Kathleen Parker

Recent stories written by Kathleen Parker

Let stir be call for better tests (11/19/2009)

Calm.That's not a word one hears much these days, but calm is what some are urging in the wake of a new federal report on breast cancer screening.

Civility needs infusion of pizazz (11/15/2009)

Growing concern about incivility is one of America's more appealing trends. Increasingly, individuals and institutions are seeking ways to burnish the golden rule.

China puts women in peril (11/12/2009)

One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion.

Give Obama some guy time (10/29/2009)

As if President Barack Obama didn't have enough on his plate with health care and Afghanistan, he's now faced with the problem that can't be solved: women.

Legal pot has surprising allies (10/22/2009)

In an act of merciful sanity, the Obama administration has made good on its promise to stop interfering with states that allow the medical use of marijuana.

White House only aids, abets critics (10/18/2009)

As the war of words escalates between conservative gabmeisters and the White House, Americans might pause to wonder: Have we lost our minds?

Faces of change are female (10/15/2009)

As the Republican Party continues its pilgrimage through the desert, its leaders may be missing the oasis for the vale of tears.

Tweet belittled weight of loss (10/8/2009)

WASHINGTON – For those whose lives revolve primarily around real people in real time and real space, hurry, go hide.

Here's hoping words work (10/1/2009)

In keeping with his campaign promise to talk to America's enemies without precondition, Barack Obama plans to turn his charms on Burma's military junta.

Save mission, not ACORN (9/24/2009)

No one was more delighted by the recent ACORN pimp-'n'-prostitute, hidden-camera sting than Marcel Reid, the former ACORN board member who was booted in summer 2008 when she tried to examine the organization's books.

'Racism' not to be used lightly (9/20/2009)

Charges of racism these past several days, from op-ed pages to Jimmy Carter's interpretation of Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst, are proving ... complicated.

Insults rip our social fabric (9/17/2009)

Not so long ago, Rep. Joe Wilson's verbal assault on the president – "You lie!" – might have produced a much different outcome.

Speech too mild to merit furor (9/10/2009)

Just when you thought things couldn't get any stupider, schools across the nation decided to censor President Barack Obama's speech urging kids to work hard because "being successful is hard."

Bridging GOP's racial chasm (9/3/2009)

COLUMBIA, S.C. – When people think of South Carolina, they think of ... I know, Comedy Central. Really, shouldn't Jon Stewart send South Carolinians a cut of his pay?

Even in death, Kennedy divides us (8/30/2009)

Reaction to Sen. Ted Kennedy's death suggests that there really are two Americas. One side sees in Kennedy a liberal lion who fought for the greater good; the other sees a sinner lionized by the morally blind.

Please, leave Hitler out of it (8/23/2009)

Midway through the month's town hall meetings on health care, it seems the shark has jumped the shark – and even Hitler must be sick of himself.