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Obama’s Crazed DOJ Mandates Police Departments Must Hire Non-Citizens

Obama’s Crazed DOJ Mandates Police Departments Must Hire Non-Citizens

In the United States citizens can be arrested by non-citizens. Little wonder the electorate is concerned about immigration.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/22/denver-sheriffs-department-fined-10k-for-hiring-only-us-citizens.html

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Obama Legacy Already Crumbling As Federal Judge Blocks Overtime Rule

Obama Legacy Already Crumbling As Federal Judge Blocks Overtime Rule

Ever a big fan of unilateral "rule changes," back in May of this year Obama and the Department of Labor implemented a new overtime regulation that was set to take effect on December 1st.  The rule change called for increasing the minimum salary threshold at which employers would have been required to pay overtime to workers from $23,660 to $47,476, or a mere 101%.  The rule would have required employers to pay time-and-a-half to salaried workers making less than $47,476 per year for any time worked in excess of 40 hours per week.  According to the Wall Street Journal, the new regula

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Minimum Wage Protesters Call For "Day Of Disruption" In 340 US Cities

In what may be an early crisis test for the president-elect, on November 29, the nationwide campaign to increase the federal minimum wage in the United States has calling for a "Day of Disruption", namely strikes and civil disobedience, on November 29 in the latest push to raise the minimum wage in the US to $15.

The Fight for 15 group is preparing to protest in 340 cities across the United States, and is calling for airport and fast-food workers to strike.

Dallas Mayor Admits Police Pension Pushing City Toward "Fan Blades Of Municipal Bankruptcy"

Dallas Mayor Admits Police Pension Pushing City Toward "Fan Blades Of Municipal Bankruptcy"

 

A few months ago we wrote that the Dallas Police and Fire Pension Fund was on the verge of collapse after a series of shady real estate investments resulted in massive markdowns of pension assets, the ouster of the fund's CIO and an FBI raid of it's largest real estate investment manager (see "Dallas Cops' Pension Fund Nears Insolvency In Wake Of Shady Real Estate Deals, FBI Raid").  We summed up the fund's dilemma as follows:  

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