Kathleen Parker

When Gore Vidal said that the three saddest words in the English language are Joyce Carol Oates, he must not have known Ralph Nader's middle name. For now we might...

Take the 24-hour news cycle, throw in the "instantaneity" of the blogosphere, add one rumor, a dash of innuendo and a twentysomething intern and you've got a ... yawn. The...

President Bush's now-exhaustively vetted interview Sunday with Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" proved the O.J. principle once again: People see and hear what they are predisposed to see and...

Now we know why Michael Jackson throws towels and veils over his children's heads. His sister, Janet, might be on TV. Few things are more ennui provoking than discussions of...

When so much can be known, not knowing is increasingly appealing. The latest advance in "knowing," creepily called "preimplantation genetic diagnosis," allows prospective parents not only to know, but to...

Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill had barely cleared his throat for his "60 Minutes" interview Sunday night before the "gotcha" e-mail started filling my mailbox. Anti-war constituents apparently felt vindicated...

When political pundits predicted that gay marriage would become a splinter issue in the coming election year, they weren't just whistling Dixie. So divisive is the gay-marriage question that it...

If you happen to go by the name of George W. Bush, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The Dow Jones is holding above the 10,000 mark for...

Dr. Howard Dean, apparently having given up on the Confederate flag voting bloc, turned Sunday to African-Americans, invoking civil-rights history and towing a miniature rainbow coalition in the person of...

So there's this caveman, see, and he goes to his outhouse in the middle of the night, slams the door and, noticing the aroma therein, says: "Is it just me...