Jeff Jacoby became an op-ed columnist for The Boston Globe in February 1994. Seeking a conservative voice to balance its famously liberal roster of commentators, the Globe hired him away from the Boston Herald, where he had been chief editorial writer since 1987.A Cleveland native, Jacoby graduated with honors from George Washington University in 1979 and from Boston University Law School in 1983. He practiced law for a short time at the firm of Baker & Hostetler, but returned to Boston to become deputy manager of Ray Shamie's 1984 campaign for the U.S. Senate. From 1985 to 1987, Jacoby was an assistant to Dr. John Silber, who at the time was president of Boston University.In addition to his print work, Jacoby has been a political commentator for WBUR-FM, Boston's National Public Radio affiliate. For several years he hosted "Talk of New England," a weekly television program, and has often appeared as a panelist on WCVB-TV's "Five on Five." He is an overseer of the Huntington Theatre Company, the largest resident theatre in Boston, and is on the board of The Concord Review, a quarterly journal of essays on history by secondary students worldwide. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 13 May 2013 00:18:00 GMT Mon, 13 May 2013 00:18:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ IN THE CLAMOR over immigration, the demand for more border security has been unrelenting. Immigration restrictionists have dug in their heels, insisting that stronger border controls must come before any other... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2013/05/12/secure-the-border-thats-what-the-us-has-done-n1593472 3e62e41a-f0d7-4a6a-889b-6a1f4878defa Mon, 13 May 2013 00:18:00 GMT According to a Washington Post-ABC poll released last week, 70 percent of Americans want Dzhokhar Tsarnaev put to death if he is convicted of the Boston Marathon bombing. Support for execution was higher among some... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2013/05/08/dzokhar-tsarnaev-and-the-death-penalty-n1591014 4ed1f299-842f-4aec-b55d-e464088cf2cc Wed, 08 May 2013 15:49:00 GMT It's the Holy Grail that Massachusetts Republicans have been seeking for years: the blueprint for getting candidates elected to statewide office. There were those who thought Scott Brown had solved the riddle after his... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2013/05/06/can-gomez-buck-history-n1587803 91509ac8-54cf-442b-96c2-4dc129e8dee3 Mon, 06 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT IF TRUTH-IN-LABELING rules applied to Congress, the proposed law giving states the power to collect sales tax from out-of-state online retailers would be named the Marketplace Unfairness Act. Sponsored by Senator... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2013/04/24/theres-nothing-fair-about-the-marketplace-fairness-act-n1577288 1af6121c-c0fe-4b23-98da-3c6065720978 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:34:00 GMT IF KIM JONG UN thinks he can shake down Washington by threatening nuclear apocalypse, President Obama says, the belligerent North Korean dictator has another think coming. "Since I came into office, the one thing I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2013/04/21/on-north-korea-kerry-muddles-the-message-n1574520 4d138fec-ef8d-490d-8442-ef5c3da5840a Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:58:00 GMT SCARCELY HAD the terrible news from Copley Square broken when the somber prediction began to be heard everywhere: Boston will never be the same. The Marathon will never be the same. Patriots Day will never be the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2013/04/17/things-will-be-the-same-again-n1570395 09cc9917-114c-4cb9-a3aa-9e004476b5cb Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:27:00 GMT IN HIS "Letter from Birmingham Jail," written behind bars 50 years ago this week, Martin Luther King invokes God 15 times and mentions the words "Christ" or "Christian" 21 times. But he refers to "law" 41 times - more... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2013/04/14/kings-letter-and-the-law-n1567438 4a453dda-e458-4256-ab90-3c4dc67ad8db Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:18:00 GMT SO THE MAYOR OF BOSTON, channeling his inner Captain Renault, is shocked - shocked! - to find that Boston's taxi industry is a rigged and pitiless racket. Why, until he read about it in the Boston Globe, Tom Menino... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2013/04/08/bostons-taxicab-messand-the-oligopoly-behind-it-n1561116 4214ab55-3671-4baf-833c-85bef7ffc4f9 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:45:00 GMT Ten years ago this week, the United States led an invasion of Iraq with the explicit purpose of overthrowing Saddam Hussein. The preceding months had been filled with vehement protests against the impending war,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2013/03/21/on-balance-was-the-iraq-war-worth-it-n1544317 b13b8855-e181-4fbc-aa30-446a356b7fb9 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT HILLARY CLINTON STEPPED DOWN after four years as secretary of state amid swathes of flattery excessive even by Washington's sycophantic standards. "I think that when we look at the outstanding secretaries of state in http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2013/02/03/a-popular-secretary-of-state-not-a-great-one-n1504173 64fa747d-304c-45e4-b728-c6b26e7631ed Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:56:00 GMT Lawyers representing three of the men charged in the New Delhi gang rape case said last week that they would enter pleas of not guilty on their clients' behalf. In most criminal prosecutions, that would be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2013/01/14/bad-guys-lawyers-n1488484 e81f82ea-27ab-47a7-8cde-7baa2a37bc15 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 05:01:00 GMT I DON'T FALL IN LOVE with politicians - the last presidential candidate I voted for with ardor was Ronald Reagan in 1980 - and my heart doesn't break when those I support don't win. Nor am I a party loyalist. As a conse http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2013/01/11/what-is-the-future-of-conservatism-n1486743 15203966-d376-4bf4-a351-0c072715c446 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:01:00 GMT "Civility" was a popular buzzword last year when then-Senator Scott Brown and his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren signed a much-hyped "People's Pledge" to keep third-party advertising out of their rapidly... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2013/01/09/peoples-pledge-made-the-warrenbrown-race-worse-n1485630 7e977d99-2c06-45c0-8a5f-d975cf28591b Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:47:00 GMT Eleven years ago, al-Qaeda terrorist Richard Reid tried to blow up American Airlines Flight 63 with a bomb hidden in his shoes. As a result, air travelers to this day must remove their shoes to pass through security at... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2013/01/02/people-are-truly-good-at-heart-sadly-no-n1477597 b169ef63-add5-4970-b6c1-77ab0ba0bc28 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:10:00 GMT WHEN IT COMES to foreign policy, John F. Kerry is no John F. Kennedy. In his 1961 inaugural address, the 35th president of the United States declared that Americans would "pay any price, bear any burden" in their... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JeffJacoby/2012/12/31/kerrys-realism-slips-into-callousness-n1476278 3326f479-b10d-4636-992f-ddf1a84a4ff7 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 05:01:00 GMT