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) 2012 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 21 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Mon, 21 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Perhaps history will show that the first black president's biggest contribution to black America was forcing this community to come to terms with its own identity and priorities. By formalizing his support of same... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2012/05/21/blacks_and_same_sex_marriage 2c587276-2186-4af5-aac2-b53db6d61c9f Mon, 21 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT President Obama now commands center stage following his formal announcement that, yes, he supports same sex marriage. But for perspective on how we got to this point, we should shift our sights to three days before... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2012/05/14/free_our_kids_from_arne_duncan 6675867d-35c4-46a3-8505-f2af2403cac0 Mon, 14 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Rep. Paul Ryan, (R-Wis), chairman of the House budget committee, provoked some angry push back when he claimed that not only is his proposed sweeping revamp of the US budget fiscally sound but also morally sound. In... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2012/05/07/paul_ryans_budget_is_a_moral_budget cde5b083-9cbd-425e-a949-8d3fb6abfc4e Mon, 07 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Media personality Tavis Smiley and Princeton philosophy professor Cornell West have just published their latest contribution to American poverty propaganda, "The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto." The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2012/04/30/how_to_keep_the_poor_poor 8e7098e3-34a8-4e80-9682-e96df306a533 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Spokespersons and pundits stick their foot in it all the time. But rarely do we see public relations heavy artillery brought out to do damage control to the extent provoked by Hilary Rosen's recent remark that Ann... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2012/04/23/obamas_real_hilary_rosen_problem 1914d842-4dce-4f36-980f-d3ac711cf8ac Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT You have got to give credit where credit is due. President Barack Obama has laid out the core message of his re-election campaign. It is a message whose claims are blatantly false and whose point is irrelevant to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2012/04/16/obama_makes_foul_call_for_economic_fairness d7fc406b-f25b-4d99-97d4-126fdaeea98b Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT You have got to give credit where credit is due. President Obama has laid out the core message of his reelection campaign. It is a message whose claims are blatantly false and whose point is irrelevant to what... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2012/04/13/obamas_message_has_nothing_to_do_with_fairness_or_recovery 0d0577ee-dca9-4615-996d-c5d10d61abfb Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT National Journal's Ron Brownstein provided an eye opening reminder in a column last week about the impact of changing ethnic demographics on America's political landscape. The flashing red light of Brownstein's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2012/04/09/republican_challenge_with_blacks_and_hispanics 7bc3bef8-0851-4737-a1b6-62a7683b02bc Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT What are the ramifications if the Supreme Court finds the individual mandate provision of Obamacare unconstitutional? This is the provision that requires individuals to purchase government defined health insurance or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2012/04/02/government_is_the_problem a04368f4-eca0-4891-9738-36bfae66fe5a Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT As the Supreme Court starts its three day marathon to hear arguments on the constitutionality of Obamacare, let's be clear about their challenge, and ours. The challenge before the Court, a challenge it has often not... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2012/03/26/obamacare_undermines_americas_founding_principles f0f59fa2-e5b2-4f8b-b3a7-385fc5c65c68 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT Mitt Romney told Fox News after Rick Santorum's victories in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries, "We're not going to go to a brokered convention." But those who put their money where their mouth is, buying... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2012/03/19/republican_race_just_getting_started 7824507e-c76f-4fa0-91f7-6334d616cf8d Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT In 1993, then Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan published a paper in which he coined the phrase "defining deviancy down." He was ringing an alarm about what he saw as a dangerous social unraveling as result of our... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2012/03/12/defining_deviancy_down c0463310-a460-4c75-a7aa-001840827743 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT If you think about it, Andrew Breitbart's untimely passing from this life, at the age of 43, might be seen as the ultimate message that this man of media could deliver. Bretibart famously used his media talent,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2012/03/05/breitbarts_final_message_to_the_left 4d4a1704-6e77-4dab-88b4-991f8d26cdb3 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT New Gallup polling shows the clearest picture yet of the great divide in the Republican Party that has been pushing Rick Santorum to the head of the class. Behind Santorum's eight point national lead over Romney is a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2012/02/27/despite_attacks_conservative_support_for_santorum_will_grow 83e7ad90-958e-4603-981c-f304316b321b Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT A succession of high profile left wing decisions and initiatives of recent weeks drive home the extent to which the left is changing the face of America. Notable among these are the decision of a federal appeals... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2012/02/20/the_left_fuels_santorum_surge 14f0103a-8106-422f-85da-188fd61a8add Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT