Birth control redux
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012
WASHINGTON -- The current debate is about freedom of conscience. It ain’t about The Pill.
The cost of conscience
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012
WASHINGTON -- Two of the top news stories this past week have revolved around reproductive rights, though both raise far more troubling issues than a woman’s right to contraception or abortion.
An essential limp
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012
WASHINGTON --
The question for voters is not whether they can forgive Mitt Romney his imperfections, which is most often the case in politics, but whether they can forgive him his perfections.
All the news that’s unfit to print
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012
WASHINGTON --
The predicament of a Yale quarterback is reminiscent of the Duke lacrosse scandal.
Newt in Wonderland
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012
WASHINGTON -- In Monday’s debate, Mitt Romney charged Gingrich with “influence peddling.” But Gingrich insists that he was merely working as a historian when he collected $1.6 million from Freddie Mac over a six-year period. Which in some version of reality could be true.
The perils of projection
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012
WASHINGTON -- The more you pick on a person for human failings with which all can identify, the more likely you will create sympathy rather than antipathy, especially if that individual has been forthright in his confession and penitent for his transgression, as Newt Gingrich has been. He was ahead of the curveball this time, with nothing left to tell or for his aggrieved former wife to expose. Thus, her interview and the question from CNN's John King had the feel not of revelation but of a political hit aided and abetted by a salacious press.
The cruel gaze of inspection
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
WASHINGTON --
Few thoughts are more horrifying than that a writer might enter your home an observe your personal life. For better or worse, presidents and their spouses will have to suffer these intrusions and potential indignities. It is the world in which we live.
Angry women
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012
WASHINGTON --
If first lady Michelle Obama isn’t angry with the way she's been portrayed, she certainly has every right to be.
Pious baloney 2.0
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012
WASHINGTON --
Some Republican presidential candidates are frankly making fools of themselves by taking Mitt Romney's comment about firing people waaaaay out of context and using it to characterize him as a job killer.
Clash of the nice guys
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012
WASHINGTON --
Newt Gingrich, the formerly self-anointed “nice guy,” the one who wasn’t going to go negative, has flip-flopped on protocol. Insisting that he lost Iowa to lesser mortals Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum because of Romney’s negative ads, Gingrich has declared that he’ll now play steamroller.
The Rubio factor
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012
WASHINGTON --
Should he win the Republican presidential nomination, who will Mill Romney pick as his running-mate? Several names have been suggested, including Condoleezza Rice and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio. Latest to the list is the young and junior senator from Florida, Marco Rubio.
Pop goes the candidate
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011
WASHINGTON --
Most recent to the carnival was Mitt Romney appearing on the “David Letterman Show,” where the candidate not only has to submit to being the brunt of jokes written by someone else, he has to tell them on himself. All of this is designed, of course, to appease the masses while humanizing the candidate.
The temptation of Callista Gingrich
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011
WASHINGTON --
What prompted Callista Gingrich to abandon the relatively safe role of admiring sidekick and take up arms on Twitter against Mitt Romney? And what might we infer by her actions?
There was just one Hitch
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Monday, Dec. 19, 2011
WASHINGTON -- My appetite for his prose was and remains as insatiable as Christopher Hitchens’ own was for expression.
Romney’s wager
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011
WASHINGTON --
Rarely has such a small, innocuous, truth-based remark garnered so much attention from the chattering classes as Mitt Romney’s proposed $10,000 bet with Rick Perry during the most recent Republican primary debate.
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