American Federalist Journal
Saturday - August 19, 2017



Featured articles by Jeff Jacoby



Thirty Years of 'Varsity Academics'
2017-04-03

Deliver Us From Scripture-citers
2017-03-27

Ditch Obamacare, and Don't Stop There
2017-03-20

Climate Models Fail So Often Because Climate Science Is So Incomplete
2017-03-16

In The Land Where Jews Are Welcome, Anti-Semitism Is On The Rise
2017-03-13



An Echo Of Trump In The Last Of The Whigs
2017-02-20

School Choice Keeps The Peace
2017-02-13

Trump is Right: Settlements Don't Impede Peace
2017-02-08

No Men Need Apply: Women's Car Service Should be Welcomed, Not Sued
2017-02-04

Make SCOTUS Nominees Answer the Tough Questions
2017-01-30



Trump's 'Buy American' Call is Economic Folly
2017-01-26

Delete Your Commission (And Boards And Task Forces, Too)
2017-01-23

Racist Opinions Are Hateful. That Shouldn't Make Them Crimes
2017-01-12

What Experts Predict, Reality Will Contradict
2017-01-02

As Socialism Shattered Venezuela, The Useful Idiots Applauded
2016-12-26



Trump's Envoy to Israel Is Ready to Slay Some Sacred Cows
2016-12-22

Healey's Exxon Witch-hunt
2016-12-12

One China, One Taiwan
2016-12-08

In China, Prisoners of Conscience Are Literally Being Butchered
2016-12-05

Less Frank Costanza, More Mike Pence
2016-11-28



Is Thanksgiving Constitutional?
2016-11-24

Eminent Injustice in Cranberry Country
2016-11-21

Another Campaign Ends, and My Wishes Didn't Come True
2016-11-07

Minimum-Wage Laws: Good Intentions, Bad Results
2016-10-31

The Candidates' High Court Priority - and the Constitution's
2016-10-21



How the Religious Right Embraced Donald Trump and Lost its Moral Authority
2016-10-17

A Degrading Spectacle in St. Louis
2016-10-11

In An Election About Character, Trump and Clinton Are Beyond The Pale
2016-10-03

On Election Day, It's OK Not To Vote. Really.
2016-09-12

Three Prescriptions For A Shorter Campaign
2016-09-08



Israel Doesn't Need American Foreign Aid
2016-09-05

Campaigns So Long They Make Children Cry
2016-09-01

Voters Trump Drives From the GOP Aren't Likely to Return
2016-08-22

Reward Organ Donors, And Thousands Of Lives Will Be Saved
2016-08-08

Last Call for Frederick Weller
2016-08-01



Parties Change. Not Always For The Better.
2016-07-29

A Hater's Guide To Hillary
2016-07-25

Lottery Games Online? Scratch That Idea
2016-07-11

Elie Wiesel's Love of America
2016-07-05

The Leave Campaign of 1776 Reverberates to This Day
2016-07-04



Cigarettes Are Hazardous, But Some Lawmakers Are Worse
2016-06-30

More Firepower Than the Marines
2016-06-27

Payday Loans Are A Poor Option. No Payday Loans Would Be Worse
2016-06-13

A Terrible Weapon That Achieved Much Good
2016-05-17

The End of Holocaust Remembrance
2016-05-02



If You Don't Rent to Criminals, Are You a Racist?
2016-04-11

Why There Are Muslim Ghettos in Belgium, But Not in the US
2016-03-28

Mass Deportations Would Leave America Poorer
2016-03-26

Sex is Etched in Our DNA, But Race Is All in Our Heads
2016-03-21

A Lesson for Trump in Bulger's Rejected Appeal
2016-03-11



Samantha Power's Squandered Moral Authority
2016-03-07

Obama's Cuba Trip is a Reward to Dictators
2016-02-25

The President Without a Party
2016-02-15

For Americans, Global Freedom Is A Mission That Crosses Party Lines
2016-02-08

Ambition vs. Conviction on the Debate Stage
2016-02-06



Does Hillary's Résumé Make her the 'Best-Qualified' Candidate?
2016-02-04

Dream Question Was Asked, But Not Answered
2016-01-30

Obama Regrets Polarized Rancor. He Should.
2016-01-25

On Immigration, I've Become a Dissident on the Right
2016-01-13

State of the Union Spectacle Would Appall Thomas Jefferson
2016-01-11



The Weakest Economic Recovery in Modern Times
2016-01-07

2015 Was an Awful Year? Look Again
2015-12-31

Obama's Cuba Policy Makes Life Worse for Cubans
2015-12-29

Shock and Awe Over Agrabah
2015-12-23

The Right Way To Apologize For Slavery
2015-12-14



Guns and the 'No-Fly' Grandstanders
2015-12-09

Garrett Swasey's Final Sermon
2015-12-06

Christie's Coveted, Meaningless Prize
2015-12-04

Three Cheers for Cultural Appropriation
2015-12-03

The Beauty Queen That China Is Desperate to Stifle
2015-11-30



Obama Can't Rewrite Immigration Law, Even For The Better
2015-11-16

Take the Journalists Off the Debate Stage
2015-11-09

The Brutal Horror of China's One-child Policy
2015-11-05

US Intelligence Is No Match for Iranian Deception
2015-11-02

Biggest Loser in the CNBC Debate? The Media
2015-10-29



Would Rabin Have Pulled the Plug On A 'Peace Process' That Failed?
2015-10-26

In Ego, Obama and Trump Are Two Of A Kind
2015-10-24

Make Redistricting Better By Making It Color-Blind
2015-10-21

No, Bernie Sanders, Scandinavia Is Not a Socialist Utopia
2015-10-19

The Power to Regulate Is the Power to Destroy
2015-10-14



Many Presidents Have Known the Grief of Burying a Child
2015-10-12

Free Your Eyes From The Shackles Of The Shutter
2015-10-05

Abbas Should Have Been Jeered, Not Applauded, at the UN
2015-10-02

When the General Assembly Votes, the US Should Abstain
2015-09-30

Opinion Polling's Heyday Has Come and Gone
2015-09-21



Strike Down the Supreme Court's 'Buffer Zone'
2015-09-07

Something Worse Than the IRS Awaits Greedy Televangelists
2015-08-30

Donald Trump, Eminent-domain Abuser
2015-08-27

Jindal Puts the Emphasis on Assimilation
2015-08-12

China Has its Own Horrors to Atone for
2015-08-03



The Return of the Grad-Tax Hustlke
2015-07-30

Iran Can Buy A Lot of Terror With $100 Billion
2015-07-27

The Confederate Flag is Anti-American
2015-07-11

Declaration of Independence' Preserves The Patriots' Faces
2015-07-05

How Judges Corrode the Rule of Law
2015-07-03



From Beyond the Fringe, It's Donald Trump
2015-06-22

Free Roxbury with Free Enterprise
2015-06-15

The Case For Israel is Rooted in More Than Security
2015-06-08

Freedom for Iran's Hostages Should Trump Any Nuclear Deal
2015-06-04

It's Socialism, not Deodorant, That Starves the Poor
2015-06-01



Patriot Act's Most Controversial Section Fades to Black
2015-05-18

Repeal that Law School
2015-05-15

When US Troops Left Too Soon
2015-05-11

Gender is No Credential for the White House
2015-05-09

Thuggish Censors in the Marketplace of Ideas
2015-05-04



Politicians, 'Profiteers,' And Public Health
2015-04-27

Does Tehran Mean What It Says? Oh, Yes
2015-04-20

Obama's Hypocritical Attack on Netanyahu
2015-03-30

It's Election 'Day' for a Reason
2015-03-23

Back to Firing Squads? Thank Death-Penalty Foes
2015-03-19



Campaign Contributions and Double Standards
2015-03-16

Keolis Agreed to High Standards - Not Impossible Ones
2015-03-09

The Squabble Over Bibi's Speech
2015-03-02

No, 2014 Wasn't the "Warmest Year In History"
2015-02-02

On Immigration, it's GOP v. GOP
2015-01-26



Justices Don't Belong at the State of the Union Pep Rally
2015-01-12

Dying of Laughter in North Korea
2015-01-08

White Racism Has All But Disappeared From US Politics
2015-01-05

The Politician, the Coach, and the Founding Father
2015-01-03

A Happy Christmas for the Castro Regime
2014-12-22



An Unlawful Scheme to Raise Legislators' Pay
2014-12-04

As Two-Parent families Decline, Income Inequality Grows
2014-12-01

Who'll Be Looking Down On Baker?
2014-11-29

Same-sex Weddings, and the Right Not to Perform Them
2014-10-27

Wrong Sperm, Right Baby. Why the Lawsuit?
2014-10-13



Don't Count On An Election-Day Tsunami
2014-09-15

This Is No Time to Avert Our Gaze
2014-08-25

How About a Year-Round Tax Holiday?
2014-08-11

They're So Vain They Probably Think This Bridge Is About Them
2014-08-04

Nixon: Painfully Shy, But Craving Great Purpose
2014-07-28



Cleveland, no need to swoon over the RNC
2014-07-14

Dissenters in a One-Party Statehouse
2014-07-07

Blinders and Buffer Zones
2014-07-05

Thad Cochran's Voting-Rights Victory
2014-06-30

The Vaunted 'Competence' Of Barack Obama
2014-05-26



The Prison Door Keeps Revolving
2014-05-05

Islam, 'Honor' Violence, and the Silence of the Progressives
2014-04-14