Kathleen Parker
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PARKER: Will new study lead to better ways to screen?
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Last Updated: 6:24 PM 11/19/09 - Calm. That’s not a word one hears much these days, but calm is what some are urging in the wake of a new federal report on breast cancer screening. (Full Story) |
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PARKER: China’s cold reality of forced abortions
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Last Updated: 3:49 PM 11/11/09 - One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion. Yet, coerced abortions, as well as involuntary sterilizations, are commonplace in China, Beijing’s protestations notwithstanding. While the Chinese Communist Party insists that abortions are voluntary under the nation’s one-child policy, electronic documentation recently smuggled out of the country tells a different story. (Full Story) |
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PARKER: The story of how the news will survive
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Last Updated: 1:32 PM 11/04/09 - Each time another report surfaces about the decline of newspapers, I feel like a death row inmate counting the warden’s footsteps. The latest echo of doom arrived a few days ago: U.S. newspaper circulation dropped 10 percent from April through September, compared to the same period last year. The largest decrease recorded thus far, the decline was attributed to the usual — advertising and readership lost to the Web. Industrywide, ad revenues, which constitute newspapers’ main source of income, have dropped $20 billion from three years ago. Even so, most newspapers remain profitable and circulation is astoundingly good, all things considered. (Full Story) |
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PARKER: Life and basketball not always about equality
Last Updated: 7:15 PM 10/28/09 - As if President Barack Obama didn’t have enough on his plate with health care and Afghanistan, he’s now faced with the problem that can’t be solved: Women. Sorry, Mr. President, but we coulda toldja. (Full Story) |
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PARKER: Obama takes the path of reefer sanity
Last Updated: 10:25 PM 10/22/09 - In an act of merciful sanity, the Obama administration has made good on its promise to stop interfering with states that allow the medical use of marijuana. Clink-clink, hear-hear, salud, cheers, et cetera, et cetera. (Full Story) |
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PARKER: Republican women, hear them roar
Last Updated: 8:06 PM 10/21/09 - As the Republican Party continues its pilgrimage through the desert, its leaders may be missing the oasis for the vale of tears. The answer to the party’s woes isn’t a revamped Web site (GOP.com) offering — wowser! — really cool social networking platforms. The answer won’t be found in the sudden realization that 83 percent of young people 18 to 24 have an online profile — or other late-breaking revelations that merely reinforce the perception of the GOP as woefully behind the curve. The answer is ... drum roll, please ... women. (Full Story) |
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