Star Parker

Speaking a couple years ago about technology and education, Apple CEO and founder Steve Jobs said that technology wouldn’t matter as long as you can’t fire teachers. “I believe that what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way,” he said. Jobs likened schools to running a small business that he said could never succeed if you can’t hire and fire. Reasonable? I think so. Read more »

When Barack Obama was sworn in as president, he chose the bible that Abraham Lincoln used on which to take the oath of office. A little over a year later, as President Obama strong arms House and Senate Democrats to pass a health care bill that will nationalize 17 percent of our economic lives — a bill that many Americans don’t want — we ought to recall Lincoln’s famous words at Gettysburg. Read more »

The current Obama administration budget projects a doubling of our national debt to $18.5 trillion by 2020, or about 100 percent of our GDP. Harvard economist Martin Feldstein estimates interest alone will cost $800 billion a year. It’s time to stop lying to ourselves. We’re losing our freedom and our nation. We need to slam on the brakes before it’s too late. Read more »

Poor folks don’t need socialism or green jobs. They need green money. They’ll get more of it being free, going to school, getting married and going to work. Read more »

It’s now over 40 years since the Civil Right movement — enough wandering in the wilderness. It’s time for a new generation of black Americans to step forward. A generation to turn to the truths that will rebuild black lives, black families, and lead blacks to the freedom that Dr. King and all blacks have dreamed about. Read more »

Paul Ryan’s retirement proposal is a bi-partisan reform opportunity where Barack Obama can truly make history. Wealth doesn’t come from income. It comes from ownership. Investing in personal retirement accounts, rather than paying Social Security taxes, would be a boon for America’s black community. Read more »

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said recently, “Our K-12 agenda can be summed up in one word: reform.” If only it were true. But what Duncan calls reform is indeed putting lipstick on a pig. In this case, the pig is Washington’s never changing formula for solving everything: spending ever-increasing sums of taxpayer’s money. Read more »

Why are pro-abortion groups so up in arms about the Tim Tebow ad that CBS will run during the Super Bowl? First, the enabler of human brutality is de-humanization. The second aspect of the Tebow ad that scares abortionists is that it shows that love arises from personal responsibility. Read more »

Independent voters, who were key to electing Barack Obama, are now falling out of love with him. But, I ask, what were you folks thinking a year ago? Current polling shows that less than one in three Americans feel the country is on the right track. It’s time to get back on the path of freedom. Read more »

Dr. Jane Orient, Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, wrote about recent health care legislation: “The bills passed by the House and the Senate eliminate a vast array of choices that many Americans prefer, such as low-cost insurance. But the most precious choice they destroy is the right to choose life: the right to choose not to support abortion in any way. Not financially, with taxes or premiums. And not by providing hands, facilities, referrals, prescriptions, or permission to perform or enable this “procedure.” Read more »

National security is a job of government. Designing health insurance policies and forcing private citizens to buy them, running car companies, bailing out banks, and subsidizing homeowners who can’t pay their mortgages, is not. America’s unique success comes from freedom and limited government. Government’s responsibilities are laid out clearly in our constitution, which we choose to ignore. Read more »

The botched terrorist effort on Christmas was a gift to the 300 innocent passengers on that plane and a gift to America. But it was also a potential political gift to Obama, and the right move now is finding and installing a qualified Homeland Security secretary. Read more »

Christmas 2009 and our nation is still at war. Afghanistan? Iraq? Yes, of course. But the war’s front is here at home. The war we are having with ourselves. Read more »

When, earlier this year, the new Obama administration set health care reform into motion, word was that they carefully studied the tactical failures of Hillarycare, with resolution to avoid the same mistakes. Ironically, but not surprisingly, they have repeated them all. Read more »

Our national history began by asserting “self evident truths.” Now we have a president who, in his interpretation of our constitutional history, writes: “Implicit in its structure, in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth …” It must have been times like this that George Orwell had in mind when he wrote: “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” Read more »

The Baltimore City Council has passed a bill requiring crisis pregnancy centers to post signs saying they do not “provide or make referrals for abortion or birth-control services.” Now it awaits the mayor’s signature. What’s driving it? Three things. Read more »

“The Blind Side” is a beautiful new film based on a magnificent and heartwarming true story. But I hope that the many who see it do not simply walk out all aglow. It should also produce concern. This story about hopelessness transformed into achievement should be a typically American story–but is increasingly NOT the case. Read more »

Amidst the dismal picture of life in our nation’s capital, the DC City Council, perhaps on the theory that serving up another glass of wine is the way to help a drunk, is scheduled to vote on December 1 to legalize same sex marriage in America’s capital city. It should concern every American as we watch our nation’s capital city transform officially into Sodom. Read more »

We won’t get health care right if we think we can do it without thinking about life itself. Science is our tool, not our master. As we sit at the brink of health care socialism, it’s a good time to recall Jefferson’s words that “God who gave us life gave us liberty.” Read more »

Taking on two big challenges — connecting free market capitalism with traditional values, and outreach to non-white America — will secure a Republican and an American renaissance. Read more »

We already have a source, which instructs against murder and to love your neighbor as yourself. But this has been banned from our schools and our public spaces. So once again, in what is becoming our Godless nation, we mistake the disease for the cure. Read more »