Bush soldiers on in his dreamscape
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Friday, July 4, 2008
WASHINGTON --
In non-news from the White House: Bush hasn’t changed his mind about anything. And he still doesn’t care whether anyone likes it. Popularity has never been his muse.
Who showed courage under fire?
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Thursday, July 3, 2008WASHINGTON -- Let’s concede that surviving torture doesn’t necessarily endow one with presidential mettle. And, fine, being shot down doesn’t qualify one to direct the executive branch. But Wesley Clark misses the point of John McCain’s story.
An illegitimate culture
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Friday, June 27, 2008Teens making a pact to get pregnant enjoyed several news cycles not because it was so unbelievable, but because it was, alas, so believable.
Politically incorrect domestic violence
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, June 25, 2008For about 30 years now, we’ve been throwing money and punishment at domestic violence with not enough to show for it. Estimates are that more than 32 million Americans are affected by domestic violence each year, with many of those in need of help never reporting their abuse.
Domestic dustups: Sexes aren’t close to equal in dividing household chores
- Friday, June 20, 2008
WASHINGTON --
The most recent figures from the University of Wisconsin’s National Survey of Families and Households indicate that the average wife does 31 hours of housework a week compared to the average husband’s 14. When wives stay home, they do 38 hours of housework a week compared to men’s 12. Child care is even more lopsided.
Calling all fathers—and mothers, too
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, June 18, 2008WASHINGTON -- What Barack Obama fails to mention is that the problem of absent fathers, especially in the black community, is tied in part to well-intentioned social programs such as those the presumptive Democratic nominee intends to expand—domestic violence prevention and child support collections.
Current political history compelling
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Friday, June 6, 2008WASHINGTON -- The history-making moment with which we're now all familiar seems to have surpassed inevitability and entered the realm of foregoneness.
Over the hill with Bill
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, June 4, 2008WASHINGTON -- Hope. Change. Hope and change. Hope 'n' change. Say the words often enough and they begin to take hold, attaching themselves lichen-like to the psyche.
Hillary’s last hope
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, June 4, 2008The question we keep hearing is: Why does Hillary keep running? The better question is: Why do people keep asking?
Revenge of the nerd
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Friday, May 30, 2008Sometimes the answers to our most perplexing questions can be found on the playground.
In a world of crises, boys are at the head of the class
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Thursday, May 29, 2008Declaring and debunking crises has become a subsidiary industry of the gender wars.
Hillary’s last hope
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Hillary Clinton sincerely can’t fathom that the American people might actually elect a man who, though charming, isn’t half-ready to lead on Day One. She, after all, was already first lady of Arkansas when “Barry O’Bomber” was still shooting hoops at Punahou High School.
In world of crises, boys are at the head of the class
- Friday, May 23, 2008
Findings in a new study don’t justify the conclusion that boys aren’t in trouble. According to Judith Kleinfeld, psychology professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and director of The Boys Project, illiteracy rates among high school boys are higher than among girls; the reading gap for boys is larger at all ages and increases with age; boys receive lower marks from grade school through college.
Obama, oh yes, he will make us better
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Michelle Obama is manifestly capable of defending herself, but it’s refreshing to see a man come to his damsel’s defense.
Democrats offer thrills ‘n’ chills
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Friday, May 16, 2008WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama and John Edwards make an attractive picture—Ultra Brite coverboys of youth and glamour united against old men (and women) who worship the status quo. Fraternal twins of yin and yang, one is the healer, the other a fighter.
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