With all the sturm und drang, in a word, the uproar sweeping the nation over health care, national defense, taxes, illegals, make no mistake that another storm and more stress are a-brewing and will be visited on Americans if and when the current storms subside: reparations for slavery.

Reparations are the raison d'être for powerful Michigan Democrat, Rep. John Conyers, second longest-serving House member and currently Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

For the inquisitive, such posts are awarded on the basis of seniority and longevity and Black pols who bring home the chittlins tend to be re-elected ad infinitum.

Think Reps. John Dingell, (D. MI), and Charley Rangel, (D. NY).

One has to wonder if that system should be changed when career minority politicians are effectively governing the majority of Americans, but that's just an aside.

Rep. Conyers has dedicated his life to seeking reparations and was un-deterred in that goal even after his wife, Monica, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery in June.

Monica may be facing 5 years in the slammer, [http://bit.ly/Batmq], but there are some things more important in life than bribery convictions or various charges of unethical activities against hubby, John.

Foremost is forcing White Americans in the twenty-first century to compensate Black Americans living in this century for cultural sins committed by White, and Black, Americans in the form of slavery, from the sixteenth though the nineteenth centuries.

If that seems an odd, convoluted, and bordering-on-insane rationale to accomplish President Obama's designs to "share the wealth," then you must be a racist!

But, don't blame it all on Obama; Conyers has been cooking up this scheme for at least 40 years.

Conyers said on his website that in proposing his bill to "study" slavery and the need for reparations that America should also "study" the need to persuade [White] Americans of the necessity of slavery reparations for African-Americans today, none of whom were even a glimmer in their daddy's eyes in 1863.

As his website notes, "One of the biggest challenges in discussing the issue of reparations in a political context is deciding how to have a national discussion without allowing the issue to polarize our party or our nation:" http://bit.ly/J8Pcy

Gee, Mr. Conyers, ya really think White Americans could balk at the whole idea of emptying their wallets and sending their hard-earned bucks to people who want compensation because of long-abolished slavery would'nt cause polarization?

If so, you must also think Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the greatest American who ever lived. After all, he's the only American, bar none, even presidents, to be accorded the honor of a separate and distinct national holiday.

More on reparations to follow...