Kathleen Parker

Every time I hear of another Palestinian "suicide bomber," I think: Darwin Awards. You know, the evolutionary awards bestowed each year on those who purify the gene pool by removing...

Conspiracy theorists are at it again, but this time it's the left demonizing the right. Make that "Freudinizing." In two recent instances,spokesmen on the left have opined that the right's...

Slogging through the slavery reparations debate is an exercise in whiplash. One side of the brain says, "This is ridiculous," summoning all the usual arguments and obstacles to a legal...

Hollywood. Say the word and several others come to mind: liberal, self-absorbed, vain, liberal, rich, surgically altered, liberal. Say Oscar, and the same words apply, only more so. I've enjoyed...

When former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said in 1998 that a "vast right-wing conspiracy" was trying to ruin her husband, she inadvertently created an industry. Today the VRWC is...

This isn't precisely a six-months-after column, though my reflections are inspired by the CBS "9/11" documentary that 39 million Americans watched Sunday night. By now, if you haven't seen it,...

Let me tread lightly but unequivocally here: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has lost its mind. If organizations can suffer the same pathologies as people, I'd...

One of the stranger subtexts of the Enron saga--as well as Sept. 11--has been the search for meaning in the gender universe. What used to be mildly annoying "gender wars,"...

I had planned to write this column about our treatment of Taliban detainees at Guantanamo Bay (hint: they're living as well as many Cubans), when I was drawn to a...

Too soon I spoke when shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks I penned an obit for political correctness. Noting that we're again a serious people with serious purposes, I...