Kathleen Parker
E-mail nationally syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker at kathleenparker@washpost.com.
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PARKER: Real meaning hidden in Beckapalooza
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Last Updated: 7:58 PM 09/01/10 - Despite all the words spilled in evaluating Glenn Beck’s tent-less revival last weekend, the real meaning may have been hiding in plain sight. (Full Story) |
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PARKER: An American Dream borne out of one man’s heroic act
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Last Updated: 12:58 AM 08/29/10 - August finally redeemed itself from shark-jumping hysteria with an original, spontaneous, transcendent event — the accidental intersection of one Antoine Dodson, his sister, her would-be rapist, and some musical magicians who tapped into that uniquely American reservoir of salvation — irreverence. (Full Story) |
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PARKER: It’s time to hit pause button on the outrage
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Last Updated: 6:24 PM 08/25/10 - As I was perusing headlines that seem seldom to change — mosque, immigration, sacred ground, 9/11, more mosque — an unlikely trio intruded upon my malaise: Paul Newman, Rodney King and John Lennon. (Full Story) |
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PARKER: Free speech isn’t easy, nor is it always sensitive
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Last Updated: 7:28 PM 08/18/10 - NEW YORK — It is hard to imagine that anything has gone unsaid about the so-called ground zero mosque, but we seem to be missing an important point. The mosque should be built precisely because we don’t like the idea very much. We don’t need constitutional protections to be agreeable, after all. (Full Story) |
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PARKER: Taking a trip at the wrong time
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Last Updated: 4:39 PM 08/11/10 - Observing the Michelle Obama vacation controversy unfold, one is of multiple minds. (Full Story) |
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THOMAS: The mission in Iraq is still not accomplished
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Last Updated: 7:16 PM 08/04/10 - President Barack Obama claims to have kept his campaign promise to cease American combat operations — though not U.S. troop presence — in Iraq by the end of this month. But it’s not about his keeping promises about a war and an objective he never supported. It’s about whether the mission has been a success. And the answer to that question is: we don’t know yet. (Full Story) |
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PARKER: The meaning of Olive Street
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Last Updated: 7:12 PM 08/04/10 - We’ve heard much these past few years about “small town values,” most recently iterated and personified by Sarah Palin. (Full Story) |
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PARKER: Crisis after crisis can’t stop the people of New Orleans
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Last Updated: 8:00 PM 07/28/10 - When people think of New Orleans, most think of jazz, hurricane cocktails, Katrina — and now the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But there’s another stormy concoction barreling toward the nation’s capital — in the nicest possible way. They call themselves “Women of the Storm,” and they want new money to go with old promises to restore the Gulf Coast. (Full Story) |
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PARKER: Journalists should be able to vent to each other in private
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Last Updated: 1:41 AM 07/25/10 - The current Journolist controversy that has the blogosphere heaving sparks, and Washington even more self-absorbed than usual, is weak tea — a tempest in Barbie’s teacup. (Full Story) |
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PARKER: It’s getting easier to be Alvin Greene
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Last Updated: 7:07 PM 07/21/10 - It is often said that there are no new stories, just different ways of telling the same ones. Familiar plots persist through literature: man versus nature, “rags to riches,” the hero quest, and so on. (Full Story) |
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