Kathleen Parker

Columns

• 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.

• Virginia progressive goes retro in gubernatorial race - 10/12/2009

  Virginia women have plenty of reason to feel offended by their state's gubernatorial race, though not because the Republican candidate once wrote a dissertation observing that the American family had...

• Career woman's tweet was a miscarriage of propriety - 10/7/2009

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

• The strange, topsy-turvy world of Planet Polanski - 10/5/2009

  In a 24/7 media world, one would have expected the story of Roman Polanski to last, oh, about 91/2 minutes.

• Obama too often is a cat in a dog-eat-dog world - 9/30/2009

  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.

• ACORN? What ACORN? I didn't see any ACORN - 9/28/2009

  While everyone in Washington is suddenly pretending they've hardly ever heard of ACORN, they might want to pretend they've never heard of the SEIU, one of the nation's largest unions.

• The future of ACORN: interview with an apostate - 9/23/2009

  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...

• Playing the race deck - 9/21/2009

  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.

• To strongly disagree — perchance to duel? - 9/16/2009

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

• Joe Wilson loses it — and maybe his audience, too - 9/11/2009

  South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson seems to have set a precedent Wednesday night when he called the president a liar during a joint session of Congress.

• What was all the fuss about? Nothing, as it turned out - 9/9/2009

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

• Silence isn't golden in politics for one black Republican - 9/2/2009

  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?

• Remembering Ted Kennedy: In death do us part company - 8/31/2009

  Reaction to Sen. Ted Kennedy's death suggests that there really are two Americas.

• Hitler in August: time to turn off the cameras - 8/24/2009

  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.

• Whole Foods CEO takes organic approach to health care - 8/19/2009

  Now is the time for all good capitalists to shop at Whole Foods.

• This time, the media are taking the president on faith - 8/17/2009

  Oh, for those halcyon days when our biggest worry was whether the federal "faith-based" office might encourage a homeless person to find Jesus.

• Palin's right: Sometimes slopes really are slippery - 8/12/2009

  Sarah Palin was right, the second time.

• Outrage begins to dog us - 8/9/2009

  Maybe it's the dog days, but three friends recently got in touch within a 24-hour period to catch up. Or more like it, to catch their breath.

• The crude reality in the Waxman-Markey energy bill - 8/3/2009

  What's in a name? A bit of deception when it comes to the American Clean Energy and Security Act.

• Crowley-Gates case is a mother lode of metaphor - 7/29/2009

  People say: Why are we still talking about Crowley and Gates? And then they commence to talk for 15 minutes about Crowley and Gates.

• We should try reforming health care the Utah way - 7/27/2009

  In a way, it's too bad President Obama tapped Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman to serve as ambassador to China.