GOP surrenders to the dark side
June 15, 2016
By Kathleen Parker With the surrender of House Speaker Paul Ryan to the Trump crusade, it is fair to wonder what the Republican Party stands for. Ryan’s endorsement of…
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GOP surrenders to the dark side
June 15, 2016
By Kathleen Parker With the surrender of House Speaker Paul Ryan to the Trump crusade, it is fair to wonder what the Republican Party stands for. Ryan’s endorsement of…
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The (false) robot invasion
June 5, 2016
Robert J. Samuelson The robots are coming — but not in numbers that would imperil most Americans’ jobs. Few subjects have inspired as much hype as robots. Consider some…
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The (false) robot invasion
June 5, 2016
Robert J. Samuelson The robots are coming — but not in numbers that would imperil most Americans’ jobs. Few subjects have inspired as much hype as robots. Consider some…
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Good news for the middle class!
June 5, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Maybe the middle class isn’t quite so stressed any more. We in the media are rightly criticized for a pessimistic bias. We cover the unfortunate,…
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Good news for the middle class!
June 5, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Maybe the middle class isn’t quite so stressed any more. We in the media are rightly criticized for a pessimistic bias. We cover the unfortunate,…
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Have U.S. wages stagnated? Probably not
June 5, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson How many times have you heard that Americans’ wages have stagnated? Countless commentators (including me) have repeated this complaint. Naturally, politicians of both parties —…
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Have U.S. wages stagnated? Probably not
June 5, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson How many times have you heard that Americans’ wages have stagnated? Countless commentators (including me) have repeated this complaint. Naturally, politicians of both parties —…
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Once a great notion
June 5, 2016
By Kathleen Parker OXFORD, Md. – It was such a marvelous idea: The United States of America. Obviously, we’ve never really pulled it all together under one hat, but…
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Once a great notion
June 5, 2016
By Kathleen Parker OXFORD, Md. – It was such a marvelous idea: The United States of America. Obviously, we’ve never really pulled it all together under one hat, but…
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Obama’s legacy of a pre-post-racial era
June 5, 2016
By Kathleen Parker As Barack Obama’s presidency takes a backseat to the psychodrama known as the 2016 election, historians, speculators and revisionists are busy writing his presidential epitaph. Not…
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Obama’s legacy of a pre-post-racial era
June 5, 2016
By Kathleen Parker As Barack Obama’s presidency takes a backseat to the psychodrama known as the 2016 election, historians, speculators and revisionists are busy writing his presidential epitaph. Not…
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The online lending scare
May 31, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Could online lending cause the next financial crisis? While the odds seem overwhelmingly against it, the recent turmoil at LendingClub — a leading online lender…
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The online lending scare
May 31, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Could online lending cause the next financial crisis? While the odds seem overwhelmingly against it, the recent turmoil at LendingClub — a leading online lender…
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The Olympic sinkhole
May 31, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Brazil can’t seem to catch a break. It’s suffering the worst economic slump in decades; its president may be thrown out of office; it’s contending…
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The Olympic sinkhole
May 31, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Brazil can’t seem to catch a break. It’s suffering the worst economic slump in decades; its president may be thrown out of office; it’s contending…
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A trump too far?
May 31, 2016
By Kathleen Parker If Donald Trump prefers combatants who aren’t captured, as he once mocked John McCain, he apparently doesn’t believe in taking prisoners, either. The exception to the…
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A trump too far?
May 31, 2016
By Kathleen Parker If Donald Trump prefers combatants who aren’t captured, as he once mocked John McCain, he apparently doesn’t believe in taking prisoners, either. The exception to the…
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Election disaffection
May 31, 2016
By Kathleen Parker CHARLESTON, SC – On rare occasions, Americans coalesce around a common cause, usually following some calamity — a terrorist attack, a natural disaster or, say, during…
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Election disaffection
May 31, 2016
By Kathleen Parker CHARLESTON, SC – On rare occasions, Americans coalesce around a common cause, usually following some calamity — a terrorist attack, a natural disaster or, say, during…
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Let us praise GDP
May 22, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson It’s time to cut the GDP some slack. Overhauling the GDP — as some critics would — threatens to politicize one of our most useful…
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Hillary’s viral nightmare
May 22, 2016
By Kathleen Parker You could say that it all depends on how you define “lie.” Or, perhaps, that it’s hell to have a public record. Either way, Hillary Clinton’s…
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The economy’s real drag — us
May 16, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson American consumers aren’t what they used to be — and that helps explain the plodding economic recovery. It gets no respect despite creating 14 million…
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The economy’s real drag — us
May 16, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson American consumers aren’t what they used to be — and that helps explain the plodding economic recovery. It gets no respect despite creating 14 million…
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Rules are for breaking
May 16, 2016
By Kathleen Parker It should be obvious to all by now that Donald Trump knows nothing of what he speaks. His disastrous economic ideas are but the latest in…
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Rules are for breaking
May 16, 2016
By Kathleen Parker It should be obvious to all by now that Donald Trump knows nothing of what he speaks. His disastrous economic ideas are but the latest in…
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Farewell, grand old party
May 16, 2016
By Kathleen Parker It wasn’t precisely an act of moral courage, but House Speaker Paul Ryan’s comment that he’s not ready to support presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump was…
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Farewell, grand old party
May 16, 2016
By Kathleen Parker It wasn’t precisely an act of moral courage, but House Speaker Paul Ryan’s comment that he’s not ready to support presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump was…
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The stubborn tax gap
May 9, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson The Internal Revenue Service has just released its latest estimate of the “tax gap” — the difference between what Americans pay in taxes and what…
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The stubborn tax gap
May 9, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson The Internal Revenue Service has just released its latest estimate of the “tax gap” — the difference between what Americans pay in taxes and what…
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Britain flirts with economic insanity
May 9, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Countries usually don’t knowingly commit economic suicide, but in Britain millions seem ready to give it a try. On June 23, the United Kingdom will…
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Britain flirts with economic insanity
May 9, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Countries usually don’t knowingly commit economic suicide, but in Britain millions seem ready to give it a try. On June 23, the United Kingdom will…
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Ted Cruz’s fall from grace
May 9, 2016
By Kathleen Parker When Shakespeare wrote the “truth will out,” he must have had Ted Cruz in mind. Cruz’s truth — or his true self — has been leaking…
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Ted Cruz’s fall from grace
May 9, 2016
By Kathleen Parker When Shakespeare wrote the “truth will out,” he must have had Ted Cruz in mind. Cruz’s truth — or his true self — has been leaking…
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In his own words
May 9, 2016
By Kathleen Parker One of the most effective political ads of the season features women repeating the many derogatory statements Donald Trump has made about the fairer sex. No…
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In his own words
May 9, 2016
By Kathleen Parker One of the most effective political ads of the season features women repeating the many derogatory statements Donald Trump has made about the fairer sex. No…
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Andrew Jackson’s reckoning
May 1, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Harriet Tubman is in; President Andrew Jackson is out. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew’s decision to replace Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with…
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What’s the real gender pay gap?
May 1, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson The gender pay gap is back in the news — and may become a major issue in the presidential campaign. It seems an open-and-shut case…
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Plato, Aristotle and, oh dear, Trump
May 1, 2016
By Kathleen Parker CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va – When it comes to rhetoric, Plato was right and Aristotle — not so much. Distilled, Aristotle thought rhetoric good for democracy, though his…
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Black votes matter
May 1, 2016
By Kathleen Parker CHARLESTON, SC – African-Americans in the South can’t get a break when it comes to voting, as history can’t deny. After all they’ve endured through slavery,…
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A competition deficit?
April 25, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson The Obama administration has a new economic worry: competition or, allegedly, the lack of it. America’s businesses, the indictment goes, merge too often, innovate too…
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A competition deficit?
April 25, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson The Obama administration has a new economic worry: competition or, allegedly, the lack of it. America’s businesses, the indictment goes, merge too often, innovate too…
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Why tax reform is doomed
April 25, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Almost everyone agrees that America’s income tax is too complex. Considering this, you might expect that simplifying the income tax would be a slam dunk.…
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Why tax reform is doomed
April 25, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Almost everyone agrees that America’s income tax is too complex. Considering this, you might expect that simplifying the income tax would be a slam dunk.…
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The least ugly economy
April 25, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Among the world’s major economies, America’s is “the least ugly,” as Adam Posen, head of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, puts it. So it…
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The least ugly economy
April 25, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Among the world’s major economies, America’s is “the least ugly,” as Adam Posen, head of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, puts it. So it…
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A trans-ient dilemma
April 25, 2016
By Kathleen Parker As Archie Bunker might say, the world is going down the terlet. And how. Who could have predicted that politics would require serious discussion of who…
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A trans-ient dilemma
April 25, 2016
By Kathleen Parker As Archie Bunker might say, the world is going down the terlet. And how. Who could have predicted that politics would require serious discussion of who…
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Karma tastes rich in new, humane economy
April 25, 2016
By Kathleen Parker As the human circus of presidential politics has plodded along for what seems a decade now, a revolution has been taking place in the ever-more-dignified animal…
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Karma tastes rich in new, humane economy
April 25, 2016
By Kathleen Parker As the human circus of presidential politics has plodded along for what seems a decade now, a revolution has been taking place in the ever-more-dignified animal…
Read MorePosted in: lowcountrybizsc, midlandsbiz, upstatebizsc Category: headlines, op-ed
