Chelsea Clinton with a Mother’s Day message to her mother.

“And remember, your little girls can be anything they want to be in America when they grow up. Even if it’s to be the second woman president.”

Later this month, Lehman College in the Bronx will hold a program called “The United Nations at Lehman College: A Homecoming.”

A homecoming?

Apparently so. The campus is the original home of the United Nations. It was 1946, and the campus then housed the uptown branch of Hunter College. Tthe Soviet Union staged its first walkout, the Atomic Energy Commission was formed under Bernard Baruch and Eleanor Roosevelt began the work that led to the Declaration of Human Rights.

The program will take place on May 21 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public.

Margaret Bruce, an assistant to Roosevelt and a Mount Kisco resident whom I wrote about a few weeks ago, will take part in a symposium on “The United Nations: Past, Present and Future.” Also participating will be Brian Urquhart, the former undersecretary general for special political affairs, and Betty Teslenko, the former deputy head, Verbatim Reporting Section.

John McCain’s home state newspaper analyzes his record and concludes that in tight Senate votes, the Republican is not a maverick.

The Arizona Republic looks at the most divided issues in the last decade and finds that McCain almost never cost his party its objectives.

More here.

PHOTO: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

There’s been lots of talk about how the long primary is hurting the Democrats, Barack Obama, especially.

Over the last weeks, he has been battered by the controversy surrounding his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Turn on Fox News in particular and you’ll catch some commentator repeating one of Wright’s more incendiary comments.

Meanwhile, John McCain has been traveling the country with very little of the media focused on him.

But after last night’s victory, I’m not sure the timing has been a bad thing for Obama. Could the sting be out of the Wright relationship?

His opponents will continue to bring it up. Karl Rove said as much last night. But they might need a fresh line of attack.

As for Obama, last night he turned the attacks back on the attackers.
“Yes, we know what’s coming,” he said. “I’m not naive.”

“The attempts to play on our fears and exploit our differences, to turn us against each other for political gain, to slice and dice this country into red states and blue states, blue-collar and white-collar, white, black, brown, young, old, rich, poor.”

Clinton-Obama. Obama-Clinton.

Right now it’s hard to picture the two senators on the same ticket, but here’s a Web site promoting just that.

Its creator is Adam Parkhomenko, who resigned from the Clinton campaign earlier this year.

Here’s what Parkhomenko said in a release today announcing the relaunch of the site.

“Originally my goal was to have a place for Clinton-Obama supporters (in that order) to organize. But over the last few weeks, I have talked with Obama supporters who talk about a Obama-Clinton ticket. And they’re right, too.”

The campaign re-filed with the FEC last week as “Vote Both” to show its commitment to bringing both senators together regardless of which is the presidential nominee.

“Vote Both” was known formerly as “Clinton-Obama 08.”

AP PHOTOS: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaign before today’s primaries in North Carolina and Indiana. Obama by Jae C. Hong.; Clinton by Elise Amendola

From the Associated Press, New York City has started issuing citations in the calorie posting dispute.

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Health Department has started issuing citations to chain restaurants that aren’t posting calorie counts on their menus.
Monday is the first day that restaurants are being cited for not following the law. But fines will not start until July.
The New York City law requiring restaurants to post calorie counts applies to chains with at least 15 outlets across the country.
The state Restaurant Association is fighting the law in court.

The liberal group, Media Matters for America, reports today that since the end of February, The Washington Post published 53 articles mentioning the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Sen. Barack Obama, and 40 editorials and op-ed pieces.

The New York Times published 46 articles and 22 editorials and op-eds, according to the group.

Media Matters argued that the media should have been paying equal attention to John McCain and his endorsement by John Hagee, a pastor criticized for his statements about the Catholic church and gays. I disagree. However hateful Hagee’s comments, Hagee was not McCain’s minister for 20 years.

Still, that’s a lot of attention on Obama and his minister as controversial as Wright has become.

As for Fox News, which has been consumed by the story, Wednesday night on Hannity and Colmes Karl Rove said Obama appeared to have political motives in condemning Wright’s comments.

Rove: “Well, it comes off as political. He still — this problem is going to remain. He probably did some good in diminishing it but it still remains.”

Will he raise the bar no matter what Obama does now?

Earlier Rove had written: “It would have been better to say from the start that Wright’s words were wrong and offensive and you should have spoken out earlier. The applause would have been deafening.”

PHOTO: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. laughs with Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, left, at the Detroit NAACP’s 53rd annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit Sunday. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) Byline: 

New York’s lawsuit claiming that the gun industry marketed weapons knowing that they would be diverted into illegal markets has been thrown out.

A federal appeals court, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a federal law provides the gun industry with broad immunity from lawsuits brought by crime victims and violence-plagued cities, according to the Associated Press.

New York is one of several cities that had sued gun makers. It said the industry violated public nuisance law by failing to take reasonable steps to stop widespread access to illegal firearms, the AP reported.

Rather than money, it sought a court order for gun makers to more closely monitor those dealers who frequently sell guns later used to commit crimes.

“I am disappointed in the court’s decision,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg told the AP. “Regardless of this ruling, we will continue our fight against illegal guns full bore — in the courtrooms, on the streets and in the Congress.”

Lawrence G. Keane, a lawyer for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a firearms industry trade association, called the ruling “very gratifying to members of the firearms industry.”

He said Congress “understood that frivolous lawsuits like New York City’s defied common sense and represented a clear abuse of the judicial system that threatened to bankrupt a responsible and law-abiding industry.”

A Dallas man who spent more than 27 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit was freed today, the Associated Press reported.

James Lee Woodward had spend more time wrongly imprisoned than any other prisonner in the United States when he was cleared by DNA testing.

He had been found guilty of the murder of his girlfriend in 1980 and was cleared with the help of the Innocence Project of Texas.

The number of men who were convicted unjustly is alarming. Woodward was the second Dallas man in two weeks to have his conviction overturned, according to the Innocence Project. The total as of today: 216.

Meanwhile Jeffrey Deskovic of Peekskill was imprisoned for 16 years for a murder and rape he also did not commit.

These days, Deskovic is trying to use his story to bring about reforms. You can visit his Web site here.

In today’s column, I write about the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Molly Bruce, a Mount Kisco resident, assisted Eleanor Roosevelt as the former first lady helped to draft the document.

On Sunday, from 2 to 4 p.m., the Westchester division of the United Nations Association will meet at the Scarsdale Library, 54 Olmsted Road.

The speaker will be Linda Fasulo, who has covered the United Nations for NBC and NPR and and who is the author of “An Insider’s Guide to the UN: A Correspondent’s Perspective.”