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on March 31, 2016 in World News

Chicago Debt Downgraded to Near ‘Junk Bonds’

by Chriss W. Street Fitch Ratings downgraded the City of Chicago’s credit rating to just one step above “junk bonds” on March 28. Fitch stated that last week’s Illinois Supreme Court decision voiding a law aimed at boosting funding for two of the city’s pension funds was “among the worst of the possible outcomes for the city’s credit quality.”  The agency’s credit analysts warned that the rating could be downgraded further in the absence of “a realistic plan that puts the pension funds on an affordable path toward solvency.” Chicago’s debt rating was slashed two-notches to BBB-minus, which is just one step… View Article

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on March 30, 2016 in World News

Chicago’s Out-of-Control Gun Crime Already Up 84 Percent Over Last Year

by Warner Todd Huston Chicago has become the most stereotypical example of what many dream the Wild West was like in the days before the law went west of the Mississippi. It is already so bad this year that at 144 total homicides, the city has seen an 84 percent increase over this time last year. According to DNAInfo.com the first three months of 2016 have seen more shootings than the first three months of any year in over a decade. With 790 shot so far this year, that is over 80 percent higher then the 419 March ended with in… View Article

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on March 30, 2016 in World News

The Right Stuff: Tom Wolfe Calls Trump ‘Lovable Megalomaniac’

by Austin Ruse Tom Wolfe, America’s foremost man-of-letters speaks enthusiastically to The American Spectator about his fellow New Yorker, controversial businessman turned politician Donald Trump. Tom Wolfe, author of the books The Right Stuff, Bonfire of the Vanities and many other works of literature, tells columnist George Neumyer that Trump is a “loveable megalomaniac” who is capitalizing on “a lot of distress and contempt for government.” “He comes out and says things like, no more illegal immigration from Mexico, no more immigrants from Islamic countries, and so on, and a lot of people say, ‘Hey, yeah, finally, someone has come out and said… View Article

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