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• Storm of aid could save Gulf

  July 28, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 When people think of New Orleans, most think of jazz, hurricane cocktails, Katrina – and now the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But there’s another stormy concoction barreling …

• Kathleen Parker: Voters elevate the ordinary

  July 21, 2010 in Opinion on Page A17 It is often said that there are no new stories, just different ways of telling the same ones. Familiar plots persist through literature: man versus nature, rags to riches, the …

• Kathleen Parker: Losing touch in a digital age

  July 7, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 Sometimes it takes a scientific study to reveal the obvious. The latest discovery – that touch influences how we perceive things – is something like the warning on a steaming …

• Kathleen Parker: Obama testing gender roles

  June 30, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 If Bill Clinton was our first black president, as Toni Morrison once proclaimed, then Barack Obama may be our first woman president. Phew. That was fun. Now, if you’ll just … 4

• Kathleen Parker: Defining, redefining feminism

  June 23, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 Proving one’s feminist bona fides has become the latest challenge for women aspiring to public office. Is she a “real” feminist who walks in lockstep with traditional feminist orthodoxy? Or …

• Kathleen Parker: Tap into true Afghan gold

  June 16, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 Amid all the dark news from Afghanistan, every now and then a sliver of light slips through the cracks. Afghanistan, it turns out, is rich in minerals. Trillions rich. It’s …

• Kathleen Parker: Engine deal not an earmark

  June 9, 2010 in City on Page A13 The Pentagon doesn’t want it. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says it’s unnecessary. Former President George W. Bush was against it, as is Barack Obama, who has threatened to veto a … 1

• Kathleen Parker: Kagan is no ordinary choice

  May 12, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 The magnificent author and son of the Great Santini, Pat Conroy, began “The Prince of Tides” with these words: “My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port …

• Kathleen Parker: In this fight, artist seeks draw

  April 28, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 Once you’ve gone viral, there’s no turning back. That’s the hard lesson for a Seattle cartoonist who sketched some doodles and unwittingly launched a movement. Molly Norris, a reluctant phenomenon, …

• Kathleen Parker: Fines accrue; history erodes

  April 21, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 MOUNT VERNON, Va. – It was fitting that the buzz around George Washington’s homestead recently was about the first president’s overdue library books, just as the estate’s guardians were plotting … 1

• Kathleen Parker: Right teacher means the world

  April 14, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 One of President Barack Obama’s consistent education themes has been the wish that every child cross paths with that one teacher who hits the light switch and changes one’s life. … 3

• Kathleen Parker: RNC chief plays wrong card

  April 7, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 When you’re Michael Steele, there’s no waking up and thinking: Ahhhh, at least the worst is over. Whatever the week, Monday is the start of another very bad one. No … 3

• Kathleen Parker: A mistake worth admitting

  March 31, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 What a difference $2,000 in a lesbian bondage strip club makes. Then again, the latest Republican National Committee scandalita (Press three for Spanglish: “Small scandal”) is, alas, just that – … 3

• Kathleen Parker: Female leaders resist ‘victim’ label

  March 14, 2010 in Opinion on Page B8 If your impression of an Afghan woman is of a shapeless, frightened form engulfed in yards of heat-trapping fabric, you haven’t met Shafiqa Quraishi. Make that Colonel Quraishi, who earned …

• Kathleen Parker: Sweet deals make bill fatter

  March 10, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 Skipping through the Candy Land of the health care bill, one is tempted to hum a few bars of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.” What a deal. For deal-makers, that … 2

• Brown enters GOP storm

  February 24, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 WASHINGTON – The RINO hunt is back on and the coveted trophy is Scott Brown. Inevitably and predictably, the new senator from Massachusetts – Mr. 41, Mr. I-Drive-A-Truck, tea party … 5

• Anti-gay bill warrants dissent

  February 17, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 In a time of constant calamity and crisis fatigue, proposed legislation in Uganda to execute gays passes through the American consciousness with the impact of a weather report. Corrupt politicians … 3

• Snow offers study in gender

  February 10, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Much time and many volumes have been devoted to Freud’s famous question – What do women want? – with little commensurate attention to the male counterpart. What …

• Privacy a prized possession

  February 4, 2010 in Opinion on Page A9 My favorite thing about J.D. Salinger wasn’t his seminal work – or his most famous character, Holden Caulfield – but how little I knew of him, thanks to his relentless …

• Kathleen Parker: Win changes game for GOP, too

  January 21, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 There will be much harrumphing and punditry in the next few days about the meaning of Scott Brown’s victory and his phenomenal campaign for Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat. How, … 1

• Kathleen Parker: Standard different for men

  January 14, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 Ask yourself: Who is likely to be the first woman president of the United States? Anyone? Anyone?

• Kathleen Parker: Obama rises to moment

  December 14, 2009 in Opinion on Page A7 After Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech, anyone still questioning whether he is really a Christian, rather than a Muslim aligned with fanaticism, needs to seek therapy forthwith. Anyone still … 6

• Kathleen Parker: Run or not, Santorum will rouse

  December 10, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 Is Rick Santorum running for president of the United States, or isn’t he? I caught him by phone on a people mover at Dulles Airport and posed the question: He’s …

• Kathleen Parker: Let Woods have some shade

  December 3, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 The feeding frenzy over Tiger Woods’ tiny run-in with a fire hydrant has taken voyeurism to new depths. Where was he going at 2:25 in the morning? Why wasn’t he …

• Kathleen Parker: Let stir be call for better tests

  November 19, 2009 in Opinion on Page A15 Calm. That’s not a word one hears much these days, but calm is what some are urging in the wake of a new federal report on breast cancer screening.

• Kathleen Parker: China puts women in peril

  November 12, 2009 in Opinion on Page A9 One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion. Yet coerced abortions, as well as involuntary sterilizations, are commonplace in China, Beijing’s …

• Kathleen Parker: Give Obama some guy time

  October 29, 2009 in Opinion on Page A9 As if President Barack Obama didn’t have enough on his plate with health care and Afghanistan, he’s now faced with the problem that can’t be solved: women. Sorry, Mr. President, …

• Kathleen Parker: Faces of change are female

  October 15, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 As the Republican Party continues its pilgrimage through the desert, its leaders may be missing the oasis for the vale of tears. The answer to the party’s woes isn’t a …

• Kathleen Parker: Tweet belittled weight of loss

  October 8, 2009 in Opinion on Page A13 WASHINGTON – For those whose lives revolve primarily around real people in real time and real space, hurry, go hide. Here’s what you missed in the social networking universe the …

• Kathleen Parker: Here’s hoping words work

  October 1, 2009 in Opinion on Page A15 In keeping with his campaign promise to talk to America’s enemies without precondition, Barack Obama plans to turn his charms on Burma’s military junta. Slowly, we’re beginning to understand what …

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