Items by Star Parker

• Will Baltimore succumb to culture of death?

  —Dakota Voice

  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.
  
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 1:09am EST
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• ‘The Blind Side’ should trouble as well as inspire

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 4
  "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 [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 1:10am EST
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• Sodom in the nation’s capital

  —Dakota Voice

  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 [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:15am EST
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• Challenges for a Republican renaissance

  —Dakota Voice

  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.
  
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:12am EST
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• New hate crimes law is a mistake

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 8
  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.
  
  Dakota Voice: Exposing [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 1:10am EDT
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• Parker: The health-care fatal conceit

  —Dakota Voice

  Do you get the feeling that what Americans once fought for we're now giving back? This country is about freedom. There's no substitute for the fruits of personal responsibility. Giving it up for the conceit of socialism is indeed a fatal mistake.
  
  Dakota Voice: Exposing the pernicious lie [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 1:30am EDT
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• Sharpton is today’s Faubus to Limbaugh

  —Dakota Voice

  Al Sharpton blocked Limbaugh like Governor Orval Faubus tried to block black children from entering Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. We see today that if Al Sharpton does not like a man, and he pulls circumstantial evidence to claim he is a racist, he can get that [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 1:05am EDT
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• Consumers need protection – from government

  —Dakota Voice

  The great economist Milton Friedman once observed, "Many people want government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government."
  
  Dakota Voice: Exposing the pernicious lie [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Outrage over ACORN, but not abortion

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 1
  The ACORN scandal shows that if Congress wants to act, it can. But similar publicized abuses at Planned Parenthood--workers agreeing to cover up rape or earmarking funds to abort black babies--all captured on video and audio--produced no similar action in Washington to cut off funds.
  
  Dakota Voice: Exposing the [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Why we’re talking about race – again

  —Dakota Voice

  
  
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  Posted: September 19, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Some blacks now have doubts about Obama

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 1
  Next year marks 40 years since the decade of the '60s, which gave us the civil rights movement. I see a new generation of freedom loving, church going black Americans coming on the scene. Many voted for Obama out of racial pride. But their values and aspirations for freedom are' [...]
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  Posted: September 12, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• The Tragedy of the Commons

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 9
  A simple problem is put forth: A common grazing field is available to a community of herders. Everyone brings his or her cows there. Because there is no clear ownership, the only incentive each herder has is to bring all of his cows to graze and consume as much as [...]
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  Posted: September 05, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• A time for truth on abortion

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 12
  Are we a people that see the unborn, family, and individuals as all part of the fundamental fabric of life? Or are we a materialistic, secular nation of individuals making political claims on each other?
  
  Dakota Voice: Exposing the pernicious lie [...]
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  Posted: August 29, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Healthcare struggle is about freedom

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 1
  Some in congress want to shut down private health care and even health sharing ministries. Isn't it crazy that Christian Americans have to lobby to be free in their own country?
  
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  Posted: August 22, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Democrats’ ‘Bait and Switch’

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 1
  Six months into this Democrat administration, we find that Americans have been duped by a great bait and switch. We were sold promises of a sparkling new era, stripped down of ideology and influence peddling.What we have gotten is a hyper-ambitious government take over of our economy, driven by left [...]
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  Posted: August 15, 2009, 6:00am EDT
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• Obamacare meets Twitter

  —Dakota Voice

  Some claim President Obama's diminishing poll numbers and falling support for his socialist programs is because he just hasn't communicated well with the American people. Their problem is not that President Obama has not communicated. Their problem is that he has. We've got the message and we don't want it.[...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2009, 6:00am EDT
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• ‘Beer summit’ should have been about freedom

  —Dakota Voice

  If Harvard Professor Gates and Barack Obama are outraged by a policeman on Gates' front porch, why are they not outraged at the massive federal intrusion into every part of our lives? Was this "teachable moment" at what has been dubbed "the Beer Summit" at the White House just another' [...]
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  Posted: August 01, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Health care is also about values

  —Dakota Voice

  We hear a lot of talk about eliminating waste and having more preventative health care. But the most powerful health care initiative we could get is the last thing they will propose: Traditional family values. The same values undermined by the liberal abortion regime and moral relativism they promote.
  
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  Posted: July 25, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Government health care plantation looms

  —Dakota Voice

  Instead of promoting freedom, responsibility and independence, government is determined to move Americans onto the plantation of government dependence. Unfortunately, where once business and health care organizations fought this attempt in the 1990s, they are now willing to sell out to secure their spot on the gravy train. But can [...]
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  Posted: July 18, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Palin’s audacity of the unconventional

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 3
  Sarah Palin and her latest moves defy conventional political wisdom. But then, it defied conventional political wisdom when John McCain picked her as his running mate last year. For a while, until McCain hopelessly damaged his own campaign, she gave the previously-floundering McCain campaign a fighting chance to win. Can [...]
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  Posted: July 11, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• When color trumps Christianity

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 3
  President Obama considers skin color more important than allegiance to the religious faith he claims to hold. He also considers the colors of the rainbow homosexual flag more important than what he claims to be his faith teaches about this immoral and unhealthy sexual practice.
  
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  Posted: July 04, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Who says this is the end for Mark Sanford?

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 15
  Star Parker: Is America's biggest crisis that leaders fall short of standards, or is it that our answers to human frailty increasingly tend to deny that any standards exist? The most strident cries of hypocrisy come from from those who want to de-legitimize and marginalize those traditional values.
  
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  Posted: June 27, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Parker: Government help that hurts

  —Dakota Voice

  A closer look at the "uninsured" health care problem reveals the numbers are much lower than claimed--and we already have enough social programs to deal with those. Political freedom and capitalism reflect the human need for free choice...but they require personal responsibility. People should't have freedom or responsibility taken away' [...]
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  Posted: June 20, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Obama fast tracking the nanny state

  —Dakota Voice

  Obama and the Democrats want to get America's health care system socialized quickly, before Obama's poll numbers plunge too much. Like a stealth bomber, they want health care "reform" to come in fast and below the radar, so that freedom and prosperity will be in ruins before the American people [...]
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  Posted: June 13, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• The civil rights challenge of our time

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 8
  Star Parker STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION An incensed Andrew Sullivan — homosexual journalist and activist — told CNN anchor Anderson Cooper the other night that Barack Obama is ducking the “core civil rights challenge of his time.” For once, I find myself on the same page with Sullivan. But [...]
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  Posted: June 06, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Rights, responsibilites and health care

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 1
  Star Parker STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION Want to know what troubles our American health care system? Consider the thoughts of psychiatrist and Nazi death camp survivor Viktor Frankl. After spending time in our country as a visiting professor, he saw the looming dangers of freedom without responsibility. He observed: [...]
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  Posted: May 30, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• No thanks to government health care plantation

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 1
  Star Parker STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION Four Republicans — Senators Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Richard Burr of North Carolina along with Congressmen Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Devin Nunes of California — have fired the first salvo in the great health care reform debate. They’ve introduced the [...]
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  Posted: May 23, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Moral relativism and Obama at Notre Dame

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 1
  Star Parker STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION In a letter to the 2009 graduating class of Notre Dame, Father John Jenkins, the university’s president, explains why he is “proud” to have President Barack Obama speak and be honored at his university. Let’s put aside momentarily the appropriateness of a [...]
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  Posted: May 16, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Republicans need Washingtons, not Specters

  —Dakota Voice

  Star Parker STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION The columns are all over the place, and all the analyses seem to be the same. The Republican Party is supposedly deader than a doornail. Except in a handful of states in mid-America and in the South, Americans, according to these columnists, [...]
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  Posted: May 09, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Welcome to the New Capitalism

  —Dakota Voice

  Star Parker STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION Listening to Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, we get a sense of the “new capitalism” that our new Democratic leadership tells us America needs. Frank recently praised Bank of America chairman (now ex-chairman) Ken Lewis for [...]
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  Posted: May 02, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Obama Foreign Policy Shows Change in Values

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 1
  Star Parker STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION Barack Obama’s obvious comfort level with leaders of un-free countries shouldn’t surprise anyone. He is not only our first black president. He is also our first president who doesn’t like the free country he was elected to lead and feels his [...]
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  Posted: April 25, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Christian Conservatism Just Getting Started

  —Dakota Voice

  Star Parker STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION There are some today who suggest that Christian conservatism as a political force is over. Those who make this claim point to the fact that liberal Democrats now control the White House and both houses of congress, that the number of Americans [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Embracing our future by ignoring our past

  —Dakota Voice

  Star Parker STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION The Congressional Budget Office, the economic forecasting arm of the Congress, now reports that the Social Security trust fund is almost in the red. They project that the fund’s surplus next year will be a scant $3 billion. For perspective, CBO just [...]
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  Posted: April 04, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• National Urban League preaches dependence

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 6
  Star Parker STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION The National Urban League has just issued its annual State of Black America report. It provides a troubling statistical snapshot of where blacks stand today in our country. Like Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, I’m concerned. But after concern, [...]
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  Posted: March 28, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• We’ve legalized theft in America

  —Dakota Voice

  Number of comments: 1
  Star Parker STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION It says something about the dismal state of affairs in our country today by what outrages folks. Sure, if we want to portray business as the root of our economic ills, outrage about executives getting bonuses at a company that received taxpayer [...]
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  Posted: March 21, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Time for Steele to go as RNC chair

  —Dakota Voice

  STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION From what I see, the Republican National Committee representatives who picked Michael Steele as their new chairman made a mistake. I think Steele ought to step aside. It pains me to say it. But it pains me more to watch the opposition party, [...]
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  Posted: March 14, 2009, 1:02am EDT
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• Inner cities a snapshot of America’s future

  —Dakota Voice

  STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION Blacks are not given enough credit for being trendsetters in America. Blacks started playing the blues, jazz, and R&B, then the rest of America started playing them. Blacks discovered the politics of victimhood, then the rest of America started catching on. Black women got [...]
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  Posted: March 07, 2009, 1:02am EST
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• More freedom, less government, for education

  —Dakota Voice

  STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION I share President Obama’s concerns about education. We certainly need to do a better job, particularly in our low-income communities. But, from what I see so far, we’re on very different pages regarding how to think about the problem. For Obama, the solution to [...]
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  Posted: February 28, 2009, 1:02am EST
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• Remember the Alamo

  —Dakota Voice

    American Minute from William J. Federer  “Remember the Alamo!” The battle began FEBRUARY 24, 1836, when General Santa Ana’s 3,000 troops attacked 189 Texans and Tejanos at San Antonio. In 13 days, all defenders were dead, including William Travis, Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie. Only Susanna Dickenson, her baby, and Travis’ servant survived. Fifteen [...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2009, 6:45am EST
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• Root of nation’s economic crisis is moral crisis

  —Dakota Voice

  STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION A travesty of justice has occurred in Oakland, California. But realities surrounding this local issue point to how the economic crisis in our nation is symptomatic of and flows from a deeper fundamental moral crisis. A black pastor awaits sentencing, which could amount [...]
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  Posted: February 14, 2009, 1:02am EST
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• Back on Uncle Sam’s Plantation

  —Dakota Voice

  STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION Six years ago I wrote a book called “Uncle Sam’s Plantation.” I wrote the book to tell my own story of what I saw living inside the welfare state and my own transformation out of it.  I said in that book that indeed [...]
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  Posted: February 07, 2009, 1:02am EST
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• Government takes over, Obama apologizes

  —Dakota Voice

  STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION The Obama administration, completing its first full week, wasted no time getting priorities in order. First, issue formal apologies to the world, and then begin advancing massive, intrusive government at home. The president chose Arab television, Al Arabiya, to give his first sit [...]
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  Posted: January 31, 2009, 1:02am EST
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• The Culture of Responsibility is the Culture of Life

  —Dakota Voice

  STAR PARKER FOUNDER & PRESIDENT COALITION ON URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION In these uncertain times, some things remain constant. One is the arrival each Jan. 22 of tens of thousands of pro-life Americans to Washington, D.C., to note the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision and to mourn. Forty-eight million American [...]
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  Posted: January 26, 2009, 1:30pm EST
  by Star Parker