(CNSNews.com)— Several small business owners told Congress they don’t know how they will stay afloat when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Tax (HIT) raises insurance premiums by as much as $500 per employee in 2014. The business owners, who have covered 100 percent of their employees’ insurance premiums in the past, […]
(CNSNews.com) – “It is a crying shame when government actually causes to you shrink your business rather than grow your business and provide additional employment for the economy,” says Texas businessman Bob Westbrook. He told Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren on Monday that Obamacare has forced him to sell or close his three CiCi’s pizza […]
(CNSNews.com) – A bankruptcy filing is the only way to resolve Detroit’s financial problems, especially the billions of dollars in unfunded pensions for city workers, the city’s emergency manager Kevyn Orr told “Fox News Sunday.” “There are going to be some adjustments,” he said, referring to benefit cuts. Orr said more than $9 billion of […]
(CNSNews.com) — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)–a Republican member of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” who co-sponsored the Senate immigration bill and was one of 14 Republicans who ultimately voted for it–was unaware that his own bill allows a person to forge up to two passports without penalty. “Under the Senate immigration bill, how many passports […]
(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is funding a study to determine if “preference for fat and sugar may have a role in overweight and obesity development” among African-American adolescents in Alabama. The department announced the $25,000 grant to Tuskegee University in Tuskeegee, Ala., in April. “This project will document taste preferences for fat […]
(CNSNews.com) – Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is planning to hold talks with jihadists, including the umbrella group known as the Pakistani Taliban, despite the failure of numerous similar initiatives over the past seven years. Campaigning ahead of the general election last May, Sharif pledged to negotiate a peace deal with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan […]
(CNSNews.com) – The Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder and president of the Rainbow Push Coalition, wants the United Nations’ human rights watchdog brought into the debate over the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Various parts of the U.N. human rights system have in the past weighed in on the Feb. 2012 shooting of the 17-year-old, criticizing Florida’s […]
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama said today America needs “more immigrants” to increase the number of people who pay taxes to the federal government and to populate the national workforce. That contrasts with the arguments he made at a recent Planned Parenthood conference, where he ridiculed efforts to limit abortion and called on the conferees […]
(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Justice Department is suing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for allegedly discriminating against a male cook who says a female co-worker harassed him for more than a year, despite his “numerous complaints to supervisors.” “Employees, regardless of their sex, have the right to work in an environment that is […]
(CNSNews.com) – The man behind the nation’s first soda ban described the Coney Island hot dog-eating contest as “one of the greatest sporting events of the year.” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attended the annual event on July 4, where he watched the winner, Joey Chestnut, scarf down 69 hot dogs. “This year, in […]
