By Blake Neff Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has launched a new initiative that will encourage the company’s baristas to talk to patrons about America’s racial issues. To trigger the conversations, in the next week baristas will be encouraged to write the phrase “Race Together” on customers cups, which is intended to “facilitate a conversation between you and…
By Jonah Bennett Published: March 17, 2015 President Barack Obama told Vice News in an interview released Monday that America’s youth should stop obsessing about the legalization of marijuana. Instead, they should be thinking about climate change, and other issues. Obama’s interview with Vice News’ Shane Smith covered political gridlock, global warming and foreign policy. But aside from pressing…
By Blake Neff Students at Appalachian State University in North Carolina are being admonished by a residential adviser who is urging them to “check” no fewer than seven types of privilege, Campus Reform reports. The dangerous privileges to be checked were all listed on a bulletin board in the campus’ East Hall, and included “white privilege,” “male privilege,” “Christian privilege,” “heterosexual privilege,” able-bodied privilege,”…
By: R. Brownell Almost a year ago, I was traveling to San Diego to attend a week long Cato Institute seminar. I walked off the plane upon arrival to see something which was definitely in the realm of odd. A rather large advertisement posted to a wall outside of my gate showed a killer whale…
A passenger on a United Airlines flight was detained after passengers reported he started screaming “Jihad! Jihad!” and ran for the cockpit. From GirlsJustWannaHaveGuns: Alert passengers on board a United Airlines flight averted a potentially dangerous situation when they subdued a young co-passenger started yelling “Jihad! Jihad!” and appeared to threaten a hijacking. United Flight…
By Michael Bastasch Europe’s costly green energy policies should serve as a warning American policymakers trying to impose similar regulations at home, according to data from a new report. The International Energy Agency found that European Union policies aimed at boosting green energy use are costing families and businesses billions of dollars a year in…
His Luck Just Ran Out A drunken Irishman of questionable ancestral heritage was taken down by police in Buffalo, New York after trying to instigate fights on Sunday’s St. Patrick’s parade.
You’re a laughing, smiling male individual? Sexist pig! by Arnt Rune Flekstad Science suggests that men use smile and laughter to hide their inner hate of women. Or that is at least what “scientists” at Northeastern University seem to think. The social scientists have been studying the interaction between 54 students put into 27 couples. They…
By Michael Bastasch Published: March 16, 2015 Former Vice President Al Gore is done with presenting global warming as the ultimate doomsday scenario, instead he’s trying to reinvent himself as a “prophet of possibility,” according to The New York Times. Gore has made a name for himself sounding the alarm on man-made global warming since the release of…
Boston News, Weather, Sports | FOX 25 | MyFoxBoston BOSTON, MA – Residents of some areas of Boston are getting a reprieve from parking tickets if they can’t reach their meters due to built up snow. Local towns and cities are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in parking revenue, but enforcement isn’t cracking down…