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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.
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Peter Ferrara (May 23, 2012)
This latest recession started in December, 2007. Since the Great Depression 75 years ago, recessions in America have lasted an average of 10 months, with the longest... more
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Peter Ferrara (May 17, 2012)
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... more
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Peter Ferrara (May 15, 2012)
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... more
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Peter Ferrara (May 08, 2012)
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... more
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Peter Ferrara (May 01, 2012)
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... more
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Peter Ferrara (Apr 19, 2012)
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... more
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Peter Ferrara (Mar 24, 2012)
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... more
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Peter Ferrara (Mar 07, 2012)
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... more
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Peter Ferrara (Mar 01, 2012)
Recently, I discussed the central economic policy of President Obama's budget and accompanying Presidential budget message. What drives economic recovery and growth... more
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Peter Ferrara (Feb 18, 2012)
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... more
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Peter Ferrara (Feb 12, 2012)
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... more
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Peter Ferrara (Jan 18, 2012)
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,... more
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Peter Ferrara (Jan 08, 2012)
On December 21, Bloomberg News breathlessly reported, "The leading Republican candidates for president have embraced an explanation of the financial crisis that has been... more