Larry Elder

Someday, many of their critics will apologize. Who am I talking about? Two economists, who happen to be black, Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams. For over 30 years, Thomas Sowell, currently with the Hoover Institution, and Walter Williams, chairman of the economics...

NBA Denver Nuggets coach Dan Issel, after another tough loss at the buzzer, walked off the court toward the locker room. A fan, however, taunted the white coach, calling out, "Issel sucks." Issel angrily fired back, "Hey, go buy another beer. Go drink another beer,...

Because of the September 11 terrorist attacks, December 7, 2001, the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, became especially significant. Many children never bothered to ask their parents and grandparents, "Where were you on December 7, 1941?" -- the date that will "live...

As we undertake the War against Terrorism, President Bush should simultaneously announce a "War against Chutzpah." New York Rep. Nita Lowey, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairwoman, stands near the top of the Most Wanted List in our new War against...

So, here's the movie pitch: There's an average-looking guy seeking a lifelong female companion, who adamantly adheres to one rule -- no cigarette smoking. He meets, however, an attractive, smart, witty, vibrant person of good character with one flaw: she smokes. What...

University of California Regents recently voted to change their admissions criteria. Previously, the UC system (consisting of nine universities) chose half of its incoming class primarily on test scores and grades. The admissions department selected the remainder...

Oh, those Clintons! On September 17, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) appeared on "Dateline NBC." Where, Dateline asked, was Chelsea on that fateful day? Senator Clinton told NBC's Jane Pauley: "She'd gone on what she thought would be a great jog. She was...

"I don't have the knowledge to blame a government," said Bakhtiar Khan, an Afghan man in his mid-twenties. "I don't know about politics, but for our problems I blame the world community. All humans should be equal, but we are not. You ask me who is to blame. You find...

Hold the Red Cross accountable! The headlines seemed unmerciful. Red Cross CEO Bernadine Healy, on the job only two years, suddenly announced her retirement. According to the Los Angeles Times, "Healy resigned ... saying she had been forced out by her board over...

Why did 19 Islamic extremist terrorists attack America on Sept. 11, 2001? Why do so many hate America? Here's how some American children answered those questions. Josh, age 12: "I just think (Osama bin Laden) needs to find something a little bit like the Nazis did,...

The Islamic-Christian Summit met, after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, for two days in Rome. They sought to issue a joint statement of condemnation of the terrorist attacks. Nineteen Christian and a dozen Muslim delegates -- members of the clergy, scholars and...

Two years ago, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume called the television networks -- ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox -- "the most segregated industry in America." Mfume said, "There has to be an effective strategy. We have a clear timetable of events, and we would caution anyone who...

Question: When does an economic "stimulus" package, well, stimulate the economy? In prosecuting this war against terrorism, the president and Congress now face a softening economy. Even before the airlines received their $15 billion "emergency aid package," the...

"Well, I just think that you're painting a horrible picture of what we're about," said Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., in response to the question I asked last week. My question that provoked such an indignant response? "Senator," I said, "I heard one of the news...

We "need to understand the mind of a terrorist," goes the refrain. No, we do not need to understand the mind of a terrorist so much as we need to understand the mind of an Arab Islamic "terrorist-victimcrat." Following the bombings of two American embassies in Africa,...

"There are practically no people of color at the top," said NAACP President Kweisi Mfume. "There aren't any African-Americans who can green-light a show, hire and fire a director or make any real decisions." A genie suddenly appears. With a snap of his fingers, the...

"Society pushes you back into the same pile of s--- you came out of." Chino, a "hardened gang member," offered this excuse as his rationale for joining a gang. Gang violence is up, says a chilling new Time magazine article on Los Angeles gangs. The article shows...

You own a busy restaurant. Agile waiters and waitresses carrying hot food and coffee deftly avoid colliding with each other as they scurry from table to table. Good hostesses, you find, don't grow on trees, and dang gummit, your experienced one just quit. You place...

"I was surprised, President Clinton came every year but one, and then he sent Al Gore in his place," says an official with the NAACP upon learning that President George W. Bush declined to speak at the organization's annual meeting. Hold the phone. How dare he? Just...