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…
Read MorePosted in: lowcountrybizsc, midlandsbiz, upstatebizsc Category: op-ed
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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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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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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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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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…
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Brazil’s nightmare
April 18, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Woe is Brazil. As the summer Olympics approach in August, Latin America’s largest country — with a population of 206 million and an economy that…
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Brazil’s nightmare
April 18, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Woe is Brazil. As the summer Olympics approach in August, Latin America’s largest country — with a population of 206 million and an economy that…
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Fashion-backward in North Carolina
April 18, 2016
By Kathleen Parker EASTON, Md. – It’s been a long while since South Carolina could look down upon its neighbor to the North. Thanks to North Carolina’s anti-LGBT legislation…
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Fashion-backward in North Carolina
April 18, 2016
By Kathleen Parker EASTON, Md. – It’s been a long while since South Carolina could look down upon its neighbor to the North. Thanks to North Carolina’s anti-LGBT legislation…
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Pope Bernie
April 18, 2016
By Kathleen Parker Imagine emerging from a rocky political week only to announce, as Bernie Sanders did, that, oh, by the way, the Vatican called. Actually, it was the…
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Pope Bernie
April 18, 2016
By Kathleen Parker Imagine emerging from a rocky political week only to announce, as Bernie Sanders did, that, oh, by the way, the Vatican called. Actually, it was the…
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Trumpanomics: fantasies over facts
April 10, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Trumpanomics doesn’t compute. The media keep piling on Donald Trump, because he keeps saying things that are controversial, impractical, undesirable and — in some cases…
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Trumpanomics: fantasies over facts
April 10, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Trumpanomics doesn’t compute. The media keep piling on Donald Trump, because he keeps saying things that are controversial, impractical, undesirable and — in some cases…
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The people’s race
April 10, 2016
By Kathleen Parker The spectacular strangeness of this presidential election may require a new display in Ripley’s Odditorium of believe-it-or-nots. Among the exhibits, curators might place the History of…
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The people’s race
April 10, 2016
By Kathleen Parker The spectacular strangeness of this presidential election may require a new display in Ripley’s Odditorium of believe-it-or-nots. Among the exhibits, curators might place the History of…
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Solving the productivity mystery
April 4, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson A paradox of our time concerns productivity. We are awash in transformative technologies — smartphones, tablets, big data — and yet the growth in labor…
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Solving the productivity mystery
April 4, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson A paradox of our time concerns productivity. We are awash in transformative technologies — smartphones, tablets, big data — and yet the growth in labor…
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Trump learns that thinking is hard
April 4, 2016
By Kathleen Parker Donald Trump is learning how hard it is to pretend to be something he’s not. Case in point: Since deciding to run for president — and…
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Trump learns that thinking is hard
April 4, 2016
By Kathleen Parker Donald Trump is learning how hard it is to pretend to be something he’s not. Case in point: Since deciding to run for president — and…
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What now?
April 4, 2016
By Kathleen Parker So what are we to do? This is a familiar question to opinion writers. Translation: You’ve told us what’s wrong with everything — and we agree.…
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What now?
April 4, 2016
By Kathleen Parker So what are we to do? This is a familiar question to opinion writers. Translation: You’ve told us what’s wrong with everything — and we agree.…
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We’re not a poor country, Donald
March 28, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson We are a very wealthy society, and we shouldn’t forget it. Donald Trump apparently has — along with many other people. Visiting recently with The…
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We’re not a poor country, Donald
March 28, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson We are a very wealthy society, and we shouldn’t forget it. Donald Trump apparently has — along with many other people. Visiting recently with The…
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Earth Day cleanups are part of the problem
March 25, 2016
By Rudy Socha CEO Wounded Nature – Working Veterans Annual litter cleanups add an additional 12 million plastic trash bags to landfills every year. Wounded Nature – Working Veterans…
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Earth Day cleanups are part of the problem
March 25, 2016
By Rudy Socha CEO Wounded Nature – Working Veterans Annual litter cleanups add an additional 12 million plastic trash bags to landfills every year. Wounded Nature – Working Veterans…
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The biggest cyber heist ever?
March 24, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson It’s a big story that has stayed beneath the radar of most American media. Somehow, cyber criminals stole $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank (its…
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The biggest cyber heist ever?
March 24, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson It’s a big story that has stayed beneath the radar of most American media. Somehow, cyber criminals stole $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank (its…
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Trade myths and realities
March 24, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson In this bitter campaign, one area of agreement unites the major candidates: trade. Bernie Sanders brags that he’s opposed all recent trade agreements; Hillary Clinton…
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Trade myths and realities
March 24, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson In this bitter campaign, one area of agreement unites the major candidates: trade. Bernie Sanders brags that he’s opposed all recent trade agreements; Hillary Clinton…
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What did you do to stop him, Daddy?
March 24, 2016
By Kathleen Parker Now that Donald Trump has spoken before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobbying group, Americans have learned the following: Trump can read…
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What did you do to stop him, Daddy?
March 24, 2016
By Kathleen Parker Now that Donald Trump has spoken before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobbying group, Americans have learned the following: Trump can read…
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Good news for discouraged workers
March 20, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Surprise: America’s discouraged workers are finding jobs — or so it seems. Unanticipated by many economists, this is good news for the country (and, assuming…
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Good news for discouraged workers
March 20, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson Surprise: America’s discouraged workers are finding jobs — or so it seems. Unanticipated by many economists, this is good news for the country (and, assuming…
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Soaking the rich: a primer
March 20, 2016
By Robert J. Samuelson There’s no subtlety about Democrats’ tax plans. Between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, details differ, but the central themes are identical: Soak the rich. To…
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