Courage under fire

Being shot down may not qualify one to be president, as retired Gen. Wesley Clark infamously said recently, but what men do under fire might tell us about the character we may discover in a president.

School's baby mama boom

Kathleen Parker

It was such a good story: Teen girls make pregnancy pact.

Domestic dustup

The only thing more tedious than doing housework is reading about housework. Yet with the gritty determination of a committed obsessive-compulsive, I plowed through an 8,000-word New York Times Magazine expose on the current state of gender equity in the American home: "When Mom and Dad Share It All."

Stalking Condi Rice

By Kathleen Parker

As Democrats revel in the riches of diversity, they must also wonder at the cosmic alignment that produced both a minority and a woman as viable candidates.

The perils of pandering

By Kathleen Parker

It’s not about race or gender, we keep hearing from the Democratic front-runners. Except of course it is about race and gender, even though both should be rendered irrelevant by virtue of the candidates’ participation in the game.

Tear-jerking America's chain

By Kathleen Parker

Hillary Clinton’s “surprising” win over Barack Obama in the nation’s first primary - in defiance of what polls had predicted and political prognosticators had projected - has had pundits puzzled.