Author Archive | Larry Elder

“60 Minutes” strikes again. Earlier this month, the program broadcast a segment on international, “transracial” (black/white) adoptions involving American-born babies. It turns out, according to “60 Minutes,” a growing number of families living out of the country now adopt American black babies. As for the reason, “60 Minutes” interviewed Walter Gilbert, CEO of The Open [...]

The Democratic Party continues to play the race card for political gain. The Reverend Jesse Jackson steamed into Ohio, the so-called battleground state that went for Bush, claiming that Ohioans’ votes failed to count. “The playing field is uneven,” said Jackson. ” . . . We as Americans should not be begging a secretary of [...]

“It is beyond me . . . why are we so stingy, really,” said U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland, after the tsunami in southern Asia. ” . . . Christmastime should remind many Western countries at least, [of] how rich we have become. . . . ” And in a statement that might [...]

Democratic pundits still scratch their heads as they try and figure out what the recent presidential election tells them. They believe that voters rejected the messenger, rather than the message. But how many different ways can they come up with to tax, spend, regulate and redistribute the wealth? Democrats think your money belongs to the [...]

Former president Bill Clinton — during his last term in office — urged Americans to have “a candid conversation on the state of race relations.” OK. ABC’s “Monday Night Football,” in a silly attempt at cross-promotion, opened with a sexually suggestive skit involving “Desperate Housewives’” Nicollette Sheridan and Philadelphia Eagles’ Terrell Owens. In the skit, [...]

” . . . There have been suicide bombings, targeted assassinations, mortar attacks,” said PBS’s Gwen Ifill about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when she hosted the vice-presidential debate, “all of this continuing at a time when the United States seems absent in the peace-making process . . . ” Absent? President Bush became the first American [...]

George W. Bush won. Sen. John Kerry gave a concession speech, but not until 2 p.m. ET Wednesday did he say, “It is now clear that even when all the provisional ballots are counted — which they will be — there won’t be enough outstanding votes for us to able to win Ohio, and therefore, [...]