Star Parker

Star Parker

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  • Obama's Moral Leadership Problem

    Obama's Moral Leadership Problem

    Whether we are talking about respect of one nation for another, or respect of one individual for another, nothing undermines respect more than duplicity – saying one thing and acting differently.

  • Free Markets Plus Individual Virtue Will Produce Greater Prosperity

    Free Markets Plus Individual Virtue Will Produce Greater Prosperity

    An important new book has recently been published which addresses the question of global poverty, but does so by provoking the reader to also consider our own nation and demand that we better understand ourselves and the wellsprings of our own success

  • Building Black Wealth Will Require Policy Changes

    Building Black Wealth Will Require Policy Changes

    One potential benefit that can come from last week's March on Washington 2013, which commemorated the 1963 civil rights event, is the various data publicized about the current state of affairs of black America vis a vis the rest of the country.

  • March on Washington 2013; Just More Liberal Noise

    March on Washington 2013; Just More Liberal Noise

    Looking over the program for the coming festivities in Washington to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march on Washington, and Dr. King's famous August 28, 1963 "I have a dream" speech, it's hard to not feel sober about the whole thing.

  • Black Pastors, Not Homosexuals, Must Reclaim Civil Rights Movement in America

    Black Pastors, Not Homosexuals, Must Reclaim Civil Rights Movement in America

    The purging of Grammy Award winner Donnie McClurkin from performing at a concert commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech should serve as yet another wakeup call to black Christians in America.

  • Tea Party Senators Right When It Comes To Obamacare Strategy

    Tea Party Senators Right When It Comes To Obamacare Strategy

    Mainstream Republican politicians are cringing at the proposal of tea party Senators – Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), Marco Rubio (R-FL) – that upcoming legislation to appropriate funds for operation of the federal government be held hostage on condition that Obamacare funding is withheld.

  • GOP Must Push for Ban on Late-Term Abortions

    GOP Must Push for Ban on Late-Term Abortions

    In a poll done by Gallup earlier this year, the biggest complaint lodged against the Republican Party was "inability to compromise," specially on the abortion issue.

  • Obama Should Restore 'Capitalism' to America

    Obama Should Restore 'Capitalism' to America

    Barack Obama went to Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois this past week to re-articulate his vision for the American economy and to re-assure the American people that, yes, he knows what he is doing.

  • Decision to Block Wal-Mart Hurts Poor in DC

    Decision to Block Wal-Mart Hurts Poor in DC

    Why, when there is no question that nothing has created more wealth and eradicated more poverty than capitalism, do left wing politicians hate it so much?

  • GOP Should Run Louisiana State Senator against Landrieu for US Senate Seat

    GOP Should Run Louisiana State Senator against Landrieu for US Senate Seat

    Amidst the dense fog and hot air blowing around concerning what the Republican Party should be about, which is really just a sub-heading of the bigger issue regarding what America should be about, a new voice of clarity has emerged.