Star Parker is founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy tofight poverty, as well as author of the newly revised Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can do About It. 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 co-producing 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 City Decay." 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) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 20 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Mon, 20 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ With the convictions in the case against abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell - three counts of murdering live babies and one count of involuntary manslaughter - abortion is back in the national discussion. It's pretty... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2013/05/20/the-abortion-alternative-n1599492 4c882db9-93de-4b77-a3d1-8c6301b12736 Mon, 20 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Put me down as happy to see former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford coming back to Washington. He handily defeated Elizabeth Colbert Busch in Tuesday's special election for a House seat he himself once held. I hope he http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2013/05/13/mark-sanford-welcome-back-to-washington-n1592865 7b179074-0ef9-4df8-ab88-5a8b831fe884 Mon, 13 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT In 1854, Abraham Lincoln confronted America's first "pro-choice" Senator, Stephen Douglas, in a speech in Peoria, Illinois. "Choice" then was about slavery, not abortion. Douglas sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2013/05/06/planned-parenthood-targets-black-women-n1586364 9028688f-d722-4e79-8efe-50226530fd3c Mon, 06 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT 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. It's exactly what the pro-abortion... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2013/04/29/how-abortion-has-changed-america-n1579604 d6816af3-6dea-4a89-bf66-2bc533e3d44a Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT Kirsten Powers has done 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. This of course, is the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2013/04/22/gosnell-is-not-an-exception-n1572913 576a90b6-2be7-4698-9021-55c58acff798 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2013/04/15/the-predictable-liberal-assault-on-ben-carson-n1565958 6621f88f-d989-4d15-8ff6-dce6dbcc4ecb Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2013/04/08/reject-gang-of-8-immigration-reform-deal-n1559037 f8d729b9-65b3-46fd-9708-0585b0b8bd0e Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2013/04/01/a-new-birth-of-education-freedom-n1552794 7e2d9bb4-6bce-4f3f-98aa-b133b4260324 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT 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. Detroit is the largest... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2013/03/25/urban-problem-bigger-than-detroit-n1546106 269094f7-7759-46ff-9676-30ecedba6c61 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT 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 Governor Mike Huck http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2013/03/18/what-i-saw-in-israel-n1535372 f7e39d2a-aac7-4b65-9240-adb7b85f5135 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT 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.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2013/03/11/background-checks-wont-make-us-safer-n1528950 49b3575e-3e99-4a73-afc7-f459dd60a2da Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT 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. Is the last line of Republican resistance to Obamacare... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2013/03/04/more-republican-governors-drink-medicaid-koolaid-n1523626 c546d42b-6a35-45ea-945f-95a954355608 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:01:00 GMT 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... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2013/02/25/preserve-gun-rights-save-black-lives-n1518116 e5fbe812-ccd9-4d2a-bf46-16276ddfde32 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT According to Cal Thomas, well-known nationally syndicated columnist, Dr. Ben Carson owes President Obama an apology. Carson spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC this past week - a bi-partisan... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2013/02/18/ben-carson-owes-no-apologies-n1513343 2beba983-3e29-49c8-a9ed-f8c687aa8d1c Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT