Kathleen Parker
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The perils of the outrage industryJan 27, 2011 9:45 pm - As a longtime champion of greater civility in public discourse and one who has led the charge for dialed-back rhetoric, may I respectfully take most of it back? OMG, as...
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Envy hides in boldness of RussianJan 16, 2011 3:10 pm - It is bracing, not to mention annoying, laughable and obnoxious, to hear a White House press secretary lectured by a Russian journalist about the parameters of free expr...
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Sanitizing Twain is a teacher's shameJan 11, 2011 11:13 am - NEW YORK — While sorting through the perennial lip-pursing tempest about a certain word in Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” — the “N-word,” as we now sa...
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A resolution for all timesJan 02, 2011 7:30 am - It befalls the columnist this time of year to look back and recap, to assign blame and shame while offering the obligatory mea culpa and, of course, to resolve. It befa...
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Rhetoric, honesty and rich folksDec 19, 2010 7:37 am - Words matter. Just ask Google, which now has arranged for anyone to search millions of books online and track how many times a particular word has been used through the...
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It's grow-up time in AmericaDec 12, 2010 7:44 am - Thanks to WikiLeaks, even Vlad the Putin can raise an eyebrow and presume to know more about founding American principles, democracy and free speech. It is convenient t...
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America's reality show: gloom and doomDec 04, 2010 7:33 am - 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, a...
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As parties dig in, centrists just need a leaderNov 29, 2010 3:54 pm - In a political culture where moderation is the new heresy, centrism is fast becoming the new black. Political outliers not quite Republican, not quite Democrat are for...
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A scan too farNov 23, 2010 12:47 pm - In the accelerating debate about airport pat-downs that feel like a clumsy third date and body scans that border on peeping Tom shows, it's hard to find a sane place to ...
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What will GOP do about Sarah?Nov 14, 2010 9:32 am - NEW YORK — Despite its considerable gains in the midterm elections, the GOP has a problem looming in the margins named Sarah Palin. She who can rouse the base like none ...