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Kathryn Jean Lopez, (born March 22, probably 1963), a native of Manhattan, is an American conservative columnist, who is nationally syndicated by the United Feature Syndicate/Newspaper Enterprise Association. She is also the editor of National Review Online.
Her nickname on the National Review Online blog "The Corner", where she is the most prolific, and sometimes for long lonely stretches the only, poster, is "K-Lo", a wordplay comparing her name to the actress and singer Jennifer Lopez ("J-Lo") (but not to be confused with the other "K-Lo", singer Kimberley Locke).
Lopez graduated from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where she studied philosophy and politics. Before joining National Review in New York, she worked at the Heritage Foundation on Capitol Hill. Besides National Review and NRO, her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, The Women's Quarterly, Penthouse Forum, The National Catholic Register, Our Sunday Visitor, American Outlook, New York Press, and The Human Life Review, among other publications.
Lopez writes often on abortion and bioethics, religion, feminism, education, politics, and on the lighter side, her love for the band Duran Duran and the Mike Delfino character on Desperate Housewives, among other topics. Of NRO's writers, she tends to be the greatest defender of "culture of life" issues from a Catholic perspective, and argues for adherence to traditional Catholic dogmas, such as Natural Family Planning non-artificial birth control. She also advocates conservative leadership within the Church, and was a supporter of the election of Pope Benedict XVI. She opposes Star Trek, not only because it leads to juvenile digressions on The Corner, but because (at least in the original series) it posits a future without religion.
On the U.S. domestic political front, she was a strong supporter of President George W. Bush's reelection bid in the 2004 Presidential election campaign. When early exit polls (erroneously) showed Bush losing, she relayed more accurate information from Bush campaign insiders. Afterwards, she supported preventing Arlen Specter from replacing Orrin Hatch as head of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary during the period between the 2004 elections and the beginning of the new Senate term in January of 2005. Later in 2005, Lopez attacked the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers. She is a strong opponent of informal gender quotas, and was unhappy that President Bush seemingly felt compelled to replace a woman on the Supreme Court with another woman. She felt much better when Samuel Alito was nominated to replace the fallen Miers, and evinced hope that Ruth Bader Ginsburg would retire from the Court sooner rather than later.
Lopez has appeared on CNN, C-SPAN, the Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and Oxygen and is a frequent guest on radio and TV shows, including Hugh Hewitt's nationally syndicated program and Vatican Radio.