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Star Parker

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Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a 501(c)(3) non-profit think tank which promotes market based public policy to fight poverty.

Star Parker: Welcome back to Washington, Mark Sanford

Star Parker

Published: Sat, May 11, 2013

Put me down as happy to see former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford coming back to Washington. He just handily defeated Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a special election for a House seat he himself once held. I hope he brings his piglets with him. While governor, Sanford once showed up at the...

Star Parker: Planned Parenthood targets black women

Star Parker

Published: Sat, May 4, 2013

In 1854, Abraham Lincoln confronted America's first "pro-choice" senator, Stephen Douglas, in a speech in Peoria, Ill. "Choice" then was about slavery, not abortion. Douglas sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which addressed the sticky question of how to deal with legality of slavery in new...

Star Parker: How abortion has changed America

Star Parker

Published: Sat, Apr 27, 2013

Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell's trial, in which he faces the death penalty for the deaths of four infants and one woman in his clinic, is over. America has moved on. It's exactly what the pro-abortion contingent wants. They want Gosnell out of the news because they want abortion...

Star Parker: Kermit Gosnell is not an exception

Star Parker

Published: Sat, Apr 20, 2013

Kirsten Powers has done a national service, by virtue of her now-famous USA Today column, of putting the news of the trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell on the national radar screen. This, of course, is the horror story of a cesspool in Philadelphia posturing as an abortion clinic,...

The predictable liberal assault on Ben Carson

Star Parker

Published: Sat, Apr 13, 2013

Dr. Ben Carson stepped into the national spotlight recently when, as speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast, to an audience that included President Obama, he was openly critical of the president's approach to health care and his overall management of the nation's economy. Carson, who is...

Star Parker: Gang of Eight immigration deal is wrong reform

Star Parker

Published: Sat, Apr 6, 2013

A bipartisan group of senators known as the Gang of Eight has put together a framework for the immigration reform for which America is supposedly waiting. Provisions of the agreement have been widely leaked, and, from what I see, these senators should return to the drawing board. If we are...

Star Parker: A new birth of education freedom

Star Parker

Published: Sat, Mar 30, 2013

As the nation has focused on the Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, news from the state of Indiana could prove far more important regarding the nation's future. The Indiana Supreme Court has just ruled unanimously, 5-0, that Indiana's school voucher program,...

Star Parker: Urban problem bigger than Detroit

Star Parker

Published: Sat, Mar 23, 2013

We are now hearing the usual voices of protest in Detroit in the wake of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder appointing an outside expert to take over financial management of the near-bankrupt city. Detroit is the largest city in American history to be seized in this fashion and turned over to an...

Star Parker: What I saw in Israel

Star Parker

Published: Sat, Mar 16, 2013

As President Obama prepares for his first trip to Israel, I hope when he gets there he sees what I saw. Several weeks ago, I returned from my first trip to Israel. I went with a delegation headed by former Gov. Mike Huckabee, who visits Israel at least once every year. What did I see? I saw...

Star Parker: Background checks won't make us safer

Star Parker

Published: Sat, Mar 9, 2013

In April 2007, a mentally disturbed student showed up at the campus of his school, Virginia Tech, brandishing two semi-automatic pistols. He murdered 32 students, teachers and school employees and wounded 17 others before taking his own life. It was the one of deadliest mass shooting incidents...