Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Heartland Institute, Senior Advisor for Entitlement Reform and Budget Policy for the National Tax Limitation Foundation, Senior Fellow for the National Center for Policy Analysis, and General Counsel for the American Civil Rights Union. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development for President Reagan and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George H.W. Bush. 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) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:21:00 GMT Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:21:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon note in their underappreciated work, It's Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years, that in the last century,1900 to 2000, real per capita GDP in America... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/11/16/its_economic_growth_not_redistribution_that_lifts_everyone_including_the_poor ef15601d-b91a-4d5f-beab-fc8013364445 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:21:00 GMT Enough facts are in the public record about the Benghazi murders of Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 others, including two Marines, that a final judgment can be rendered on President Obama's handling of the affair.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/11/01/benghazi_obamas_shameful_dereliction_of_duty 1d4d4443-b024-4c29-bcde-8970a18b8c49 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:01:00 GMT Dorothy Rabinowitz, one of the best writers of our time, encapsulated the Obama Presidency perfectly in Monday's Wall Street Journal. She wrote: In the 1967 film "A Guide for the Married Man," a husband, played by a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/10/27/our_liar_president 693da0d0-f60f-4008-ae38-ae522e8b37db Sat, 27 Oct 2012 04:01:00 GMT The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported last Friday that 114,000 new jobs were created last month, according to its Establishment Survey of business payrolls that has been emphasized by the Obama Administration.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/10/18/obamas_real_unemployment_rate_147 0482ea72-7793-4883-ad77-0c1b3329aed1 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:01:00 GMT As in so much else, Progressives hold an outdated conception of the debate over entitlements. They conceive it as the Left supporting generous entitlements for seniors and the poor with no questions asked, no... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/10/10/medicaid_plan_shows_that_obamas_an_enemy_of_the_poor 20f01b89-e83f-44c2-8715-0579a7c58a1b Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:01:00 GMT DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz described the Medicare reforms proposed by GOP Vice-Presidential nominee and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as "literally a death trap for seniors."... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/10/04/why_seniors_should_prefer_ryans_medicare_plan_to_obamas cc005014-f804-46e6-9358-a6edf9c71e0b Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:01:00 GMT On May 24, 2012, Rick Ungar told the readers at Forbes.com that President Barack Obama "is the smallest government spender since Eisenhower." "[O]ur president has actually been tighter with a buck than any United States... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/09/27/obamas_the_biggest_spender_in_world_history 3a012193-2cc7-41f6-b0f8-060021cfda86 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:01:00 GMT President Obama started his Democratic Convention nomination acceptance speech with one overriding truth: "But when all is said and done - when you pick up that ballot to vote - you will face the clearest choice of any... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/09/17/obama_bent_on_recreating_the_grapes_of_wrath c5f924da-e452-4cee-add0-1aea9331994f Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:01:00 GMT The Big Picture Lesson of the 20th century was that capitalism works and socialism and communism don't. The rest of the world learned that lesson far better because they and their close neighbors suffered far more with... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/08/06/no_mystery_to_slow_growth_progressives_are_the_problem d81cbd53-260c-4af5-a5f3-25c97d1ef0b7 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:57:00 GMT Calculated Deception. That is the central theme of the Obama campaign. Calculated Deception is the term I use for Obama's rhetorical practice of trying to take advantage of what he calculates the average person does not... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/08/03/barack_obamas_calculated_deception cd6b7c73-db01-48ba-9d05-a57d8a1c0cf3 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 04:01:00 GMT When he was asking for our vote in 2008, then candidate Barack Obama famously promised the American people, "I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/07/27/obama_promised_not_to_raise_taxes_on_middle_class_he_lied 713774cc-108c-45b1-9f73-c303f1de3097 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:36:00 GMT Keynesian economics is the false vision of human action that says the way to promote economic recovery and renewed growth is through increased government spending, deficits and debt. If that sounds nuts, that's because... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/07/17/obamanomics_is_final_nail_in_keynesians_coffin d6f16b65-da11-45e4-8e5b-19792befd8d4 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:01:00 GMT With a second term for Obama, the world-leading America we have known and hoped to leave to our children will be gone. Last Friday's jobs report confirms that Obama is well on his way to transforming America into a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/07/12/obama_redux_welcome_to_argentina 1ff9285d-f37a-4202-8385-3f647fed8b54 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 04:01:00 GMT On June 14, President Obama announced his economic plan to finally bring economic recovery and growth to the U.S. in a much ballyhooed address in Cleveland. He threw down the gauntlet to Mitt Romney on the issue, saying... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/06/27/barack_obamas_perfect_plan_for_economic_decline 967cd22f-dadb-43f5-b183-e0e8387fcf4a Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:01:00 GMT What would you do if gangs of robbers roamed your neighborhood at night, breaking into your neighbors' houses and stealing their family jewels and life savings? You would arm yourself, and your family members of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PeterFerrara/2012/06/15/the_green_path_to_poverty 8016a716-b13f-4af7-8b87-a3cabd2310b1 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:01:00 GMT