Kathleen Parker

"If you've got a beef, we've got the bun." So might go the motto for convention week as Democrats raise the torch for America's poor, tired and ticked off masses....

Independent voters are variously beloved or maligned, courted or ignored, depending on how the political pendulum swings. Lately, as partisanship approaches nuclear fission, independents are held in contempt by some...

`When Clinton lied, nobody died." So goes the mantra of the Bush-lied crowd, who are loath to surrender their rhyming couplet even in the face of contrary evidence. The sidewalk...

Ever since the same-sex marriage debate began, I've wondered: Where are the fathers? If ever there were a cause to which the once-robust fatherhood movement might attach itself, this one...

We live in peculiar times when good news is bad news and bad news is good. Take the Monday Surprise. At 2:26 a.m. EDT, as most Americans were sleeping, sovereignty...

It's hard to watch a loved one grow sick and die, as print journalists know too well. Newspapers have been on a slide for years, and remedy seems remote. Thus,...

If you were Rip Van Winkle and woke up after a long sleep--say a couple of decades or so--and flipped on the television, you might think you had been out...

If one of the social graces is knowing when to leave, Ronald Reagan was a gentleman with providential timing. His death came at just the right moment. Not for his...

The American women of Abu Ghraib prison have put to eternal rest any notion that girls are made of sugar 'n' spice and prompted a flurry of possible answers to...

When I was a kid, we were taught a few rules, among which was never talk about religion or politics in polite company. Rarely have such quaint rules felt more...