Kathleen Parker

First it was Jane Fonda; now it's Sharon Stone. Last year, Fonda joined a leading condom company--Durex--in a safe-sex campaign for teenagers. Thick packages stuffed with literature, stats and photographs...

`If you build it, they will come," the ghosts of baseball past told Kevin Costner in the movie "Field of Dreams." So of course he built a baseball diamond in...

I'm the first to admit, I've been an idiot at least half my life. Others more perseverant apparently are committed to remaining idiots all their lives and--in a breathless stroke...

Where are you Pfc. Flagg? Every Veterans Day, I think of Pfc. Paul Flagg, a Marine private in my brother's platoon in Vietnam. The year was 1968--a date most remember...

`Never underestimate the power of a kid." That chilling statement, putting us in mind of those precocious munchkins in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies," came recently from the mouth...

It's always something. This week, it's witches. Yes, I said witches. In Maryland, a 15-year-old high school girl recently was suspended on suspicion of casting a spell on a fellow...

My father loved the fall. Specifically, he loved Oct. 10. That was the day, he said, that the air in Florida shifted ever so slightly, announcing the beginning of his...

In an era when ketchup is considered a vegetable, we shouldn't be surprised that breakfast cereal is considered a nutritious meal. According to a new government study, American children get...

At least one person is happy that oral sex is finally on America's front pages, and he's not Bill Clinton. He's Bradley Ian Berger, a California attorney, who has been...

It's not often we get to applaud Washington these days. Last week provided an exception when the House Commerce Committee approved a bill to restrict children's access to Internet pornography....