After a weary battle to permanently remove Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) from San Francisco schools, the school board voted 4-3 Tuesday night to reinstate the program. If you recall, the army training service was supposed to be phased out in less than a month at all SF public schools. Many argued that the 90-year-old military recruiting program shouldn't be allowed in public schools. "The kind of leadership it teaches is classic military leadership ... It's intended for war, not for civilian life," said Michael Wong, who graduated from Galileo High as a first Lt. in the JROTC. Getting rid of JROTC would have made San Francisco the country's only school district to ban the program based on political bias. more ›

Jane Stillwater, a Berkelery blogger and Ghost Whisperer fan, is hopping mad. See, Stillwater is suing the US Army for a plane ticket and 15 mocha lattes because she had been given the green light to be embedded with troops in Iraq, which was canceled after "she bought the ticket for anyway and waited at a Starbucks for two days hoping the military would reconsider." (Really? Two days at Starbucks? Was superior Peet's Coffee unavailable?) Her request for the armed serviced to pay her back was denied, so like any red-blooded American, she's now taking them to court. (KNTV) more ›