Larry Elder

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...

” . . . 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...

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...

While watching on television the horror of Sept. 11, 2001, my radio program engineer, Greg Nercessian — newly married and planning to start a family — felt he had to do something. With the blessing of his understanding and supportive wife, he joined the...

The post-debate media “truth squad” took little time in taking Bush to task for denying he ever said he “wasn’t that concerned” about Osama bin Laden. Please. Imagine Bush’s poll numbers in the event the military captures or kills...

The War on Terror involves more than military or intelligence, it involves winning the ideological struggle. Not there, but here. I once wrote about the way an elementary school teacher in Afghanistan discusses political science and history. The teacher holds up a...

Polls show President Bush lost the first debate against Democratic presidential contender John Kerry. Why? Bush failed to respond to Kerry’s assertions. Let’s deal with them. Did Bush irresponsibly use the “authority” given him by Congress? The...

Can Americans now purchase assault weapons? If you listen to some pols and mainstream media, you probably cannot answer that question. In 1994, Congress passed and President Clinton signed a 10-year ban on so-called “assault weapons.” In reality, the bill...

Martha Stewart’s case, despite public perception to the contrary, turns not on insider trading, but on obstruction of justice, lying to investigators. Dean emeritus Henry Manne of the George Mason University School of Law, author of Insider Trading and the Stock...

CBS, in rushing to air the now discredited anti-Bush National Guard documents, issued an embarrassing apology. CBS’s Dan Rather, after days of stonewalling and insisting on the accuracy of the “60 Minutes II” piece, now says: ” . . . I no...

Dan Rather, in a breathless “60 Minutes” piece, said he obtained documents showing that then-lieutenant George W. Bush didn’t report for a physical, and his commanding officer accused him of failing to meet National Guard standards. Rather also...

Why did the Republicans get a “bounce” after their convention, while the Democrats did not? Many pundits certainly expected a Democratic National Convention bounce. The Los Angeles Times’ Ronald Brownstein, before the DNC, argued that Democratic...

Illinois Republican candidate Alan Keyes recently proposed exempting blacks — for a generation or two — from paying federal income taxes! Slavery, argues Keyes, “was an egregious failure on the part of the federal establishment.” Who argues...

“During the Vietnam War,” said former President Bill Clinton at the Democratic National Convention, “many young men — including the current president, the vice president and me — could have gone to Vietnam but didn’t. John Kerry...

At the Democratic National Convention, Janeane Garofalo — comedienne, talk show host and liberal pundit — called me a “house Negro” and a “fascist.” Well! For four days, the Democratic Party put on its quadrennial...

Need another example of media bias? First, credit goes to Newsweek’s Evan Thomas, who, once again, acknowledged media bias. “Let’s talk a little media bias here,” Thomas said. “The media, I think, want Kerry to win. And I think...

“We’re running a very positive and affirmative campaign,” said Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Indeed, Sen. Kerry, D-Mass., renounces nastiness: “We have not stood up,” he said, “and attacked our opponents in personal...

“Ronald Reagan ‘tortured’ blacks.” One Sunday morning, as I drove to my local tennis court to play a match, I heard a black radio commentator give that assessment of the now late, great 40th president. Imagine my conflict. After all, here I am,...

Tom Brokaw said it. So it must be true. “There were three big reasons for the United States to go to war against Iraq,” said Brokaw. “Weapons of mass destruction, the connection to terrorists and that we were going to establish a kind of higher moral...

Move over, NASCAR. Out of the way, major league baseball, horseracing or gambling. For bashing President Bush now takes its place as America’s No. 1 national pastime. Sure, Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., said the president deceived the American people about why...