Kathleen Parker

In trying to understand why our enemies hate us so much, perhaps we're making things too complicated. Maybe we're trying too hard in our quaintly American way to rationalize the...

Picture this: I have draped a towel over my 9-month-old baby's head and am holding him by one arm over the railing of a fourth-floor hotel balcony. You (a) gasp...

"Man is conceived in sin and born into corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something." -- From...

Learning to pick one's battles is one of life's great lessons. Unfortunately few learn it, especially these days when nearly every human incident is freighted with potentially sweeping applications. In...

As the eulogies for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone stack up, a single word consistently emerges--passion. From The Wall Street Journal editorial pages to the columns of conservative opinion writers,...

I'm thinking of writing a column about North Korea's recently revealed nuclear capability, or the latest sniper attack, or Saddam Hussein's sudden beneficence toward his prison population--something newsy--but am stopped...

When it comes to the proposed war on Iraq, I keep thinking I'm missing something that war protesters around the world clearly see. According to their arguments, the Bush administration...

And they said this president was stupid. Time and again, President Bush gets what he wants by forcing his opponents to argue against themselves. He did it with the United...

There's that word again: Choice. She made a bad choice. Who's that? Susie for picking vanilla when she really wanted chocolate? Jeffery for picking the cat's eye when he really...

Friday's Alligator Alley episode of mistaken identity, or hoax, or bad joke, or exaggeration, or overreaction--or whatever we end up calling it--has made one thing abundantly clear: We're all a...