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Where conservatives have it wrong

YOU’RE A sensible, principled conservative. You want America to be a land of boundless opportunity and freedom, where people are treated as individuals and judged on their merits. You reject the divisive identity politics of the left - what matters ...

From JEFF JACOBY, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

In N.Y. trial, a treasure trove for terror

Kerry lost that election, and the Bush administration’s very different approach - treating terrorist attacks as acts of war, not criminal violations - continued for four more years. Pre-empting terror in advance, not prosecuting it after the fact, ...

From JEFF JACOBY, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  John Kerry,  Al-Qaeda,  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Obama’s swelling ego

PRESIDENT OBAMA was too busy to attend the celebrations in Germany this week marking the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. But he did appear by video, delivering a few brief and bloodless remarks about how the wall was “a painful barrier between ...

From JEFF JACOBY, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Ronald Reagan,  Harry Truman,  Mikhail Gorbachev,  George W. Bush

Wedded to vitriol, backers of gay marriage stumble

ON ELECTION DAY, voters in Maine repealed a six-month-old state law authorizing same-sex marriage. Maine was the 31st state in which the legal definition of marriage was put to a vote, and the 31st in which voters rejected gay marriage. And once again, ...

From JEFF JACOBY, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Heritage Foundation,  Barney Frank

How to build a better House

ON THEIR way to Washington after last week’s special elections to fill two vacancies in the House of Representatives are John Garamendi of California and Bill Owens of New York. When the congressmen-elect are sworn in, the House will again have its ...

From JEFF JACOBY, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. House of Representatives,  John Garamendi,  Bill Owens,  U.S. Congress

At Brandeis, Israel's guilt and innocence on display

TO BRANDEIS University last night, South African jurist Richard Goldstone brought his international reputation as a legal scholar, a human rights advocate, and the former chief prosecutor of the United Nations tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and ...

From JEFF JACOBY, Boston Globe,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hamas,  Richard Goldstone,  United Nations,  Dore Gold

An option for public: less government, more choice

Second of two parts “MY GUIDING PRINCIPLE is and always has been that consumers do better when there is choice and competition.’’ So said President Obama in his address to Congress on health care, making an argument for a government-run “public option’’ ...

From JEFF JACOBY, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Fannie Mae,  Freddie Mac

Hyperbole in the health debate

First of two parts TWO THINGS supporters of a government-run “public option’’ for health insurance know for sure. One is that private health insurers are raking in obscenely high profits. The other is that only a government rival can force them to ...

From JEFF JACOBY, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: MoveOn.org,  Heather Graham,  Barack Obama,  Nancy Pelosi,  Sherrod Brown

Latest battle in book price wars

THE AMERICAN Booksellers Association loves people who buy books. It loves them so much that it wants to protect them from wicked retailers who sell popular titles at affordable prices. In fact, it wants to protect them from themselves. Consumers, after ...

From JEFF JACOBY, Boston Globe,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Wal-Mart,  Amazon.com,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Stephen King,  John Grisham

All four candidates are out of touch

IS IT too late to draft Peter Meade? Of the five Democrats on the stage at the Kennedy Library last night, the one who struck me as most senatorial was the moderator. Unlike the candidates, only Meade seemed consistently willing to acknowledge that the ...

From JEFF JACOBY, GLOBE COLUMNIST, Boston Globe,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Mike Capuano,  Barack Obama,  Martha Coakley,  Gallup

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