Liberty
Holder Helped Starbucks Get Sued
Aaron Sibarium of the Washington Free Beacon reports on a case of virtue signaling run amok. It was 2018, two years before the tidal wave of diversity initiatives unleashed by…
Starbucks
Liberty
A Tip For Those Concerned About Tipping
Kylee Griswold of the Federalist takes a stand against unnecessary tipping. [W]hat’s this nonsense about customers being asked to tip at self-checkouts? You read that right. Biden’s economy is so…
Liberty
Starbucks to Face Suit Over Discriminatory Practices
Aaron Sibarium of the Washington Free Beacon reports on interesting legal action involving a high-profile company. A Starbucks shareholder is suing the company’s top executives over a host of race-conscious…
Energy
Coronavirus highlights problem linked to ‘green’ shopping bags
John Tierney of City Journal writes about the negative impact of a popular “green” shopping technique. The COVID-19 outbreak is giving new meaning to those “sustainable” shopping bags that politicians…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Bursting of the higher education bubble
Editors at Investor’s Business Daily welcome the end of the higher education bubble (discussed frequently in this venue). A good indication of a tightening labor market is the fact that…
Education
UNC’s role in the latest campus silliness
The latest issue of National Review features the following disturbing blurb. Starbucks’s pumpkin-spice latte, a popular seasonal indulgence, has been exposed by two academics as a sinister totem of white…
Education
Well of course the benign things ‘discovered’ to be racist symbols include pumpkins
After writing just yesterday about why professors say such abjectly stupid things as canoes reek of genocide, I was reminded of the following. And unless this is an Sokalesque hoax,…
Liberty
Steyn, Bloomberg, and Tocqueville … oh, my!
Leave it to National Review humorist Mark Steyn to find a way to tie New York City’s nanny-in-chief — Mayor Michael Bloomberg — to one of the key challenges Alexis…
Liberty
Ready or not, here they come
In today’s Pope Center Clarion Call, Jenna Ashley Robinson writes about the distressing fact that roughly half of the students who enroll in college are not regarded as “college ready.”…
Health Care
5 Ways States Can Improve Health Care
View in your browser. States are still the best place to reform health care. ObamaCare’s supporters have given up on its ability to cut costs and reduce the deficit; they…
Liberty
Re: Mary Easley to hold press conference at 11 a.m.
And how much it this gonna cost state taxpayers? What if give her some Stein Mart coupons and a Starbucks giftcard, will she just go away then?
Liberty
And the winner is…..
Roy and all of JLF’s first floor staff are vindicated. WRAL notes here that Consumer Reports taste testers rank Eight O’Clock Coffee first. Yes, better than Starbucks. Those of us…