Kathleen Parker has contributed to more than a dozen newspapers and magazines during her 20 years as a journalist. She began her twice-weekly commentary column in 1987 as a staff writer for The Orlando Sentinel. After entering into syndication in 1995, her column rocketed in popularity and now appears in more than 300 papers nationwide. Parker's many awards for her incisive commentary include Best Columnist from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, and First Place, Division 3 in the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors' Ninth Annual Writing Awards competition, both in 1997. In 1993, she won the H. L. Mencken Writing Award issued by The Baltimore Sun. The judges praised Parker for "singing another note on the subject of family values and following the tradition of H. L. Mencken in attacking ignorance and stupidity with vividness and originality." In addition to her syndicated column, Parker is director of the School of Written Expression at the Buckley School of Public Speaking and Persuasion in Camden, South Carolina. She previously ran her own public relations company and is a past instructor of editorial writing and advanced feature writing at the University of South Carolina College of Journalism and Mass Communications. She is a member of USA Today's Board of Contributors, writing regularly for the paper's op-ed page. Parker's column focuses on social issues related to family, children and gender. Having grown up in Florida with four stepmothers and a variety of siblings -- half-, step- and whole -- Parker says, "I know of what I speak." She lives in Camden, South Carolina with her husband, son and a variety of pets. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ WASHINGTON -- What's on the president's mind these days? We do still have a president, though it's sometimes hard to remember in our impatience to replace him. Amid dwindling interest in anything Bu http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/07/04/bushs_dreamscape 7ba2072a-0774-4d71-bc53-a42f6be722ba Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/07/02/courage_under_fire 524f537b-bed2-4ccc-a5d6-82f5a56c48ef Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT It was such a good story: Teen girls make pregnancy pact. What?! No!! America's presses didn't exactly screech to a halt, but the media lapped up the story, with reporters descending on tiny Gloucest http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/06/27/an_illegitimate_culture 8cc0f13a-7e62-4031-8f6d-4f0ab11ea5da Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT The words "domestic violence" typically invite images of bruised women and children -- and male perpetrators. But the real picture of domestic violence isn't so clear-cut. And the solution to family... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/06/25/politically_incorrect_domestic_violence 3205336a-2b87-40d5-99d7-abece28fcb74 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/06/20/domestic_dustups 373fcf7b-236c-467a-a34b-32adb04475a3 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's recent call for responsible fatherhood is welcome, overdue -- and misleadingly incomplete. That America's fathers need to embrace their most important role is no secret.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/06/18/calling_all_fathers_-_and_mothers,_too c02a4d6a-d9b1-4335-90f0-1174be8c3932 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The history-making moment with which we're now all familiar seems to have surpassed inevitability and entered the realm of foregoneness. There seems no stopping Barack Obama, not solely... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/06/06/braking_for_euphoria 66358da0-9b80-4273-9da2-100a118c3979 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Hope. Change. Hope and change. Hope 'n' change. Say the words often enough and they begin to take hold, attaching themselves lichen-like to the psyche. Soon they take on a life of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/06/04/over_the_hill_with_bill 12aa3922-a386-4043-948a-63a48a381909 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT Sometimes the answers to our most perplexing questions can be found on the playground. Take Scott McClellan. Is he dishonest? Dishonorable? Disloyal? Is he telling the truth that the Bush administrat http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/05/30/revenge_of_the_nerd cc66c156-6e6a-41bc-abc1-0757dc96d54f Fri, 30 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT The question we keep hearing is: Why does Hillary keep running? The better question is: Why do people keep asking? She's running because, despite evidence and warnings to the contrary, she still hop http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/05/28/hillarys_last_hope 3e4168bd-9d93-476a-ab27-ff9d8726c18b Wed, 28 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT Editors Note -- Kathleen Parker is the author of "Save the Males," to be published in June by Random House. Declaring and debunking crises has become a subsidiary industry of the gender... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/05/23/the_crisis!_crisis 7a58e603-fdf3-4fde-9759-442b9c99cb21 Fri, 23 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT Chivalry is still charming, as Barack Obama proved when he recently warned Tennessee Republicans to leave his wife alone. He was commenting on a GOP Web ad that highlights Michelle Obama's comment,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/05/21/oh_yes,_he_will_make_us_better 2e59143b-d265-4156-bb0a-8c541f204bcd Wed, 21 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Well, at least they didn't kiss. I was bracing myself for the lip lock Wednesday when John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. Don't look at... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/05/16/democrats_offer_thrills_n_chills cd675fcc-8f91-4072-9016-8c921dbfd606 Fri, 16 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- "A full-blooded American." That's how 24-year-old Josh Fry of West Virginia described his preference for John McCain over Barack Obama. His feelings aren't racist, he explained. He would http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/05/14/getting_bubba de95f56c-fe26-46e5-9426-99fa56e26bc2 Wed, 14 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- This year American consumers are expected to spend an average of $138.63 each on flowers, cards and gifts for Mother's Day, for a grand total of $15.8 billion. That's a whole lotta... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2008/05/09/send_money_in_lieu_of_flowers_to_veterans_moms e51dc74e-a10c-4584-a540-77b179c8f9c9 Fri, 09 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT