A story appearing in the Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal today saying that fast food giant McDonalds is planning on dropping it’s health care coverage for employees because of requirements tied to the new health care bill: While many restaurants don’t offer health coverage, McDonald’s provides mini-med plans for workers at 10,500 U.S. locations, most […]
A new ABC/Washington Post poll echoes the results of the CBS poll earlier this week – Americans are waking up on offshore drilling: Just a quarter of Americans back expanding offshore drilling in the wake of the BP oil spill, and most fault federal regulators for the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, according […]
So how many out there have received one of these robo-calls to their phone saying “your car warranty is about to expire”? These things have been a total nuisance, and I have even received calls on my cell phone about it. Well it looks like the government has had enough of it: Federal regulators filed […]
Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of pricks: One of the nation’s largest time-share companies is going to be shelling out nearly a $1 million for making phone calls to people on the national “Do Not Call” list, federal regulators said Tuesday. Westgate Resorts, based in Orlando, Fla., was named in a complaint filed on […]
The feds went in and seized WaMu tonight. Another financial giant enters socialism. UPDATE: From the WSJ: In what is by far the largest bank failure in U.S. history, federal regulators seized Washington Mutual Inc. and struck a deal to sell the bulk of its operations to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. The closing represents […]
I can’t think of a better way to describe this: Amid indications that more people may have died or been harmed after being given a brand of the blood thinner heparin, federal drug regulators said Thursday that they had found “potential deficiencies” at a Chinese plant that supplied much of the active ingredient for the […]
Again we have a White House that is working to protect America from evil-doers: Complaining that television and radio shows in recent years have “too often pushed the bounds of decency,” President Bush signed legislation yesterday to escalate dramatically the penalties against broadcasters who violate federal standards. “The language is becoming coarser during the times […]
Looks like trouble could be compounding for Bill Frist according to this article which appears today in the Washington Post: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has been subpoenaed to turn over personal records and documents as federal authorities step up a probe of his July sales of HCA Inc. stock, according to sources familiar […]