Social Issues

Top congressional Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer and Bernie Sanders, held a press conference earlier today to officially introduce their "Fight For $15" minimum wage legislation, dubbed the Raise the Wage Act.  Among other things, the bill primarily serves to more than double the federal minimum wage from it's current level of $7.25 to $15 by 2024. 

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

Hours after the devastating terror attack in Manchester, England, and following UK PM Theresa May's announcement of quasi-martial-law on the streets of Britain, Nigel Farage follows yesterday's BBC anchor's comments and asks "what is our government actually gonna do?"

"Get used to it"...

Via Japan Subculture Research Center,

Japan is getting serious about gender equality - and there were absolutely no bribes paid by Japan to win the right to host the 2020 Olympics - and the nuclear disaster at Fukushima is under control. Decide for yourself which of these three statements is the most untrue.

To our complete 'shock', the liberal bastion of California's northern shores has just announced that it will create a brand new branch of the Public Defender's office to specifically defend illegal immigrants in deportation cases.  Adding insult to injury, taxpayers will have to pony up an additional $200,000 each year to cover the cost of 3 public defenders and a paralegal, all of whom will be dedicated to making sure that federal laws are ignored.