Here are three articles worth reading:
1. This National Review article by Charles Krauthammer warns conservatives that they "underestimate Obama at their peril." Krauthammer notes that in only 18 short months Obama has succeeded in making drastic changes to our country's health care system, financial system, and energy system, while his stimulus spending and changes to the budget structure have put our country on the path to bankruptcy. None of these "accomplishments" will be easily reversed, if at all. But a second term, when Obama would no longer be accountable to voters for future reelection, would be far, far worse. Conservatives should not write his obituary prematurely, and regardless of the outcome of the 2010 elections MUST not rest until he is voted out of office in 2012.
2. Want to know what the most under-represented group is on top-tier U.S. private college & university campuses? Hint: it's not a racial minority group. Find out more in this fascinating op-ed piece in The New York Times.
3. Probably the single left-wing claim that makes me most angry is the oft-repeated slander that the Tea Party movement is racist. This blatantly false claim not only slanders a lot of good, hard-working Americans who love their country, but also drives a racial wedge into the heart of our society and minimizes real racism. I have written extensively on this topic in a previous post, but I wanted to include another great article on this topic from National Review, written by Deroy Murdock in response to the NAACP's condemnation of the Tea Party movement. I think it's important for conservatives to know the facts about the Tea Party movement so we can defend ourselves against this kind of ignorant propaganda.
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What do you think about Mark Williams' "letter to Abe Lincoln" and his subsequent dismissal from the TPE (or NTPF, I forget)?
Thanks for commenting, Bar Harbor Bear. For those who don't know, Mark Williams, a former chairman of the Tea Party Express, wrote a satirical blog post that has generated a firestorm. His post was a fake letter from Ben Jealous, chairman of the NAACP, to Abraham Lincoln, saying that "colored people" regret their emancipation since now they actually have to think for themselves and they would prefer to get back "on the plantation." (Very rough, but generally accurate, paraphrase.) Obviously, this is completely unacceptable language which is at best racially insensitive and at worst blatantly racist. I understand Williams was very angry about the false charges being made about the Tea Party by the NAACP, and I understand his comments were satirical and were intended against the NAACP in particular, not the African-American community at large. That still is not an excuse for a racially insensitive rant in response. He is an embarrassment to any organization he is associated with.
So does this Williams' story prove, or at least provide evidence for, the NAACP's claim that the Tea Party movement is racist? It's worth pointing out that, as Bar Harbor Bear said, the National Tea Party Federation has kicked Williams and the organization he founded, the Tea Party Express, out of their group. This provides evidence that the Tea Party movement is not willing to tolerate racism in its midst. Racially prejudiced people exist in this country, on both the left and the right, and they are part of every large organization. An organization is not racist just because a small percentage of its members have racially prejudiced views, as long as it refuses to tolerate those views and takes action against those members when their views become known. The Tea Party has done that. The NAACP as an organization, on the other hand, has a recent history of using race as a political weapon and of making unfair racial accusations. I think a comparison between the Tea Party movement and the NAACP when it comes to racial prejudice does not reflect well on the NAACP.
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