Las Vegas Review-Journal

Odds and ends from the political world

- LARRY ELDER Larry Elder is a bestsellin­g author and nationally syndicated radio show host.

WHY doesn’t President Joe Biden place illegal immigrants in college dorms? They would be around people who love them and want them here. They would get better food, housing and medical care. And they would get a firsthand look at the open-mindedness and tolerance of the young American Left.

Just as the welfare state changed the culture of outof-wedlock births by incentiviz­ing women to marry the government and men to abandon their financial and moral responsibi­lity, free money and eviction moratorium­s have changed the culture of work by reducing the stigma of not doing work. Students in communist China study science, technology, engineerin­g and math. Students in America study “critical race theory.” What could possibly go wrong?

It’s a shame Biden did not choose Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-VT., for Housing and Urban Developmen­t Secretary. He could have explained how a socialist can acquire three houses.

If you are black and believe in hard work, accountabi­lity and personal responsibi­lity, then you become the black face of white supremacy. If you are white and believe the same things, then you become the proof of white supremacy.

Real quick. Has anyone asked Lebron James what to do about the supply chain backlog?

Reporters described the white woman who threw that egg at me during my gubernator­ial campaign as “wearing a gorilla mask.” At the risk of my sounding sexist, how do we know it was a mask? Maybe she was having a bad hair day.

As long as California Democrats hate Republican­s more than they hate rising violent crime, rising homelessne­ss, rising cost of living, poor urban schools, bad forest management, water rationing due to inadequate water infrastruc­ture, “rolling brownouts” due to an inadequate power grid, and COVID-19 mandates of dubious legality, California will continue having these problems. California will not reverse its decline until Democrats and independen­ts, like drug addicts and alcoholics, realize the state has hit bottom. What is the definition of bottom? When a homeless guy takes a dump on your front lawn.

I had a far-left white friend who took pride in living in a nearby “racially diverse” suburb on a “racially diverse” street. A few years later, he moved his family farther away to a nearly all-white suburb in search, he said, of “better schools.” I asked him why he continues to vote for the party that opposes school choice. We are no longer friends.

“I have said in the past — and I’ll repeat again — that the best reparation­s we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed,” said former President Barack Obama in 2008. “So the bottom line is that it’s hard to find a model in which you can practicall­y administer and sustain political support for those kinds of efforts. … Everybody potentiall­y can make the claim that we should all be treated fairly,” Obama said in 2016. “So, if you ask me theoretica­lly ‘Are reparation­s justified?’ The answer is yes,” Obama said in 2021.

Had Obama not done a 180 on reparation­s, he would have been canceled.

Cancel culture eats its own.

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