Jack Kemp is Founder and Chairman of Kemp Partners, a strategic consulting firm which seeks to provide clients with strategic counsel, relationship development, and marketing advice in helping them accomplish business and policy objectives. Jack Kemp has also been honorary co-chairman of the Free Enterprise Fund since its inception in January 2005. From January 1993 until July 2004 Jack Kemp was co-director of Empower America, a Washington, D.C.-based public policy and advocacy organization he co-founded with William Bennett and Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. In September 2001, Jack Kemp helped form a new non-partisan, non-profit think tank, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, to counter the terrorist propaganda efforts, and he has been writing a weekly syndicated column for the Copley News Service nationwide since February of 2000. Jack Kemp received the Republican Party's nomination for Vice President in August of 1996 and since then has campaigned nationally for reform of taxation, Social Security and education. In 1995, Jack Kemp served as chairman of the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform, which promoted major reform and simplification on our tax code in order to unleash the American entrepreneurial spirit, increase economic growth and expand access to capital for all people. Prior to founding Empower America, Jack Kemp served for four years as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Jack Kemp was the author of the Enterprise Zones legislation to encourage entrepreneurship and job creation in urban America and continues to advocate the expansion of home ownership among the poor through resident management and ownership of public and subsidized housing. Before his appointment to the Cabinet, Jack Kemp represented the Buffalo area and western New York for 18 years in the United States House of Representatives from 1971-1989. He served for seven years in the Republican Leadership as Chairman of the House Republican Conference. Before his election to Congress in 1970, Jack Kemp played 13 years as a professional football quarterback. He was captain of the San Diego Chargers from 1960-1962. He was also the captain of the Buffalo Bills, the team he quarterbacked to the American Football League Championship in 1964 and 1965, when he was named the league's most valuable player. He co-founded the American Football League Players Association and was five times elected president of that Association. In 2005 Jack Kemp was recognized by Sporting News as one of the Top 50 Best All Time Quarterbacks. Jack Kemp was born and raised in Los Angeles and educated in the LA public schools. Jack Kemp married Joanne Main of Fillmore, CA, also a graduates of Occidental College. They have four children (Jeffrey, Jennifer, Judith and Jimmy) and fifteen grandchildren. Jack Kemp passed away in May 2009, at the age of 73. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2012 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:00:00 GMT Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ No matter where we are on Feb. 12, every American from sea to shining sea will celebrate the 200th birthday of our greatest president -- Abraham Lincoln. Song, speech, pageant and ceremony will mark the occasion. The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2009/02/03/honoring_lincoln cebf738b-4753-4b7f-a565-81795914320a Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:00:00 GMT Dear Kemp grandchildren -- all 17 of you, spread out from the East Coast to the West Coast, and from Wheaton College in Illinois, to Wake Forest University in North Carolina: My first thought last week upon learning... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/11/12/a_letter_to_my_grandchildren 01415997-2555-492e-bf53-2bc3a157d482 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT Are Barack Obama's proposed tax increases adversely affecting our financial markets? We say yes, unambiguously. The senator has done a masterful job distracting attention from his tax increases with his $500-per-worker... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/10/28/the_treats_to_our_markets ad33a45f-416d-42be-902b-5006aad01287 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:36:38 GMT This column is co-authored with Peter Ferrara, who is director of entitlement and budget policy for the Institute for Policy Innovation, and formerly served in the Reagan White House Barack Obama says he supports a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/09/16/tax_cuts_for_the_middle_class c2d1f9ca-1a28-422d-926f-8098b167f54e Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:10:00 GMT "It's a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now." Those are the words of President John http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/08/08/obama_versus_mccain_on_the_economy 977a56dd-da98-41c0-b840-4ebf5986ede1 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:29:52 GMT The future of Social Security presents not just a crisis for America, but an even bigger opportunity. For Social Security reform done right is a huge opportunity for a historic breakthrough in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/07/23/stop_the_raid 632fab8b-4c16-481f-8f41-688fe60ae36a Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:33:08 GMT It's no secret that these are uncertain economic times. With the cost of food and energy rising almost daily, one might expect politicians to work overtime to keep taxes on other consumer goods from adding to the cost... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/05/19/take_a_timeout_on_unfair_cell_phone_taxes b813ae0e-ede4-48dc-a623-d7233c256e12 Mon, 19 May 2008 19:40:30 GMT As I prepare to travel to Israel this June - my second mission for the American-Israeli Friendship League and the Israel Finance Ministry - I also will be participating in the celebration of the 60th anniversary of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/05/12/a_celebration_of_israels_progress 2b58e490-dd6a-4e48-8d2a-c633a53c40f5 Mon, 12 May 2008 21:26:03 GMT "McCain offers tax policies he once opposed" (headline, first page of The Washington Post, April 25, 2008) Ah, remember the good old days of opinion columns appearing on the opinion page opposite a newspaper's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/05/06/mccains_tax_policies_best_for_nations_future 3ecf2f0a-f5d4-4008-ad0d-6a6f4450660d Tue, 06 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT In the early 1970s, as I began serving in the U.S. Congress representing Buffalo, N.Y., I remember the disdain (and disgust) I felt as the Republican Party was torn apart by President Nixon's Watergate follies, and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/03/11/a_strong_america_needs_a_strong_dollar 900c283f-e6b2-4525-8ae6-c10863c6c174 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:01:00 GMT Dear fellow conservatives: I'm writing to you soon after Mitt Romney suspended his campaign and Sen. John McCain addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference, not to calm you down, but to put McCain's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2008/02/11/an_open_letter_to_rush,_sean,_laura,_ann,_mark,_et_al 98fcf282-7bfc-40fb-8628-7004ae5b43f9 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:14:28 GMT Believe it or not, federal spending has been stable at around 20 percent of the gross domestic product for more than 50 years, ever since it settled down after World War II. Conservatives have been relatively... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/11/27/reform_entitlement_programs_without_increasing_taxes 419028ea-e139-4a06-b881-3d998143e4fe Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:01:00 GMT Dear senators and members of Congress: I recently visited NASDAQ on behalf of NFL Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott to help raise money for his "All Stars Helping Kids" program, and while I was there I had the opportunity to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/10/19/the_link_between_foreign_investment_and_peace 56caf986-5223-4af5-be21-f4d828008561 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:01:00 GMT The great "existentialist philosopher" Yogi Berra once famously said, "history is just one damn thing after another." Of course the antithesis of Yogi was George Santayana, an equally famous philosopher who said wisely,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/08/14/the_25-year_bull_market 9a32dee2-2f92-4c77-8b8b-fdcef0df0643 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:01:00 GMT Watching the third debate between the Democratic candidates for president on PBS at Howard University, I was struck by the juxtaposition of mostly white men and women discussing issues primarily related to people of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/07/03/the_gop_and_the_black_vote_in_08 f0aa8602-3e84-493f-8e7c-7e88da66e209 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:30:00 GMT Ronald Reagan said famously, "The trouble with those on 'the left': if they see something move, they'll tax it, if it keeps moving, they'll regulate it, and if it stops moving, they'll subsidize it." We would add, as... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/06/25/keep_the_internet_tax-free e41b5509-d8bd-4473-b5ba-d102c46df031 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:18:10 GMT What do Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and the ancient Roman Emperor Diocletian all have in common? They all imposed price controls on their respective economies. When Presidents Nixon and Carter embraced... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/06/19/congress_hastens_the_return_of_`no_gas_today_signs d1624b61-78d1-4dd4-8598-4568738a0e60 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:35:14 GMT Dear Barack (cc: Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and all Democrats), We've only met a few times, but we went to the same college, Occidental in Los Angeles. I graduated 50 years ago and went into the NFL, while decades... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/06/05/a_letter_to_barack_obama 92f7c8b0-61fb-48bc-8f04-b986798cebfe Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:01:00 GMT To ignore the potential contribution of private enterprise is to fight the war on poverty with a single platoon, while great armies are left to stand aside. - Sen. Robert F. Kennedy Mario Cuomo of New York... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/05/30/fighting_a_new_war_on_poverty b01a94fb-044f-4b2d-a3d7-9ee1fced288d Wed, 30 May 2007 04:01:00 GMT To ignore the potential contribution of private enterprise is to fight the war on poverty with a single platoon, while great armies are left to stand aside. - Sen. Robert F. Kennedy Mario Cuomo of New York electrified... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/05/25/fighting_a_new_war_on_poverty 1cea7b76-3f9f-4a8c-8164-5a0e371283ce Fri, 25 May 2007 04:05:20 GMT Last week in this space, prior to the Reagan Library debate by the GOP presidential candidates, I wrote about what I thought Ronald Reagan would do to encourage and expand our economy in the challenging months and years... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/05/08/what_reagan_would_have_done_about_foreign_policy e44663b2-27a6-4277-b36c-84f9fef9377e Tue, 08 May 2007 04:01:00 GMT As the Republican candidates all gather at the Reagan Library for their first debate of the presidential campaign, what follows is my advice on "what would Ronald Reagan do?" I'll start with the economy and follow with... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/05/01/what_would_ronald_reagan_do 711f57ba-db5e-416b-ae69-1224adeba59a Tue, 01 May 2007 04:01:00 GMT Former Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, one of the most admired women in the world, passed away in December at the age of 80, leaving a huge vacuum in our hearts and minds. Her posthumously published book, "Making War t http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/04/24/making_war_to_keep_peace_is_a_fine_tribute_to_jeane_kirkpatrick bbb99f06-c3dc-47c2-872e-e6d394cd19b9 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:54:43 GMT Last Sunday, as Major League Baseball from San Diego and Los Angeles to New York and Washington, D.C., honored the memory and the legacy of Jackie Robinson (No. 42), I was in the historic New York Avenue Presbyterian... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/04/17/continue_the_tradition_of_rights_for_all_people 9718b070-d570-4163-ac4f-266ecc5ce15e Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:01:00 GMT The Maryland Legislature recently passed a law restoring the right to vote to all ex-offenders who have fully completed their sentences and finished parole and probation, with the exception of people convicted of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/04/10/an_opportunity_to_expand_civil_rights bbe73b73-5be7-4d0e-b93c-dfd050173584 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:00:00 GMT "I would like him to get one (a pardon)." "We didn't vote to put him away." "I don't want him to go to jail." Ann Redington, juror on Libby trial, on "Hardball", March 7 - - - Ann Redington, a juror in the I.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/04/03/the_right_thing_to_do 20a2da9c-7b84-4df0-b20e-345d7b1eb6b9 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:01:00 GMT A common expression has it that the opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Unfortunately, that's exactly the message the GOP is sending to the residents of our nation's capital by its recent actions in trying to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/03/26/shortsighted_house_gop_would_deny_dc_residents_the_vote 5b0c32d0-309a-4ad8-a382-02d19309ef16 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:02:42 GMT How's this for irony: Headlines recently proclaimed that the White House was opposed to giving the vote to the more than 600,000 residents of our nation's capital, who, incidentally, are paying federal income taxes to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/03/20/give_dc_residents_the_right_to_vote 66a603d2-fd5d-49d0-89c3-04bc89263b06 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:01:00 GMT I have long proposed the idea of soft diplomacy, i.e., trade, aid, investment and empowerment strategies, as opposed to hard diplomacy, i.e., pre-emptive war, as a way of winning friends and allies in the Islamic and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/03/13/soft_diplomacy_is_the_best_plan 58871b5b-afd3-4663-82b8-90d319699515 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:01:00 GMT This weekend's Super Bowl is a really big deal. It gets bigger every year and this year's game between the "Monsters of the Midway" and the Peyton Manning "monster passing attack" will be historical. It's historical http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/01/29/making_us_all_proud ec93f36f-d671-4adc-a73c-e00626c78b75 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:00:00 GMT The questions and doubts that abound over the current U.S. strategy to reinforce our mission in Iraq to help pacify and hold Baghdad are essential in seeking an Iraqi political, economic and diplomatic success. It is of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/01/22/give_petraeus_a_chance_to_succeed_in_iraq a3f09d3a-9f3e-4dc2-8dd8-426911ce91c9 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:01:00 GMT I really envy Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., the incoming chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He told Tim Russert on Sunday's "Meet the Press" that the first thing he'll do is hold hearings on the right course of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/01/08/the_presidents_plan_is_our_one_last_hope 4d76b776-06ae-449f-857b-a02bd9dc1091 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:01:00 GMT Having gone to Congress in 1971, I had the high honor and pleasure of serving with Jerry Ford for the 2 1/2 years he was House minority leader before he became vice president in 1973 and president in 1974, but we were... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2007/01/04/the_legacy_of_gerald_ford c7ea3d76-50c2-4582-b461-d80e81b85e6f Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:01:00 GMT One of this nation's premier journalists (also a friend of long standing) wrote a column last week that can only be labeled as "Bush bashing" writ large. E.J. Dionne Jr. writing in the Washington Post and Investor's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/12/19/guns,_butter_and_tax_code_reform 5a5465e9-c20e-4505-be93-1482c5af96f7 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:01:00 GMT I'm writing this column with a very heavy heart at the passing on the night of Dec. 7 of one of America's greatest and most brilliant diplomats, my colleague and friend, former Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Indeed... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/12/11/celebrating_the_life_and_legacy_of_jeane_kirkpatrick e816ec2c-c304-4131-bb06-8b8dc6d1d1a1 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:01:00 GMT Sept. 9 was National 401(k) Day. The name really makes a lot of sense because it has the potential to improve the savings rates of America's working men and women, but it will require a national effort and a new... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/09/11/401k_is_key_to_americas_financial_future d5ebfaa1-95c1-4c98-b6ef-1c72c6ec5fce Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:01:00 GMT What a sad spectacle these last few days, as Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and John Kerry, D-Mass., and even former Vice President Al Gore have been falling all over themselves in condemning their old friend Joe... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/08/28/helping_to_return_joe_lieberman_to_the_senate e3e399f4-5a22-4d4d-a48e-f89df9a23320 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:01:00 GMT Twenty-five years ago, on Aug. 13, 1981, President Reagan signed what was called the largest tax cut in U.S. history. In actual point of fact, it was no larger then the Kennedy tax cuts of 1961-62. Both were designed to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/08/08/tax_cuts_are_right_for_the_21st_century 5cbbd256-2bf4-4def-93f5-bf1baacd950d Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:01:00 GMT What do the United States and China have most in common these days? An increasingly pressing need to grow our respective economies faster. How? By one of the few practical means available: unleashing the information... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/07/31/unleash_telecommunications_to_boost_growth 329efccb-ecfa-4119-85cb-e97f91ea0ffb Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:01:00 GMT Last week I warned the Republican Party that failure to pass the Voting Rights Act extension would further alienate African-American voters. Thankfully, the VRA passed. My warning now is this: Failure to address the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/07/17/immigration_reform_will_help_keep_this_nation_strong 99505319-d752-475c-8206-52d77b48527b Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:16:06 GMT The small minority of Republicans who derailed the vote to renew the Voting Rights Act of 1965 are in danger of being portrayed as members of the "Know Nothing" Party of the 1850s, whose hypocrisy President Lincoln said... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/07/10/those_who_oppose_voting_rights_act_are_true_know-nothings e2215d3d-54ec-48ab-9fb2-7a372864af52 Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:01:00 GMT One year ago the Supreme Court decided the Kelo case, upholding a controversial use of eminent domain. Kelo has precipitated a widespread and healthy debate across the country about when and how this important but... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/06/26/careful_eminent_domain_laws_lead_to_bright_future a252ab20-6dcc-4090-ad0a-67ba7cda4bee Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:01:00 GMT Watching our USA soccer team tie the Italian team last week and on Sunday watching the athleticism of the Brazilian team, I’m hereby publicly acknowledging that soccer can be interesting to watch, as Frederick... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/06/19/what_i_really_think_about_soccer 37fae199-b08f-4d0f-ab14-de84d4684699 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:05:00 GMT On Sept. 11, 2001, America entered a new world war. Our nation had been violated by the barbarism of a new dark age. The Free World had been shaken to its core.In the days and weeks immediately following the horrific... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/06/12/churchills_spirit_still_vital_today 870988b6-8b59-4c1d-b00f-2767f52a65c1 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:05:00 GMT In the late 1850s, as the Republican Party was being formed out of an amalgamation of "free soilers", "whigs", "Liberals", "Know Nothings" (some of which are still around today)... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/05/22/district_of_columbia_a_civil_rights_issue c9984b05-6a25-4931-abe9-0065adbc812c Mon, 22 May 2006 04:05:00 GMT There's an old saying that it is better to be thought ignorant than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. This has never been more evident than in the debate over oil companies, gasoline prices, oil profits and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/05/01/energy_debates_lead_to_wrong_answers 7c80fe23-f1b5-4040-beb8-57b37cd2c7be Mon, 01 May 2006 23:05:00 GMT Having traveled to Israel recently and many times over the past 35 years or so, I take profound exception to the accusations leveled at Israel by my old friend and syndicated columnist Robert Novak, particularly his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/04/24/israels_fence,_with_all_its_implications,_is_an_absolute_necessity 34e0a7f3-f4bc-4938-974d-59ee558d5802 Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:05:00 GMT With the permission of my oldest granddaughter, who recently turned 16, I'm sharing with all my readers my birthday message to her on that glorious occasion. I'm be writing a second one to my grandson Kolby in just a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/04/17/to_my_granddaughter_on_turning_16 189a4151-3665-46da-a691-6d6241c8f66b Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:05:00 GMT As I've often said before, the only thing one learns from history is that no one ever learns from history. While I don't accept this Hegelian pessimistic view of human nature, it's increasingly clear that the Republican... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/04/10/bright_economic_future_calls_for_extending_tax_cuts f45e789f-f0f1-4466-863e-fd96430d67e3 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:05:00 GMT "My dear fellow immigrants," with these words President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent greetings to the annual convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution, after the organization banned the great... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JackKemp/2006/04/03/america_can_be_a_nation_of_immigrants_and_a_nation_of_laws ea4bbccb-76b3-4b51-968c-a9926f2ddf4b Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:05:00 GMT