I HAVE A SCHEME

WARD CONNERLY'S EFFORT TO HIJACK DR. KING'S LEGACY IS FULL OF BLACK HUMOR

Memo to Jay Leno, David Letterman, Bill Maher and Dennis Miller: Watch your backs--a new political humorist has arrived on the scene who is funnier than you'll ever be. His name is Ward Connerly.

For those who haven't yet caught his hilarious shtick, Connerly is the Sacramento businessman and University of California regent who last year spearheaded the campaign for Proposition 209. Maybe it's just my twisted sense of humor, but Connerly has been cracking me up ever since he agreed to chair that anti-affirmative-action crusade. I laughed out loud when I heard that in 1991 this man who says that...

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