Month: March 2014

Florida Restaurant Charging Customers For Obamacare Costs That Don’t Exist Yet

A Florida sports bar is now serving its burgers and wings with a side of political controversy, and diners aren’t feeling it. Eight locations of Gator’s Dockside, a popular central Florida sports bar chain, have started tacking on 1 percent “ACA Surcharge” to customers’ bills, CNN Moneyreported Thursday. The Gator Group, which runs the eight locations, […]

Krugman: Obama’s big trade deal shows he’s “weirdly out of touch”

The Obama administration is having a very difficult time convincing Democrats in Congress to support its big trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. And with his latest column, the New York Times’ Paul Krugman just made the job a little bit harder. While the award-winning economist and best-selling author’s newest isn’t a complete assault on the TPP, it’s not […]

Bob Corker: I Am ‘Public Enemy Number One Of The UAW’

WASHINGTON — The United Auto Workers union may feel that Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) interfered in its election at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga earlier this month, but on Thursday the Tennessee senator argued that he had every right to make his controversial statements as workers were casting their votes. “Do I think that public officials […]