Politics & Policy

Looking for Love in all the Red and Blue Places

By Kathleen Parker October 15, 2008

New York – Whatever their other contributions to politics and the nation, Sarah Palin and Barack Obama have been crack for the news business. Across the spectrum, viewership, Internet traffic, ...

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Put the Gloves Back On

By Kathleen Parker October 8, 2008

When Sarah Palin said she was taking off the gloves, she wasn’t just whistling “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” Or was she? In the wake of the vice-presidential debate, Palin has trained her moose-hunting ...

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Bridge to Somewhere

By Kathleen Parker October 4, 2008

What did they do with the other Sarah Palin? I mean the one who bases foreign-policy experience on the proximity of Russia to Alaska and who speaks cutely about Vladimir Putin ...

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Speak Correctly

By Kathleen Parker October 1, 2008

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn’t, I ...

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Palin Problem

By Kathleen Parker September 26, 2008

If at one time women were considered heretical for swimming upstream against feminist orthodoxy, they now face condemnation for swimming downstream — away from Sarah Palin. To express reservations about her ...

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Vote for More of the Same

By Kathleen Parker September 24, 2008

Suddenly, the U.S. economy has edged out Iraq as the most consuming issue for American voters. Not so for Iraqis. Who wins the presidential election is of paramount importance to a ...

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A Time to Worry

By Kathleen Parker September 19, 2008

In a rational world, this presidential election would be between Hillary Clinton and John McCain, with their respective running mates Barack Obama and (maybe) Sarah Palin. But we do not live ...

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Charles Dickens Hearts David Zucker

By Kathleen Parker September 17, 2008

Americans numbed by the daily barrage of politics-as-usual are about to be awakened by some new fireworks — Hollywood-style. Imagine documentary filmmaker Michael Moore and director David Zucker (Airplane! and The ...

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Giants Among the Lilliputians

By Kathleen Parker September 12, 2008

Camden, S.C. — While the political class was focused on the meaning of pigs wearing lipstick, a few fortunate South Carolinians were riveted by the meaning of valor. The occasion was ...

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Rednecks vs. Elites

By Kathleen Parker September 10, 2008

With the nomination of one Sarah Palin, presidential politics is no longer a battle of economic policies and national security; it’s a Saturday night brawl between the Rednecks and ...