A few historical and inconvenient notes left on the cutting room floor during Black History Month.
Larry Elder
This editorial is made available through Creator's Syndicate.Best-selling author, radio and TV talk show host, Larry Elder has a take-no-prisoners style, using such old-fashioned things as evidence and logic. His books include: The 10 Things You Can’t Say in America, Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies and the Special Interests That Divide America, and What’s Race Got to Do with It? Why it’s Time to Stop the Stupidest Argument in America,.
Colin Kaepernick Is No Muhammad Ali
Kaepernick’s protest was bogus from the start, and it only helped to create greater unnecessary tension between the black community and the police. “Citizen of the Year,” indeed.
Charity is in America’s DNA
What to Do About Obamacare and the Uninsurable? Free Markets and Charity!
Colin Kaepernick’s Fight Against ‘Racism’
The first problem with Kaepernick’s “protest” is that the Black Lives Matter movement, launched after the death of black suspect Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri, is based on a lie.
Blacks Americans Are Worse Off Under President Obama
After six years, the report card is in. The grades are not pretty. By every key economic measurement, blacks are worse off under Obama. In some cases, far worse off.
Baltimore Riots and The Welfare State
To earn their near-monolithic 95-percent black vote, the Democratic Party repeatedly tells blacks of their continued oppression.
“60 Minutes” Wacky Piece on Black/White Adoptions
"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...
Bush’s Budget: The Welfare State Lives
Get ready for the interest groups and beneficiaries to squeal, scream, cry and ultimately demean. The issue? Why, President George W. Bush's "lean" 2006 budget. Americans want their welfare state. The president's budget, excluding defense, homeland security and...
The Race Card — 2005
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. " . ....
America The Stingy
"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. . . . "...
Children Having Children: A “Badge of Honor”?
A few years ago, I visited a friend living in Cleveland's inner city. As we sat on my friend's porch, not one, but two teenage girls -- visibly pregnant -- walked by. My friend cheerfully called out their names. They smiled and waved back as they continued walking. I...
When Liberals Play the Race Card
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...
Yasser Arafat And The “Peace Process”
" . . . 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...
Why Kerry Got Wiped Out During the Latest Election
"I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot," said presidential candidate John Kerry when he learned he was losing in the polls. This statement shows why Kerry got wiped out during the latest election. Most Americans do not find the president stupid. The "West Wing's"...
Four More Years
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...
My Saturday with the Air Force Reserves
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 Air Force...
Media Give Kerry a Pass During Debates
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 Osama bin Laden before the election....
Blame America
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...
Debater vs. Leader
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 president spent 18...
The Media That Could Not Shoot Straight
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 outlawed...
Legalize Insider Trading
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...
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