Kathleen Parker

Columns

• Benghazi redacted: What a difference the message makes - 5/13/2013

  Mistakes were made.

• Are you (fill in the blank) enough for politics? - 5/8/2013

  Enough with this "enough" business.

• Prude or prudent? Plan B decision usurps parental authority - 5/6/2013

  They lost me at the word "women."

• The Bush I knew was a kind man with a gentle heart - 4/29/2013

  In a reprieve from the horror of the most recent terrorist attack, the nation's attention turned to the man who declared the war on terrorism, George W. Bush.

• The Boston bombings and the terror of not knowing - 4/24/2013

  As the manhunt for the Boston bombers reached its climactic conclusion, Americans of all hues and backgrounds heaved a sigh of relief. Thank goodness it wasn't ... fill in the blank:

• The governor, the soul mate and ... The End - 4/22/2013

  CHARLESTON, S.C. — As the reporter said to the novelist: Why bother to make stuff up?

• The day after: The routine is becoming too familiar - 4/17/2013

  You know the feeling. You wake up filled with dread but, still groggy, you can't put your finger on the reason.

• Beauty and the beast: McConnell tape flap is overblown - 4/15/2013

  The recent kerfuffle over a secret recording of Sen.

• We can feel better, but not prevent the next Newtown - 4/10/2013

  The biggest obstacle to the Obama administration's push for tighter gun control may be its own best argument: Newtown.

• Lean on: red carpet-bombing to save the girls - 4/8/2013

  The striking juxtaposition of the preternaturally perfect Angelina Jolie, waifish and wispy in a ghostly gown, and the scrappy Pakistani schoolgirl Malala, her face cruelly misshapen by the effects...

• Not just whistling 'Dixie': A monument to reconciliation - 4/3/2013

  CAMDEN, S.C. — It isn't often that one gets to hear both the strains of "Dixie" and an African drum concert in the same public square.

• Dissecting Hillary: The country is ready; is she? - 3/25/2013

  No matter what Barack Obama does, he cannot escape the shadow of his former political opponent.

• Social media, the bystander effect and the rape of decency - 3/20/2013

  The recent rape conviction of two teenagers, one of whom also distributed a photo and sent cruel text messages about their victim, has captured the "bystander effect" in graphic and nauseating detail.

• "SVU" star speaks out for rape victims in real life - 3/18/2013

  Mariska Hargitay, better known as "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" Detective Olivia Benson, is the human intersection of life and art.

• Embarrassingly myopic media descend on Rome - 3/13/2013

  All things considered, I'd rather be in Rome. Isn't everyone?

• Presidential charm, dinner dates and optical illusions - 3/11/2013

  The media love optics and no one understands this better than President Obama.

• Yahoo's in the crossfire — and the mommy wars continue - 3/6/2013

  Excuse me while I roll my eyes over the latest "mommy war."

• Understanding the subtext between Woodward and Sperling - 3/4/2013

  To the world beyond the Beltway, it might not mean much that Bob Woodward of the famed Watergate duo went public with his recent White House run-in.

• Michelle Obama finds her wings in the second term - 2/27/2013

  If second-term presidents feel liberated by re-election to pursue bolder agendas, first ladies often become more comfortable to be their own person.

• 'Sensitivity' at the Ag Department: droning on about feelings - 2/25/2013

  First they came for the drones.

• Forget the 'base' — It's time for a RINO rebellion - 2/20/2013

  RINO-hunting, the long popular political sport that morphed in 2008 into a sort of hysteria-driven obsession, lately has become a suicide mission.

• Gun laws: bowling for sanity in South Carolina - 2/18/2013

  COLUMBIA, S.C. — When President Obama said in his State of the Union address that "This time is different," referring to his push for tighter gun-control laws, he wasn't just whistling Dixie.

• The feminist mystique at 50: The tables have turned - 2/13/2013

  Now is the time for all good women to pay homage to Betty Friedan, who 50 years ago wrote the game-changing manifesto "The Feminine Mystique."

• We may never put to rest the ghosts of Benghazi - 2/11/2013

  We may never know exactly what happened in Benghazi the night Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed, but it's becoming increasingly clear that our response was short of...

• Need inspiration? Meet four ladies from Burma - 2/6/2013

  When Burma's Zin Mar Aung was placed in solitary confinement for trying to organize students in 1999, Bill Clinton was president of the United States.

• Women in combat and Congressional wimps - 2/4/2013

  Polling that shows Americans favor women in combat by 2-to-1 is evidence only of the power of misinformation.

• Be ready: El futuro habla español (The future speaks Spanish) - 1/30/2013

  The new year has begun with an avalanche of Republican retrospectives: What went wrong? What must the GOP do?

• Putting women in direct combat is a terrible idea - 1/27/2013

  It must be true what they say about women — that they are smarter, stronger, wiser and wilier than your average Joe.

• No patsy now — Obama has been liberated by second term - 1/23/2013

  My inner Pollyanna was basking in blissfulness, rolling in the hay of righteous rhetoric, backstroking through the sunny sibilance of aspiration.