By: Howard Schultz – news.Starbucks.com – May 23, 2018 This afternoon Starbucks will close more than 8,000 stores and begin a new chapter in our history. In 1983 I took my first trip to Italy. As I walked the streets of Milan, I saw cafés and espresso bars on every street. When I ventured inside I experienced something powerful: a...

By: Eric Wilson – nationalreview.com – May 10, 2018 High-priced lawyers and a PR blitz aren’t nearly enough to fix the problem. Facebook’s announcement last week that it is hiring former Republican senator Jon Kyl and his law firm, Covington & Burling, to investigate anti-conservative bias on the platform reveals that Mark Zuckerberg sees such bias as a PR issue...

By: Stephen Moore – washingtontimes.com – April 29, 2018 ANALYSIS/OPINION: I have argued many times on these pages, and elsewhere, that the shale oil and gas revolution is the story of the decade. Since 2007 U.S. oil and gas output has risen by about 75 percent and the renaissance is still in its infancy stages. This year the surge in...

By: David Harsanyi – thefederalist.com – May 1, 2018 On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented documents to the world that prove Iran lied for years about its peaceful intentions. Netanyahu claims that in 2017 the Iranians moved “a comprehensive program to design, build and test nuclear weapons” to a secret location, and that a few weeks ago Mossad...

By: David Harsanyi – thefederalist.com – May 1, 2018 On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented documents to the world that prove Iran lied for years about its peaceful intentions. Netanyahu claims that in 2017 the Iranians moved “a comprehensive program to design, build and test nuclear weapons” to a secret location, and that a few weeks ago Mossad...

By: Robert Knight – washingtontimes.com – April 22, 2018 ANALYSIS/OPINION: Chick-fil-A. I could eat there seven times a day Where the people laugh and children play Oh I’m in love with Chick-fil-A Suddenly, I want waffle fries in front of me . — Comedian Tim Hawkins, singing to the tune of the Beatles’ “Yesterday” Many Manhattanites apparently feel the same...

By: Robert Knight – washingtontimes.com – April 22, 2018 ANALYSIS/OPINION: Chick-fil-A. I could eat there seven times a day Where the people laugh and children play Oh I’m in love with Chick-fil-A Suddenly, I want waffle fries in front of me . — Comedian Tim Hawkins, singing to the tune of the Beatles’ “Yesterday” Many Manhattanites apparently feel the same...

  By: Dr. Merrill Matthews – mailchi.mp – April 17, 2018 Public school teachers have taken to the streets in a number of states demanding higher salaries. Conservatives often respond by claiming that we already spend enough on public education—an average of $11,392 per student, according to a recent article in Governing magazine. But not all of that money is...

This is your brain. This is your brain on race. By: Kyle Smith – nationalreview.com – April 18, 2018 We can all easily imagine circumstances in which a manager of a coffee shop or restaurant might properly call the police to ask them to remove loiterers. These are places of business. There’s nothing wrong in principle with calling the cops...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – April 18, 2018 Unconscious-bias training is a rather sinister business. By now the story is all over America. Earlier this month, two black men entered a Starbucks store in Philadelphia. They were apparently waiting for a friend before ordering — the kind of thing people do every day — and one of the men...