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- Election Fairness and President Trump
- Facts and Myths about the Vietnam War - Part 1
- Facts and Myths about the Vietnam War - Part 2
- God Has Detailed Plans
- False Narratives on Russia Drive Expanded War Dangers
- Sharpening the Truth of Amazing Grace
- Victory Coalition Makes Case for Trump-Netanyahu Collaboration to Take Down the I.R.G.C. and Free Iran
- UK Declares ‘War-Fighting Readiness’ in Major Defense Shift Amid Rising Russian Threats (Investigation)
- Is A New Constitutional Convention A Good Idea Or A Dangerous Threat To Our Existing Freedoms?
- Background Briefing on Iran
- Bringing Greenville County Into Compliance with State Law by Removing Illegal Prohibition Signs
- GOP Can Cut Medicaid Costs without Reducing Services by Ending Democratic ‘Money-Laundering’: Experts
Dear Senators, Pass One Big Beautiful Bill
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- By Star Parker
The House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill by a margin of one vote.
Well-deserved kudos have been conveyed to the masterful leadership of Speaker Mike Johnson, who navigated through a minefield to get done what needed to get done.
Now it's up to the Senate.
It's impossible not to think now of the admonition to not let the "perfect be the enemy of the good."
In this massive 1,000-plus-page piece of legislation, there is something to bother everybody.
The 'N' in SNAP Means Nutrition
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- By Star Parker
SNAP, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, is one of the nation's largest welfare programs.
And, like all welfare programs, it is massive, it has grown prodigiously over the years and it is inefficient.
One glaring issue, which is gaining attention as a result of new Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again campaign, is the kinds of foods that recipients of SNAP funds can purchase.
Can't Make Government Efficient
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- By Star Parker
Steve Jobs co-founded Apple when he was 21 years old.
Nine years later, at age 30, he was purged and fired from the company he founded and built by the professional management he helped recruit.
Eleven years later, after that management brought the firm to the edge of bankruptcy, Jobs returned to the helm and saved the company.
In 1997, when Jobs returned as interim CEO, Apple lost $1.04 billion and estimates were that it was 90 days from insolvency.
Education Freedom Meets Religious Freedom
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- By Star Parker
Two important developments in education occurred over the last week. One was a sign of the problem we have. The other was a sign of the solution.
The sign of the problem, to which hopefully the U.S. Supreme Court will provide the correct answer, falls under the headline of sex education.
The court has just heard Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which families from a variety of faiths -- Muslims, Jews, Christians -- are fighting imposition by the Board of Education in Montgomery County, Maryland, requirements that children learn material about gender ideology.
Harvard Still Wants Its DC Sugar Daddy
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- By Star Parker
"No government -- regardless of which party is in power -- should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."
This defiant and bipartisan defense of the purity of education, delivered by Harvard president Alan Garber, sounds fantastic, right? After all, what society that pretends to value objectivity would dare to allow a government to control the educational decisions of private institutions?
Barack Obama -- blessed is he -- agreed, celebrating Harvard as a shining beacon of academic freedom!
Markets Don't Lie
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- By Star Parker
As I watch the turmoil unfolding resulting from the president's new trade and tariff policy, I wonder how, as a commentator, I can avoid writing about this.
But what do I say? What side do I take? Yes, per President Donald Trump, the tariffs are the hard medicine we need to swallow to counter many years of unfair policies of our trading partners.
Or no, free trade is and always has been the best policy, even when things are not perfect and some do not play by the best rules.
Shut Down the Department of Education ASAP
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- By Star Parker
A recent report from the American Enterprise Institute summarizes results from the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress -- also known as the nation's report card.
The test, given every two years, reports scores of our nation's children in reading and math at the fourth grade and eighth grade levels.
AEI characterizes the most recent results as a "five-alarm fire." I call it simply pathetic.
Confirm Mike Huckabee as Ambassador to Israel
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- By Star Parker
Confirmation of President Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has been held up in the Senate. Word now is that hearings will be held next week.
What's holding things up? Pressure from Democrats, of course.
If anyone is qualified to be America's ambassador to Israel, it is Mike Huckabee. As the former two-term governor of Arkansas, where his daughter Sarah is the current governor, former Republican presidential candidate, cable TV celebrity, Baptist minister, and Evangelical Christian, Huckabee is a perfect candidate.
Does Jeff Bezos Really Support Free Markets?
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- By Star Parker
Jeff Bezos is shaking things up at The Washington Post.
The Post has always been part of the big-government, left-wing establishment part of our country.
Bezos wants to change that.
He wrote to the newspaper's staff that editorial policy is going to change.
Elon Musk Should Take on Social Security
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- By Star Parker
If I say that Elon Musk is the smartest, boldest, most creative entrepreneur in the world, I don't think I will get pushback.
President Donald Trump's move to bring him to Washington and put him at the top of a new Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, to do the seemingly impossible -- to streamline a vastly outsized government spending behemoth -- injects hope that yes, maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Musk, the world's richest man, is not beholden to anyone, and so there is little danger of him getting bogged down and imprisoned in the Washington culture of politics and quid pro quo.
Trump's DEI Executive Order -- Good for Blacks, Good for America
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- By Star Parker
An ongoing principle of America's democratic republic is e pluribus unum. Out of many, one.
We honor and respect the uniqueness of every citizen. But we also have a common turf, a common set of transcendent values, that brings us together and we become one nation.
Sometimes, cracks appear. Sometimes, they grow and get larger and deeper. Things get dangerous when the cracks so severely deepen that they threaten to totally sever our common turf and our social cohesion.
MAGA and King's Dream
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- By Star Parker
I have written often that there is a common denominator in our deeply divided nation.
That is the general sense that something is wrong.
The points of departure among our large and diverse population are the perceptions about what the problems are and what must be done.
In this spirit I ask, as many have over recent days, what message we might take from the coincidence of the inauguration day of Donald J. Trump as America's 47th president with the national holiday honoring the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Jimmy Carter and the Unraveling of American Culture
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- By Star Parker
An essay appeared recently in The Wall Street Journal under the headline "What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up?"
Behavior that has always been understood to define what it means to be an adult is disappearing among America's younger generations.
Institutions always seen as the sinews that define and hold together a society -- homeownership, marriage, children -- no longer can be taken for granted.
What's Wrong With the Democratic Party?
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- By Star Parker
Following defeat in the presidential election, Democratic Party leadership is doing much needed soul searching.
Those not in denial know there is something wrong.
Per Gallup, in the 10 months in 2024 prior to the election, January to October, the Democrat partisan advantage -- the percentage identifying as Democrat or lean Democrat minus the percentage identifying as Republican or lean Republican -- was in negative territory 5 of the 10 months. This is more Democrat negatives than in any presidential election year since Gallup started reporting this in 1992.
The International Criminal Court Pretends to Be About Justice
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- By Star Parker
It is proof of the power of our faith that the spirit of Christmas prevails over all the reasons for cynicism.
I'm thinking now of Psalm 40:4 where we read: Fortunate is the man who has puts his trust in God and has not turned to the arrogant and to those who stray after falsehood.
Regarding "the arrogant and those who stray after falsehood," take the case of the International Criminal Court, established in 2002 and located in the Hague, Netherlands.
Did Luigi Mangione Murder Because of 'Emotional Disturbance'?
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- By Star Parker
According to coverage in The Wall Street Journal in the case against Luigi Mangione, suspected of murdering the CEO of UnitedHealthcare outside a Manhattan hotel, potential arguments in his defense will be his "mental state at the time of the killing."
"Two defenses in New York state -- a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity and claiming extreme emotional disturbance -- might be relevant," per the coverage.
Per other reporting, in a note handwritten by Mangione discovered by the police, he wrote, "the U.S. has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy."
Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show "Cure America with Star Parker." To find out more about Star Parker and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com
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