Kathleen Parker
Kathleen Parker
Kathleen Parker is a politically conservative-leaning columnist for The Washington Post. Her columns are syndicated nationally and appear in more than 400 media outlets, both online and in print. Parker is a consulting faculty member at the Buckley School of Public Speaking, a popular guest on cable and network news shows and a regular panelist on NBC's "Meet the Press" and MSNBC's "Hardball" with Chris Matthews. Parker describes herself politically as "mostly right of center" and was the highest-scoring conservative...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed...
Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.
I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.
Nevertheless, it is probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.
People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?
Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?
Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.
Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.
If you don't like tomato soup, you don't buy tomato soup.
Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse. But any remedy to the systemic corruption that led to the collapse should not displace recognition that capitalism creates wealth. Capitalism, and no other economic system, has raised millions from poverty around the world.
But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.
It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.