Jeff Jacoby
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Mr. Smith in Washington? Sell!
As Will Rogers once noted, when Congress is in session the question is not whether the economy will suffer, but how much. (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
China's totalitarian games
CHINA, THE world's largest dictatorship, ruthlessly represses freedom at home while abetting the vilest tyrannies abroad. Letting such a regime host the Olympic Games, many people warned, would prove a mockery of the Olympic charter , which is dedicated to the goal of "promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity." (Boston Globe, 8/24/08)
The myth of the white minority
WHEN THE Census Bureau announced last week that white Americans would dwindle to less than half of the US population within a generation, the media quickly spread the word. (Boston Globe, 8/20/08)
Hindsight isn't 20-20
IT WASN'T so long ago that erstwhile supporters of the war in Iraq were invoking hindsight to justify their newfound opposition to it. "Obviously if we knew then what we know now," Senator Hillary Clinton said in December 2006 , when asked whether she regretted her 2002 vote authorizing military action, "I certainly wouldn't have voted that way." (Boston Globe, 8/17/08)
Back in the USSR
HENRY Kissinger used to say that while it can be dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, to be a friend is fatal. The people of South Vietnam learned that bitter lesson when the United States abandoned them in 1975 . The Poles learned it after Yalta , the Hungarian freedom fighters learned it in 1956, the Cubans ... (Boston Globe, 8/13/08)
'Honor' killing comes to the US
NO ONE knows just how many Muslim girls and women are murdered each year in the name of family "honor," since their deaths frequently go unreported and unpunished. The cases that do come to light are ghastly. "Women and young girls are set ablaze, strangled, shot at, clubbed, stabbed, tortured, axed, or stoned to death," a United Nations report noted ... (Boston Globe, 8/10/08)
What, them worry?
ALFRED E. Neuman isn't running for president this year, but he might as well be. The United States is speeding toward a fiscal cataclysm, and the leading presidential candidates treat the subject with a nonchalance worthy of Mad Magazine: What, me worry? (Boston Globe, 8/6/08)
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