Social Issues

The monetary problems plaguing the state of Illinois (not to mention its public pensions) have been widely documented here over the past few years, and today the rating agencies finally noticed, when in the span of a few hours, first S&P, then Moody's downgraded Illinois to BB+/Baa3, respectively, both just one notch above junk, the lowest rating ever given to a U.S. state, as both agencies cited a long-running political stalemate over a budget shows no signs of ending.

Authored by Khadija Khan via The Gatestone Institute,

Authored by Josie Wales via TheAntiMedia.org,

Last week, Human Rights Watch penned an open letter to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees voicing their strong opposition to a new bill that would make it nearly impossible to sue police for constitutional violations. Senator John Cornyn (R-Tex.) and Representative Ted Poe (R-Tex.) proposed the identical bills on May 16th “[t]o protect law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.”

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,

The alternative media has, for good reason, slammed CNN time and again for fabricated news stories, untruths and left-leaning propaganda.

But the following opinion report from CNN’s Fareed Zakaria is a must-watch, as it touches on the very core of the purported tolerance among liberals.

Content originally generated at iBankCoin.com

When migrants cross the border from El Salvador, they're not sending their best. Criminals, drug dealers, and rapists have been sneaking into the United States in droves - which in the words of Donald Trump, "has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems."