Star Parker

Star Parker

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  • Abortion Has Changed America

    Abortion Has Changed America

    The trial of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, facing the death penalty for the deaths of four infants and one woman in his clinic, is over. America has moved on.

  • Gosnell Trial Coverage is Not Exception, But the Rule

    Gosnell Trial Coverage is Not Exception, But the Rule

    Kirsten Powers may have performed a national service - by virtue of her now famous USA Today column - of getting the news of the trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell on the national radar screen.

  • Ben Carson Endures the Predictable Liberal Assault

    Ben Carson Endures the Predictable Liberal Assault

    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.

  • 'Gang of Eight' Immigration Reform Should be DOA

    'Gang of Eight' Immigration Reform Should be DOA

    A bi-partisan group of Senators, known as the Gang of 8, have put together a framework for the immigration reform that supposedly America is waiting for. Provisions of the agreement have been widely leaked and, from what I see, these Senators should return to the drawing board.

  • Education Freedom Reborn

    Education Freedom Reborn

    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.

  • Detroit's 'Urban' Problem Offers Solutions for America

    Detroit's 'Urban' Problem Offers Solutions for America

    We are now hearing the usual voices of protest in Detroit in the wake of Michigan governor Rick Snyder appointing an outside expert to take over financial management of the near-bankrupt city.

  • What I Saw in Israel

    What I Saw in Israel

    As President Obama prepares for his first trip to Israel, I hope when he gets there he sees what I saw.

  • Background Checks for Gun Purchases Won't Make Us Safer

    Background Checks for Gun Purchases Won't Make Us Safer

    In April of 2007, a mentally disturbed student showed up at the campus of his school, Virginia Tech, brandishing two semi-automatic pistols, and murdered 32 students, teachers and school employees and wounded 17 others. Then he took his own life.

  • More GOP Governors Drink Medicaid Kool-Aid

    More GOP Governors Drink Medicaid Kool-Aid

    New Jersey governor Chris Christie has become the eighth Republican governor to agree to expand Medicaid coverage in his state under the provisions of Obamacare.

  • Preserve Gun Rights, Save Black Lives

    Preserve Gun Rights, Save Black Lives

    This past 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 2nd Amendment of our Constitution, to own a gun.