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Kathleen Parker is a politically conservative-leaning columnist for The Washington Post. Her columns are syndicated nationally and appear in more than 400 media outlets, both online and in print. Parker is a consulting faculty member at the Buckley School of Public Speaking, a popular guest on cable and network news shows and a regular panelist on NBC's "Meet the Press" and MSNBC's "Hardball" with Chris Matthews. Parker describes herself politically as "mostly right of center" and was the highest-scoring conservative pundit in a 2012 retrospective study of pundit prediction accuracy in 2008. Parker urged the 2016 Electoral College electors to be "unfaithful" to prevent Donald Trump from becoming President of the United States.

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It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a moral triumph.

College, Contraception, Entirely, Opportunity, Triumph, Virtue

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?

Level, Levels, People, Position Of Power, Positions, Power

Nevertheless, it is probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.

America, Economy, Events, Ideas, Nice, Stressful

Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.

Aggravation, Hurt, People, Think, Thinking, Worth

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

Behavior, Impossible, People, Witnessed

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

Blame, Engineered, Events, Fans, President, Tenure

Of course, certain religious expressions are fine. If a tribe of Aqualishes wants to boil rhino horns in frog saliva on the National Mall to honor their deity, we'd have a commemorative postage stamp ready by next December. But let a Christian mention the baby Jesus to a kindergarten class and the ACLU wants an exorcism.

Baby, Christian, Expressions, Kindergarten, Let, Religious

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

Equality, Feminists, Men, Pregnancy, Recently, Women

Each time I wander into blogdom, I'm reminded of the savage children stranded on an island in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies. " Without adult supervision, they organize themselves into rival tribes, learn to hunt and kill, and eventually become murderous barbarians in the absence of a civilizing structure.

Children, Island, Islands, Lord, Murderous, Tribes

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

Business, Expense, Expenses, Priests, Principles

Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.

Great Nations, Greatness, Merely, Nations

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, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?

Cities, Doom, Doom And Gloom, Easy, Hope, Money

To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh.

Branches, Cometh, Continue, Gop, Party, Wings

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 should 'off' myself.

Idiot, Introduce, League, Mother, Should Have, Traitor

If you don't like tomato soup, you don't buy tomato soup.

Ifs, Like, Soup, Tomato, Tomatoes

Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse. But any remedy to the systemic corruption that led to the collapse should not displace recognition that capitalism creates wealth. Capitalism, and no other economic system, has raised millions from poverty around the world.

Collapse, Creates, Poverty, Public, Wall, World

For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed.

Executed, Innocent Person, Justice, Mean, Meaning, Person