The Law of Racism

Star Parker is a Christian single mom ("of color" as they say) who writes a column for the Washington Times. You'll understand why I pointed out her race when you read what she wrote this week:

Every major institution -- business, government, educational -- one way or another keeps track of how many blacks it has on board. Every major corporation has a diversity officer to make sure the colors of the beans are in order. Every corporation gets surveys from the NAACP asking them how many blacks they've got. When I get a loan from the bank, the loan officer sheepishly asks if it's OK to report that I'm black.

We have institutionalized race consciousness to the very core of our society, so it should be evident why it persists. It's the law.

Read the rest. It's equally good.

By the way, Jesse Jackson got a call from Michael Richards this week, and made the suggestion he seek help from a psychiatrist and race counselor. Wonder why he did not suggest a fellow "minister." A real pastor is about the only person who could answer Richards' agonizing questions about himself. Evil can only be explained in terms of sin. Period.

London Riches Falling Down

Pelosi & Co. fans beware: This is where socialistic leadership takes a society. It will soon cost sports car and SUV drivers $47 to enter the city of London, every time they enter therein. Thank London's anti-Bush, anti-everything-decent-in-life mayor, Ken Livingston, for the scheme.

Shows why swing voters (who voted like idiots last week) need to stop swinging and start thinking. (Hat Tip to AutoBlog)

Judging Ourselves 2006

Cal Thomas' column in today's Washington Times casts next Tuesday's elections as more about the nomination of judges than anything else:

One issue should trump all others for conservatives: judges. As Manuel Miranda of Third Branch writes in Human Events, "If the GOP loses the Senate, precedent shows that more than 60 Bush judicial nominees will never get a Judiciary Committee hearing under the chairmanship of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). Republicans will be unable to stop a filibuster of a next Supreme Court nominee and countless circuit court picks. This will dwarf Democrats' past six years of obstruction."

Liberals have used the courts for decades to bypass the public will and impose a secular agenda on the country. If they win control of the Senate, their current leadership will be emboldened to continue that practice.

He's right. I don't want Leahy in charge of the judiciary committee any more than I want Charlie Rangel calling the shots on spending, or the moral idiocy of Mr. Murtha chairing a military committee. As for Nancy Pelosi in the Speaker's chair, I shudder.

I am a conservative who is truly fed up to my gills with the big-spending ways of the "moderate" (translate "spineless and morally adrift") Republicans who've controlled the national legislature for the past 12 years. Conservatives should never have tolerated the Mark Foleys and various bribe-takers in the first place, much less let them define us to the rest of the country.

However, having said that, there's no way in you-know-what that I'm going to vote for a "change" just because I don't like the status quo. That would be like divorcing one of Cinderella's wicked stepsisters in order to marry their mother. Later...