Articles filed under Parker, Kathleen

• Benghazi redacted May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: We are supposed to accept the conclusions about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, despite congressional testimony last week suggesting that significant efforts were made to camouflage those mistakes. As Democrats and Republicans alike know all too well: It's always the cover-up.
  

   

• Are you (fill in the blank) enough? May 10, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: Rather than insist that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz fall in line, shouldn't we be celebrating a clear victory for true diversity? That is, diversity of thought. Here we have two conservative Republicans of Hispanic origin who have different views on an important issue. Wasn't this always the point of our grand American experiment?
  

   

• Prude or prudent? May 6, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: In the past several days, we've heard the argument that any interference with the over-the-counter sale of Plan B to any female of any age is blocking a woman's right to self-determination. Fifteen-year-olds, where the limit is currently set, are girls, not women.
  

   

• The Bush I knew Apr 30, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: Everyone is familiar with Bush's history and performance. What I offer is an anecdote or two that I think reveal what the cameras and critics could not. These recollections are simply recorded for the sake of biography in the interest of rounding out a more complete picture of a two-term, transformational president who changed our world in ways that won't be fully understood or judged in our lifetimes.
  

   

• The terror of not knowing Apr 26, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: Though it is tempting to declare the surviving Boston bomber an "enemy combatant," as suggested by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., it is essentially a means to deny rights accorded any other American citizen who commits a crime. The only justification now would be that the Boston bomber is believed to be Muslim, which isn't a crime, or that he and his brother may have found inspiration among others of like intent.
  

   

• The governor, the soul mate and ... The End Apr 23, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: Mark Sanford's lack of empathy for his family, not to mention his impeachable judgment, should disqualify him from further public service, an opinion apparently shared by the Republican National Committee, which recently withdrew support for his candidacy. Where the wife goes, so go the people.
  

   

• What do we do? What do we feel? Apr 18, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: From this point forward, everything that follows is now familiar: The soundtrack, the speculation, the newsy reminders that we don't know anything yet but we'll keep talking anyway, and what would we have newscasters do, really? Don't we want to know as soon as there is something to know?
  

   

• Beauty and the beast Apr 16, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: The recent kerfuffle over a secret recording of Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell's campaign strategy meeting, which focused on opposition research about a likely opponent, actress Ashley Judd, has divided observers into two groups. One consists of those disturbed by the bugging of a private conversation. The other consists of people who were mostly offended by the content of the conversation, which concerned Judd's emotional problems, and laughter about certain odd comments she has made over time.
  

   

• Pass gun laws, but will they really help? Apr 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: The biggest obstacle to the Obama administration’s push for tighter gun control may be its own best argument: Newtown. This is because nothing proposed in the gun control debates would have prevented the mass killing of children at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and everybody knows it. At best, tighter gun laws will make us feel better.
  

   

• A monument to reconciliation Apr 4, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: 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. Nor, usually, are statue unveilings the riveting stuff of storytelling. That is, unless one happens to be in the oldest inland city, population 7,000, of one of the oddest little states in a nation of oddness.
  

   

• If Hillary Clinton has a time to win, it’s in ’16 Mar 29, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: Clearly, the Hillary Clinton for president proposition poses more questions than answers. But the calculus comes down to this: She has been working toward this moment essentially all her life, diligently clearing away the brush blocking her path. The zeitgeist is ready for a woman president. Most important, she can win — and few think the country would be worse for it.
  

   

• Decency in a handheld device Mar 25, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: In the recent rape case, where two Ohio high school football players were convicted of assaulting a 16-year-old girl from West Virginia while she was too drunk to give consent, not only were there witnesses but dozens of other teens were privy to what happened through postings to social media.
  

   

• Silent on rape no more Mar 21, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: Especially offensive is the fact that hundreds of thousands of rape kits remain unprocessed. This meant that hundreds of thousands of victims, mostly women, were never taken seriously or given an opportunity for justice — and their rapists were free to rape again. Why is there no outrage?
  

   

• Media myopia in Rome Mar 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: Scandal surely has diminished the Vatican's moral authority, but 2,000 years of history suggest it will adapt and survive. In the meantime, any evaluation of its present situation must also include recognition of the immense good that individual Catholics and the church do.
  

   

• Optical illusions Mar 14, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: The media love optics, and no one understands this better than President Obama. Thus, he invited a gang of Republican senators to din-dins at the swank Jefferson Hotel. Upon exiting, senators were greeted by a hungry throng of reporters and photographers, their appetites whetted no doubt by the cold. How was it? What happened? Did you bond?
  

   

• A solution to the latest ‘mommy war’ Mar 12, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer is one rare bird. But should she be? She crashed the glass ceiling and we're upset that she made a mess?
  

   

• Killing the messenger as a tactic Mar 6, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: The Obama White House is, to put it politely, fudging as it tries to place the onus of the sequester on Congress. And, as has become customary, officials are using the Bob Woodward spat to distract attention.
  

   

• Michelle Obama’s wings Mar 3, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: Those aren’t bangs covering Michelle Obama’s eyebrows. Those are butterfly wings.
  

   

• Droning on about feelings Feb 26, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: Sensitivity training, alas, is one of the many legacies of our sundering of the family, which has led necessarily to greater dependence on third parties to instruct and order. We are unlikely to hear much about that in the next government diversity seminar and, soon enough, there will be none left to recognize that there is something wrong with this picture.
  

   

• Time for a RINO rebellion Feb 22, 2013 12:00 AM
  Columnist Kathleen Parker: What has become glaringly clear is that RINOs need to stop being so normal and grant their better angels a sabbatical. Forget taking back the country. Start by taking back your party. Do it for your country.