Good News in Chicago

The Chicago Tribune reports a charter school in Chicago gets all its seniors into college:
The entire senior class at Chicago’s only public all-male, all-African-American high school has been accepted to four-year colleges. At last count, the 107 seniors had earned spots at 72 schools across the nation.
Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Public Schools chief Ron [...]

Am I Missing Something Here?

LOS ANGELES — The online dating service eHarmony has agreed to settle a California lawsuit that claimed it discriminated against homosexuals.
Under a proposed settlement filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, eHarmony will link its straight and gay Web sites and allow people to use both without paying double fees.
Plaintiff’s attorney Todd Schneider says the [...]

Celebrity: Why We Can’t Look Away

I tried my best to ignore the Tiger Woods saga.  In my mind, I would not waste my time listening to the various and growing number of mistresses.  But then mainstream media decided to take the low road.  I couldn’t watch my usual morning show with the peculiar interview of mistress No. ??. 
Then Eugene Robinson had to [...]

Nobel Peace Prize: Obama’s No King?

Though no one in the media punditocracy found fault in President Obama’s acceptance speech in receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, author and pastor Byron Williams, writing in The Huffington Post, makes clear that President Obama shares little with the two African Americans receiving the prize before him, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and [...]

Just Sad…Fort Hood

As reported by The Wall Street Journal:
FORT HOOD, Texas — A morning news conference Friday provided more information on the military-base shooting that left 13 people dead and dozens wounded in one of the worst incidents of soldier-on-soldier violence in U.S. military history.
U.S. Army Col. John Rossi called it a “tragic incident.” Of the 13 [...]