Kathleen Parker: A monument to reconciliation
It isn’t often that one gets to hear both the strains of “Dixie” and an African drum concert in the same public square.
Kathleen Parker: Steubenville and the online bystander effect
The recent rape conviction of two teenagers, one of whom also distributed a photo and sent cruel text messages about their victim, has captured the “bystander effect” in graphic and nauseating detail.
Kathleen Parker: Media myopia in Rome
All things considered, I’d rather be in Rome. Isn’t everyone?
Kathleen Parker: Sensitivity training that leaves a listener numb
First, they came for the drones.
No, not the unmanned kind that kill strangers from a safe distance but the sort who sit in meeting rooms and repeat slogans until they absorb the proper way of thinking. The killers, figuratively speaking, are the diversity trainers who numb the human mind with slogans and rote instruction on emotional correctness.
Kathleen Parker: Obama, no patsy now
My inner Pollyanna was basking in blissfulness, rolling in the hay of righteous rhetoric, backstroking through the sunny sibilance of aspiration.
Drunk, apparently, on alliteration.
Kathleen Parker: Can’t we aim higher than ‘Honey Boo Boo’?
No one forced me, but I finally decided it was time to discover what all the business was about Honey Boo Boo.
Kathleen Parker: Things better left unsaid
‘Tis the season when columnists write mea culpas, make predictions and list their resolutions.
Since my culpas are too vast for this tiny space, my predictions best in retrospect and my resolutions inevitably ignored, I thought I’d list a few resolutions for the rest of the world. These, too, are likely to be ignored, but I’ll feel better getting a few things off my chest.
Kathleen Parker: Digital books leave a reader cold
It is comforting to think of death as a passing rather than an end. In that vein, I prefer to think of Steve Jobs’s final words as editorial commentary: “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”
Kathleen Parker: The Kennedys through a lens, lightly
In today’s world of social media, where everyone’s every little thing is on display, it is sometimes difficult to recall a time when exhibitionism wasn’t ubiquitous and was, in fact, not admired.
Such are the inevitable thoughts upon perusing Kitty Kelley’s lovely new book — yes, lovely — about John F. Kennedy as seen through the eyes, or more accurately, the lens of her friend, photojournalist Stanley Tretick.
Kathleen Parker: A moment of silence for the Newtown victims
It is a conundrum of wordsmiths that sometimes events are so horrible that words escape us. Bereft of the tools of our trade, we are left with what is perhaps the only appropriate response to something as heart-stopping as the massacre of children: Silence.
Kathleen Parker: Susan Rice and the Senate’s blame game
A variety of insults have been deployed in opposition to Susan Rice’s likely nomination for secretary of state: She is not qualified; she’s too aggressive; she “misled” the public following the lethal attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya.
Kathleen Parker: The double standard in affairs
As events have unfolded in what shall ever be known as “The Petraeus Affair,” one cannot escape noticing that the women in this sordid saga have been handed the short end of the shtick, as though the men are mere victims of ambitious, hormonally driven vixens.
Kathleen Parker: We must wait to pass judgment
It is tempting, oh so tempting, to unleash the snark as the script unfolds: Real Housewives of Tampa. Or is it Real Generals of Kabul?
Kathleen Parker: Sorry, dealer’s all out of race cards
Predictable as rain, the race card has surfaced just in time to stir up electoral passions, justify outcomes and explain away inconvenient truths.
Kathleen Parker: Mitt Romney’s ‘peace’ strategy
Forget “horses and bayonets.” The most important word uttered during the third presidential debate was “peace.”
Whole binders full of women?
Everybody will be writing about how a different Barack Obama came out Tuesday night from the one we saw in the first debate.
Clinton’s classy mea culpa
Once again, Hillary Clinton has demonstrated herself to be the classiest person in the room. No wonder she’s one of the most revered public figures in America.