May 19, 2013 | 03:13 PM

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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: 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...

Star Parker: More Republican governors drink Medicaid Kool-Aid

Star Parker

Updated: Fri, Mar 1, 2013

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has become the eighth Republican governor to agree to expand Medicaid coverage in his state under the provisions of Obamacare. Is the last line of Republican resistance to Obamacare disintegrating? In 2011, 26 states joined a lawsuit challenging the...

Star Parker: Preserve gun rights, save black lives

Star Parker

Published: Sat, Feb 23, 2013

On Friday, my organization, CURE, sponsored a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington to bring attention to the importance of rigorously defending the right of all Americans, guaranteed under the Second Amendment of our Constitution, to own a gun. Our event provided a forum...