The passion of Henry Allen
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009
WASHINGTON --
In an online chat, The Washington Post’s Gene Weingarten cheered passion that recently came to blows, passion long missing from America’s bean-counter newsrooms. Reporters of a certain age remember when newsrooms bristled with heat amid the search for light. Fights may have been infrequent, but tempers often flared as deadlines loomed and reporters sweated over just the right word, usually under the baleful eye of an editor whose own deadline was bearing down.
A positive outlook for saving the news
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009
WASHINGTON --
Most newspapers remain profitable, and circulation is astoundingly good, all things considered.
Obama jumps through hoops to please women
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009
WASHINGTON --
Barack Obama courted the girls, promised them equality in all things, and now has excluded them from an all-male game of basketball. Sorry, ladies, but we coulda toldja.
Franken sense
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Picking one's battles has never been trickier, especially if you're a member of the benighted Republican Party.
Reefer sanity
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The debate over whether Americans ought to have the right to be stupid -- or to make other people seem more interesting -- continues apace after 40 years of the (failed) "war on drugs."
Obama should distance himself from gabmeisters
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009
WASHINGTON --
Every time the president or one of his spokespeople mentions Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh, the latter two enjoy increased ratings and bucks. Who’s the happiest man on Earth these days? Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, whose soles must rarely touch pavement.
Republican women—hear them roar
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009
WASHINGTON --
If the GOP is really serious about expanding the party, it’s time for the men to hush and let the pros take over. As the saying goes: If you need something done, hire a busy woman. Or, as the White House Project puts it: “Add women, change everything.”
Progressives going retro
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Women have plenty of reason to feel offended by the Virginia gubernatorial race, though not because the Republican candidate once wrote a dissertation observing that the American family had suffered as a result of women joining the work force.
A miscarriage of propriety
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009
Penelope Trunk tweeted while in a board meeting that she was having a miscarriage—and how great is that? Beats the abortion she was planning to have, which would have meant missing two days of work since she would have had to go all the way to Chicago. Apparently, there’s a waiting list in Wisconsin where Trunk lives.
Sitting on Planet Polanski
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Roman Polanski has become a true cause celebre, point man in an international incident that has individuals and nations weighing in and staking out positions. That so many have rallied to protect him, insisting that he has suffered enough, is evidence of a much stranger development in human history than that a man has seduced a child.
The world is a fire hydrant
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009
WASHINGTON -- It may be too soon to pass judgment on Obama’s new foreign policy strategy, but early returns on his gamble that talking is the best cure are less than reassuring.
Interview with an apostate
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009
WASHINGTON -- No one was more delighted by the recent ACORN pimp 'n' prostitute, hidden-camera sting than Marcel Reid, the former ACORN board member who was booted in summer 2008 when she tried to examine the organization's books.
Playing the race deck
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Racism is nothing to laugh about, and I wrote about my own concerns during the presidential campaign. But some of the commentary lately has been so overwrought as to be laughable. It is profoundly irresponsible, for example, to call Wilson a racist under the circumstances—as bad as, if not worse than, calling someone a liar.
Across spectrum of society, people are behaving badly
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009
WASHINGTON --
In early America, calling someone a liar wasn’t a childish insult but a direct challenge to one’s honor, an appropriate response to which varied by region. Where dueling was common—as in Wilson’s home state of South Carolina—so were insults.
Joe Wilson loses it
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Friday, Sept. 11, 2009
WASHINGTON -- South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's offense sets a new low bar. But as a nation, we have entered a political era of uninhibited belligerence. The civility we insist that we prefer has been in short supply at town hall meetings, several of which Wilson conducted
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