Robert Samuelson December 1, 2013
December 4, 2013By Robert Samuelson December 1, 2013 Among our problems is a failure of economic language. We lack thewords and concepts to describe observable reality. By conventionalwisdom, the Great…
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Kathleen Parker December 3, 2013
December 4, 2013By Kathleen ParkerDecember 3, 2013 As the government health-care Web site chugs along, the Obama administration has begun a counter-initiative to combatRepublican naysaying — and its weapons are of…
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Kathleen Parker November 30, 2013
December 1, 2013By Kathleen ParkerNovember 30, 2013 If you peruse the news on any given day, the farm bill/food stamp debate produces two general impressions: Republicans are heartless turkeythieves; Democrats are…
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Robert Samuelson November 26, 2013
December 1, 2013By Robert Samuelson November 26, 2013 President Obama’s broken promise that people can keep their existinghealth insurance is much larger than we’ve been led to believe. Untilnow, attention has…
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Kathleen Parker November 22, 2013
November 24, 2013By Kathleen ParkerNovember 22, 2013 By now, most of the world has digested the 50th anniversary of JohnF. Kennedy’s assassination, and millennials can sigh relief that another such re-examination…
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Robert Samuelson November 25, 2013
November 24, 2013By Robert Samuelson November 25, 2013 It has been only a few years since China was widely regarded as anunstoppable economic colossus. For three decades, its economy grew…
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Kathleen Parker November 19, 2013
November 20, 2013By Kathleen ParkerNovember 19, 2013 Meet Simile and Sui Generis. Simile, to refresh memories, is a favorite rhetorical device ofwriters that compares two essentially unlike things that nonethelesshave similar…
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Robert Samuelson November 19, 2013
November 20, 2013By Robert Samuelson November 19, 2013 How often have you heard that we have the best government money canbuy? Washington is overrun, it’s said, with fat-cat lobbyists whoselavish campaign…
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Robert Samuelson November 18, 2013
November 18, 2013By Robert Samuelson November 18, 2013 Economist Robert Pindyck of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently examined thecomputer models that estimate the effects and costs of climate change…
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Kathleen Parker November 15, 2013
November 17, 2013By Kathleen ParkerNovember 15, 2013 Let’s recap: If you like your insurance policy, you can keep it. No,wait. If you liked your policy, it was probably worthless anyway.Scratch that.…
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Kathleen Parker November 12, 2013
November 13, 2013By Kathleen ParkerNovember 12, 2013 In spite of everything — the GOP’s internal scrimmages, thegovernment shutdown, the party’s transparent attempts to derailObamacare — Republicans keep getting second chances. The question…
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Robert Samuelson November 12, 2013
November 13, 2013By Robert Samuelson November 12, 2013 For President Obama, the one “must read” from the latest Sundaypapers is an essay in The Post by Jon Kingsdale, who ran…
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Kathleen Parker November 8, 2013
November 11, 2013By Kathleen ParkerNovember 8, 2013 President Obama is no lip-biting, tear-streaked, chin-trembling apologist. When he said Thursday that he was sorry for the health-care mess-up, he performed the…
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Robert Samuelson November 10, 2013
November 11, 2013By Robert Samuelson November 10, 2013 It’s not about him. It’s about us. As the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassinationapproaches, we’ve been deluged with essays, books,…
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Robert Samuelson November 3, 2013
November 6, 2013By Robert Samuelson November 3, 2013 “Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts.” — Henry Rosovsky, Harvard economic historian Two analysts at the Federal Reserve…
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Robert Samuelson November 6, 2013
November 6, 2013By Robert Samuelson November 6, 2013 By now, it’s obvious that the economic crisis is evolving intosomething bigger and, possibly, more ominous. The aftershock of thefinancial collapse and…
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Kathleen Parker November 5, 2013
November 6, 2013By Kathleen ParkerNovember 5, 2013 Among the many rules I grew up with, two stand out. The first was tonever call someone a liar, which was considered the…
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Kathleen Parker November 1, 2013
November 3, 2013By Kathleen ParkerNovember 1, 2013 Ms. Know-It-All, the anonymous political advice columnist whoseidentity remains a popular Georgetown cocktail party guessing game, isknown to live up to her title…
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Kathleen Parker September 20, 2013
September 22, 2013By Kathleen ParkerSeptember 20, 2013 News consumers by now have absorbed the message that Republicans are going to defund Obamacare, shut down the government, ruin the economy and…
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January 24, 2008 – Alan Cooper
January 24, 2008January 24, 2008 Fair Tax Income taxes were implemented early in the last century as a temporary measure to fund WWI. Mike Huckabee says that abolishing these taxes on income and…
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Complaining about Gravity
December 20, 2007November 28, 2007 Globalization has become an overused term. Although it has been going on for decades, if not centuries, you hear the term so frequently these days that is has…
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Bond Referendums. You gotta love them.
December 2, 2007November 7, 2007 My wife was disappointed and disillusioned last night about the bond referendum in Lexington School District 5. She had worked and volunteered over the past couple of months…
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Shift Happens
November 17, 2007October 24, 2007 Recently, I traveled back to Winston Salem to a 4 year reunion and to watch a Wake Forest football game. As I got caught up with some of…
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And it made school fun.
October 10, 2007September 27, 2007 The two latest South Carolina rankings are that we are first in violent crime and not very good at all at encouraging our children to participate in physical…
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A beautiful walk down Main Street in Hugerville, South Carolina
September 27, 2007September 5, 2007 Jeff Wilkerson had an interesting front page article in The State today about how more shopping might be in store for downtown. Columbia has its pretty parts, it…
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A Few Tricky Words Explained
August 30, 2007August 21, 2007 (A Lack of) Synergy The relationship between the Governor’s office and the legislators is like watching a fight break out between two rookies at a Black and Garnet…
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My Dad, the storytelling engineer.
August 29, 2007August 1, 2007 My Dad passed on eight years ago. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he was raised in a British school system that I am sure insisted on strict discipline…
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Here and there
August 6, 2007July 10, 2007 My wife and I love our life in South Carolina. It’s such a great place to raise a family. We are not originally from around these parts. Each…
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The most intelligent people in the world.
August 6, 2007June 26, 2007 Today the Supreme Court of the United States of America came down with three decisions on issues that will affect this country for potentially the rest of…
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Thanks, Tony Blair
July 2, 2007June 11, 2007 I have always admired the British parliamentary system because the leader of the governing party (the prime minister) has to stand up in the House of Parliament…
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The Next President of the United States
July 2, 2007May 21, 2007 I am not much of a political junkie, but I did want to talk about one of the candidates running for the Republicans. He is likeable,…
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