Kathleen Parker January 24, 2014
January 27, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 24, 2014 We know what Mike Huckabee meant. Sort of. Kind of. But, really? Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and Republican presidentialcandidate, talk-show host and erstwhile Baptist…
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Kathleen Parker January 24, 2014
January 27, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 24, 2014 We know what Mike Huckabee meant. Sort of. Kind of. But, really? Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and Republican presidentialcandidate, talk-show host and erstwhile Baptist…
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Robert Samuelson January 27, 2014
January 27, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 27, 2014 As Ben Bernanke, the outgoing chairman of the Federal Reserve, mustrecognize, he is the victim of the law of diminishing returns. In theinitial…
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Robert Samuelson January 27, 2014
January 27, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 27, 2014 As Ben Bernanke, the outgoing chairman of the Federal Reserve, mustrecognize, he is the victim of the law of diminishing returns. In theinitial…
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Kathleen Parker January 21, 2014
January 22, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 21, 2014 The question du jour is, why did Hoboken, N.J., Mayor Dawn Zimmer wait so long to step forward and level her corruption allegations at New Jersey…
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Kathleen Parker January 21, 2014
January 22, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 21, 2014 The question du jour is, why did Hoboken, N.J., Mayor Dawn Zimmer wait so long to step forward and level her corruption allegations at New Jersey…
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Kathleen Parker January 18, 2014
January 20, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 18, 2014 Everybody’s doing it — confessing their youthful, pot-smoking ways — so here goes. I don’t remember. Kidding, kidding. Anyone over 30 recognizes the old adage:…
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Kathleen Parker January 18, 2014
January 20, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 18, 2014 Everybody’s doing it — confessing their youthful, pot-smoking ways — so here goes. I don’t remember. Kidding, kidding. Anyone over 30 recognizes the old adage:…
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Robert Samuelson January 19, 2014
January 20, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 16, 2014 The baffling Bitcoin boom is either an exercise in self-delusion — a high-tech Ponzi scheme thatwill come crashing down — or an imaginative new Internet…
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Robert Samuelson January 16, 2014
January 20, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 16, 2014 This minimum wage business is tricky. On its face, raising the wage seems an easy way to fight poverty. Just pay low-wage workers…
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Robert Samuelson January 16, 2014
January 20, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 16, 2014 This minimum wage business is tricky. On its face, raising the wage seems an easy way to fight poverty. Just pay low-wage workers…
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Robert Samuelson January 19, 2014
January 20, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 19, 2014 The baffling Bitcoin boom is either an exercise in self-delusion — a high-tech Ponzi scheme that will come crashing down — or an imaginative new…
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Kathleen Parker January 14, 2014
January 14, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 14, 2014 As we evaluate the efficacy of the War on Poverty, a single, unquantifiable factor stubbornly demands attention: luck. When it comes to the fortunes of the…
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Robert Samuelson January 12, 2014
January 14, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 12, 2014 We are awash in retrospectives of the War on Poverty, launched 50 years ago this month by Lyndon Johnson. A furious debatehas developed between…
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Kathleen Parker January 14, 2014
January 14, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 14, 2014 As we evaluate the efficacy of the War on Poverty, a single, unquantifiable factor stubbornly demands attention: luck. When it comes to the fortunes of the…
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Robert Samuelson January 12, 2014
January 14, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 12, 2014 We are awash in retrospectives of the War on Poverty, launched 50 years ago this month by Lyndon Johnson. A furious debate has developed…
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Kathleen Parker January 10, 2014
January 13, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 10, 2014 In the days since revelations surfaced about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s office orchestrating the now-infamous George Washington Bridge lane closings, I’ve had at least…
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Robert Samuelson January 8, 2014
January 13, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 8, 2014 Call it the $2.8 trillion enigma. That’s the amount Americans spenton health care in 2012. The good news is that health spending slowed…
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Kathleen Parker January 10, 2014
January 13, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 10, 2014 In the days since revelations surfaced about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s office orchestrating the now-infamous George Washington Bridge lane closings, I’ve had at least…
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Robert Samuelson January 8, 2014
January 13, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 8, 2014 Call it the $2.8 trillion enigma. That’s the amount Americans spenton health care in 2012. The good news is that health spending slowed…
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Kathleen Parker January 3, 2014
January 7, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 4, 2014 If you happen to be one of those who enjoy politics as a blood sport, 2014’s midterm election promises to be a carnival of gore.…
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Kathleen Parker January 7, 2014
January 7, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 7, 2014 In politics, it’s all in how you say things. George Orwell knew what he was talking about when he described political language as “designed to…
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Robert Samuelson January 5, 2014
January 7, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 5, 2014 There is more than a little hypocrisy to the outcry that thegovernment, through the National Security Agency (NSA), issystematically destroying Americans’ right to…
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Kathleen Parker January 3, 2014
January 7, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 4, 2014 If you happen to be one of those who enjoy politics as a blood sport, 2014’s midterm election promises to be a carnival of gore.…
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Kathleen Parker January 7, 2014
January 7, 2014By Kathleen ParkerJanuary 7, 2014 In politics, it’s all in how you say things. George Orwell knew what he was talking about when he described political language as “designed to…
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Robert Samuelson January 5, 2014
January 7, 2014By Robert Samuelson January 5, 2014 There is more than a little hypocrisy to the outcry that thegovernment, through the National Security Agency (NSA), issystematically destroying Americans’ right to…
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Robert Samuelson December 30, 2013
January 1, 2014By Robert Samuelson December 30, 2013 For four and a half years, we have waited for a powerful andself-sustaining economic recovery. More than once it seemed imminent.Then, for various…
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Kathleen Parker December 24, 2013
January 1, 2014By Kathleen ParkerDecember 24, 2013 It’s Christmas and a strange white-bearded fellow utteringquack-quack-quack has streaked across the continent, dumping a largesack of something on America’s hearth. Phil Robertson — millionaire…
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Robert Samuelson December 30, 2013
January 1, 2014By Robert Samuelson December 30, 2013 For four and a half years, we have waited for a powerful andself-sustaining economic recovery. More than once it seemed imminent.Then, for various…
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Kathleen Parker December 27, 2013
January 1, 2014By Kathleen ParkerDecember 27, 2013 The year-end review required of all columnists inevitably brings us to the mailbag and a few clarifications. For the record, I read my mail but…
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Kathleen Parker December 31, 2013
January 1, 2014By Kathleen ParkerDecember 31, 2013 America’s capacity for optimism and hope has been boundless through much of our short history. The tangible returns of hard work, the ordered liberty sustainedthrough…
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Kathleen Parker December 24, 2013
January 1, 2014By Kathleen ParkerDecember 24, 2013 It’s Christmas and a strange white-bearded fellow utteringquack-quack-quack has streaked across the continent, dumping a largesack of something on America’s hearth. Phil Robertson — millionaire…
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Kathleen Parker December 27, 2013
January 1, 2014By Kathleen ParkerDecember 27, 2013 The year-end review required of all columnists inevitably brings us to the mailbag and a few clarifications. For the record, I read my mail but…
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Kathleen Parker December 31, 2013
January 1, 2014By Kathleen ParkerDecember 31, 2013 America’s capacity for optimism and hope has been boundless through much of our short history. The tangible returns of hard work, the ordered liberty sustainedthrough…
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Robert Samuelson December 22, 2013
December 23, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 22, 2013 The Fed turns 100 Monday. A century ago — on Dec. 23, 1913 — President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation establishing the Federal Reserve.…
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Robert Samuelson December 22, 2013
December 23, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 22, 2013 The Fed turns 100 Monday. A century ago — on Dec. 23, 1913 — President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation establishing the Federal Reserve.…
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Kathleen Parker December 18, 2013
December 18, 2013By Kathleen ParkerDecember 18, 2013 When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer. And a penguin? In case you missed the most…
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Robert Samuelson December 18, 2013
December 18, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 18, 2013 We may be witnessing the last gasp of early retirement — not just inthe United States but in many industrialized countries. Considering thehigh…
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Robert Samuelson December 18, 2013
December 18, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 18, 2013 We may be witnessing the last gasp of early retirement — not just inthe United States but in many industrialized countries. Considering thehigh…
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Kathleen Parker December 18, 2013
December 18, 2013By Kathleen ParkerDecember 18, 2013 When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer. And a penguin? In case you missed the most…
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Kathleen Parker December 13, 2013
December 16, 2013By Kathleen ParkerDecember 13, 2013 ’Tis the season, and Nancy Pelosi has given the hands-down best gift to the American people — her phrase “Embrace the suck.” Miraculous. Offered…
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Robert Samuelson December 15, 2013
December 16, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 15, 2013 The budget package crafted by Democratic Sen. Patty Murray andRepublican Rep. Paul Ryan — heads of the Senate and House BudgetCommittees —…
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Robert Samuelson December 15, 2013
December 16, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 15, 2013 The budget package crafted by Democratic Sen. Patty Murray andRepublican Rep. Paul Ryan — heads of the Senate and House BudgetCommittees —…
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Kathleen Parker December 13, 2013
December 16, 2013By Kathleen ParkerDecember 13, 2013 ’Tis the season, and Nancy Pelosi has given the hands-down best gift to the American people — her phrase “Embrace the suck.” Miraculous. Offered…
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Robert Samuelson December 8, 2013
December 11, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 8, 2013 We are locked in a generational war, which will get worse before it gets better. Indeed, it may not get better for…
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Robert Samuelson December 11, 2013
December 11, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 11, 2013 In America’s health-care dialogue, emergency rooms have come to symbolize the system’s economic and medical defects. To critics, typical ERs are swamped…
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Kathleen Parker December 10, 2013
December 11, 2013By Kathleen ParkerDecember 10, 2013 Make a woman laugh, Marilyn Monroe supposedly said, and you can make her do anything. Judging from the women who fell for him, Woody…
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Robert Samuelson December 11, 2013
December 11, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 11, 2013 In America’s health-care dialogue, emergency rooms have come to symbolizethe system’s economic and medical defects. To critics, typical ERs areswamped by the…
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Kathleen Parker December 10, 2013
December 11, 2013By Kathleen ParkerDecember 10, 2013 Make a woman laugh, Marilyn Monroe supposedly said, and you can make her do anything. Judging from the women who fell for him, Woody…
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Robert Samuelson December 8, 2013
December 11, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 8, 2013 We are locked in a generational war, which will get worse before it getsbetter. Indeed, it may not get better for a…
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