Social Issues

During his campaign, Trump vowed to America's middle class that he would get rid of (since then the phrase has been amended to "repeal and replace" for various reasons) Obamacare as soon as he got into office. Well, Trump is out of his 30 day honeymoon, and the confusion and chaos over the future of Obamacare has never been greater, to a large extent due to growing pushback he has been getting in Congress.

Below is an update of the latest developments and progress, or lack thereof, regarding the repeal and replace, or perhaps repair and rename, of Obamacare.

As the media continue to destroy Milo Yiannopoulos over misconstrued child abuse comments, Hollywood darling Lena Dunham has been praised after revealing that she repeatedly sexually assaulted her younger sister.  Milo has become the center of a targeted campaign by notorious anti-Trump group ‘Never Trump‘ – who spent months planning to distort and fabricate claims about Milo and child abuse in order to try and silence him.

This is How States Will Take Your Pension

All emphasis ours

written by Soren K and MarketSlant 

with contributions by Vince Lanci of Echobay.com

Are you watching closely CT, IL, NJ etc?

The table is now set for you to have your pension violated for the greater good. Are you paying attention? Someone is deciding that you must decrease your standard of living on behalf of someone else because the state of CT in its infinite ignorance messed up.

How important are immigrants to the U.S. housing market?  At least according to University of Washington economist Jacob Vigdor they could own roughly 12.5% of the housing stock in the U.S. worth about $3.7 trillion in aggregate. 

Over the past year we've frequently written about the alarming homicide rates in Chicago (see "Chicago Violence Worst In 20 Years: 'Not Seen This Level Of Disrespect For Police Ever'").  But, the Wall Street Journal recently conducted an analysis of homicide data since 1985, for the 35 largest cities in the United States, and found that Chicago isn't the only place where violent crime is surging.  As it turns out, murder rates are also spiking in Baltimore, Milwaukee and Memphis, all of which have in the past two years approached or exceeded the records set a quarter-century ago, wh