Source: Starbucks Seeks to Initiate Conversation about Abortion with Customers

Burnt Grounds
Scrawled on Starbucks cups, the words “Race Together” were intended to stimulate conversations about race relations in America, beginning just days before the company’s annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday. But the coffee company’s campaign has instead unleashed widespread vitriol and derision. (New York Times, 3/19/2015)

So try this: head into Starbucks and suggest to your barrista that you believe Officer Darren Wilson acted in self-defense and that Michael Brown committed felonious assault on a peace officer. That's a conversation about race that might stimulate some discussion! Of course, you might get slipped a decaf coffee...


The Passion
Allies, antagonists and average Israelis have long struggled to understand just what Mr. Netanyahu, a deft political strategist, actually believes in, beyond his passionate commitment to Israel’s security and to the Jewish people. (New York Times, 3/19/2015)

So Netanyahu is passionately dedicated to the security and fate of Israelis. And somehow the New York Times claims there is confusion on the part of observers with respect to his core beliefs. Sounds like Bibi has it just about right. Of course the Times would say there was no confusion if Netanyahu were publicly in favor of, say, gay marriage or legalized marijuana. Then they would say that everyone knows where he stands on the issues.


Miscount
The Census Bureau asks Americans about subjects as varied as race, religion, annual income and even their source of home heating. But there is one glaring demographic omission: The census does not ask people about their sexual orientation. (New York Times, 3/20/2015)

Glaring omission? Since when has the Census Bureau been tasked with determining the sexual practices of Americans. Wouldn't Liberals be outraged that the government is prying into the private sex lives of ordinary citizens?


Quote of the Day
“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.” (Thomas Sowell, Knowledge And Decisions)

It has been too long since we have quoted Sowell.

Ready for Hillary: E-mail Scandal Officially Declared "Old News"

Questionable
The question moving forward for Mr. Obama may be whether he should essentially write off the Israeli prime minister in much the same way he has written off building any relationship with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, another frequent antagonist. (New York Times, 3/18/2015)

Relationships that Obama has not written off (in fact they are thriving!) include: the Iranian mullahs and the Castro brothers.


Never Never Land
But personally, Mr. Obama and Mr. Netanyahu have never become close, aides said. The Israeli prime minister is known for being difficult. James A. Baker III, the former secretary of state, once barred Mr. Netanyahu, then a more junior government official, from the halls of the State Department. President Bill Clinton famously disliked Mr. Netanyahu. (New York Times, 3/18/2015)

Liberals are beside themselves that Netanyahu was resoundingly re-elected. They haven't been this upset since... well, since the recent U.S. mid-term elections. And so the New York Times decides that the best approach is to trash-talk Bibi.

Meanwhile, over at MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell takes the democratic election of Netanyahu as a sign of the end of days. Helpfully, she interviews Palestinians who provide objective analyses of the horrible consequences that this election has for the region. 

Just kidding about the "objective" part!