Boston Globe -- Jeff Jacoby columns

Anybody but Coakley or Capuano

Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist — 2009-11-25T06:49:20Z

Two of the four Democrats in the Massachusetts Senate race, Martha Coakley and Mike Capuano, are career politicians. Surely the last thing this state needs is to elevate yet another government lifer, yet another professional officeholder, steeped in the culture of politics.

Where conservatives have it wrong

Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist — 2009-11-22T00:36:53Z

Illegal immigration is a problem. But it can only be solved by overhauling our dysfunctional immigration laws, not by demonizing or scapegoating illegal immigrants. Those immigrants didn't come here in order to be lawbreakers; they broke a law in order to come here.

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

Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist — 2009-11-18T01:32:31Z

By trying the masterminds of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in a federal courthouse, the United States is at risk of supplying key intelligence to terrorists.

Obama’s swelling ego

Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist — 2009-11-14T01:26:58Z

The president couldn't be troubled to visit Berlin to commemorate a momentous milestone in the history of human liberty. But he was glad to explain to those who were there why reflections on that milestone should inspire appreciation for the self-made "destiny" of his own rise to power.

Wedded to vitriol, backers of gay marriage stumble

Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist — 2009-11-11T01:53:29Z

It's time for supporters of same-sex marriage to stop caricaturing opponents as the equivalent of Jim Crow-era segregationists.

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How to build a better House

Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist — 2009-11-08T03:34:32Z

Enlarge the House, and it would fill with new blood, new thinking, and new energy. Elections would be more competitive, since it would take fewer votes to win. The House would grow more diverse, more lively, more representative.

At Brandeis, Israel's guilt and innocence on display

Jeff Jacoby, Globe Staff — 2009-11-07T01:37:38Z

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 Rwanda. Dore Gold, Israel’s former ambassador to the UN, brought facts and figures, maps and photographs, and audio and video in English, Arabic, ...

An option for public: less government, more choice

Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist — 2009-11-04T03:55:32Z

If President Obama really wants choice and competition, we need to tear down interstate barriers on insurance, drop many mandated benefits, and de-link insurance from employment.

Hyperbole in the health debate

Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist — 2009-10-31T10:15:28Z

For all the impassioned talk about obscene profits and bodies piling up, an Associated Press report found that "health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent" of revenue, a return "that's anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries."