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Starbucks Baristas To Hassle Customers About ‘Race Relations’

The Starbucks coffee chain announces a “race relations initiative” to allow employees to opine about race, whether customers like it or not. Perhaps some quick-thinking restaurant chains will begin advertising themselves as peaceful politics-free zones where people can enjoy meals and beverages without being proselytized from every angle.

Report: Peters Campaign Spoke with DeMaio Accuser

Report: Peters Campaign Spoke with DeMaio Accuser

Now that most of the votes have been counted and Carl DeMaio has conceded to incumbent San Diego-area Congressman Scott Peters (D-CA) in what was one of the most contentious and highly targeted congressional races in the country, newly released

Peters Credits Distance from Obama for Victory in CA-52

Peters Credits Distance from Obama for Victory in CA-52

Democratic congressman Scott Peters, 56, looking like the likely winner in California’s 52nd congressional district over GOP candidate Carl DeMaio, claims that he won the close race partly because he put daylight between himself and Barack Obama. Peters noted that he

Home Office Use of Controversial Spy Law Doubles

Home Office Use of Controversial Spy Law Doubles

Government snooping on personal communications in the United Kingdom has more than doubled under the present government, with the Home Office alone accessing 6,056 communications in 2013. The security minister when answering questions at the home affairs select committee insisted

Starbucks Employees Get New Tattoo Policy

Starbucks Employees Get New Tattoo Policy

Famed coffee purveyor Starbucks is making a few changes to its employee policies, one of which allows workers to have visible tattoos. Its workers will also receive a pay bump.  The coffee giant said it was increasing its pay scale

EU says Ireland grants Apple illegal tax benefits

EU says Ireland grants Apple illegal tax benefits

BRUSSELS (AP) — Ireland appears to be granting Apple illegal rebates that may have to be recouped, the European Union’s competition watchdog said Tuesday as it pressed forward with an inquiry into Apple’s overseas tax practices. If the EU’s preliminary

Commander-In-Chief Juan Valdez?

Columbian coffee growers have been using a fictional character, Juan Valdez, to hawk coffee in the U.S. since 1958. In October, 2013, the Washington Post pointed out that Starbucks would be taking on Juan in his own country. But now

Reining in College Tuition and Student Debt

Reining in College Tuition and Student Debt

Parents don’t need an army of economists to tell them college is too expensive and too many students will default on their education loans. An economy that creates too few good paying jobs is part of the problem, but colleges

Oakland TV News Crew Robbed for the Second Time

Oakland TV News Crew Robbed for the Second Time

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that KPIX-TV news has been victimized in Oakland again. For the second time in two years, its crew had thieves steal personal items while the crew was conducting a live broadcast.  On Thursday morning at

Pool Report: Burning World Can't Keep Obama Off the Golf Course

Pool Report: Burning World Can't Keep Obama Off the Golf Course

According to Saturday’s White House pool report, America shouldn’t be worrying about a fierce Ebola outbreak, our porous borders being overrun by tens of thousands of foreign unknowns, Russian adventurism, Iran’s nuke fetish, or Israel’s current struggle against an existential