Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition for Urban Renewal & Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty. Before involvement in social activism, Star Parker had seven years of first-hand experience in the grip of welfare dependency. Now, as a social policy consultant, Star is bringing new energy to policy discussions on traditional mores, limited government and private ownership. She provides regular testimony before the US Congress, and is a sought after expert for radio, television, and print, nationwide. Star has a BS degree in Marketing and Business from Woodbury University and has received numerous awards and commendations for her work. She has lectured on poverty issues at more than 180 colleges and universities and has served on advisory boards for several organizations ranging from Carenet to the Cato Institute. Star Parker's personal transformation from welfare dependent to conservative crusader has been chronicled by ABC's 20/20; Rush Limbaugh; Readers Digest; Dr. James Dobson; The 700 Club; Dr. George Grant; Christianity Today; Rev. James Robison; Newsmax, Charisma, and World Magazine. Other major accomplishments include speaking at the 1996 Republican National Convention, and coproducing and hosting a documentary on affirmative action with the BBC in London. She has debated Jesse Jackson on various headline issues; she fought for school choice on Larry King Live; she defended welfare reform on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and she debated healthcare reform against Michael Moore on ABC's The View with host Barbara Walters. Currently, Star is a regular commentator on CNN, TBN, CNBC, CBN, and FOX News. Articles and quotes by Star continuously appear in major publications around the world. She has written three books. "Pimps, Whores & Welfare Brats", "Uncle Sam's Plantation", and "White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner CityDecay." Today, in addition to heading CURE, Star is a syndicated columnist for Scripps News Service, offering weekly op-eds to more than 300 newspapers worldwide, including the Boston Herald, the Dallas Morning News, the Orange County Register, the Korean Times, the Washington Times, and the Star and Stripes, the largest paper serving the men and women of our Armed Forces. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Christmas 2009 and our nation is still at war. Afghanistan? Iraq? Yes, of course, brave young Americans are in those far off lands defending our country. God bless them. But the war's front is here at home. The war... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/12/28/the_real_war_front_is_at_home 90a056ad-c712-4bc5-b9fa-70f159ee010a Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT When, earlier this year, the new Obama administration set health care reform into motion, word was that they carefully studied the tactical failures of Hillarycare, with resolution to avoid the same... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/12/21/dean_is_right_kill_the_bill! 033753dc-4d33-42dc-903d-69a4000448a7 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Americans, not surprisingly, are feeling cynical. Gallup's just released Honesty and Ethics of Professions poll shows that for the first time, a majority -- 55 percent -- rate members of the U.S. House of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/12/14/a_time_of_universal_deceit fedc4f0a-de48-4951-b1fd-436c2ebdedd9 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:52:49 GMT The Baltimore City Council has passed a bill requiring crisis pregnancy centers to post signs saying they do not "provide or make referrals for abortion or birth-control services." Now it awaits the mayor's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/12/07/will_baltimore_succumb_to_culture_of_death 61216e81-f760-4087-93c7-b29c0a2f120e Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:51:29 GMT "The Blind Side" is a beautiful new film based on a magnificent and heartwarming true story. But I hope that the many who see it do not simply walk out all aglow. It should also produce concern. This story about... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/11/30/the_blind_side_should_trouble_as_well_as_inspire 1ce23adb-e58b-468c-acab-fa6a0c56a62e Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:00:33 GMT At a time when our country is sick, it shouldn't surprise that one our sickest places is our nation's capital. The poverty rate of Washington, DC, almost 20 percent, is one of the highest in the nation. Its child... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/11/23/sodom_in_the_nations_capital 1074dcef-334d-4bf6-b53e-2e8f4025ab55 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00:39 GMT Contrary to a popular fallacy that science and religion are at odds with each other, it's quite the opposite. Science and religion are the best of friends. And like good friends, they complement each other and produce... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/11/16/abortion,_health_care,_and_socialism f37ba8f3-b014-45f2-93cb-747c9336a866 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:36 GMT Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and the New York Yankees can look back on a good week. Maybe Steele deserves extra credit. No one was writing obituaries a year ago for the Yankees as was the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/11/09/challenges_for_a_republican_renaissance 8acd848d-8089-4435-ae71-096ecfd8d9d0 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:00:23 GMT President Barack Obama has signed into law the Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Actually, he signed into law the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act tacked onto which was the hate crimes legislation. Sen. Harry Reid,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/11/02/new_hate_crimes_law_is_a_mistake caa02499-4a77-49ee-a703-e5a2fd4983ba Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:09 GMT Nobel prize winning economist F.A.Hayek called socialism "the fatal conceit." Why conceit? Because socialism's basic premise, according to Hayek, is that "man is able to shape the world around him according to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/10/26/the_health_care_fatal_conceit 2ce83763-5179-4c0c-b51e-727e6708b134 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:32:42 GMT DeMaurice Smith, NFL Players Association chief, urged the league to nix Rush Limbaugh's participation in a consortium to buy the St Louis Rams. Buying Al Sharpton's hype that Limbaugh is a racist, Smith whined that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/10/19/al_sharpton,_todays_orval_faubus 4390b0a6-7e3b-4dad-8555-6e665232dac2 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:00:10 GMT The latest installment of "change we can believe in" is sweeping reform of the financial services industry. Central to proposed Democrat reforms is the establishment of a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency. This... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/10/12/consumers_need_protection_--_from_government 84a9528d-028d-49ab-a374-5ca57252f48d Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT The ACORN scandal shows that if Congress wants to act, it can. Within weeks of Fox airing videos of a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute being advised by ACORN "community organizers" on how to evade taxes and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/10/05/outrage_over_acorn,_but_not_abortion d7c0b21c-a7a3-4c34-9695-c6acf8d7508f Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:22:49 GMT In an interview with Newsmax, former president Bill Clinton offered good advice to Republicans. He said Republicans need to shake off the "party of no" image and get positive. Clinton raised the Republican's 1994... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/09/28/huckabee_shows_republicans_the_way bfec7cc8-e246-4188-82d9-ffed6667bb72 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:00:53 GMT The Democrats have lost the health care debate. For months now, polls have been showing that Americans don't want the massive new government controls, regulations, taxes, and spending that Democrats are... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/09/21/why_were_talking_about_race_-_again 65fc846e-3e27-4d1a-8983-1c06a3eceef7 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:00:22 GMT