Kathleen Parker – The Durango Herald

Kathleen Parker: One thing’s for sure, China won’t die laughing

WASHINGTON – Dictators. Always so humorous. Take China’s communist officialdom. You’ve probably heard about the “South Park” episode last week that the Chinese government didn’t f...

DATE: Oct 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

Epstein’s weird New Mexico plot to extend himself

WASHINGTON – The more we learn, the more Jeffrey Epstein resembles an evil comic book character for the developmentally arrested intellectual – the charming-but-lurid mastermind with a plot ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

And a blind dog shall lead the humans – to love

CAMDEN, S.C. – Eulogies, it has always seemed to me, are best delivered while the subject is living and can enjoy hearing the best version of him- or herself. Thus, today’s column...

DATE: Jun 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

On abortion, we seem to have bats in every belfry

WASHINGTON – When author Mark Childress penned “Crazy in Alabama,” he wasn’t just whistling Dixie. “I haven’t been quoted this much since Roy Moore,” Childress recently told me, r...

DATE: May 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

MAGA is spent – unless you’re an adolescent

WASHINGTON – Humans do the strangest things. In two recent why-dunits, the curious have wondered why: (1) a successful TV star would allegedly orchestrate a fake, hate-inspired at...

DATE: Mar 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

Cats and dogs finally get a break – in the farm bill

WASHINGTON – For people who support the humane treatment of animals, including those that end up on America’s dinner plates, passage this week of the farm bill is a gift befitting the season...

DATE: Dec 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

Don’t forget the new normal that is not normal

WASHINGTON – Across much of media lately, the phrase “new normal” keeps cropping up to describe what is, in fact, not normal, as most sane adults have understood its meaning. This...

DATE: Nov 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

Paradise lost: We suffer, grieve when others do

WASHINGTON – When polarity defines us, it’s easy to lose sight of our common humanity. But all is not political, as nature increasingly reminds us. The fires in California that de...

DATE: Nov 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

And now, a word from our president (not really)

WASHINGTON – Network announcer: We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming for this special message from the president of the United States. My fellow Americans. I want to s...

DATE: Nov 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

Plenty of sideshows at the Brett Kavanaugh circus

WASHINGTON – If the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process has revealed anything, it is that there’s an antidote for disaffection toward Republicans: Give Democrats the upper hand for about fi...

DATE: Sep 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

Could Kavanaugh’s be a case of mistaken ID?

WASHINGTON – In one of Brett Kavanaugh’s responses to allegations that he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl when he was in high school, a charge he has denied “categorically and unequivo...

DATE: Sep 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

Parker: It’s a dog-eat-dog White House

WASHINGTON — No sooner had I ordered the 2011 book “Less Than Human” for a late-summer read than President Trump called Omarosa Manigault Newman a “dog” and a “lowlife.” Those tw...

DATE: Aug 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker