Larry Elder from Creators Syndicate

Obama-Loving Media Spin the Economy for 05/10/2012

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

National Public Radio's Kai Ryssdal recently talked about the weak economy. His guests, two reporters from The Washington Post and The New York Times, acknowledged the obvious — that the economy is underperforming.

Yet, in the 20 minutes of my sitting and listening in the car in bad Los Angeles traffic, I heard no one mention the words "President Barack Obama."

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Updated: Thu May 10, 2012

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Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shall Support the Welfare State for 05/03/2012

Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

As a candidate for the presidency, George W. Bush took heat for supposedly saying something like, "God wanted me to become president." He never said that. But no matter. Here comes another yet another Bible-banging religious conservative "taking his marching orders from God." Apparently, if you feel God endorses a particular path, God wants you to keep the news to yourself. ...

Updated: Thu May 03, 2012

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If Mormonism Is Fair Game, so Is Jeremiah Wright for 04/26/2012

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

A well-regarded Republican strategist at a private gathering recently warned, "And just wait until they play that Mormon card." By "they," he meant the Obama campaign and its complicit media cheerleaders.

Lawrence O'Donnell, only days later, gave his viewers a historical tutorial on the Mormon religion, darkly suggesting that we all should be afraid, very afraid. The ...

Updated: Thu Apr 26, 2012

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Five Myths of the ‘Racist' Criminal Justice System for 04/19/2012

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Calling America's criminal justice system "racist" is not confined to "civil rights leaders" like the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Then-Sen. Barack Obama, during the 2008 presidential campaign, said it, too. Blacks and whites, said Obama, "are arrested at very different rates, are convicted at very different rates (and) receive very different sentences ... for t ...

Updated: Thu Apr 19, 2012

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Leftist California Professors “Corrupt” Higher Education for 04/12/2012

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

"I don't know any polite way of putting this — but he's lying," said professor John Ellis, president of the National Association of Scholars' California division. Ellis was reacting to a critic's characterization of the NAS's damning report, "A Crisis of Competence: The Corrupting Effect of Political Activism in the University of California."

California taxpayer ...

Updated: Thu Apr 12, 2012

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The Media Downplay Murder When It's Black-on-White and Black-on-Black for 04/05/2012

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Why did the Trayvon Martin case become such a huge national story?

Is it because an innocent black teenager lost his life at the hands of a man, George Zimmerman, who "racially profiled" him? Is it that the victim is black and the shooter was not? Is it because the major media push the narrative that white anti-black racism remains an "unresolved" national issue? Is i ...

Updated: Thu Apr 05, 2012

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Jesse: Trayvon Proves ‘Blacks Are Under Attack' for 03/29/2012

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

"Blacks are under attack," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, irresponsibly turning the Florida shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, at the hands of Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman into a barometer of black-white "race-relations."

President Barack Obama, three years past his inauguration as American's first black president, wei ...

Updated: Thu Mar 29, 2012

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ObamaCare Still a Disaster -- No Matter How the Supreme Court Decides for 03/22/2012

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

"I am a refugee," my anesthesiologist told me after I had awakened from my third surgery in 12 years — one to repair a muscle tear in my left shoulder and two for the same disc in my lower back. "I am part of the British 'brain drain' of the late '60s. Doctors could not make any money. So I left." Britain's loss, my gain. The same surgery 12 years ago required a two-da ...

Updated: Thu Mar 22, 2012

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Where's Sharpton's Apology for Accusing a White Man of Raping a Black Teen? for 03/15/2012

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

"Meet the Press" host David Gregory asked his panel "where civility has gone in our public discourse." Incredibly, one panelist urged people to be more "mature" and not "poison the atmosphere."

I say "incredibly" because this panelist was none other than the race-hustling, anti-Semitic "civil rights activist" and MSNBC talk show ...

Updated: Thu Mar 15, 2012

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‘Outrage' Over Limbaugh -- What About Left-wing Misogyny? for 03/08/2012

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

"A firestorm of outrage from women after a crude tirade from Rush Limbaugh," said NBC anchor Brian Williams. This was followed by a reporter who said: "In 2012, the personal is political. What began as a debate over religious freedom has devolved into what some call a 'war on women.'"

The "outrage" over Rush Limbaugh's "misogyny" provides the lates ...

Updated: Thu Mar 08, 2012

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‘Honest' PBS Clinton Documentary Lies About the Economy for 03/01/2012

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Public Television touted the Bill Clinton documentary as a long-awaited warts-and-all piece. USA Today called the two-parter a "solid and even-handed account ... of a remarkably skillful politician with an immense intellect." While calling it "tedious and predictable," The Washington Post described the documentary as "honest."

In the first hour, the document ...

Updated: Thu Mar 01, 2012

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Actor Samuel L. Jackson -- Vote Your Race for 02/23/2012

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

What if actor Clint Eastwood gave an interview in which he explained why, in the 2008 presidential election, he voted for John McCain: "I voted for McCain because he was white. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them. ... That's American politics, pure and simple."

No, Eastwood did not say that. But actor Samuel L. Jackson did, in e ...

Updated: Thu Feb 23, 2012

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Whitney Houston Critics Called Her ‘Too White' -- Black Republicans Can Relate for 02/16/2012

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Whitney Houston died at the age of 48. Most articles about her death said something like, "Houston struggled with drug and alcohol problems for years ..."

But Houston also struggled with something else that black Republicans and black non-Democrats can understand: ridicule and ostracism for "selling out," or "acting white," or not being "black enough.&q ...

Updated: Thu Feb 16, 2012

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Aren't Republicans Supposed to Be Colorblind? for 02/09/2012

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

"Which of our Hispanic leaders would you consider to serve in your Cabinet?" A woman attending the last Republican debate in Florida asked this of the four Republican rivals.

Oh, for crying out loud! Ethnic-based Cabinet appointees? Do we still need to go out and "seek" people of a certain color or religion to show "fairness and inclusion"? What about consid ...

Updated: Thu Feb 09, 2012

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Democrats Love Taxes -- They Just Don't Want to Pay Them for 02/02/2012

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Forgive Republican candidate Mitt Romney for his alleged failure to adequately explain why he paid "only" 14 percent of his income in taxes.

The honest answer — "Well, because my accountants couldn't figure out how to get them any lower" — does not work in this or very many other election years. Romney seemed flat-footed because, like most business people, ...

Updated: Thu Feb 02, 2012

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Newt Declares War on Media for 01/26/2012

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Republican re-embrace of former Speaker Newt Gingrich says a lot about whom he sees as his opponent — and it isn't just President Barack Obama. It's the media.

If not for major media's embrace, Obama would still be sitting in the Senate, perhaps mulling another run for the presidency. A UCLA economist-political scientist recently tried to measure how the liberal media bias infl ...

Updated: Thu Jan 26, 2012

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On Gay Marriage, Media Gives Obama a Pass for 01/19/2012

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Why does President Barack Obama enjoy a no-fly zone on gay marriage?

The Republican presidential contenders, with the exception of libertarian Ron Paul, have never supported gay marriage. Barack Obama, on the other hand, in a span of 16 years, has gone from supporting it, to "undecided," to opposition, to a position that he currently describes as "evolving."

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Updated: Thu Jan 19, 2012

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Univision Attempt to Blackmail Marco Rubio -- Hispanic Groups Yawn for 01/12/2012

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Consider the following hypothetical.

Fox News, during the 2008 presidential campaign, learns about a long-ago arrest of a relative of Sen. Barack Obama. Fox calls Obama. It makes an offer Fox assumes he cannot refuse: "Agree to appear on the show of your anti-ObamaCare nemesis, Sean Hannity, or we run the story on your relative's arrest."

Obama refuses. Fox runs the stor ...

Updated: Thu Jan 12, 2012

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The Importance of Ron Paul for 01/05/2012

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

If libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Paul, as expected, did well in Iowa. His strong third-place finish is substantially better than he did in 2008, and his national poll numbers are twice what they were back then. Paul's appeal is easy to understand. His antiwar message of limited government, low taxes and federalism have strong appe ...

Updated: Thu Jan 05, 2012

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Norman Lear's Left-Wing Paranoia About 'The Right' for 12/29/2011

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

They're coming for your children! They're coming for the womenfolk! Then they're coming after you! Norman Lear, the famous television show producer, offered this hysterically paranoid assessment of the allegedly growing and presumably insidious power of "the right":

"I want to suggest that we lefties start laying claim to what we see as 'sacred' and serve it up proudly to ...

Updated: Thu Dec 29, 2011

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