Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education, a 501c3 non-profit organization that provides national dialogue on issues of race and poverty in the media, inner city neighborhoods, and public policy. She also writes a nationally syndicated column through the Scripps Howard News Service. Prior to her involvement in social activism, Star Parker was a single welfare mother in Los Angeles, California. After receiving Christ, Star returned to college, received a BS degree in marketing, and launched an urban Christian magazine. The 1992 Los Angeles riots destroyed her business, yet served as a springboard for her focus on faith-based and free market alternatives to empower the lives of the poor. As a social policy consultant, Star Parker gives regular testimony before the U.S. Congress, and is a national expert on major television and radio shows across the country. Currently, Star is a regular commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News. She debated Jesse Jackson on BET; fought for school choice on Larry King Live; and defended welfare reform on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Nationwide, Star shares her story and policy suggestions through college and church lectures, community outreaches, and empowerment conferences for inner city pastors. She has hosted radio talk shows in Christian and secular markets, and currently is a regular guest editorialist for USA Today. Major accomplishments include speaking at the 1996 Republican National Convention and co-producing a documentary on welfare reform with the BBC in London. Star Parker's personal transformation from welfare fraud to conservative crusader has been chronicled by ABC's 20/20; Rush Limbaugh; Readers Digest; Dr. James Dobson; The 700 Club; Dr. George Grant; the Washington Times; Christianity Today; Charisma, and World Magazine.Articles and quotes by Star have appeared in major publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. Her autobiography Pimps, Whores & Welfare Brats was released in 1997 by Pocket Books, and Uncle Sam's Plantation was released by Thomas Nelson in the fall of 2003. Star resides in Southern California. 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) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:27:51 GMT Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:27:51 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ A number of years ago, John McCain did a hilarious segment on "Saturday Night Live" in which he did a spoof commercial for an album called "McCain Sings Streisand." The "commercial" featured a crooning McCain... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/08/17/pastor_warrens_politicized_pulpit_a_mistake 0e635421-9c58-4cf1-bd2c-ea8d36283734 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:27:51 GMT A feature story in this week's New York Times Magazine asks, "Is Obama the End of Black Politics?" This in the wake of a full week of TV talking heads asking if presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/08/11/black_politics_you_mean_liberal_politics 1755e78c-7c15-4472-964e-b91917a0f79b Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:00:33 GMT A key feature of the housing bill that President Bush just signed into law was the federal bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These are the two taxpayer backed "Government Sponsored Enterprises" that own or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/08/04/mortgaging_our_childrens_future 8a2d40dc-7aa5-440f-a494-05df6cf5c861 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:00:37 GMT The headline on the website of German magazine Der Spiegel about Barack Obama's speech in Berlin: "Huge Crowds Left with Mixed Feelings." Two hundred thousand turned out for the speech, but CNN's Candy Crowley... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/07/28/kumbaya_falls_flat_in_berlin 6024e2ad-c55a-4d6d-a87d-ea29970e3c30 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:00:57 GMT For the first time since the "don't ask, don't tell" law was enacted in 1993 by President Clinton, the House Armed Services Committee has scheduled hearings to review it. The law disqualifies gays from serving in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/07/21/gays_in_the_military_what_would_george_washington_think 596ce8e6-b849-49cb-a006-478fe103017b Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:00:50 GMT Are we undergoing some kind of sea change of attitudes in America today? Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne reflects such sentiment -- perhaps I should say wishful thinking -- by those on the left that indeed we... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/07/14/change_we_should_worry_about 60043dfd-1362-45fe-aaba-599d058a0eca Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:56 GMT John McCain is trailing Barack Obama by 30 percentage points in support from Hispanic voters, according to this week's polling from Gallup. Even among Hispanics that self-identify as conservatives, McCain and Obama are... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/07/07/remind_hispanics_that_its_about_freedom 10dd04a3-cbfe-415c-9fa0-4118538594ab Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:00:45 GMT The message of my last book, "White Ghetto", is that the social chaos in inner city black communities is symptomatic of the cultural pathology gripping the nation as a whole. Inner city black American life is a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/06/30/planned_parenthood_and_the_marketing_of_meaninglessness 1b87cb0a-27ed-416f-a9aa-1475341b941e Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:51 GMT Energy is too important to be left to businessmen and markets, right? We need people who we really can trust to get things under control. Like politicians. I'm looking at Carpe Diem, the blog of Dr Mark J. Perry,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/06/23/drive_energy_policy_by_markets,_not_politics d25f86bb-8939-4113-a806-64015eae4a92 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:00:32 GMT For conservatives and Republicans who are wondering what in the world happened to their party, we should recall June 12, 1987. That day, 21 years ago, President Ronald Reagan stood before the wall dividing East and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/06/16/on_reagans_berlin_wall_speech_anniversary_message_for_todays_gop 2b9b89f9-702f-4e97-b9a8-a3210531975a Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:00:11 GMT The words we're hearing most during this presidential campaign are "historic" and "change." But what I see is "paradox." Take our new Democratic Party nominee, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. This is a man, to be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/06/09/paradoxical_presidential_politics 52eab5bd-e138-47be-8fa7-01599e3344c3 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:00:29 GMT Americans are hearing so much these days about how bad we are that we're starting to believe it. In a recent Gallup poll, 68 percent said they are "dissatisfied with the position of the United States in the world... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/06/02/americas_generosity_is_unmatched 9cc3fc23-b0d9-4d0c-9d68-23a3d296e111 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:00:54 GMT John McCain wants Americans to elect him to provide tough leadership in a dangerous world. But when it just takes some mud slung from a few left-wing websites to drive him under a rock, you have to wonder. I'm... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/05/26/mccains_pastor_problem 31b67659-bee4-4ea9-9c13-4de12495e520 Mon, 26 May 2008 04:00:35 GMT California's Supreme Court has made its contribution to the ongoing debasement of our law, our language, and our culture by legalizing same-sex marriage. California now has law in the tradition of Groucho Marx who... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/05/19/as_our_universities_go,_so_go_our_courts 3dee93ff-ae12-43b9-9006-c021a3b47169 Mon, 19 May 2008 04:00:43 GMT It appears that Barack Obama has survived a tough couple of weeks. In the words of some, he's shown that "he can take a punch." But, frankly, I think Senator Obama is still getting kid gloves treatment from a press... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2008/05/12/is_obama_really_the_man_blacks_need 6de65546-a45a-4b5f-94d6-575ca0d1a3d2 Mon, 12 May 2008 04:00:10 GMT