Social Issues

Fox's Judge Jeanine Pirro tore into the cast of 'Hamilton' for their "inappropriate" behavior this weekend, slamming it as "out and out reverse racism that tee'd up hate for a man who has done nothing to deserve it."

Pirro raged, Pence and President-elect Donald Trump won an election fair and square because "forgotten Americans, most of whom can't afford tickets to your play, and may not have even heard of it, got up and voted" against the Democrats' policies.

It seems that even the Governor of the great state of New York is incapable of discerning 'real' from 'fake' news when it doesn't fit his narrative. Proclaiming that "if there is a move to deport immigrants then I say start with me," Andrew Cuomo appears to have missed Trump's proposal focused on ridding America of 'criminal illegal immigrants' and plans "to provide immigrants who can't afford their own defense the legal assistance they need.. because in New York, we believe in justice for all."

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Istanbul on Saturday expressing their anger at a highly controversial draft law that would overturn men’s convictions for child sex assault if they married their victim. Demanding it be withdrawn, protesters shouted slogans condemning the bill which was recently brought to the parliament by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). Press TV reports: Holding banners that read, “Rape cannot be legitimized” and “AKP, take your hands off my body,” the demonstrators shouted, “We will not shut up. We will not obey.

 The following article by David Haggith was published first on The Great Recession Blog:

When Donald Trump would not state with certainty that he would accept the election results before even knowing what the results were or how they might come about, liberals wrung their hands all over the media in grief over the loss of democracy as we know it. Hillary, herself, decried that she had never heard anything so anti-democratic and unAmerican in her life.

Despite some rumors and speculation that Merkel may call it a day after being the most important woman in Europe for over a decade, having served as chancellor of Europe's biggest economy for 11 years, on Sunday Merkel told leading members of her conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) that she wants to run for a fourth term as chancellor in next year's election, senior party sources told Reuters and German DPA agency.