Kathleen Parker

WASHINGTON — When H.L. Mencken said that Puritanism was "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy," he was barely grazing the iceberg of the titanic fundamentalism to come....

Sometimes it takes a scientific study to reveal the obvious. The latest discovery — that touch influences how we perceive things — is something like the warning on a steaming...

NEW YORK —- In the catalog of life-altering surprises, few compare to the query that came my way a few weeks ago from CNN/US President Jon Klein: "How would you...

Stranger than South Carolina's politics is the nearly nativist pride many take in its nastiness. Not the good folks of the Palmetto State but, rather, the politicos who work diligently...

Once you've gone viral, there's no turning back. That's the hard lesson for a Seattle cartoonist who sketched some doodles and unwittingly launched a movement. Molly Norris, a reluctant phenomenon,...

Some things are too horrific to consider, and yet consider them we must. "Crush videos," for instance.Somehow I missed the 1999 law, recently nullified by the U.S. Supreme Court, that...

Etymology: Eponym for Rep. Bart Stupak. Function: verb 1: In a legislative process, to obstruct passage of a proposed law on the basis of a moral principle (i.e. protecting the...

WASHINGTON — As Democrats consider shoving health care reform through the House with a process known as "deem and pass," it is helpful to return to square one and ask:...

Calm. That's not a word one hears much these days, but calm is what some are urging in the wake of a new federal report on breast cancer screening. Released...