Category: US Politics

John Conyers III, the son of embattled Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), had been accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend in a domestic dispute in February, reports say.

The younger Conyers, a Detroit hedge fund manager who had been endorsed by his father to take his place in the House of Representatives, was arrested but not charged for allegedly stabbing and bodyslamming his then-girlfriend during an argument they had in Los Angeles, California, the New York Times reported.

Conyers III told the Times in an interview Wednesday about the encounter as a way to prevent scandal after his father announced his retirement following allegations of sexual harassment.

The younger Conyers said he and his girlfriend got into an argument at 3 a.m. February 15 that turned into a physical fight. Police later arrested him for domestic violence, but the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office dropped the charges.

His girlfriend, who is not identified in court documents, secured a restraining order against Conyers III that remains in effect through March 2018.

Conyers III maintained his innocence in the interview with the Times.

“She says I stabbed her, which makes no sense,” Conyers III, 27, said. “I didn’t do this. She and I had a verbal altercation, and that escalated. She pulled the knife on me. She was chasing me. I tried to take it from her. There was a struggle. I pinned her to the wall. She kept swinging, and she cut herself.”

The girlfriend, however, told a different story to police. She told investigators that her 27-year-old boyfriend at the time became violent after accusing her of cheating on him.

She added that Conyers III “body slammed her on the bed and then on the floor where he pinned her down and spit on her,” according to court documents obtained by the New York Daily News.

After she tried to call the police, Conyers allegedly snatched her phone and chased her into the kitchen. She brandished a knife and yelled at him to leave, but Conyers allegedly snatched the knife from her hands and sliced her arm while swinging the knife at her.

Conyers III had been released $50,000 bond the same day as his arrest, and the district attorney’s office declined to pursue charges, citing a “lack of independent witnesses.”

Although the girlfriend suffered a small stab wound to her lower bicep, prosecutors said they did not have enough evidence to prove that she did not accidentally injure herself.

The elder Conyers announced his retirement from Congress Tuesday and endorsed the younger Conyers to run as his successor.

The longest-serving House member had been hospitalized recently for what staffers say are stress-related health issues.

Conyers announced in November that he would step down from his seat as a ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee as accusations of his sexually harassing employees mounted.

A BuzzFeed News report revealed that Conyers’ congressional office paid a former female staffer $27,000 of taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim, which prompted the House Ethics Committee to investigate Conyers’ conduct.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared that “it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” calling the move “a long overdue step to advance the peace process.”

In response to the move, the Palestinian Authority and numerous Arab nations have launched a propaganda offensive based on lies and misinformation. Most of the dishonest talking points have not been countered by the news media. Below, in no particular order, are five of those lies that must be called out.

1 – The embassy move does not impact the PA’s ability to create a state.

Contrary to the Palestinian Authority’s propaganda claim that Trump’s move negates their ability to form a Palestinian state with a capital in Jerusalem, the U.S. moving its embassy to the city does no such thing. It is illogical to argue that the presence of a U.S. embassy in Jerusalem impacts the PA’s statehood plans in any way.

The only thing standing in the way of the PA having a state is the Palestinians’ own abject refusal to accept numerous statehood offers while rejecting Israel’s very existence. Indeed, the Palestinian Authority has rejected every single Israeli offer of a state. Those state offers were made at Camp David in 2000, Taba in 2001, the Annapolis Conference in 2007 and more offers were made in 2008. It was recently reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quietly made another such offer in 2014. Most of the statehood offers included a Palestinian capital in eastern sections of Jerusalem.

In all of these cases, the PA not only refused generous Israeli offers of statehood and bolted negotiations without counteroffers. In some cases, they responded with major escalations of violence, infamously including the murderous Second Palestinian Intifada in 2001.

Far from impeding their statehood claims, Trump’s embassy move might serve to pressure the PA into negotiations, understanding that momentum is moving away from their direction if they don’t act. Of course, if the PA wanted a state living in peace alongside Israel they would not need to be pressured into accepting such a concept given that Israel has always been a willing partner for peace and has already made offers numerous times.

2 – PA warnings about violence are really threats against the U.S.

The PA and numerous Arab countries have been warning that Trump’s Jerusalem decision could lead to an escalation of violence. These “warnings” seem not only to justify a violent reaction but to almost encourage violence in response to Trump’s announcement. The statements serve as implied threats against U.S. interests and should not be tolerated. The warnings only serve to expose the radicalism of those who annunciate such barely veiled threats.

3 – The embassy move will not isolate the U.S.

Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett correctly pointed out in a statement emailed to Breitbart News:

On May 15, 1948, the United States, led by President Truman, was the first nation to recognize the newly declared State of Israel. The rest of the world quickly followed. The President did so despite the huge pressures from within.

Today, Trump showed real leadership and I fully expect allies of Israel to eventually follow the president’s example. Already, the speaker of the National Assembly of Tanzania, Job Ndugai, stated of Trump’s decision, “I believe it will be followed suit by several African countries, Tanzania included, to move said quarters from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.”

4 – The Palestinians claim Trump’s sensible and legal decision to recognize Israel’s capital will change facts on the ground. This while hypocritically constructing illegal housing units on Jewish-owned property that have already changed facts on the ground by grabbing land in Jerusalem.

While Trump’s decision does not impede the Palestinians’ statehood bid (see #1 above), the Palestinians have been busy constructing illegally on Jewish-owned property in Jerusalem.

The illegal Palestinian construction has worked to generate facts on the ground, creating de facto Palestinian neighborhoods inside peripheral Jerusalem that are virtual no-go zones for Israeli civilians. The illegal housing has impacted previous Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Numerous Israeli-Palestinian peace proposals designated these very areas future Palestinian territory due to the large concentrations of Palestinians living in them.

In 2007, this reporter extensively investigated those areas and found Jewish-owned land was utilized to illegally construct Palestinian apartment buildings, a refugee camp and a United Nations school.

I reported at the time: 

The properties in question include about 270 acres in the northern Jerusalem neighborhoods of Qalandia and Kfar Akev, located near an old Israeli airport, and about 50 acres in a north Jerusalem suburb known as Shoafat, which is adjacent to the Jewish neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev.

The lands were legally purchased on behalf of JNF using Jewish donations in the early 1900s, immediately after the organization was founded in 1901 with the specific charge of repurchasing and developing the land of Israel for Jewish settlement.

A tour of Qalandiya and Kfar Akev found dozens of Arab apartment complexes, a Palestinian refugee camp and a United Nations school for Palestinians constructed on the land.

I also reported in 2009 these de facto Palestinian enclaves in peripheral Jerusalem neighborhoods have become virtual no-go zones for Jewish Israelis due to security concerns. The Jerusalem police confirmed at the time that security arrangements discourage Israeli Jews from entering the neighborhoods. Those security arrangements are still in effect today.

5 – The Al Aqsa Mosque is not threatened by Trump’s Jerusalem announcement.

The Palestinians have been making this ludicrous claim in their protests against the U.S. policy pronouncement.  They don’t explain how an embassy move – in a few years from now, and to an unknown location as of today – threatens the mosque located on the Temple Mount.

The only threat to the Mosque complex are the Palestinians themselves, at least as far as freedom of worship.  Israel allows the Jordanian and Palestinian-controlled Waqf to serve as custodians of the Temple Mount and grants Muslim worshipers access to the Mount 24 hours per day, seven days a week with the exception of rare instances of security threats.

Jewish and Christian visitors, however, are restricted by the Waqf from visiting the Mount except on small tours for about two hours per day. The Waqf does not allow non-Muslims to pray on the Mount or bring holy objects to the site; whereas Muslim prayer is unrestricted. Waqf representatives closely monitor non-Muslim visitors to the site and are known to boot those engaging in prayer.

 Aaron Klein is Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He is a New York Times bestselling author and hosts the popular weekend talk radio program,” Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.” Follow him on Twitter @AaronKleinShow. Follow him on Facebook.

When Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon was serving as chief strategist in the White House, Democrats and the mainstream media routinely attacked his character. One of their most popular claims suggested he was a racist.

Of course, those claims were competely unfounded.

In fact, it seems Bannon is far from the racist leftists made him out to be.

For example, Bannon headlined a fundraising lunch for the conservative group Black Americans for a Better Future on Tuesday at the Willard InterContinental Washington hotel in Washington, according to Breitbart News.

“A Business Luncheon with Stephen K. Bannon: A Republican Vision for Minority Business Growth,” was expected to attract approximately 200 black entrepreneurs from across the country.

TRENDING: Boycott: Top Clothing Company Founder Calls Trump, Conservatives Evil

Bannon’s message at the luncheon was one that no speaker who is truly racist would ever be delivering.

“The central part of economic nationalism depends upon you,” Bannon told his audience. “It depends upon us empowering the black and Hispanic entrepreneurial community with one thing: Access to capital.”

Now, that’s the kind of empowerment that actually means something, and it’s a lot different from the government-dependency “empowerment” the Democratic Party touts as it speaks condescendingly to the black community.

Black Americans for a Better Future, founded by Raynard Jackson, strives to be a channel for black businessmen to begin “cultivating a mutually beneficial relationship with our congressional and party leadership at the highest levels.”

In an interview before Bannon spoke at the luncheon, Jackson spoke highly of Bannon and said his knowledge of the black community is impressive.

“Steve’s knowledge of the black community is incredible,” Jackson told Breitbart News.

“If you were Stevie Wonder, being blind, and you could sit and talk with Steve and didn’t know his color, you would swear he’s from the black community because of his understanding of the dynamic, the business and community dynamic,” he said.

“What’s amazing is, I took about 20 blacks and Hispanics to meet with Steve last month, and about one-third of them were Democrats. And every person, without exception, said, ‘I want to work with Steve Bannon,’” Jackson said.

RELATED: AP Retracts Anti-Moore Article After It’s Revealed to Be Total Lie

“They heard him unfiltered by the liberal media. They asked him any question they wanted, sitting face-to-face with him for two hours, and not one person said they disagreed with anything he said,” he added.

One of the reasons the media misrepresents Bannon is because they view him as a threat.

Jackson expressed it clearly: “Steve Bannon is the biggest threat I’ve seen to liberalism in decades.”

Jackson added that Bannon has asked members of the black community tough questions, such as what 40 years of liberalism has helped African-Americans achieve besides higher murder rates, higher unemployment and higher teen pregnancy rates — something former President Barack Obama never seemed concerned about.

“Barack Obama did nothing specifically for the black community in his eight years in office,” Jackson said, adding that Obama did “plenty” for the Hispanic and homosexual communities.

You won’t see this story covered by the mainstream media.

In fact, it’s more likely that they will bury it.

H/T American News Hub

Share this story on Facebook and Twitter to spread the word about this event.

What do you think about Steve Bannon headlining this event? Scroll down to comment below!

While much of the country’s attention was focused on the astonishing acquittal of Kate Steinle’s killer in San Francisco, another illegal immigrant accused of horrendous crimes was being held accountable for them farther up the coast in Portland, Oregon.

According to the New York Post, a Mexican national with a criminal record and series of prior deportations and re-entries named Sergio Jose Martinez was sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts including assault, burglary, kidnapping, sexual abuse, sodomy, and rape.

He remained incredibly defiant and showed no remorse while receiving his sentence. During the sentencing hearing, throughout which Martinez was repeatedly spotted smirking and smiling, the brother of one of his victims stated: “Sergio, no sentencing is enough. I rather you rot in hell.”

Later, as Martinez was being led out of court, he returned the sentiment to the family and replied, “See all you guys in hell.”

Sergio Martinez smiled throughout his change of plea, sentencing hearing as he receives 35 years in prison for two violent attacks in Northeast Portland. https://t.co/2QNQsw94Fh #KOIN6News #pdx http://pic.twitter.com/p1qTCWYOga

— Brent Weisberg (@BrentKOIN) December 1, 2017

TRENDING: Boycott: Top Clothing Company Founder Calls Trump, Conservatives Evil

According to KOIN, the 31-year-old Martinez was being sentenced for the violent assault of two women in two separate incidents on July 24.

In the first incident, Martinez broke into the home of a 65-year-old woman, assaulted her, forcibly raped her and then stole her cell phone, purse and car.

The victim managed to call the police from a neighbor’s home after her assailant fled. Law enforcement was then able to track the stolen phone and find the stolen car.

However, in the meantime, Martinez had launched another attack on another woman, this time in a parking garage. Despite Martinez having a knife, the woman put up a fight and drew attention from passers-by, which prompted Martinez to try and flee, only to be caught by police shortly afterward.

Martinez’ arrest record dated back to at least 2003, with more than a dozen arrests, and he reportedly served prison time in both Oregon and California over the years.

Incredibly, Martinez had been taken into custody at some point earlier in the year prior to the assaults, but was released by the Multnomah County Sheriffs Office in spite of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer being placed on Martinez — all due to the state’s sanctuary law.

KGW reported that Martinez had been deported by the U.S. government no less than 20 separate times, but had only received at least five probation violations for unauthorized re-entry into the country.

His most recent deportation occurred in November of 2016, and it is unclear when he re-entered the country after that date.

RELATED: Gunman With an AK-47 Has Horrible Luck, Tries Jacking Car Full of Undercover Cops

The man’s criminal record included prior convictions of burglary, battery, theft, and obstructing a police officer, and he was known to be an habitual abuser of methamphetamine.

The New York Post noted that the Multnomah County Sheriff seemed to sidestep his role in allowing the crimes in July to occur by virtue of his releasing Martinez, and even seemed to cast blame on the federal government for the illegal alien being in the country in the first place.

“He was released consistent with the orders of the court. No federal or state criminal warrants were present at the time he left our custody,” stated Sheriff Michael Reese, even as he admitted that Martinez “returned to commit additional crimes” after having been previously deported.

“It would help our community to understand how he was held accountable by federal authorities for multiple, illegal re-entries,” Reese added.

Well, sheriff, maybe if you had held onto the guy until ICE came along to pick him up, he might have been held accountable, especially under the current administration, as opposed to the prior collective. Then, two innocent women in your jurisdiction wouldn’t have been assaulted, one of them sexually.

Please share this on Facebook and Twitter so everyone can see the criminal illegal immigrant Portland authorities allowed back onto the streets to commit more crimes, and who will now serve a lengthy sentence behind bars.

What do you think of what this criminal illegal said to the families of his victims? Scroll down to comment below!

If you think social justice is about making sure everyone is equal regardless of gender, race, or religion, you obviously haven’t stepped onto a college campus in the last few years. University and college campuses are becoming bastions for racist and backward thinking, all under the delusion of “progress.”

Evergreen College in Washington state is one of the worst offenders of the subversion of American culture. White students are often silenced and censored, with one actually being made to stand in the back after trying to express her opinions on the racial divide at the school.

Their latest move is to create a specifically non-white column, with a mission statement of, “A new column we’ve created for people of color (POC) by people of color!”

The POC Talk section of The Cooper Point Journal caters to only non-white students. Instead of making distinctions of who exactly this is for, there is a clear indication that it is for everyone, as long as they’re not white. Black, Asian, Hispanic, or Middle Eastern, it doesn’t matter. There is no cultural pride in cuisine, history, events, or music, but simply another forum for the open bashing of white people.

Believe it of not, they’re actually not the first to exclude certain races from contributing to their publications. The American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan both still publish their own racist periodicals. Replace the phrase “people of color” in POC Talk’s thesis, and you’re left with “A new column we’ve created for whites, by whites!” which could easily be the most popular section of the KKK’s weekly newsletter.

TRENDING: Boycott: Top Clothing Company Founder Calls Trump, Conservatives Evil

An argument often used by the left boils down to this: “You’re getting mad at our anti-white media, but don’t say anything about the KKK!”

There are two problems with that.

First, the leftist definition of “KKK” and “Nazi” has spread so far that anyone who disagrees with them belongs to one or both of those movements. The second problem is that while a huge slice of the country actually defends liberal racism, no one defends the KKK except for actual members. There’s no need to call them out because everyone accepts that they are racist degenerates.

The same is not often said of casual, anti-white racism.

Any conservative paying attention to current events knows the left has spiraled wildly out of control. The made-up phrase “white privilege” has even been used against white lawmakers in the nation’s capital.

This casual racism simply works to further a liberal agenda by silencing voices that do not agree with the left. Labeling any opposing argument as a symptom of white male privilege, they effectively convince themselves that they don’t have to listen to anything but their own echo chamber.

Thomas Sowell, a famous conservative political philosopher and veteran, said “The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.”

RELATED: Video Shows Arrogant Dem. Rep Telling Black Pro-Lifer She’s Ignorant, Disrespectful

By Internet Archive Book Images – http://ift.tt/2B6yOL3
Source book page: http://ift.tt/2Ae6y9f, No restrictions, Link

Any expert will tell you, without the checks and balances of free speech and open debate, radicalization happens quickly. An important tenet of being conservative is reverence for the Constitution. We understand that sometimes there are opinions we don’t agree with, and that’s OK. They should not be censored for simply being unpopular or disagreeable.

This history lesson has flown clear over the heads of liberals. Even as they claim to be champions of rights, they are waging wars against our most basic and fundamental freedoms.

Like and share on Facebook and Twitter so everyone can see how far liberal racism is going on college campuses.

What do you think of a college newspaper that restricts opinion writing based on race? Scroll down to comment below!