KATHLEEN PARKER
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Opinion: Don’t choke on all these sweets
WASHINGTON — Skipping through the Candy Land of the health care bill, one is tempted to hum a few bars of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.”What a deal. For deal-makers, that is. Not so much for American taxpayers, who have been misled into thinking that the sweetheart deals have been excised.
Not only are the deals still there, but they’re bigger and worser, as the bard gave us permission to say.
March 11, 2010
Opinion: Really, health debate has been healthy for nation 
WASHINGTON — For all our bemoaning the tortures of health care reform, the debate has been healthy for the nation.Everybody’s crazy aunts and uncles have been let out of their respective attics and basements, and it’s good to know who they are. It’s also been helpful for Americans to see how the sausage is made and figure out whether they really want any.
March 05, 2010
Opinion: Brown a trophy of the RINO hunters
WASHINGTON — The RINO hunt is back on and the coveted trophy is Scott Brown.Inevitably and predictably, the new senator from Massachusetts has disappointed his base by, alas, representing his constituents.
It’s the purity test all over again; only this time, the stakes are high and the weird are turning seriously pro.
February 26, 2010
Opinion: Uganda plan could have consequences that were unintended
WASHINGTON — In a time of constant calamity and crisis fatigue, proposed legislation in Uganda to execute gays passes through the American consciousness with the impact of a weather report.Corrupt politicians count on the brevity of the American attention span, but certain items demand a tap of the pause button. How exactly does the idea of executing gays evolve in a majority-Christian nation?
February 19, 2010
Opinion: Men, grab your shovels
WASHINGTON — Much time and many volumes have been devoted to Freud’s famous question — What do women want? — with little commensurate attention to the male counterpart.What do men want? The simple answer is well-known, but a more nuanced answer has presented itself the past several days during “Snowmageddon.”
February 12, 2010
Opinion: Mourning the dearth of enigma
WASHINGTON — My favorite thing about J.D. Salinger wasn’t his seminal work — or his most famous character, Holden Caulfield — but how little I knew of him, thanks to his relentless pursuit of privacy.It’s the same thing I also love about two other favorite writers, both, coincidentally, great Southern dames — Harper Lee and Florence King.
February 09, 2010
Opinion: Red-meat Republicans: The politician-as-hunter gimmick getting old
WASHINGTON — Sure, he’s got the jutting jaw and centerfold looks.He’s got the truck. But does Scott Brown kill his own meat?
Of late, it seems, Republicans are determined to demonstrate their political virility by displaying not just their hunting trophies, but their fearlessness in carving up a fresh kill for the family table.
February 02, 2010
Opinion: Brown rattled machinery in his blue-hearted state
WASHINGTON — There will be much harrumphing and punditry in the next few days about the meaning of Scott Brown’s victory and his phenomenal campaign for Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat.How, in the final days of an election all but certain to go to the Democrats, did Brown, a state senator, raise millions and rattle the machinery of his blue-hearted state?
January 21, 2010
Opinion: Women held to different standards
WASHINGTON — Ask yourself: Who is likely to be the first woman president of the United States?Anyone? Anyone? Despite our assumption that a female president is inevitable, it’s surprisingly difficult to come up with a name.
Briefly, Hillary Clinton seemed the obvious answer. For a flicker, Sarah Palin was an entertaining notion — and remains so among a certain contingent of stubborn optimists. Other names surface now and then — Meg Whitman, Condoleezza Rice, Janet Napolitano, to name a few.
January 15, 2010
Opinion: Officially, it’s Obama’s ball
As the new year commences, two facts emerge: George W. Bush is officially retired as the fault-guy for the nation’s ills, and Barack Obama owns the game.Whether he wants to or not.
Every president deserves a year of grace to adapt to the job and adjust to its Himalayan learning curve. As Obama’s first year ends — almost with a bang, thanks to a lonely Nigerian who found love in jihad — his grace period is up.
By Kathleen Parker , January 05, 2010
Opinion: Obama: The reluctant warrior
WASHINGTON — After Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech, anyone still questioning whether he is really a Christian, rather than a Muslim aligned with fanaticism, needs to seek therapy forthwith.Anyone still unconvinced that Obama is really an American committed to his nation’s values, rather than an imposter who doesn’t pledge allegiance to his critics’ satisfaction, should probably surrender to the asylum.
By Kathleen Parker , December 16, 2009
Opinion: Character: Is there still such a thing in America?
WASHINGTON — Americans are more divided than ever, and both Democrats and Republicans are to blame.So say a majority of citizens polled as part of USA Network’s “Characters Unite” campaign, a community affairs program launched in January aimed at addressing social injustice and cultural differences within our borders.
By Kathleen Parker , December 09, 2009
Opinion: Purity test comes at wrong time for GOP
WASHINGTON — Some people can’t stand prosperity, my father used to say.Today, he might be talking about Republicans, who, in the midst of declining support for President Barack Obama’s hopeand-change agenda, are considering a “purity” pledge to weed out undesirables from their ever-shrinking party.
By Kathleen Parker , December 02, 2009
Opinion: Nikki Haley is a woman to watch
COLUMBIA, S.C. — On Monday, as news filtered out that beleaguered South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was being charged with 37 ethics violations, the woman who wants his job spoke of restoring public pride in her home state.
By Kathleen Parker , November 27, 2009
Opinion: An abortion issue we can all agree on
WASHINGTON — One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion.
By Kathleen Parker , November 12, 2009
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