Ed Feulner

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  • Ronald Reagan's Tax-Cutting Legacy

    Ronald Reagan's Tax-Cutting Legacy

    President Reagan had a gift for proving his critics wrong. Almost none of the leading economists of the late 1970s thought that his supply-side tax-cutting agenda, along with stable monetary policy and deregulation, could revive the U.S. economy.

  • The Fallout of a Bad Deal With Iran

    The Fallout of a Bad Deal With Iran

    Ever since 9/11, whenever Americans seem especially polarized over a controversial issue, you'll hear pundits recall how united we'd became in the aftermath of that vicious attack. Why, they ask, can't we be like that again?

  • Getting the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Right

    Getting the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Right

    "They won't go to Indiana, but they will go to Saudi Arabia." That's Carly Fiorina speaking about Apple CEO Tim Cook and his well-publicized opposition to Indiana's religious-freedom law.

  • Protecting the First Amendment and Muzzling the Marketplace of Ideas

    Protecting the First Amendment and Muzzling the Marketplace of Ideas

    "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech." The words of the First Amendment couldn't be plainer. Yet more than two centuries after the Bill of Rights was written, they remain the subject of fierce debate.

  • Why Gasoline Prices Are Down and How to Keep Them Low

    Why Gasoline Prices Are Down and How to Keep Them Low

    If you're like most Americans, you haven't been questioning the welcome drop in gasoline prices. You just fill 'er up and feel grateful that you're spending less.

  • Our Great Charter of Liberty

    Our Great Charter of Liberty

    When July 4 rolls around, there's no mistaking it. There are fireworks, parades and other patriotic tributes to our Declaration of Independence. But if you're like most Americans, September 17 comes and goes without any fanfare.

  • Isolating the Islamic State

    Isolating the Islamic State

    It's good to see President Obama move beyond the "we don't have a strategy yet" phase in the fight against the Islamic State.

  • Economic Indicators: Our National GPS Device

    Economic Indicators: Our National GPS Device

    You've no doubt seen those polls where Americans are asked if they think our country is heading in the right direction. Perhaps you've even been asked that yourself.

  • Assessing the Great Society

    Assessing the Great Society

    As ambitious government programs go, it's hard to top the "Great Society," which recently marked its 50th anniversary. President Lyndon Johnson, after all, vowed "to give every citizen an escape from the crushing weight of poverty."

  • A Costly Way to Limit Free Speech

    A Costly Way to Limit Free Speech

    Imagine if Congress passed and the president signed a law making it a crime to utter "false, scandalous and malicious" statements "against the government." Think that would violate your right to free speech?