Kathleen Parker

Columns

• In an age of publicity, Salinger's privacy was a silent relief - 2/3/2010

  WASHINGTON — My favorite thing about J.D.

• Gaming abortion: Can faux-reality TV enhance the debate? - 2/1/2010

  At first glance, bump-the-show sounds like a reasonable response to "BUMP," the show — a new, faux reality Web-based docudrama featuring actors trying to decide whether to have an abortion.

• Obama's fight club: He should stop talking about it - 1/27/2010

  In the run-up to Barack Obama's State of the Union address, the so-called narrative question is whether the president will be — pick a curtain — party leader, president, conciliator or...

• Red-meat Republicans: pandering to the base with blood - 1/25/2010

  Sure, he's got the jutting jaw and centerfold looks. He's got the truck. But does Scott Brown kill his own meat?

• For God's sake, let's give Satan a holiday - 1/18/2010

  Tragedy often brings out the best in some people. And sometimes, it brings out the worst.

• Double bind still inhibits women running for president - 1/13/2010

  Ask yourself: Who is likely to be the first woman president of the United States?

• Connecticut after Dodd: In a blue state, a red star rising - 1/11/2010

  The Jan. 19 special election to fill Ted Kennedy's U.S.

• To Ellen with love, for a lifetime of graceful writing - 1/6/2010

  I confess to feeling only slightly more rational than "Misery's" Kathy Bates.

• It's Obama's ball now - 1/4/2010

  As the new year commences, two facts emerge: George W. Bush is officially retired as the fault-guy for the nation's ills, and Barack Obama owns the game.

• Attack on Hadassah Lieberman is latest example of blog excess - 12/23/2009

  To a self-described "old feminist" such as Hadassah Lieberman, the recent blog-inspired attack against her — all related to husband Joe Lieberman's obstruction of the Democrats' health care...

• Going in too many directions at once, Obama goes nowhere - 12/21/2009

  Perhaps it is the spirit of the season, but my empathy receptors are in overdrive for poor Barack Obama.

• Barack Obama, the reluctant warrior - 12/14/2009

  After Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech, anyone still questioning whether he is really a Christian, rather than a Muslim aligned with fanaticism, needs to seek therapy forthwith.

• The political resurrection of Rick Santorum - 12/9/2009

  Is Rick Santorum running for president of the United States, or isn't he?

• A question of our national character — or lack thereof - 12/7/2009

  Americans are more divided than ever, and both Democrats and Republicans are to blame.

• Tiger's accident isn't breaking news, it's breaking gossip - 12/2/2009

  The feeding frenzy over Tiger Woods' tiny run-in with a fire hydrant has taken voyeurism to new depths.

• South Carolina's Nikki Haley: A woman to watch - 11/25/2009

  COLUMBIA, S.C. — On Monday, as news filtered out that beleaguered South Carolina Gov.

• Palin is managing to hate her cake and eat it, too - 11/23/2009

  COLUMBIA, S.C. — In town to give a talk on civility, I was surrounded by women who wondered what I thought of Sarah Palin's Newsweek cover.

• Breast cancer report: the storm before the calm - 11/18/2009

  Calm.

• Minding our manners is getting harder all the time - 11/16/2009

  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's choice — officially coerced abortions - 11/11/2009

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

• A blast from the past: the passion of Henry Allen - 11/9/2009

  The so-called "newsroom brawl" between an editor and a writer at The Washington Post recently has been a fine distraction for the health-care-weary.

• Saving the news: for one author, the glass is half full - 11/2/2009

  Each time another report surfaces about the decline of newspapers, I feel like a death row inmate counting the warden's footsteps.

• Jumping through hoops to please women - 10/28/2009

  As if President 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.

• Attacks on 'pro-rape' GOP senators are a smear - 10/26/2009

  Picking one's battles has never been trickier, especially if you're a member of the benighted Republican Party.

• A moment of reefer sanity from the administration - 10/21/2009

  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.

• Ignore the clowns, and trust the people's intelligence - 10/19/2009

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

• Independent-minded women are GOP's best hope - 10/14/2009

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