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Media censor hero's 'pretty white girl' comment
Larry Elder
Published: Tue, May 7, 2013
Three young Cleveland girls missing and presumed dead turned up alive and in good health. A hero of the story is a neighbor, Charles Ramsey, a black man who helped free the girls from the home in which they were apparently imprisoned for some 10 years. Among other things, Ramsey said: "I knew...
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Larry Elder: Five decades of lies help Democrats create monolithic black vote
Larry Elder
Published: Wed, Apr 10, 2013
As recently as 1956, nearly 39 percent of blacks voted Republican in that year's presidential election. After the Civil War, Abe Lincoln's Republican Party easily carried the black vote -- where blacks were allowed to vote. Unwelcome in the Democratic Party, most blacks voted Republican and...
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Larry Elder: Bill Maher discovers his inner Grover Norquist
Larry Elder
Published: Wed, Mar 20, 2013
To the list of liberals who vote for higher taxes -- and then proceed to complain about them -- add comedian Bill Maher. Incredibly, the caustic, left-wing Maher recently warned, "ln California, I just want to say: Liberals -- you could actually lose me." As a resident of California, a state...
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Larry Elder: Dennis Rodman experiences a media double standard
Larry Elder
Published: Wed, Mar 6, 2013
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman traveled to communist North Korea, a trip financed by a documentary filmmaker. Rodman appeared neither officially nor unofficially as part of the U.S. government. An incredulous George Stephanopoulos of ABC subjected Rodman to a grilling more suitable for a...
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Larry Elder: Obama acknowledges the problem of fatherlessness
Larry Elder
Updated: Wed, Feb 20, 2013
Dads matter. President Barack Obama said it recently in Chicago, a city on track for 600 murders this year, the equivalent of two Sandy Hooks per month. Too bad he still does not understand that his left-wing ideology is the problem. After the Sandy Hook tragedy, Obama, much of his party and...
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Larry Elder: Where was Dorner's dad?
Larry Elder
Published: Wed, Feb 13, 2013
My new book, "Dear Father, Dear Son," talks about the No. 1 social problem in America -- children growing up without fathers. In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote "The Negro Family: A Case for National Action." At the time, 25 percent of blacks were born outside of wedlock, a number that the...
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'Zero Dark Thirty' threatens to vindicate Bush
Larry Elder
Published: Wed, Feb 6, 2013
In "Zero Dark Thirty," the movie about the killing of Osama bin Laden, one of the first scenes shows a terrorist being waterboarded, where useful information gets extracted. The movie thus asserts the controversial practice leads to actionable intelligence. Not only was former President George...
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Remember when Democrats feared tyranny?
Larry Elder
Published: Wed, Jan 30, 2013
Once upon a time, a group of people known as the "Democrats" expressed great fear of tyranny by government. This was a time long, long ago, when a man from a place called Texas, representing a people known as the Republicans, occupied the White House. Leaders of the Democrats feared tyranny by...
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Larry Elder: Black families hurt by magazine's war on conservatives
Larry Elder
Published: Wed, Jan 23, 2013
Dear Ebony, I do not have high hopes, given the way Ebony treats black non-liberals, that you will review my new book, "Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives, Eight Hours." It is, in the end, about the importance of fathers -- and the damage done to a child who grows up without one. Why do I know...
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Larry Elder: Piers Morgan not a fan of gun crime data
Larry Elder
Published: Wed, Jan 2, 2013
There are too many questions and answers the anti-gun crowd ignores, chooses not to think about or considers irrelevant.