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The Old South gets a new kind of college president

CHARLESTON, S.C. – From a childhood laboring in China’s cotton and wheat fields to the presidency of the College of Charleston, Andrew Hsu’s story is anything but ordinary. His ex...

DATE: Sep 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

Not just a machine, he’s the Lamborghini of gaffes

WASHINGTON – There is no surer way to convince people you are going nuts than to stand in front of a crowd and announce that you are not going nuts. “I want to be clear: I’m not g...

DATE: Sep 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dana Milbank

New school launches a new century in Cortez

Editor’s note: Following are two articles about the Calkins Building, published by the Montezuma Journal, that were written at the beginning of the school year and after the first class ...

DATE: Sep 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Here’s why we may be underspending on defense

WASHINGTON – I’ve written several columns this year on military spending, contending – against conventional wisdom – that we don’t spend more than the next eight countries combined, includin...

DATE: Aug 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Trump’s presidency not unfolding, it’s unraveling

WASHINGTON – Historians studying the Trump presidency will have a prodigious amount of digital material that demands examination but defies explanation. The president’s Aug. 21, half-hour, S...

DATE: Aug 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Michael Gerson

Agent Orange exposure in the Republic of Vietnam waters

Blue Water Navy veterans are now entitled to a presumption of service connection for conditions related to Agent Orange exposure. This extension of the presumption is a result of...

DATE: Aug 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Cagle Cartoons

Who will be the fall guys for the next recession?

WASHINGTON – To have a recession or not – that is the question. It also encompassed last week’s most important political news, notwithstanding all the public attention understanda...

DATE: Aug 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

On China and trade, Trump’s reputation sinks

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump sold himself to the American public as an expert deal-maker. At the top of his list was a promised trade bargain with China that would boost U.S. exports and remedy...

DATE: Aug 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Canadian Rockies by rail

History Colorado explores the West, up north

DATE: Aug 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Epstein’s weird New Mexico plot to extend himself

WASHINGTON – The more we learn, the more Jeffrey Epstein resembles an evil comic book character for the developmentally arrested intellectual – the charming-but-lurid mastermind with a plot ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

We already have a welfare state. So what’s next?

WASHINGTON – It seems unavoidable. Like it or not, the U.S. welfare system is bound to play a big role in the 2020 election. The recent Democratic debate on health care is just a prelude to ...

DATE: Aug 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Moving from Texas to Big Bend

Editor’s note: The following is based on a Anna Florence Robison interview of Alice Henderson Akin on March 13, 1934.I was born at Millville, Rust County, Texas, Sept. 25, 1855. My early...

DATE: Aug 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Looking back