Articles filed under Parker, Kathleen

• Four ladies from Burma Feb 11, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: It takes courage to put one foot in front of the other, much less to become an activist in Burma, as Zin Mar Aung and her colleagues have done.
  

   

• Combat women and Congress’ wimps Feb 6, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: Polling that shows Americans favor women in combat by 2-to-1 is evidence only of the power of misinformation. And, yes, indoctrination.
  

   

• From I don’t to I do Feb 4, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: David Blankenhorn’s personal transformation has resulted in a welcome shift in the public debate about gay marriage. How clever of him to recognize that his allies in strengthening marriage are the very people who for so long have been excluded.
  

   

• The sirens of the Pentagon Jan 28, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: Ground combat is one area in which women, through quirks of biology and human nature, are not equal to men — a difference that should be celebrated rather than rationalized as incorrect.
  

   

• Proudly confessing Jan 24, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: Stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, his Olympic medal, ousted by the foundation he created and facing multiple lawsuits, Armstrong has fallen just about as far as one can. It seems enough.
  

   

• El futuro habla espanol (The future speaks Spanish) Jan 21, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: The new year began with an avalanche of Republican retrospectives: What went wrong? What must the GOP do? In attempting to navigate my own thoughts, I keep bumping into advice my father gave me a long time ago: "Learn Spanish. You will need it to survive in the world you will inherit."
  

   

• Guns without roses Jan 16, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: I grew up in a home with guns, lots of them, and was taught early how to shoot, care for firearms and treat them respectfully. My father's rules were simple: Never point a gun at someone unless you intend to shoot them; if you intend to shoot, aim to kill.
  

   

• Changing channels Jan 11, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Of plots and clots Jan 7, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: The new year began not with a cannonball off the fiscal cliff but with an outbreak of conspiratorial cynicism. This time it's Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose fall and concussion, followed by a blood clot between her brain and skull, have prompted an embarrassment of theories. The gist: That woman will do anything to avoid testifying about Benghazi.
  

   

• Things better left unsaid Jan 1, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: 'Tis the season when columnists write mea culpas, make predictions and list their resolutions. Since my culpas are too vast for this tiny space, my predictions best in retrospect and my resolutions inevitably ignored, I thought I'd list a few resolutions for the rest of the world.
  

   

• Print’s longtime passing Dec 30, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: I have forced myself to think of the last print edition of Newsweek magazine as a transition rather than yet more evidence of The Death of Print.
  

   

• Through a lens, lightly Dec 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: In today's world of social media, where everyone's every little thing is on display, it is sometimes difficult to recall a time when exhibitionism wasn't ubiquitous and was, in fact, not admired. Such are the inevitable thoughts upon perusing Kitty Kelley's lovely new book about John F. Kennedy as seen through the eyes of photojournalist Stanley Tretick.
  

   

• America’s reluctant First Father Dec 14, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: One of my great hopes for a Barack Obama administration — and thus one of my personal disappointments — was that he would use his bully pulpit to emphasize the importance of a two-parent family, and especially of fathers, to children's well-being. Few understand better than the president the value of a present and involved father.
  

   

• The double-down president Dec 11, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: The problems Obama inherited can't be denied. Nor can it be denied that once he felt Republicans were going to block his agenda, he doubled down. All signs now indicate that Obama's transformational presidency will not have Americans holding hands and singing over s'mores.
  

   

• The initiation of Susan Rice Dec 7, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: The investigation into what transpired in Benghazi is certainly appropriate. The administration's incoherent handling of information deserves scrutiny. But Rice, barring something we don't know, clearly has the qualifications for secretary of state.
  

   

• In Oval Office, the fly hears all Dec 3, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: Much speculation has followed the private luncheon between President Obama and Mitt Romney, about which little is known. Alas, where there is a White House, there is always someone willing to whisper a few tidbits in the interest of national curiosity.
  

   

• ‘Petraeus Affair’ highlights unfairness to women Nov 29, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: The double standard we apply to men and women in these very human dramas is nothing new, but also nothing short of appalling. Even as we urge women to behave in every way as men, even pushed to arms on the battlefront, the Madonna-whore dichotomy is alive and writhing.
  

   

• The party is what ruined it for Romney Nov 14, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: Some Republicans stubbornly insist, of course, that the problem was that Mitt Romney wasn't conservative enough. But the real problem is the Republican Party, which would not be recognizable to its patron saint, Ronald Reagan. The party doesn't need a poll or a focus group. It needs a mirror.
  

   

• The fat lady’s aria Nov 11, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Democrat and Republican, came together in common cause to confront a common enemy. Weather. This is when we're at our best.
  

   

• Our common enemy: stubborn parochialism Nov 7, 2012 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: Call me a grouch, but I'm basically sick of everybody. One more mention of "the ground game," and I was going to shave David Axelrod's mustache.