Obama notes

• It seems Barack Obama, the first black President, is descended from the first black African slave, John Punch -- on his white mother's side.
• Despite being selected as editor, then president, of the Harvard Law Review, Barack Obama never had an article published in that journal under his own name.
• The sister of conservative talk radio host Neil Boortz was a teacher at Barack Obama's school in Hawaii while he was there, and may have had Obama as a student.