Kathleen Parker

Columns

• Googling ourselves to death: We are helping the data miners - 6/17/2013

  At a party a few years ago, a young reporter bounded over to my cluster of social nodders and, with the breathlessness of a born tweeter, chirped: "What's the new hot thing?!"

• IRS a symbol of our crisis of faith in government - 6/12/2013

  It is reassuring that in the midst of so much government dysfunction, the IRS has resolved the question of when and whether to tax tanning beds under the Affordable Care Act.

• Tweaking real life in search of what's missing - 6/10/2013

  NEW YORK — It was never quite clear what feminizing the workplace would mean when women en masse invaded corporate America a generation ago.

• Amtrak should be told to allow well-trained canines aboard - 6/5/2013

  You might say I have a dog in this fight.

• The traditional male family role is now the new F-word: Father - 6/3/2013

  News that women increasingly are the leading or sole breadwinner in the American family has resurrected the perennial question: Why do we need men?

• Droning on about the end of the war on terror - 5/29/2013

  It's good to know that the war on terror is finally over. It was all so ugly, what with the beheadings and bombings.

• Surrogacy exposed: It may exploit vulnerable women - 5/27/2013

  Women's reproductive rights have enjoyed a half-century or so of well-defined proponents and opponents, but the recently flourishing fertility industry, from egg harvesting to surrogacy, has produced...

• Tea party, media not such strange bedfellows - 5/15/2013

  Breaking news: Conservative organizations suddenly have found common cause with one of their favorite objects of contempt — the benighted Mainstream Media.

• 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.