“Georgetown” on The Daily Caller

WASHINGTON (AP) — Georgetown center Greg Monroe is heading to the NBA, planning to hire an agent and skip his last two seasons of college eligibility. (more)

Any Chicagoan who thought the election of America’s first black president would inspire black opinion leaders to come up with something new to say probably had a miserable time last weekend. Especially if they were listening to Michael Eric Dyson. (more)

The Big East fondly remembers the NCAA tournament of last season, when the conference placed two teams, including Villanova, in the Final Four and four squads in the Elite Eight, and basked in all the coast-to-coast praise. (more)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Ohio had no shot to beat Georgetown. Robert Morris had no shot to beat Villanova. (more)

After premiers at CPAC and the National Tea Party Convention, Citizens United’s new film, “Generation Zero,” hit the big screen again, Georgetown style. (more)

As the first same-sex couples married in Washington on Tuesday, the city is in the national spotlight as a pioneer in the gay-rights movement. But local officials say the historic event also has more practical implications for a city grappling with 12 percent unemployment: jobs. A study by the nonprofit Williams Institute predicted that legalizing same-sex marriage will create 700 jobs and contribute $52.2 million over three years to the local economy. (more)

Everyone is wondering: Where did that erroneous rumor of an imminent retirement by Chief Justice John Roberts come from? The gossip spread like wildfire, triggering thousands of texts, blog posts, and emails — a few hundred of them to the ATL tips line — before Radar, which first published the rumor, retracted its report. (more)

Georgetown’s leading scorer Austin Freeman has been diagnosed with diabetes. His status for the team’s upcoming games is uncertain. (more)

In a speech Wednesday night at the George Washington University, Howard Dean told College Democrats that “the Tea Party is about a generation who grew up in an America where everyone looked like them” and implied that the movement is hostile to President Obama because of his race. (more)

AUSTIN, Texas – A pilot furious with the Internal Revenue Servicecrashed his small plane into an office building that houses federal tax employees in Austin, Texas on Thursday, setting off a raging fire that sent workers fleeing as thick plumes of black smoke poured into the air. (more)

“They told me in 2010 everything would change,” Sledge said. “Here it is in February, and nothing has changed.” (more)

When did journalists become such pathetic cowards? Although hacks have always pushed their personal biases, it wasn’t that long ago that they would often challenge those biases when faced with facts. In 1970, Rolling Stone magazine won a National Magazine Award for its unsparing coverage of the hippie apocalypse at Altamont; the citation credited the hippie journal for “challenging the shared assumptions of its readers.” Republican Bob Woodward smoked out Watergate. Jazz writer Nat Hentoff was pro-choice until 1984, when he discovered the euthanizing of a child with Down syndrome. (more)

The crowd was visible from several blocks away. About 75 or so twenty-somethings gathered outside of McFadden’s in Foggy Bottom, anxiously craning their necks to see inside of the bar. (more)