Jeff Jacoby
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RECENT COLUMNS
Cheer up - these are the good old days
ARE YOU anxious? Dejected? Fearful? Why wouldn't you be, considering the barrage of rotten news assaulting you from every direction? (Boston Globe, 7/23/08)
Are we angry enough to fight back?
"Friends, red-necks, suckers, and fellow hicks," he would say, leaning forward, leaning at them, looking at them. . . "That's what you are. And me - I'm one, too . . . Oh, I'm a sucker, for I fell for that sweet-talking fellow in the fine automobile . . . But I'm standing here on my own hind legs, for ... (Boston Globe, 7/20/08)
The brilliance of the Electoral College
OVER THE LAST two centuries, constitutional amendments to abolish or alter the Electoral College have been proposed in Congress more than 700 times . None has ever come close to being adopted - an indication, perhaps, of the existing system's enduring value. The most recent such proposal , introduced by US Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, would eliminate the Electoral ... (Boston Globe, 7/16/08)
Democrats, the military, and McCain
FOUR YEARS ago, Democrats couldn't laud military service - especially that of their presidential standard-bearer - highly enough. (Boston Globe, 7/13/08)
Dancing on the grave of Jesse Helms
LIBERALS DIDN'T think much of Jesse Helms when he was alive, and their feelings didn't soften with his death. (Boston Globe, 7/9/08)
Israel still paying for its defeat
IT WAS two years ago this month that Israel and Hezbollah went to war. On July 12, 2006, Hezbollah, an Iranian-sponsored and Syrian-backed political and terrorist organization, staged an unprovoked raid across the Lebanon-Israel border, killing three Israelis and kidnapping two others, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser. The war that ensued - a war for which Hezbollah had openly prepared ... (Boston Globe, 7/2/08)
A silver bullet for Obama?
WHEN IT comes to gun control, the Democratic Party is a house divided against itself. That helps explain Barack Obama's dizzyingly inconsistent positions on District of Columbia v. Heller, the landmark Second Amendment case decided by the Supreme Court last week. (Boston Globe, 6/29/08)
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