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
What was all the fuss about?
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's speech to kids stirred cries of "socialism" and "indoctrination" and forced some schools to opt out of heariong the message. When and how did we become so ridiculous?
A choice he may regret
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009
WASHINGTON -- If Obama hasn’t liked the tenor of town-hall meetings, wait until he meets pro-lifers at full throttle. They’re planning a major drive (to exhaust the metaphor) to try to stop federal funding of abortion as allowed under proposed health care legislation.
Silence isn’t golden in politics
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009
COLUMBIA, S.C. --
What people do not typically think of is black Republicans, a perception that could change soon if a young man named Marvin Rogers has his way. This 33-year-old, Spanish-speaking former aide to South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis has a plan for the GOP: He wants to change its complexion.
In death do us part company
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009
WASHINGTON --
How can one man, Sen. Ted Kennedy, be viewed so differently? Is there no objective truth, or is all truth filtered through one’s own projection of reality? Such, perhaps, is the dilemma in a secularized world bereft of common reference points. You got your gig; I got mine.
Defusing those ‘Google bombs’
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The wild frontier we now know and (mostly) love called the Blogosphere is a not-always-OK corral where Free Speech is armed and often dangerous.
Hitler in August: Health care protesters show poverty of imagination
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009
WASHINGTON --
Whatever the truth—and truth morphs by the moment—it seems increasingly clear that the erstwhile shining city upon a hill has become ’Toon Town, a circus of media acrobats, political clowns and street-corner barkers.
An organic approach to health care
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009
WASHINGTON --
It seems that John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market Inc.—green missionary and exemplar of corporate compassion—has riled hard-core reformers by endorsing free-market principles over government-managed health care.
Taking the president on faith
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009
WASHINGTON --
A comparison of how the media have treated President Bush and President Obama and their faith-based programs during the first six months of their administrations is the subject of a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
Sometimes slopes really are slippery
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009
WASHINGTON --
Now that the world is chasing hyperbole, we indeed risk overlooking troublesome language in the end-of-life section of the House health bill, aka Section 1233 of HR 3200.
Outrage begins to dog us
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The rest of August promises to be a battlefield of dueling ads for and against health care reform, all of which will likely add to the nation’s free-floating anxiety. The crux of this anxiety is a loss of trust, which may be reflected in Obama’s plummeting job approval.
Them dang Southerners
By KATHLEEN PARKER - Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009
WASHINGTON --
In a fusillade of pique, Ohio Sen. George Voinovich charged that Southerners are what’s wrong with the Republican Party.
