Copyright 2010 Jeff Jacoby Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:44:01 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jeff Jacoby :: Writings http://www.jeffjacoby.com jacoby@globe.com (Jeff Jacoby) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us http://www.jeffjacoby.com/7039/iraqs-new-birth-of-freedom Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST RONALD REAGAN liked to say that there was no limit to what a man could accomplish if he didn't mind who gets the credit. The transformation of Iraq from a hellish tyranny into a functioning democracy will be recorded as a signal accomplishment of George... http://www.jeffjacoby.com/7023/uniform-standards-are-not-a-good-fit Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST Massachusetts and Rhode Island were two of the 16 finalists named this week in the Obama administration's "Race to the Top" competition for a share of $4.3 billion in education "stimulus" funds. Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced the finalists on... http://www.jeffjacoby.com/7011/gores-overheated-doomsday-rhetoric Wed, 3 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST THE CASE FOR GLOBAL-WARMING ALARMISM is melting faster than those mythical disappearing Himalayan glaciers, but Al Gore isn't about to back down now. In a long op-ed piece for The New York Times the other day, Gore cranked up the doomsday rhetoric for... http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6931/a-ride-in-big-brothers-audi Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST THE AUDI MOTOR COMPANY'S IDEA of an environmentally-correct America, to judge from the TV commercial it spent several million dollars to air during the Super Bowl, is one in which homeowners could be arrested for using incandescent light bulbs, customers... http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6917/engagement-wont-unclench-the-mullahs-fist Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST ON SUNDAY, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered his country's nuclear agency to begin enriching uranium to a purity of 20 percent, well beyond the level needed to fuel a nuclear power plant. The following day, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah... http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6908/paying-the-price-for-a-umass-law-school Sun, 7 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST LAST WEEK'S VOTE by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education to establish a state-run law school didn't come close to passing the smell test. The vote authorized the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth to acquire the Southern New England School... http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6887/candidates-campaigns-and-new-coke Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST DENOUNCING the Supreme Court's Jan. 21 ruling in the Citizens United campaign-finance case, President Obama called it "a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics" and "a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health... http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6872/public-sector-pay-private-sector-backlash Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST LAST MONTH, the US economy shed another 85,000 jobs. It marked a miserable end to a calamitous year in which an estimated 4.2 million American jobs were liquidated, and the unemployment rate rose to 10 percent. In addition, more than 920,000 "discouraged... http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6864/the-freedom-to-think-for-ourselves Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST THE SUPREME COURT'S RULING last week in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was a triumph for the First Amendment. In clear and cogent language, five justices swept away the caste system under which some groups of citizens have been free to... http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6851/a-blessing-in-disguise Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST IT REALLY IS the people's seat, and on Tuesday the people of Massachusetts took it back. But in electing Scott Brown instead of Martha Coakley to replace Ted Kennedy in the US Senate, the Bay State's voters did more than hand the GOP its most improbable... http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6841/blame-obama-for-the-bluest-states-blues Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST EDWARD M. KENNEDY has been gone less than five months, but in political terms he is already ancient history. For 47 years he represented Massachusetts in the US Senate; in his home state, no one wielded greater influence or cast a longer shadow. As... http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6813/harry-reids-racial-imbroglio Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST YOU CAN WRITE A CHECK to the United Negro College Fund. You can show off your collection of Negro Leagues baseball cards. You can discourse learnedly on the significance of the "magical negro" in film and fiction, identify yourself as "Negro" on the 2010... http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6811/its-the-peoples-seat-and-its-up-for-grabs Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST [Note: Following the debate among the three candidates running in the special election for the US Senate from Massachusetts, the Boston Globe's op-ed columnists each wrote a short comment. My contribution appears below. To read those of my colleagues... http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6775/the-protectionist-delusion Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST WHEN SENATOR BYRON DORGAN of North Dakota announced his support for Barack Obama's presidential campaign early in 2008, he told reporters that a key factor in his endorsement was that Obama "has always opposed NAFTA" – the North American Free Trade... http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6762/medicare-and-the-mayo-clinic Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST PRESIDENT OBAMA is a great admirer of the Mayo Clinic. Time and again he has extolled it as an outstanding model of health-care excellence and efficiency. "Look at what the Mayo Clinic is able to do," the president proclaimed at a rally in September....