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| washingtonpost.com - Colbert I. King (washingtonpost.com)
From the Aug. 15 Post: "Police yesterday captured a District man who escaped from Cheltenham Youth Center in Prince George's County on Sunday along with two other detainees. Maryland state troopers and D.C. police said they arrested 18-year-old Demarco E. Smith in the 700 block of 24th Street NE in the District."
Say you find yourself seated on the train behind two white supremacists who are beside themselves over the possibility that Barack Obama could become America's first black president.
By the end of the robbery spree during the early hours of June 4, four innocent people in the District had fallen victim to holdups.
Phyllis Woods, crying softly, was being comforted by two co-workers as I left the building where she works on Trenton Place SE.
In May, three teenagers placed in secure detention at Oak Hill Youth Center by D.C. Superior Court judges were taken to a cookout at the Northwest Washington home of Vincent Schiraldi, director of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services.
"It starts with teaching our daughters to never allow images on television to tell them what they are worth, and teaching our sons to treat women with respect, and to realize that responsibility does not end at conception, that what makes them men is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one."
If the Rev. Jesse Jackson has trouble with something Sen. Barack Obama has said, why does Jackson wish to have the senator from Illinois neutered?
Sen. Barack Obama's speech on patriotism this week at the Truman Memorial Building in Independence, Mo., stands in sharp relief to Frederick Douglass's Fourth of July oration before the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society in 1852. The two men's remarks, touching on loyalty, race and the country's moral foundation, underscore the difference 150 years has made in the life of our nation.
What to think about the nonprofit D.C. Public Education Fund created by Mayor Adrian Fenty? It is supposed to have a good purpose: raising funds in the private sector to help the public schools with their operating budgets.
There's one group of District residents absolutely unfazed by today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling shooting down the District's strict handgun ban: the dudes who have been blowing away their fellow citizens with abandon since the law was put on the books 32 years ago.
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