’s famous phrase. Kennedy […]

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