Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Institute for Policy Innovation, and General Counsel of the American Civil Rights Union. He formerly served in President Reagan's White Office of Policy Development, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under the first President Bush. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara 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) Thu, 17 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Thu, 17 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Obama has already succeeded in fundamentally transforming America, from a prosperous nation that draws people the world over, voting with their feet, to a rapidly declining former superpower on the fast track to a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/05/17/barack_obamas_debacle 0d9ed112-f705-49ec-9c57-ce45773e137b Thu, 17 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT On April 26, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan delivered the 2012 Whittington Lecture at Georgetown University focused on his 2013 budget and its implications for poverty programs and the poor. That budget has... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/05/15/paul_ryan_schools_georgetown_on_how_to_help_the_poor 69492b4d-f195-42b8-8949-df3aac020f84 Tue, 15 May 2012 16:09:00 GMT In his weekly radio address on April 14, President Obama displayed his lifelong commitment to an ideological extremism of pure theory unhinged from reality. That failure of leadership is why America is in a scary... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/05/08/romneys_practical_vision_vs_obamas_leftwing_extremism 2c46e694-c3cd-4f7b-8e3c-f6c608e70759 Tue, 08 May 2012 18:46:00 GMT Our Founding Fathers carefully eliminated in American law every special legal privilege of the old aristocracies of Europe. They strongly favored instead equality under the law, later enshrined in the Constitution's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/05/01/wisconsins_new_aristocracy_is_on_the_ballot 1cc8a806-a4d2-41f2-8d28-ea6288b8a467 Tue, 01 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT How do you stand your ground if you are lying on your back getting pummeled in the face? That one question alone shows that Stand Your Ground laws are not at issue in the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin controversy.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/04/19/stand_your_ground_america f83adcad-a3eb-4db6-9484-a6adcdc0d486 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:30:00 GMT The budgets produced by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, and the votes in the Republican controlled House adopting them, are reframing the 2012 elections. This year's elections are now defined in one corner by... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/03/24/ryans_budget_plan_reframes_2012_election d109a7e0-444e-4601-af2d-12f9d0678e31 Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT About every four years, the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produces a voluminous Assessment Report (AR) on the state of global warming science, such as it is. Two years after each AR,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/03/07/fakegate_follows_climategate ae464a33-7ca1-44bb-8980-2e19c4fa91d6 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT Recently, I discussed the central economic policy of President Obama's budget and accompanying Presidential budget message. What drives economic recovery and growth according to the President and his budget is federal... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/03/01/loud_and_clear_message_of_obamas_budget b5abfc31-41e8-4add-89a4-39b1f903fb67 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT You have probably heard by now the disastrous performance by new White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew on the Sunday morning talk shows last weekend. When it was noted on CNN's "State of the Union" that the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/02/18/dishonorable_dishonesty_at_the_top cafc30ce-5b57-42dd-a084-965c53145aaa Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT Sorry, Ann. I have adored you as a commentator, as you know, and appreciate your kind words about me in the past. But in discussing the individual mandate in your piece last week, "Three Cheers for RomneyCare," you... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/02/12/coulter_care bb2366e8-43ae-4825-bedd-a6bc568d3329 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/01/18/the_worst_recovery_since_the_great_depression ba5d1b18-c9a6-4883-839e-bfd4fa68de16 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT On December 21, Bloomberg News breathlessly reported, "The leading Republican candidates for president have embraced an explanation of the financial crisis that has been rejected by the chairman of the Federal Reserve,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/01/08/bloomberg_hides_government_causes_of_financial_crisis c2a6d9e3-bc16-41a5-affd-13d496199735 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT I have kept the true story of the Heritage Foundation and the individual health insurance mandate under wraps for almost 20 years now, because up until now it has been too costly to tell it. But now it is too costly... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2011/12/23/heritage_and_the_individual_mandate 5df5aa07-eb2a-405f-8dd6-be05b7698b92 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT His mother was an unabashed hippie from 1960s central casting. His father was an openly avowed Communist from Kenya. While his father wasn't around much, his devoutly progressive grandparents arranged for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2011/12/17/our_marxist_wizard_of_oz bf135edb-c0e0-4293-a26e-fd7889eae5a0 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT If you read this column completely and carefully today, you will learn about the true state of the scientific debate over global warming. You will not get the truth about that from the Washington Post, the New York... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2011/12/06/salvaging_the_mythology_of_mancaused_global_warming 93302a23-cc07-4cb6-97dc-0a93866d9565 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:01:00 GMT