Larry Elder: The party of ‘impeach!’
The Democrats’ purported outrage about President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky might be taken seriously by the Republicans were it not for the Democrats’ drive to oust Trump from the moment he won the presidency.
Larry Elder: Media bad-mouths the economy like it did in 1992
As it did in 1992, the anti-Republican media is covering Trump’s economy as negatively as possible while keeping a straight face.
Larry Elder: If Trump Jr. is ‘racist’ for questioning Kamala Harris’ ethnicity, so is Don Lemon
Poor Donald Trump Jr. He retweeted a post by a black man named Ali Alexander questioning whether Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., whose father is from Jamaica and mother is from India, is an “American black.”
Larry Elder: Democratic Debates: Did Russia pay these candidates to throw the election to Trump?
Did the Russians pay the 2020 Democratic candidates to throw the 2020 election to President Donald Trump? Watching all four hours of the first Democratic debates, it became increasingly difficult to reach any other conclusion.
Larry Elder: Reparations: How not to foster racial harmony
About reparations, a skeptical President Barack Obama in 2016 told reparations proponent Ta-Nehisi Coates that it would divide the country.
Larry Elder: AOC Got a Pass on the Cost of ‘Free’
ABC’s Jonathan Karl recently interviewed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. Karl asked no question and did not call for a clarification when Ocasio-Cortez, presumably referring to the Mueller report, spoke about “the abundance of evidence, 10 counts of obstruction of justice, four with rock-solid evidence” against President Donald Trump.
Larry Elder: America will always be ‘racist’ — if nirvana is the goal
In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. predicted that America could elect a black president in 40 years or less.
Larry Elder: Democrats 2020: The Grievance Party
Describing the Democratic Party as one built on “identity politics” used to be a pejorative. But Georgia’s failed 2018 Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Stacey Abrams, recently defended this description of her party.
Larry Elder: The left’s battle against ‘inequality’
In his book “Discrimination and Disparities,” economist Thomas Sowell notes that a disproportionate percentage of first-born siblings become National Merit scholars compared to siblings born later, presumably because the first-born starts life with no sibling competition for parental attention.
Larry Elder: Media Matters’ fake-news pro-slavery headline
In journalism, a “lede” is the introductory section of a news story, intended to entice the reader into reading the full story.
Larry Elder: The ‘surge’ in hate crimes
According to the FBI, “hate crimes” are on the rise. The agency reported a 17 percent increase in such crimes in 2017 compared to 2016.
Larry Elder: It Is Time for ‘Jexodus’
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., denies that anti-Semitism is “on the rise” within the Democratic Party. He’s right. This is not a recent phenomenon; anti-Semitism within
Larry Elder: To pay for reparations, will democrats sue themselves?
After the election and re-election of the country’s first black president, who would have thought that, less than two years later, leading Democrats would seriously debate paying blacks reparations for slavery?
Larry Elder: Jussie Smollett supporters: rooting for a ‘modern lynching’
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., not only believed black and openly gay actor Jussie Smollett’s tale of being attacked by two N-word-spouting homophobic Trump-supporters, she — and many other big-name Democrats — knew exactly whom to blame.
Larry Elder: The Trump ‘Resistance’: Right-wing racists bad, left-wing racists not so much
Newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in a recent “60 Minutes” interview, said there is “no question” that President Donald Trump is “racist.”
Larry Elder: Government shutdown: Money, money everywhere but not a drop for a wall
This is not our first partial government shutdown. Somehow, someway, from 1976 through 2017, the nation has survived 18 shutdowns, the longest lasting 21 days. In this case, President Donald Trump insists that the next budget deal contain $5 billion to construct a wall on part of our southern border with Mexico.
Larry Elder: Mueller probe: If convictions equals success, Whitewater was a triumph
President Donald Trump-haters salivated over special counsel Robert Mueller’s recent filings on ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and Trump former lawyer/”fixer” Michael Cohen.
Larry Elder: Fake praise for GHWB: Where were media when he needed them?
As with the passing of former President Ronald Reagan, the media are in full praise mode following the death of former President George Herbert Walker Bush.
Larry Elder: On immigration, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry discover their inner Trump
If President Donald Trump were paid a dime every time critics call his anti-illegal immigration policy “racist,” he’d double his net worth.
Larry Elder: The Times’ Nikki Haley smear vs. The Times’ G.H.W.B. smear
The New York Times’ headline read: “Nikki Haley’s View of New York Is Priceless. Her Curtains? $52,701.” The headline clearly implied that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Haley was a profligate elitist Republican unconcerned about spending taxpayer money.