Star Parker

Star Parker

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  • Freedom is Best Way to Help Low-Income Students

    Freedom is Best Way to Help Low-Income Students

    Senators Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas and Congressman Luke Messer of Indiana have introduced a bill that could produce positive, badly needed change in American K-12 education.

  • Government Housing Is a Bad Idea

    Government Housing Is a Bad Idea

    This past week, following the nation's celebration of the birthday of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the U.S. Supreme Court heard an important case related to landmark law enacted during the civil rights era – the Fair Housing Law of 1968.

  • Show the World That Americans 'Choose Life'

    Show the World That Americans 'Choose Life'

    The message that will arise from the streets of Washington, DC, and the message that has come forth from the streets of Paris, is that the basis of humanity, civilization, and decency is respect for and awe of the miracle of life.

  • Can Obama Take Credit for Economic Recovery, Free Enterprise and Keystone

    Can Obama Take Credit for Economic Recovery, Free Enterprise and Keystone

    Now that the U.S. economy is showing signs of life, President Obama is not wasting a moment to take credit for this recovery.

  • Liberals, Get Off Steve Scalise's Case

    Liberals, Get Off Steve Scalise's Case

    If you want to identify a serious potential leader, someone committed to getting America back on track as a free and prosperous nation under God, just check the intensity of efforts of those on the left to try and destroy the reputation and career of that individual.

  • For 2015: More Morality, Less Politics

    For 2015: More Morality, Less Politics

    At the close of the last century, British conservative historian Paul Johnson wrote A History of the American People.

  • Government Should Get Out of the 'Charity' Business

    Government Should Get Out of the 'Charity' Business

    The story is told that when Tennessee frontiersman Davy Crockett served in the US Congress he voted for a bill appropriating $20,000 for relief for victims of a fire that broke out in Georgetown.

  • EEOC Has Become the Problem, Not the Solution

    EEOC Has Become the Problem, Not the Solution

    And there's no better example of today's distortions of what government is supposed to be about than the EEOC – The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

  • Conservative Reforms Needed to Prevent More Ferguson's

    Conservative Reforms Needed to Prevent More Ferguson's

    Pain is part of life as is, hopefully, joy. As we read in the book of Ecclesiastes, there is "a time to cry and a time to laugh."

  • Obamagration and Our Disdainful President

    Obamagration and Our Disdainful President

    The executive order, which President Obama has issued, granting amnesty to millions of individuals now residing illegally in our country, should make clear the profound disregard our president has for American voters, our constitution, and our two-party system.