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Oh, no, not another "town hall" meeting. Or at least, that's how I first reacted when I learned Rev. Rick Warren of Saddleback Church intended to host an Obama-versus-McCain town hall forum at the evangelist's California church. But the rules, this time at least, seemed intriguing. Warren intended to ask each candidate one-on-one questions for one hour, with the rival offstage unable to hear questions and answers. The second candidate would then come out and answer the same questions in the same order. Obama, via a coin toss, went first, and answered the often simple, straightforward questions carefully or, as...

The Democratic Party and the mainstream media work together on behalf of terrorists. That fact has been extensively covered in this column. But that working combination does damage in many areas of national life, one of the most important being in the area of race relations and civil rights. The Democratic Party, the mainstream media and black leaders keep identifying racism as a central problem in our society and they thus manage to create a real and effective roadblock to ending any problems caused by past racism and improving the life and well-being of blacks and minority groups. The Democratic...

Oh, no, not another "blacks in America" news special! One of the cable networks recently put together another one of these "specials" on what it's like to be black in America. The network asked a conservative friend of mine to participate. He sent the following letter; and I wrote back. Dear Larry, OK, Larry, I grew up a bit last night. Those (unflattering descriptive deleted) at that news network on cable used me like a two-dollar whore! I interviewed with them for almost 10 hours, and all that talk was whittled down into five-second sound bites that put me in...

A prominent 20th-century Democrat made the following statement about the purpose of the Second Amendment: "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. … The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard, against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible."

Mr. Elder, I am shocked that you oppose Barack Obama and belong to the Republican Party. We must get over ourselves and realize there is room at the top for everyone and we must get there by helping each other -- instead of agreeing with policies and old politics that are proven not to work. To endorse John McCain, a person who will not make it easier for the underprivileged, is just too much. How can a fellow black American feel this way? Your Former Supporter Dear Former Supporter, Do you have any Republican friends, let alone black ones? If...

H/T to Larry Elder for catching this. Chris Cuomo interviews a Gloucester pregnant teen (17) and her boyfriend (20). The two kids have acted in a totally irresponsible manner, yet Cuomo conducts a touchy-feely, approving interview. Also noted by Larry, these girls are under 18 and the prospective "fathers" are over 18. Can anyone say statutory rape?Watch the video!

"I was struck when I got to Iowa and New Hampshire in January," said Joan Walsh, editor-in-chief of the liberal Web site Salon.com, "by how our media colleagues were just swooning over Barack Obama. That is not too strong a word. They were swooning. The downside, though, is that they hate -- hate Hillary Clinton, most of them. Hate is not too strong a word." What, media bias in favor of Obama, a leftist Democrat? Yet the same left-leaning media "hates" Hillary Clinton? Really? How about a little evidence? From January 2007 through May 2007, Harvard, along with the Project...

For Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, the stars certainly seem aligned. Seventy percent of Americans consider the economy in a recession. Two-thirds consider the war in Iraq a bad idea. A new Gallup Poll shows Obama leading presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain 46 to 44 percent. And the ratings for "American Idol" fell 10 percent. Given all this, plus a swooning, pro-Obama media, what's a Republican to do? Guess it's time to look on the bright side, and find something positive about the possibility of a President Barack Obama. I called Margaret, a Republican friend who lives...

"I intend to proudly vote for Obama," said a caller to a National Public Radio show, "because I want to show the world what America is all about -- that a person of color can become president of the United States." Let's put aside whether the caller would express the same enthusiasm were Obama a tax-cutting, Iraq-war-supporting Republican. And let's put aside what, if anything, America needs to "prove" to the rest of the world. Obama -- bright, sharp, a solid speaker -- ran an incredible, come-from-nowhere campaign to topple a front-runner who, at one time, led by some 30...

One hundred nine historians already nearly unanimously agree. They call the presidency of George W. Bush a "failure." The History News Network (HNN), who polled the historians, failed to name them or where they work. Wonder why? American Enterprise magazine, in 2002, examined voter registrations to determine the political affiliations of humanities professors at an assortment of colleges and universities, public and private, big and small, located in the North, South, East and West. Of those registered with a political party -- and most were -- historians overwhelmingly belong to a "party of the left" (Democratic, Green or Working Families...

NOTE: it was a great broadcast, speech, and dinner. I would vote for the Sage from South Central for the Senate or Calif Gov in a heartbeat. I'd work for his campaign. When asked about a future run last night, he said that "The door is ajar on that." Larry is now in possession of HILLARY! UNCENSORED. Larry Elder to broadcast from Reagan Library From staff reports Sunday, April 27, 2008 The Larry Elder Show will broadcast live from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum's Presidential Learning Center on May 9 from 3 to 7 p.m. As the broadcast...

"It's a recession," said President Harry Truman, "when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours." For people facing home foreclosure, job loss or the struggle of paying high gas prices, the definition a recession seems immaterial and insignificant. True. But during an election year, the media's constant use or expectation of "recession" does matter. Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic Party's likely nominee, already considers the U.S. economy "in a recession." So are we — at least as economists commonly define the term? No — not even close. But a recent typical news wire story, however,...

Last week, the government released two important figures: GDP growth (or lack thereof) for the first quarter of this year, and the number of jobs created (or lack thereof) for the month of April. The day before the released GDP report, a headline in USA Today read, "USA TODAY survey: We're in a recession, economists say." The first two sentences read as follows: "The U.S. economy is in recession, or soon to be in one. … the economists said the U.S. economy is in recession." the 52 economists' predictions. They predicted 0.1 percent economic growth for the first quarter, 0.5...

NOTE: I just got my ticket for the speech and dinner after the KABC broadcast. There are a few left. Who is going? Carpool? ========================================================================== TalkRadio 790 KABC is on the road again as Larry Elder heads to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum in Simi Valley on Friday, May 9th. Join Larry Elder as he broadcasts his show beginning at 3pm from the Presidential Learning Center. He'll also be signing his newest book, Stupid Black Men, How To Play the Race Card and Lose, that will be on sale.

Book Review: "Stupid Black Men" In his book "Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card--and Lose," Larry Elder provides a clear and compelling analysis, showing that the worst enemies of black Americans are self-appointed "black leaders" and their white liberal allies who use race-baiting as a sinister tool to further their socialist agenda. Elder boldly turns the spotlight on those who shout about racism and unfairness, while promoting a victimhood mentality that harms poor black people, the very group the race-baiters claim they want to help. Urban blacks are mired in poverty, Elder points out in his book,...

Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Sen. Barack Obama's spiritual advisor and former pastor, holds a charter membership in the white-man-done-me-wrong, things-remain-the-same, we-feel-your-pain club. Here's the "victicrat" mindset: Kids having difficulty performing well on standardized tests? Blame "cultural bias." Get pulled over by a cop? DWB -- driving while black. A disproportionate number of blacks in prison? A racist criminal justice system that "targets" blacks for prosecution and imprisonment. Katrina? As Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., put it, "ethnic cleansing by inaction." Difficulty qualifying for a loan? Blame banks' devious plan to prevent blacks from getting "access to capital." Pay more for car insurance...

...Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., a black Clinton supporter, explained why whites vote for Obama. According to Cleaver, "This is (their) chance to demonstrate that we have been able to get this boogeyman called race behind us. And so they are going to vote for him, whether he has credentials or not, whether he has any experience …" Here's where things get interesting. As to the argument that an Obama election would show an America overcoming its history of racial injustice, Cleaver says no, it would show the opposite...

Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card—and Lose, by Larry Elder (St. Martin’s Press, 336 pp., $24.95) Larry Elder is the black conservative people love to hate in Los Angeles, where he hosts a top-rated radio show. He is actually more of a libertarian, but even so he voices the heresy that racism is no longer black people’s main problem. Presenting these and other forbidden views in his 2000 book, Ten Things You Can’t Say in America, he took his place on the list of traitorous black pundits. But Ten Things You Can’t Say was only partly about...

Can Obama Bring Us Together? Yes, He Can!Thu Mar 13, 3:00 AM ET Larry Elder Critics dismiss Barack Obama's plans to bring the "two Americas" together. But, his plans may just work. Taxes: Barack Obama's America blasts the Bush tax cuts for "unfairly" benefiting the rich. They intend to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire, with resulting higher taxes on income, capital gains and dividends. The other America believes in limited government, low taxes, fewer regulations. They believe that individuals, rather than government, know how to best spend, save or invest their own money. This part of America feels...

Obama speaks! March 06, 2008 Click link for a hilarious look at what is sure to become known as OBAMA-SPEAK.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Mark in Standish, Michigan, I really appreciate your holding on. Welcome to the program. CALLER: Hello, Rush. RUSH: Hi. CALLER: Sorry to deviate from your monologue for just a minute, but you had a woman call yesterday that just frosted me to no end that if either Huckabee or McCain won the nomination she was going to sit the election out. RUSH: Yeah. CALLER: People like her, I coined a term, a call them TV Republicans, and it doesn't stand for television, it stands for tunnel vision, because they need to take the blinders off and see...

"There seems to be a pattern here. It takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush." So said presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., during a speech -- specifically on the economy -- before a crowd in Knoxville, Iowa. Okay, we understand campaign sloganeering -- purportedly funny lines and the like during the campaign season. But shouldn't the Associated Press, in reporting Clinton's line, provide the reader with a little information? Let's look at what incoming President Bill Clinton "cleaned up" when he took over from President George H. W. Bush in late January 1993. Despite the relentless...

Just before the holidays, I had my annual dinner with longtime friends — all political liberals. My friends' son, now in college, asked me a health care question as I munched on a dish of short ribs: "If you're against government health care insurance, what should poor people do? What, just screw 'em?" Having known him since birth, I was taken aback by not just the question. I knew that, like Custer, I sat surrounded by liberals. But the harshness of the question surprised me. Because Republicans, like me, reject the John Kerryesque argument that "health care is a right...

Neo-Libertarianism talk at its' best. The Saaaaage of South Central.

Oprah Winfrey, talk show host/media powerhouse, wants Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., to become president. According to Winfrey, she bases her support not on politics, but because Obama's candidacy sends a message of "hope." But Winfrey's own success belies the notion of a "hope" deficit in America. Oprah, a black woman raised in poverty, now boasts an estimated television audience of 48 million every week. Oprah's monthly magazine, O, has a circulation of 2.3 million. Oprah earns an estimated $260 million a year, and tops Forbes' annual "Celebrity 100 Power List." Forbes magazine also ranks Oprah Winfrey as the 21st most...

"Don't you think -- because of that program -- society benefits?" an actor friend of mine asked me recently. She referred to a taxpayer-provided health care program that she "turned to" during one of the many "down periods" during her career. "Who told you to go into acting?" I said. "Some careers -- whether an actor, a baseball player or a ski bum -- are high-risk and low-reward. Why should taxpayers support your career choice?" "But didn't you get scholarships and grants to continue your education past high school?" she asked. "Yes," I responded, "because, unfortunately, government got into the...

Is Elvira Arellano — the recently deported Mexican illegal alien — the new Rosa Parks? Some of her supporters describe her this way. But Arellano's credentials as a "role model," to say the least, fall short. Indeed, even some "immigrant rights activists" find the comparison embarrassing. A check of the Web sites of the National Council of La Raza and the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund finds no statement one way or the other concerning Arellano. Rosa Parks, a black woman, was born in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama — that is, Tuskegee, Alabama, United States of America. She thus...

"How long will it take," I thought, as I watched the coverage of the collapsed bridge outside of Minneapolis, "before someone blames President George W. Bush?" It turns out, not long. As divers attempted to locate possible victims submerged in the murky waters of the Mississippi, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) said, "I think we should look at this tragedy that occurred as a wake-up call for us. We have -- all over the country -- crumbling infrastructure, highways, bridges, dams, and we really need to take a hard look at this." Calling it "the right thing to...

I did it again -- opened my mouth. I drove behind a car carrying two guys. Their bumper sticker read, "War Is Not the Answer." I knew better, but I pulled up next to them at a red light, rolled down my window, and said, "OK. If war is not the answer, what is?" "Peace!" the driver angrily responded. "Just curious," I said, "do you think people in Tehran drive around with bumper stickers like that?" "So you support the war?!" his passenger shouted. Gee, I thought, what a sudden change of topics. All I wanted to know, if war...

Did you listen to the debate between Larry Elder and Al Rantel on KABC radio? About illegal immigration... Elder said that US needed a guest worker program like the one during 1940s. Rantel thought that such a program would not work. Rantel asked what if the guest workers refused to go back to their country...Elder stated that the employers should make sure that the workers leave. (Rantel was not sure about that.) Elder stated that feds should use the resources wisely. He was speaking about the federal raids on big companies hiring illegals. Elder stated that feds should concentrate on...

This is an article about a man who did not want me to write it. A few weeks ago, I gave a commencement speech at a Catholic elementary school. I received the invitation from a 13-year-old young lady, Elisabeth, who began listening to my radio show at 6-and-a-half years of age, who has now finished the eighth grade and prepares, next semester, to enter high school. Years ago, her mom wrote a letter to me. The mom drove the car one day with her daughter inside. The daughter's book about Helen Keller somehow flew out of the car window as...

On Thursday, June 28, radio host Larry Elder will debate illegal immigration with fellow host Al Rentel. Debate will be during the 6 pm portion of Al Rentel show on KABC radio. (In S. Calif area) It will be interesting... Rentel opposes the Senate immigration bill...Elder supports it. Monday morning I heard the promo for Elder's show...He was critical of some radio hosts who accused Prez Bush of doing nothing to enforce the border... Two other hosts on the same station got upset with Elder. In his promo, Rentel asked for a debate with Elder...Morning host, Doug M, also asked...

He didn't say when, but his show is now in progress. Listen here: http://abc2.andomedia.com/kabc/launch.asx

Find your best streaming audio feed here KABC feed for PC users ... KABC feed for Mac users ... (KABC feeds may require registration) Radio stations (some have delayed broadcasts) Larry is also available on XM-Radio (channel 124) and Sirius (channel 143). LarryElder.comKABC bioWikipedia bio Read Larry's column at Townhall.com or WorldNetDaily or Jewish World ReviewMoral Court - a defunct TV show starring the Sage, himself - episodes available at AOL Video List of Ping ListsIf you've never heard Larry, you don't know what you're missing!

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...The worst disaster is to look back and say, 'What if?'...

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Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese Christian who lived through jihad as a child, wrote "Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America." This is an edited version of our interview...

Find your best streaming audio feed here KABC feed for PC users ... KABC feed for Mac users ... (KABC feeds may require registration) Radio stations (some have delayed broadcasts) Larry is also available on XM-Radio (channel 124) and Sirius (channel 143). LarryElder.comKABC bioWikipedia bio Read Larry's column at Townhall.com or WorldNetDaily or Jewish World ReviewList of Ping ListsPlease note: This is a trial run. If there is not enough interest, this will be discontinued. If you've never heard Larry, you don't know what you're missing!