EMPLOYMENT NEWS – AT 5:36 P.M. ET:  In this time of high job losses, it's gratifying to find a success story.  And it's wonderful to know that a man's entire background doesn't count against him.  From the Washington Examiner:

Van Jones, Obama's former "green energy czar" forced to resign over endorsing views that President George W. Bush may have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen as well as controversy over his past as a radical communist, appears to have landed on his feet. Many of his views may have been unacceptable to the vast majority of the American public, but he's more than welcome at an Ivy League university and one of D.C.'s most prominent liberal think tanks:

The Examiner then quotes the Washington Post:

Jones, who has been consulting for companies and nonprofits on environmental issues, will start teaching at Princeton University in June and is rejoining the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, next month. On Friday, he will receive the NAACP's President's Award, for achievement in public service, the organization announced Tuesday.

Start teaching at Princeton in June?  Isn't that when the students go home?  Well, maybe he's so exciting that they'll stay for him.

Princeton has had a checkered history.  At one time it was a restricted upper-crust school whose entering classes in 1939 and 1940 voted Adolf Hitler the greatest man in the world.  But in recent decades it's gone hard left, following the academic trends of the time.  We're sure Van Jones will make the same vast contribution to Princeton that he made to the United States Government.

February 24, 2010