Various Current Events

Lack of fluency costs teacher job (Lowell Sun)
Gay custody fight reveals problems (Michael Medved)
WA felons can vote (Fox News)
The feigned outrage game (LA Times)
Playing race-card gotcha (Jonah Goldberg)
Democrats and double standards (WSJ)
The trouble with Harry (WSJ)
Race and Harry Reid (NY Post)
GOP charges double-standard on Reid-Lott (Politico)
Census “negro” option raises outcry (Houston Chronicle)
Palin joins Fox News (LA Times)
A serious teaching proposal (NYT)
States ease school exit standards (NYT)
CA man helps homeless, encounters barriers (NYT)
Obama weighs bank tax (NYT)
Watching TV shortens life (LA Times)
Stimulus? No stimulus here (WSJ)
30 years of global cooling are coming (Fox News)
Prop 8 trial begins (CS Monitor)
IRS Commissioner uses a preparer (CNS News)
Carnival nixes future cougar cruises (Sun-Sentinel)
Big bum, hips deemed healthy (BBC News)
State of Union? No one knows when (Wash Times)
Denver suburb rebuffs Christian university (Denver Post)
Baggage gripes down as volume down (Sun Times)
MLK black-themed school lunch nixed (Denver Post)
Employer sanctions funding cut from disuse (AZ Republic)
Haiti earthquake had been feared for years (Miami Herald)
SF library hires social worker for homeless (SF Chronicle)
Europe issuing income-proportional traffic fines (SF Chronicle)