Kathleen Parker

• The public trial of Justice Roberts
  Novelist John Grisham could hardly spin a more provocative fiction: The president and his surrogates mount an aggressive campaign to intimidate the chief justice of the United States, implying ruin and ridicule should he fail to vote in a pivotal case according to the ruling political party's wishes.

• Attacking Obama now on Wright too little, too late
  What a difference four years make.

• Non-stories divert political heat from the economic collapse
  WASHINGTON -- This past week's news cycle has produced two narratives:

• Americans right to care about dissidents in distant China
  News that Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng and his family might be allowed to leave China for a university fellowship in the U.S. brought relief not only to Chen, but also to dissidents around the world.

• Obama's slow jam a bit unnerving and unnecessary
  It was fun. It was odd. It was just a little bit ... unseemly.

• Audacity or incompetence guiding president’s travels
  Either President Barack Obama has wings of Kevlar -- or he has the most incompetent scheduling staff in White House history.

• Public discourse has gone to the dogs
  NEW YORK -- I think it is fair to say that the shark has been permanently displaced by the dog.

• Insult to all of us is making big deal out of small utterances
  For reasons that don't interest me much, "girl fights" have always had a particular tug on our imaginations.

• Jumping to conclusions appalling aspect of Trayvon Martin case
  There are so many appalling aspects to the Trayvon Martin case that it's hard to find a permanent home for outrage.

• Resurrect moderation as virtue in public, private lives
  LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- As the sun rises and dabs Caesars Palace with morning rouge, irony struts down the strip of casinos, shops and nightclubs.

• A pig is a pig no matter what your political leanings
  In the wake of "Slutgate," the operative argument seems to have devolved into a barnyard taunt: "My pig isn't as bad as your pig."

• What women want, and what the GOP needs to do about it
  WASHINGTON -- Introducing her husband on Super Tuesday night, Ann Romney said women this election season are interested in jobs, the economy and the debt.

• Santorum nomination would answer Obama's praryers
  Let me be blunt: If Republicans nominate Rick Santorum, they will lose.

• Incivility not the biggest threat to society
  Can civility be saved?

• Obama administration puts too high a price on conscience
  Two of the top news stories last week revolved around reproductive rights, though both raise far more troubling issues than a woman's right to contraception or abortion.

• Gingrich strains common sense with his lobbying denials
  When it comes to Newt Gingrich's post-speaker activities on the Hill, it all depends on what your definition of "lobbying" is.

• Gingrich's past sins less imporant than what compels his actions
  Newt Gingrich's standing ovation Thursday night, when he attacked CNN moderator John King for asking about allegations that Gingrich wanted an "open marriage" with his second wife, told us little about South Carolina, but much about human nature.

• We should all be angry at insults aimed at Michelle Obama
  I can't speak for Michelle Obama, but call me an angry white woman. If the first lady isn't angry, she certainly has every right to be.

• No matter what Gingrich says, Romney GOP's best bet
  Iowa front-runners Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have a little problem. Both are too nice to be mean to each other.

• Whom will Mitt Romney select as his running mate?
  WASHINGTON -- The great thing about Iowa is that no matter whom the voters select in their neighborhood huddles, it doesn't really matter. Placing in Iowa might land one a talk show (see Mike Huckabee), but the preferences of a handful of Americans belonging to a committed, ideological subset of a committed, ideological party do not a national trend suggest. The presumptive candidate proceeds apace.

• Twitterverse offers glimpse into Callista Gingrich
  Callista Gingrich has done something she might come to regret -- succumbed to the Twitter fairy and opened the door to unwelcome scrutiny.

• There was just one Hitch: Acerbic wit, precise thought rare
  WASHINGTON -- The Republicans' final debate preceding the Iowa caucuses is suddenly uncompelling. There is nothing to do but write about Christopher Hitchens, whose death has made the world immeasurably less interesting.

• If GOP wants to make Democrats happy, choose Gingrich
  "Anybody but Mitt" has become a familiar mantra throughout the Republican primary campaign. It is also weird and self-defeating.

• Get a scorecard to keep up with GOP race
  Things sure do change fast around here. One week it's Rick Perry, the next it's Herman Cain. Now it's ... Newt Gingrich?

• Most GOP hopefuls should look past campaign for next job
  Another debate, another episode of "The Dating Game." Will the winner be contestant No. One, Two ... Eight?