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Stop slamming Starbucks: Why ‘Race Together’ campaign matters

Can I just get a cup of coffee – hold the rant on race? This week Starbucks is giving its staff the option to write “Race Together” on its paper cups of coffee. The idea is to ignite coffeehouse crosstalk,…

Did UN food aid for Yemen go to the not-so-poor?

FILE – In a Sept. 3, 2012 file photo, former Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh speaks during a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of his General People’s Congress party (GPC) establishment in Sanaa, Yemen. U.N. experts said in a report…

Rare Victory: Obama administration temporarily drops ammo ban proposal

If President Obama can’t have his way with banning guns, it looks like his next option is to ban the bullets used by those guns. ;Too often, Obama has shown little regard for the law. ;He does what he wants.…

Selma: 50 years after ‘Bloody Sunday’ the unfinished business of civil rights

Almost a quarter of the U.S. Congress, along with President George W. Bush and President Obama, will be in Selma, Ala., Saturday for the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march that led to the 1965 voting rights act. At…

Where are the jobs? America’s new leisure class

To listen to President Obama, the U.S. economy is firing on all cylinders. Yet it is hardly creating jobs at a breakneck pace, and too many able-bodied men have grown lazy and show no interest in working. Friday, economists expect…

Justice Department reached only possible conclusion in Michael Brown case

Three-and-a-half months after a St. Louis Grand Jury decided not to indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson for Michael Brown’s death, President Obama’s Department of Justice has finally followed suit – admitting that there is no case to be brought…

Supreme Court should nix ObamaCare subsidies, instigate reform

The Supreme Court could improve American health care by striking down federal subsidies offered through HealthCare.com—the federal exchange that sells insurance in states without government-run marketplaces. Most Americans never wanted the Affordable Care Act. A recent Gallup poll found 56…

Five things you should know about Janet Yellen’s plan for higher interest rates

Since 2008, the Federal Reserve has been giving banks virtually free money by keeping their short term borrowing rates near zero. This week, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen indicated that the Fed is getting even more optimistic about the economy…

Hundreds support Iranian mystic facing death sentence

Taheri was nearly done with his prison sentence when the court changed the charge to one that carries the death penalty. A man who taught mysticism in Iran faces the death penalty after already serving almost four years in prison,…

Guns and the New York Times: Why shouldn’t Americans be able to defend themselves?

FILE — New York Times building (AP/Richard Drew) With Somali terrorists threatening this past weekend to attack the Mall of America, the nation’s largest mall, the debate over allowing citizens to defend themselves has heated up again. Gun control advocates…