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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Driver shot in alleged road-rage incident | VIDEO A motorist in unincorporated Lemont says he tried to apologize to a fellow driver and ended up getting shot. Mayor buying new police gear for summits | VIDEO The mayor is using new power to help protect police as Chicago gears up for the G8 and NATO summits and a protest that could come with them. White Sox sign ex-Cub Kosuke Fukudome Ex-Chicago Cubs outfielder Kosuke Fukudome has been signed by crosstown rivals the Chicago White Sox. 2 men charged in connection with carjacking scam Two men are accused of targeting people who were selling their vehicles and then stealing the cars. Carbon monoxide displaces South Side residents Dangerous levels of carbon monoxide forced more than two dozen people from a South Side apartment building. Pot, cash seized at alleged Jefferson Park grow house Chicago police say they have busted a pot-growing operation on the city's Northwest Side. MORE STORIES Strange News Lice for Valentine's Day? | VIDEO Starbucks opens first ski-thru location | VIDEO Indiana city keeps its softball field on graveyard New Vegas museum highlights mob bosses, tommy guns Police: Indy man wore 'Scream' mask in robberies Consumer BBB warns about florists, online dating, e-cards | VIDEO Airline launches gift card exchange US probes door fires in 2006, 2007 TrailBlazers Feds investigate door fires in 2007 Camrys, RAV4s Apple's 'iPad 3' could come out in March Healthbeat Antibiotics could curb COPD attacks New study casts doubt on cancer treatment Fitness could reduce dementia risks Children getting less sleep Overeating could increase memory loss risk MOST POPULAR Driver shot in alleged road-rage incident Dalmatian spot on at Westminster Elgin library becomes hangout for eagles Cops accused of stealing cash run from cameras Pot, cash seized at alleged Jefferson Park grow house All Most Popular

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Your City Should Join 108 Cities in Mentoring Young Black Men and Boys

Your City Should Join 108 Cities that Are Mentoring Young Black Men and Boys During January and February 2012 Call 773.285.9600 today and join the movement to help build and encourage strong, positive Black men across America and the world. Sometimes, you only get one chance to change the world.  Mentoring young Black men and boys might be that chance. Join the Black Male Achievement Mentoring Initiative in changing the world.      Ideas for Mentoring Young Black Men and Boys 1) Mentor at a school or community center 2) Take A Young Black Male to Worship on February 26, 2012 - Click Here To Join This Effort 3) Coach a sports team 4) Take a trip to a museum, library or cultural center with one or a group of young Black males 5) Read The New Jim Crow or another book with a group of young Black men 6) Real Men Read to pre-school through 3rd-grade black boys 7) Take one or a group of young Black males to see Red Tails 8) Have dinner with one or a group of young Black males 9) Have a discussion about respecting women and girls with one or a group of young Black males  10) Teach young Black males about entrepreneurship and personal finance 11) Visit and mentor young Black men in correctional and detention centers 12) Create all male Saturday Learning and Tutoring Academies for young Black men and boys 13) Encourage young Black men and boys who are living as drug dealers, gangsters, thugs and hustlers to seek education and to help rebuild their communities 14) Build institutions and structures that support and mentor young Black men and boys 15) Encourage young Black men and boys towards healthy living, exercise and good nutrition 16) Teach young Black men and boys to be good fathers and good husbands and good neighbors -------------------------------------------------------------------------   If you have had any doubts about the value and importance of responsible fatherhood or mentoring, click here to have them removed!!!   To become one of the the Servant Leaders in your city planning and directing this effort, please call 773.285.9600. We will provide you with an organizing kit that will help you step-by-step to create, manage or support an outstanding mentoring program in your city.  We will also provide technical assistance and ongoing support. Schools, faith-based organizations, fraternities, Masonic organizations, veterans associations, community-based organizations, affinity organizations, military service personnel, social service agencies, companies and corporations will participate in this effort.  Most mentoring events will occur on January 31, 2012.  The last event will occur on February 29, 2012.  Please see cities that are expected to participate as of January 11, 2012:  Albany, New York Alton, Illinois Atlanta Georgia Aurora, Colorado Baltimore, Maryland Baton Rouge, Louisiana Blandensburg, Maryland Boston, Massachusetts Bowie, Maryland Buffalo, New York Carbondale, Illinois  Chicago, Illinois - South Side Chicago, Illinois - West Side  Chicago, Illinois - South Suburbs Chicago Heights, Illinois Cincinnati, Ohio Colorado Springs, Colorado Columbia, Missouri Columbus, Georgia Dallas, Texas Danbury, Connecticut Danville, Illinois Decatur, Georgia Delray Beach, Florida Detroit, Michigan Denver, Colorado Dolton, Illinois Durham, North Carolina East Chicago, Indiana East Orange, New Jersey Englewood, Colorado Flint, Michigan Flossmoor, Illinois Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fredricksberg, Virginia Gary, Indiana Gilbert, Arizona Griffin, Georgia Hammond, Indiana Hartford, Connecticut Harvey, Illinois Hillside, Illinois Houston, Texas Hyattsville, Maryland Indianapolis, Indiana  Irvington, New Jersey Jackson, Mississippi Kansas City, Missouri Kenesaw, Georgia LaGrange, Georgia Lauderhill, Florida Lenoir, North Carolina Lexington, Kentucky Lithonia, Michigan Los Angeles, California Louisville, Kentucky Macon, Georgia Manassas, Virginia Markham, Illinois Matteson, Illinois Mentor, Ohio Milwaukee, Wisconsin Minneapolis, Minnesota Munster, Indiana  Nashville, Tennessee New Orleans, Louisiana New York City, New York - Manhattan New York City, New York - The Bronx New York City, New York - Brooklyn New York City, New York - Queens New York City, New York - Long Island New York City, New York - Harlem Newark, New Jersey Oakland, California Oak Park, Illinois Omaha, Nebraska Palmdale, California Peoria, Illinois  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Phoenix, Arizona Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Richmond, California Richmond, Virginia Riverdale, Illinois San Bernardino, California San Francisco, California Santan Valley, AZ Seattle, Washington Shelbyville, Indiana  Southaven, Mississippi Spotsylvania County, Virginia St. Louis, Missouri St. Paul, Minnesota St. Petersburg, Florida Tampa, Florida Thomasville, Georgia Toledo, Ohio Tougaloo, Mississippi Tshwane, Botswana, Africa  Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territory, Canada Tuscaloosa, Alabama  University Park, Illinois Upper Marboro, Maryland Vicksburg, Mississippi  Washington, D.C. Waukegan, Illinois White Plains, New York Yazoo City, Mississippi     This event was inspired by the life and life principles of Muhammad Ali (Rumble Young Man, Rumble!).  The Black Male Achievement Movement was born in Louisville, Kentucky in September 2011.  Guidance, support and encouragement for this movement is provided by Open Society Foundations' Campaign for Black Male Achievement.  The National CARES Mentoring Movement and Mentoring U.S.A have signed on as national supporters.  For more information, please call 773.285.9600.   Click Here to listen to amazing stories of mentoring efforts around the country.    Click Here to see the Fathers Incorporated PSA on mentoring.    Click Here to see the Mentoring USA PSA on mentoring.

Tuesday's Daily Brief

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Obama Presses GOP To Extend Payroll Tax Cut, Jobless Benefits BUSINESS Wall Street Fears Volcker Rule Will Force Testosterone Monitoring POLITICS How Long Will Santorum's Surge Last? WORLD Iranian Man Blows Legs Off In Bangkok Blast CELEBRITY Officials Confirm: Prescription Drugs Found In Whitney Houston's Room STYLE PHOTOS: The 2012 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Models Revealed! BLOG POSTS Bernard-Henri Lévy: What Is Really Happening in Athens In an affair like this one, which is political as much as economic, and where the highly inflammable matter being toyed with is a people, their pride, their memory, their revolt, their survival, one would like to have seen things handled more deftly. Margaret Cho: See U Next Tuesday You Monster When you don't have friends and you have to give your not-friends cards that denote love and write their names on a paper that you would rather curse than bless, it causes problems later in life, in particular, with love. Mark Hyman, MD: How Social Networks Control Your Health If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church. The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital. Daria Morgendorffer: What I Think About Valentine's Day I always assumed that when The Huffington Post finally begged me to write for them, I'd take a cue from my fellow celebrities and blog about a humanitarian issue dear to my heart. Yet here I am being asked to write about Valentine's Day, I suppose because they thought my somewhat low tolerance for sentimentality would make it amusing. Laurie David: The Prince's Speech Last spring, right on the heels of one of the biggest events in his life, his son's wedding -- and with the eyes of the world upon his family -- Prince Charles came to the United States to deliver a speech at Georgetown University about the future of food.

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Excerpt: Five Dozen Anti-Obama Books!

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

The Big Story, By Bill Press Welcome To The "I Hate Obama Book Club" A quick tour of "What President Obama Doesn't Know," "Whiny Little Bitch," "The Post-American Presidency," "Obama Zombies," and the 57 other anti-Obama conservative books written in the last five years. Who says Obama hasn't helped grow the economy? Just ask right-wing booksellers like Regnery Publishing. READ MORE

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Budget Politics Obama Budget Doubles Down On Tax Contrast With Romney Barack Obama unveiled his budget proposal for the 2013 fiscal year Monday, a document best understood as a blueprint for how he will contrast his tax policies this fall with those of former private equity titan and likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. READ MORE

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Featured Column: Mary Sanchez Why Did CPAC Embrace A White Supremacist? Last week, GOP officials were told that a former leader of a group preaching the genetic superiority of white people would appear on a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference in D.C. -- and the views he has been linked to went completely unchallenged by the GOP's spineless non-reaction. READ MORE

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Featured Author: Tim Weiner The Wall Street Bombing That Made Hoover And The FBI Shortly after noon on Thursday, Sept. 16, 1920, a powerful bomb hidden in a horse-drawn wagon exploded at the corner of Wall and Broad Streets in Manhattan. It was the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history, a distinction it held for 75 years. Its force reverberates today. READ MORE

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Election 2012 Santorum Erases Romney's Lead A pair of new polls shows that Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are now in a national dead heat in the race for the Republican presidential nomination -- while President Obama is increasing his lead over both. READ MORE

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Law And Order Justice Breyer Robbed At West Indies Vacation Home Justice Stephen Breyer was robbed last week by a machete-wielding intruder at his vacation home in the West Indies, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said Monday. The 73-year-old Breyer, wife Joanna and guests were confronted by the robber around 9 p.m. EST Thursday in the home Breyer owns on the Caribbean island of Nevis. The intruder took about $1,000 in cash and no one was hurt. READ MORE

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Vows Gay Marriage Becomes Law In Washington, Gets Closer In Jersey New Jersey lawmakers gave their blessing to legalizing gay marriage for the first time Monday as the State Senate passed a bill that would allow nuptials for same-sex couples, despite Gov. Chris Christie's insistence that he will veto such legislation. Six states and Washington, D.C., allow gay marriage, and Washington state was added to that list on Monday when Gov. Christine Gregoire signed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage. READ MORE

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