At what age should a child be given "the facts of life" – not the birds-and-bees facts, but what it will be like for him or her to make a living and a life?

I don’t think 6 or 7 years of age is too soon to start. If we don’t teach standards and ethics to children early on, it’s terribly hard to rein them in later. Outside influences will intrude soon enough – influences bent on sidetracking our kids and running them off into a ditch.

You have to love the right wing.  Never let facts and common sense get in the way of a good Republican rant.  A reader sent this to Mr. Mo’Kelly:

"When I read your recent comments concerning the opposition to the Ground Zero mosque, I was taken aback.  The President is wrong on this, and you are wrong.  Innocent Americans were murdered, by Muslims who acted without provocation. Our country went to war in two countries following the events on 9/11.

By Jason Whitlock
GUEST COLUMNIST

The Tiger Woods jokes don’t seem quite so funny now that Elin Nordegren has let us in on her pain.

There is no cavalry coming over the ridge to save the people from massed capital. Certainly not the Democrats, whose self-caged left wing now finds its marginalized encampments under lockdown by their own president’s hostile patrols, while the GOP and its Tea Party irregulars howl from the circling darkness.

With more than 2.5 million foreclosed homes nationwide and millions more to come, many families are tightening their household budgets, delaying major purchases and paying down debt as best they can. Unemployed or under-employed heads of household hope and pray for a new job, while those who are still working feel fortunate but also nervous that the ax could fall on them next.

On the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" speech, the major civil rights groups – or should we now say "human rights" groups – coalesced together not to celebrate the anniversary, but to protest a White cable television icon’s celebration of the event.

Glenn Beck incited a fair amount of indignation, even anger, by promoting this rally at the Lincoln Memorial with a clarion call to "take our country back [and] reclaim the civil rights movement." Not surprisingly, nobody was more indignant at Beck’s effrontery than Black civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton.

Coming soon: More movies for rapper, actor

BY AMY KAUFMAN
LOS ANGELES TIMES/MCT

LOS ANGELES – "Would you mind taking your shoes off before you come inside?" a willowy brunette asked T.I. at the door of filmmaker Brett Ratner’s mansion.

B-CU begins season Saturday with new coach

BY ANDREAS BUTLER
FLORIDA COURIER

After several consecutive 5-6 seasons, Bethune-Cookman University is entering a new era in its football program under the guidance of new head coach Brian Jenkins. The Wildcats face many challenges during the 2010 campaign. The team was 5-6 overall and 4-4 in the MEAC in 2009

Super Bowl MVP Doug Williams (Grambling State University) and Pro Football Hall of Famer Mel Blount (Southern University) lead a group of six honorees who will be recognized at the MEAC/SWAC Challenge Legends Reception at the Ballroom of the Americas at Disney’s Contemporary Hotel on Sept 4 at 7 p.m.