Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Jeff Jacoby, well-known conservative columnist for the Boston Globe, has this column in favor of a large increase in the number of members of the U.S. House. It ran on November 8. Thanks to Michael Warnken for the link.
CARPE DIEM (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
More competition among health insurers is a consummation to be devoutly wished. But there are better ways to get there than a public option. Here are three: ■Tear down the barriers to buying insurance across state lines. ■ Repeal mandatory benefits that make health insurance needlessly expensive. ■ De-link health insurance from employment. Read more here of Jeff Jacoby's...
Election Law (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Jeff Jacoby has written this Boston Globe column. Thanks to Michael Warnken for the link....
All Hands On Deck! (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe argues in favor of expanding the House of Representatives...Interesting...I like the idea. Mr. Jacoby writes: ...Far from favoring a fixed membership for the House (Question 2), the Framers opposed the idea. They went out of their way to dispel “fears arising from the smallness of the body,’’ as James Madison wrote in Federalist...
Notes From D. R. (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Jeff Jacoby on Congressional power.
Debbie Schlussel (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
By Debbie Schlussel So, Islamic terrorist and Fort Hood Massacre perpetrator Nidal Malik Hasan loved strippers and lap dances. No surprise there. When news came out that we used female interrogators and sexual suggestiveness as a tactic to get Guantanamo Bay Islamic terrorists to talk, liberals and many pseudo-conservatives, like Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, led [...]
CARPE DIEM (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... compared to when individuals pay on their own. Solution: De-link heath insurance from employment. Jeff Jacoby has written about this here and here . Evidence shows that when families buy their own insurance they spend about half ($6,328) of what a typical employer spends ($13,375).
Hummers & Cigarettes (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... there are questions surrounding Frank's possible ties to the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae debaucle . Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe assesses the situation thusly: Frank doesn't. But his fingerprints are all over this fiasco. Time and time again , Frank insisted that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in good shape. Five years ago, for example, when the Bush administration proposed much...
Perri Nelson's Website (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
I will get back to my series of posts on “First principles” fairly soon, but in the meantime this came up and I just had to say something. Jeff Jacoby writes … Those who fulminate against letting voters periodically vote on ballot measures believe that citizens are too dumb to judge the merits of legislation - and that such decisions are therefore best left to the lawmakers...
Daled Amos (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
"The truth is," [Thomas] Friedman wrote, "the Western press coddled the PLO. . . For any Beirut-based correspondent, the name of the game was keeping on good terms with the PLO, because without it would you not get the interview with Arafat you wanted when your foreign editor came to town."Jeff Jacoby, "Trading Truth For Access?"Fear of terrorists is a potent...
