Pres. Trump Ended The ISIS Problem Easily And Swiftly

Nine months after President Trump promised to defeat ISIS "quickly and effectively," U.S.-backed forces captured Raqqa, which had served as the ISIS capital. The battle now is over who deserves credit: President Trump or President Obama.

Trump, is the correct answer: "It had to do with the people I put in and it had to do with rules of engagement," Trump said in a radio interview.

New Immigration Bills Up For Congressional Approval

The popularity of US President Donald Trump got a big boost after he sent Congress his immigration legislation priorities last 9 October, including building a controversial border wall, speeding up deportations and dramatically increasing the number of officials involved in enforcement.

The list, which also includes preventing immigrants from sponsoring their extended families to move to the US, drew immediate fire from Democratic leaders in Congress, who said it goes "far beyond what is reasonable."

Hollywood's Double Standard in Weinstein And Clinton Cases

Not only was Harvey Weinstein a political ally and a major donor to Hillary and Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation, but his alleged sexual misconduct has refocused attention on Bill's own checkered past as the tide turns against powerful men who take advantage of women.

"The question is on everyone’s lips: how could we have let Weinstein’s crimes continue for so long? Yet there’s little in the Weinstein story — the years of whispers of impropriety, the past allegations by women, the intimate connection with a party that advertises itself as a defender of women — that doesn’t apply to Bill Clinton," said Jacobin’s Branko Marcetic.

Religious Freedom Deemed Important In The U.S.

There is a new and very comprehensive statement coming from U.S. Justice Department calling religious freedom a "fundamental right of paramount importance," placing President Donald Trump's administration squarely on the side of religious conservatives in America’s culture wars.

The statement by Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions, with a long legal analysis by the department’s lawyers, is intended to be guidance to the rest of the federal government on how to decide conflicts involving declarations of religious belief – for example, the recent case involving a baker who refused to make a cake for a gay couple's wedding. The Justice Department already has intervened in that case on the side of the baker.

No More Burqa in Austria

Muslim women in Austria were FINALLY forced by police to remove their facial coverings last 1 October, as an anti-burqa law came into effect.

The so-called 'burqa ban' prohibits facial coverings including niqabs and burqas, and also places restrictions on surgical masks, ski masks and clown make-up worn in public.