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MSNBC’s Al Sharpton on Tuesday sounded off on the uptick in burglaries and looting on the West Coast and New York City as Democrat-led cities have become lax on prosecuting property crime. Sharpton said on “Morning Joe” that “real racism” is progressives acting like people of certain races or communities were incapable of acting better than the “beastly acts” and “vile behavior” they have been normalizing.

The laws of political fundraising dictate that every time a politician does something embarrassing — or heck, every time a politician does something — his or her opponents must therefore beat that incident to death in order to make money. Lo and behold: Barack Obama saluted the Marines while holding a latte! Ka-ching. Over at SemperLatte.com, anyone who is outraged by Obama’s multitasking can sign up for the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s emailing list, and express their displeasure by donating various sums of money to an assortment of GOP candidates running in the upcoming midterms.

You've sent me emails in the past, commenting on my appearances on CNBC's Kudlow Report, my columns for the Wall Street Journal, National Review, SmartMoney or TheStreet.com, my Krugman Truth Squad column, or my blog The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor & Stupid. So I thought you'd like to know that thanks to the encouragement of people like you, I've written a book that brings together all the ideas I've been talking about, writing about and blogging about over the past ten years. My new book, written with Andrew Greta, is called I Am John Galt, and it was...

Iraq: US troops leave with a latteLast American combat troops get ready to withdraw from Iraq. By Jane Arraf - GlobalPost Published: August 14, 2010 08:48 ET in Middle East BAGHDAD — This is the way a war ends — not with a bang but a chai tea latte. At Victory Base Camp in Baghdad, soldiers from the last American combat brigade in Iraq are packing up their coffee grinders, their pirated DVDs and their tangled memories for the long journey home. They line up outside the Green Bean coffee shop ("Honor First, Coffee Second") in 90 degree evening heat...

Ordering an espresso beverage can be intimidating. It may seem like everyone but you knows the lingo. They rattle off long and complicated drink orders without taking a breath. I’ll have a double tall decaf breve latte, easy foam, one Splenda. Double cupped. There could be many reasons why you have not yet been assimilated into the coffee culture. Perhaps you're more of a tea drinker. Perhaps you usually like the ice blended drinks, but today you want something hot. Or maybe four dollars for a drink always seemed excessive, until your boss gave you that Starbucks gift certificate. Whatever...

A conservative media watchdog says it's outrageous that Barack Obama is blaming a major cable news service for costing him two to three points in the polls. In a recently published interview for the New York Times Magazine, the Democratic presidential candidate said: "I'm convinced that if there were no FOX News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls. If I were watching FOX News, I wouldn't vote for me, right? Because the way I'm portrayed 24/7 is as a freak!" The Illinois senator continued, explaining that he is being typecast as "the latte-sipping, New York...

In a short, sheer, baby-doll negligee and coordinated pink panties, Candice Law is dressed to work at a drive-through espresso stand in Tukwila, and she is working it. Customers pull their trucks up to the window, where Law greets each with an affectionate nickname, blows kisses, and vamps about as she steams milk for a mocha. "You want whipped cream?" she asks, a sly smile playing on her pierced lip... "Do you like my leg warmers?" she asks. "Aren't they hot?" Hot is not the half of it. To stand apart from the hordes of drive-through espresso stands that clutter...

Sometimes two vices are better than one. Drinking large amounts of coffee protects the livers of people who drink large amounts of alcohol, a new study shows. The results partly explain why so many heavy alcohol drinkers escape cirrhosis of the liver, say the authors. The idea that coffee drinking might benefit alcohol users arose more than a decade ago, when cardiologist Arthur Klatsky and colleagues at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Oakland, California, noticed that fewer heavy drinkers were dying of cirrhosis--scarring that hardens the liver--than expected. A study at the time suggested coffee drinking might be...

Just off Coney Island Avenue, in Ditmas Park, among the car washes and Pakistani sweet shops, there sits a lefty coffeehouse that seems to have dropped in from Williamsburg or maybe Seattle. Inside, the walls are painted an inviting shade of yellow; undulating, handmade bookshelves feature local zines—one of the store's bestsellers is America (The Book), by the creators of The Daily Show. A small latte is $3, 10 cents less than at Starbucks. Vox Pop, as the café is called, is the anti-Starbucks in more ways than one. On March 1, its six employees, led by 18-year-old Emmy Gilbert,...

Total vanity post. I apologize now...so hold your sarcasm...thanks.I had my first Latte ever friday and my second today and I am hooked. Since I can't afford to do that tooo often....I thought I'd ask the professional coffee drinkers in here if they can explain the difference of all the different kinds of coffees out there and if there is a machine I can buy to make my own lattes? Would it be an expensive adventure? What else would I need to buy? What's your favorite combination of flavors...etc.... Any advice?

I live in a college town in North Carolina, and recently I went into a coffee shop to innocently purchase a cup of coffee. What I instead found was a veritable den of sin, filled with Marxists and DemocRATS. To wit: -The entire place stunk of patchoulli -Patrons were reading 'Tropic of Cancer', 'The Communist Manifesto', and 'Stupid White Men' -- titles that I would never want my good G*d-fearing children getting a hippie's length away from (of course, not a Bible to be found) -Two women were kissing (of course, I could only tell they were women upon further...

Health news March 10, 2004 Cups of coffee can ward off diabetes . . .By Mark Henderson, Science Correspondent DRINKING coffee can substantially reduce the risk of developing diabetes, scientists have discovered. A major study involving more than 14,000 people in Finland, which has the highest rate of coffee consumption in the world, has revealed that those who drink most have the lowest incidence of adult-onset or type 2 diabetes. When people drank three to four cups of coffee a day, their risk of developing diabetes fell by 29 per cent for women and 27 per cent for men....

All I know about Iowa is based on two things: A l940s movie, "State Fair" with Jeanne Crain and Dana Andrews; and the 16 days it seems to take to cross Iowa by auto on the way to Los Angeles. I do know they're famous for corn and hogs. "I'll tell you how I feel," the hubby replies, all but spitting out his dentures, "Howard Dean can take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading. ..." Here the wife continues "... body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back to Vermont where it belongs." Wow! Where do I fit in...

City Of Seattle Initiative No. 77 Espresso Tax Yes 13147 31.71% No 28307 68.29%

Someday I'm gonna be famous, Do I have talent, well, no. These days you don't really need it, Thanks to reality shows Can't Wait to date a supermodel, Can't Wait to sue my dad. Can't wait to wreck a Ferrari On my way to rehab.... Chorus- Cause when you're a Celebrity It's adios reality You' can act just like a fool People think you're cool Just cause your on TV. I can throw major fits When my latte isn't just how I like it They say I've gone insane, I'll blame it on the fame, And the pressures that it...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134642379_playboy27.html Playboy in search of willing bare-istas at Starbucks storesJust because its corporate logo is a topless mermaid, that doesn't mean Starbucks is thrilled about a Playboy callout for "Women of Starbucks." The Seattle-based coffee company was anything but abuzz following the venerable men's mag's announcement this week: "Calling all coffee-making cuties!" ... to pose nude in an upcoming issue. No one at Starbucks would comment on the matter apart from this rather terse written statement: "Starbucks Coffee Company is aware that Playboy Enterprises has issued a call for entries for a 'Women of Starbucks' section in a future...

So here I am in Seattle, America's coffee capital, and the flacks at Starbucks won't even talk to me about the measure on Berkeley's November ballot that would require coffeehouses to sell only Fair Trade, organic or shade-grown coffee. (Fair Trade means the importers paid growers at least $1.26 cents per pound for coffee beans. Shade-grown coffee, the measure explains, "is planted in a shaded, forest-like setting created by a canopy of trees," which provides habitat for native songbirds.) Violators would be subject to a $100 fine, six months behind steel bars or both. Tully's and Seattle's Best Coffee...

The Coffee OrdealBy Bereket Balcha The price of Ethiopian coffee in the international market has fallen drastically after it allegedly lowered its quality lately. Some people assert that the decline in quality could be attributed to the introduction of artificial fertilizers on the crop so far being cultivated without any. Whether it was advisable to make use of those expensively imported chemicals to increase yield is a question better left for the professional treatment of an agronomist. But having observed the consequences of this practice one could safely deduce that their disadvantages have outweighed the advantages. The matter leaves one wondering...