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Star Parker
Examiner columnist Star Parker is an author, and president of CURE, the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education (www.urbancure.org). She is syndicated nationally by Scripps Howard News Service.
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Star Parker: Abortion and health care
Published: Nov 16, 2009
Contrary to a popular fallacy that science and religion are at odds with each other, it's quite the opposite.
Science and religion are the best of friends. And like good friends, they complement each other and produce beautiful music together.
Take the recent incident of the young woman in Bryan, Texas -- the director of the Planned Parenthood abortion mill down there -- who had a change of heart and quit her job when she saw, for the first time, an unborn child on an ultrasound screen.
As Abby Johnson related her story to Bill O'Reilly: "What I saw on the screen was a 13-week baby fighting for its life."
She walked out the door, went down the road and joined a local pro-life...
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Star Parker: Star Parker: Challenges for a Republican renaissance
Published: Nov 09, 2009
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele and the New York Yankees can look back on a good week.Maybe Steele deserves extra credit.
No one was writing obituaries a year ago for the Yankees as was the case for the Republican Party.
Now we have a different picture.Borrowing from the words of Mark Twain, reports of the death of the Republican Party were greatly exaggerated.
The operative question today for Steele and his party, in the wake of winning governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, both Obama states in 2008, is "Now what?"
Will voter discontent that led to these Republican victories be parlayed into a genuine Republican renaissance?
As independent voters move...
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Star Parker: A fatal conceit in health care debate
Published: Oct 26, 2009
Nobel Prize-winning economist F.A. Hayek called socialism "the fatal conceit."
Why conceit? Because socialism's basic premise, according to Hayek, is that "man is able to shape the world around him according to his wishes."
Why fatal? Because, like all falsehoods and misconceptions, it leads to failure and sometimes disaster.
Although the socialist label is being thrown around a lot now, we must recognize this isn't new. This conceit has been inflating in American hearts and minds for years, with the inexorable growth of government and the ongoing change in American attitudes about what government is about.
If there is anything new today, it's the extent to which we're taking...
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Star Parker: Al Sharpton is today's Orval Faubus
Published: Oct 19, 2009
DeMaurice Smith, NFL Players Association chief, urged the league to nix Rush Limbaugh's participation in a consortium to buy the St. Louis Rams.
Buying Al Sharpton's hype that Limbaugh is a racist, Smith whined that football was at its best "when it overcomes division and rejects discrimination and hatred."
But who are the discriminators and haters here?
Sharpton blocked Limbaugh like Gov. Orval Faubus tried to block black children from entering Central High in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957.
Limbaugh can't make an investment because some don't like him? Based on something he did? No, based on whom they allege he is.
Once, blacks could not live as equals in America because of...
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Star Parker: Outrage on ACORN but not abortion
Published: Oct 05, 2009
Proof that Congress can act quickly if it wants to is seen in the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now scandal.
Within weeks of Fox airing videos of a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute being advised by ACORN "community organizers" on how to evade taxes and set up a prostitution ring, our stalwart Washington legislators voted to cut off federal funds to the organization.
But similar publicized abuses at Planned Parenthood -- workers agreeing to cover up rape, workers agreeing to earmark funds to abort black babies -- all captured on video and audio -- produced no similar action in Washington to cut off funds.
Why?
Of course, the scope of taxpayer funding to...
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Star Parker: Obama buyer's remorse begins among blacks
Published: Sep 14, 2009
Americans of all political persuasions agree that the nation has problems. Big problems.
And here's where we all part company. The political Left, which now controls our government, thinks we need more government - a lot more. Those on the Right see our problems as the result of excess government and want to move things in the opposite direction.
The fact that Democrats, with their man in the White House and control of both houses of Congress, are having difficulty getting their big government programs passed says something about the strength of the grassroots push-back now taking place.
This stirring is even occurring among blacks.
According to the Pew Research Center, the...
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