Black Conservative Shouted Down For Speaking ‘Against Own People’

The usual insults and not listening to an opposing view.

Former NFL star and conservative commentator Burgess Owens was heckled and shouted down by students for allegedly speaking “against” his “own people” at a lecture last month.

Owens routinely speaks on leadership, especially within the black community, and the opportunities America can provide for young black men, touching on similar topics during his speech at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where he was hosted by Young Americans for Freedom.

While he was able to deliver his prepared remarks without incident, the audience repeatedly interrupted and insulted Owens during the question-and-answer portion of the talk, so much so that the moderator eventually had to shut it down.

In one case, after questioning Owens on his views of police brutality and the school-to-prison pipeline, both of which are issues Owens deals with in his work with the One Heart Project, the audience member proceeded to ask him “what was your name again?”

“Burgess Owens,” he replied, to which the student commented that she “thought it was Tom,” in reference to Uncle Tom, before storming out of the auditorium while Owens quipped that “there goes our biggest problem.”

“The minute you start calling names, you’ve already stopped the debate,” he continued. “You’re not looking for answers. You’re looking for ways of insulting, and that’s not how Americans do it.”

The next questioner proceeded to aggressively rip the microphone from the moderator’s hands, shouting at him while he attempted to hold on to it.

“I had the mic. You took the mic away from me. I’m talking. I’m asking a question,” the student complained as other demonstrators loudly backed him up.

He then proceeded to condemn Student Affairs for going “two-for-two” on bringing “xenophobic” people to campus who apparently speak against their own beliefs, saying that in addition to Owens, a Muslim woman came to campus and spoke “against her Islamic beliefs.”

When the moderator attempted to interrupt the student’s rant, the audience began shouting him down, with one woman screaming “let him finish!”

Owens attempted to address the audience member, but was repeatedly interrupted as the student protested that the mic was taken away from him.

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High-tech traffic cameras in Australia used to detect and fine drivers using cellphones

High-tech traffic cameras in Australia are being used to covertly issue tickets to drivers using their cellphones while driving, according to News Corp Australia.

Why is this happening?

Using mobile devices while driving is unlawful in Australia, and distracted drivers are a leading cause of fatal crashes in the country, according to the report.

The technology, touted as a “world first,” detected 272 offenders during a five-hour test on just one lane of the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne, Victoria, last year, the Herald Sun reported.

The report goes on to explain that drivers were dinged even if they touched their phone while it rested in a holder.

“The trial revealed that 7.1 percent of the drivers observed infringed phone use laws. And 65.8 percent of those offenses related to motorists actively using their phone by holding it or touching it in a cradle,” according to the report.

A New South Wales Police spokesman told news.com.au that officers currently “use a variety of methods to detect drivers using their phones while driving”.

“Line-of-site, by trained officers is the primary method of detection, however, long-ranged cameras have been used with success, and helmet cameras in motorcycle police continue to be used,” the spokesman told the outlet.

But the traditional methods could soon be replaced by stationary cameras that automatically issue “infringement notices” to drivers, the report stated.

NSW Police Highway Patrol boss, Assistant Commissioner Mick Corboy, told the media that it’s part of “emerging technologies” that law enforcement leaders have at their disposal.

“So the way we are going to defeat this is by video evidence, by photographic evidence and we are looking at everything possible around the world at the moment and we think we’ll get something in place fairly quickly,” Corboy said.

His comments were made in response to NSW Minister for Roads Melinda Pavey, who this week called for “practical, technology-based solutions to address the problem” of mobile phone use in cars, according to the news report.

“Developing this technology would be a world-first and is one of the priorities of our Road Safety Plan 2021 that we announced,” Pavey said.

The so-called Road Safety Plan 2021 outlines how to implement legislative changes that allow cameras to enforce mobile phone use offenses.

What are the punishments?

People caught using their cellphones while driving face heavy fines. Drivers in North South Wales caught using a mobile phone can be fined $330. In the Australian Capital Territory, fines are as high as $528.

Drivers are encouraged to pull over to the side of the road — in a place where it’s legal to stop — to make or receive phone calls.

“There is no requirement to turn off the engine,” a police spokesman told news.com.au. “Although the rule that relates to mobile telephones does not say that the vehicle must be in an area where it is legal to park, other Australian Road Rules apply. To put that into context, it is not legal to park at a set of traffic lights, therefore it is unlawful to use a hand-held phone while stationary at those lights.”

NSW Police last year issued fines to 42,000 drivers caught using their mobile phones, news.com.au reported. Nationwide, 1,300 lives were lost on roads in Australia, a figure that represents an increase of nearly 8 percent on the previous year (1,205).

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Report: Trump to pardon the Bush official who leaked a CIA agent’s name and lied to the FBI about it

President Donald Trump is reportedly prepared to pardon former Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, ABC News reported.

Libby will be the second person granted a pardon by Trump.

What’s the story?

In 2007, a jury convicted Libby for obstruction and lying to FBI agents during an investigation into the leaking of the identity of former CIA agent Valerie Plame.

Libby had also publicly denied being the source of information, but several people testified that they received Plame’s information from him.

The leak occurred in 2003 after Plame’s husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, began criticizing the George W. Bush administration.

“My name and identity were carelessly and recklessly abused by senior government officials in both the White House and the State Department,” Plame told Congress in 2007, NBC News reported at the time.

Syndicated columnist Robert Novak revealed Plame’s identity in a column, which she said destroyed her career.

“I felt like I had been hit in the gut, it was over in an instant, I immediately thought of my family’s safety,” Plame said.

Cheney called on then-President George W. Bush to pardon Libby.

Bush refused to grant Libby’s pardon, but he did commute his 30-month prison sentence, stating at the time that it was “excessive.”

Libby’s conviction, a $250,000 fine, and probation terms remained in place.

Since his conviction, the 67-year-old has regained his voting rights, and his law license has been restored, according to USA Today.

Many conservatives, including Joe diGenova, a close adviser to Trump, have urged the president to pardon Libby.

What else?

Last year, Trump pardoned former Arizona Sheriff Joseph M. Arpaio after he was convicted for criminal contempt of court for refusing to comply with orders to stop arresting illegal immigrants.

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Listen: Rep. Blackburn Scorches Zuck in Post Hearing Interview on Censoring Conservatives

In scathing remarks made after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Marsha Blackburn said that Zuckerberg’s remarks constituted a de facto admission that Facebook censors content from conservative sources.

Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, made the remarks on the Breitbart News Tonight radio program on Thursday. Saying that the House “did a little bit of a deeper dive on the issues of privacy and censorship than our colleagues over in the Senate,” she said what they found indicated that regulation may be necessary.

When asked about a decline in traffic for conservative news outlets touched off by algorithm changes at Facebook, Blackburn noted that “at one point, (Zuckerberg) made a comment that Facebook is more like a government than a traditional company.

“So I took that quote from him as meaning that he sees himself as more than a normal company,” Blackburn said. “So let’s start with that premise. I asked him if he was subjectively manipulating his algorithms in order to prioritize content or to censor free speech, and he wanted to push the question off: ‘Well, you know, we have to manipulate our algorithms for things like terrorism.’

“And I cut him off, and I said, ‘I got to tell you. Diamond and Silk is not terrorism. That is not terrorism,’” Blackburn said, referring to the viral Trump supporters whose content’s reach was limited because, according to the company, they “came to the conclusion that your content and your brand has been determined unsafe to the community.”

Blackburn said that the Facebook CEO “made the point that I was wanting to make — that they are subjective in how they manipulate these algorithms.

“Then he referenced that they have 15 to 20 thousand content managers who look at content, and he admitted that Silicon Valley is a liberal place and people bring their bias to work with them even though he said he does not want them to exercise that bias in their jobs. We all know that they do.”

Do you think Facebook is biased against conservatives?

Blackburn noted that they were a bit more than just a neutral platform for discussion.

“I just found it interesting that he tried to always say, ‘We’re just here to connect people,’” Blackburn said.

“Well, they do a lot more than connect people, but he got off into some of the other businesses that they do. The broadband expansion that they’re doing. They’re even trying to do a plane that will be used as a connector, if you will, for people. There are so many other areas they are working in, so it is simplistic to say they are simply a platform for people to connect because they are an enormous advertising company.”

Blackburn also called for regulation in the area of privacy.

“This is why we need to have protections for users who are using this site — because it (has) a tremendous amount of power, and it is why there needs to be statutes that will guard the privacy and (enact) laws so that you retain the right to protect your virtual you, you and your presence online, because they make a boatload of money selling the information about you to people that you do not know.”

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However, she noted that Facebook’s invitation for Congress to regulate them may not be as innocent as one might think.

“I will caution one thing,” Blackburn said in closing. “Sometimes, when a company becomes very large, they will say they would like to have federal regulation. They do that because federal regulation is expensive and costly, and new-start competitors can’t compete with that. So you eliminate competition.

“This is why we need a very simple privacy standard and one set of rules and one regulator, and that’s it.”

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Claim: NFL Discriminated Against Cheerleader Because She’s a Christian

A former Miami Dolphins cheerleader has filed a discrimination complaint against the team and the NFL with the Florida Commission on Human Relations because she said her Christian faith made her a target of ridicule by other cheerleaders and supervisors, NBC News reports.

Kristan Ann Ware, 27, cheered with the Dolphins for three years. She says after she disclosed that she was a virgin by choice and was going to remain so until marriage, she was ostracized by the organization.

The harassment began in 2015 during a trip to London for a game against the Jets, during which other members of the cheerleading squad were talking about their “sex playlist” on a bus ride. That’s when Ware “was pushed to give her playlist.”

“Kristin told her teammates that she was waiting until she was married because of her personal relationship with God,” the complaint reads.

“She was sensitive to everyone around her having different beliefs and ideals so she further stated that it was her personal conviction.”

That began the ridicule, and it got worse once she put an image of her baptism and a Bible verse on social media. Ware says that cheerleader director Dorie Grogan used the verse to put her faith down during an interview for returning dancers.

“Let’s talk about your virginity,” Grogan supposedly told Ware in April of 2016. “As far as we are concerned you have taken something that was once upon a time pure and beautiful and you’ve made it dirty.”

Ware said she made the Dolphins’ human resources department aware of the situation, but the ridicule continued. The complaint says, among other things, that she was forced to wear “angel wings” during a 2016 fashion show in reference to her faith and was falsely accused of “groping a fan’s breast and butt at an appearance.”

Do you think this is anti-Christian discrimination?

“I felt like I was walking on eggshells, but yet a football player can publicly announce whatever he believes in,” she told CBS.

“Whether it’s kneeling for a political indifference or kneeling because he does have a relationship with God and he wants the pray before a game, he has a right to do that.”

Ware also said she wasn’t allowed to mention God, even though she wasn’t proselytizing.

“She never once witnessed to anyone, she never once asked anyone if they believed in Jesus,” Sara Blackwell, Ware’s lawyer, told NBC. “She is the friendliest person you will ever meet. If she talked about her faith in God, it’s because that’s who she is, not because she is trying to convert anyone.”

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Incredibly, the Miami Dolphins said that the incident was dealt with, even though Grogan remains with the team.

“In 2016, we were made aware of an incident with our cheerleaders that fell short of our standards and expectations,” a source with the Miami Dolphins said. “We immediately addressed the issue and reprimanded the supervisor, who subsequently apologized to the entire team.”

Ware, needless to say, is no longer with the team.

“I loved my job,” Ware said during a Thursday interview with WFLA-TV. “It was great, but after that things just started to change… It became unbearable.”

Apparently, it takes a cheerleader and the specter of the NFL for cases of blatant anti-Christian discrimination to actually get covered by the media, with NBC, CBS and The New York Times, among others, paying attention to the story for once. It didn’t hurt that Ware’s complaint also comes as the league is enduring yet another public relations crisis, this time over how cheerleaders are treated.

A lawsuit, filed by former New Orleans Saints cheerleader Bailey Davis, alleged that the NFL had one set of rules for male players and another set for female cheerleaders, a practice which violates federal anti-discrimination laws. The suit also brought to light questionable practices on the NFL’s part pertaining to cheerleaders, including a “jiggle” test for prospective Buffalo Bills cheerleaders in which they were screened for fat by doing jumping jacks to see if any visible fat would jiggle.

The NFL responded to Ware’s accusation in a typically NFL-ian fashion.

“The NFL and all NFL member clubs support fair employment practices,” a statement for the league read. “Everyone who works in the NFL, including cheerleaders, has the right to work in a positive and respectful environment that is free from any and all forms of harassment and discrimination and fully complies with state and federal laws.”

Lawsuits have been filed over far less than this, and the fact that Ware is only seeking arbitration with the league and a meeting with Roger Goodell ought to be treated as a godsend by NFL officials. In time, maybe the league will come around to see it that way and offer an olive branch to Ware. Maybe the Dolphins will finally fire Dorie Grogan, which they should have done in the first place if Ware’s allegations were substantiated. Maybe they’ll realize that this wouldn’t happen to a player, nor would it be tolerated if it happened to someone of a different faith.

As of now, none of this has happened, and the case of Kristan Ware remains yet another in a long list of reasons to have very serious reservations about the National Football League.

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Trump’s Joke About How Long He’ll Be in Office Sends Libs Into Complete Panic

It doesn’t take much to send those who have a knee-jerk opposition to President Donald Trump into a tizzy. (See: “Comey, James;” “Daniels, Stormy;” “Sajudin, Dino;” “Putin, Vladimir;” Trump’s Twitter account, etc., etc.)

In fact, it’s gotten bad enough that they can even get themselves into a tizzy over a joke. And said joke doesn’t even need to be offensive. It just needs to rile up the left.

Take, for instance, Trump’s Rose Garden press conference Thursday where he was touting the benefits of tax cuts. During the speech, he joked to a congressman that he would like to be in office for 16 years and they should pass an amendment allowing him to do that.

Take a look at this very obvious joke:

“We’ve cut more regulations in a year and a quarter than any administration, whether it’s four years, eight years or, in one case, 16 years,” Trump said.

“Should we go back to 16 years? Congressman, can we have that extended? The last time I jokingly said that, the papers started saying ‘he’s got despotic tendencies!’ No, I’m not looking to do it, unless you want to do it.”

That’s clearly a joke. You would think that there would be literally nobody who saw that and didn’t see a joke. What happened next proved that we’re not in a post-truth era, we’re in a post-laugh era.

Do you think President Trump is trolling the left?

Take, for instance, Newsweek. You would think they would be used to the concept of the joke, what with all all of the tentacle hentai references their employment contract with Kurt Eichenwald hath engendered. However, in the first sentence of Newsweek’s piece on the wisecrack, writer Jason Le Miere noted that Trump “has previously heralded Chinese President Xi Jinping being enabled to rule for life.”

That particular sentence fragment isn’t just grammatically-challenged, it’s also factually-challenged — at least, if you understand the concept of humor. The comment in question comes from another joke made behind closed doors back in March that the media decided, in spite of what one hopes was their better judgement, to take seriously.

“He’s now president for life,” Trump said regarding Chinese President Xi Jinping. “President for life. No, he’s great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot some day.”

It wasn’t just Newsweek bringing that quote up, either.

An article from Bustle noted that “Thursday wasn’t the first time Trump has ‘joked’ about becoming a dictator. In March, while addressing a change to China’s constitution that allows its president to serve for life, Trump said that America might have to eliminate presidential term limits at some point as well.” Elite Daily also referenced it in an article which won this week’s contest for most millennial-friendly Trump headline: “Donald Trump Joked About Being President For 16 Years & Just No.”

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Totes perf, Elite Daily.

So, after consulting Newsweek, Bustle and Elite Daily in hope of some wisdom, I then decided to turn to twitter Twitter in search of a sensible range of reactions, because I’m clearly a masochist looking to extirpate every last vestige of my faith in humanity.

User @Pseudosaurus demonstrated the typical sort of measured response one might expect to find to an obvious joke:

@RogueWHAdvisor, meanwhile, decided this jest was so serious it called for breaking out the caps lock:

Then there were the uninformed…

… and the terminally bitter.

You’re in good company, @MotherResister. Or, well, let’s just say you’re in company.

So, in short, what this proves is that absolutely nobody on the left seems to be able to take a joke when it comes to President Trump. All it gets is a whirlwind of outrage and contempt for those who should know better. Why, it’s almost like Trump and his people are expertly trolling the media and the left to do exactly what they want them to do just to show how deep the bias goes.

I’m not saying that Trump is trolling, mind you. All I’m saying is that if he’s doing this unintentionally, he couldn’t do a better job if he put his mind to it.

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Tourist Robbed, Threatened at Knife Point in New York City Over ‘Make America Great Again’ Hat

Tourist Robbed, Threatened at Knife Point in New York City Over ‘Make America Great Again’ Hat

An 18-year-old Danish tourist was robbed at knife point by two men who grabbed his “Make America Great Again” hat and threatened to stab him when he attempted to retrieve it.

According to authorities, the victim was attempting to get on the subway in Union Square just before 6 p.m. on Thursday when the incident took place.

The NYPD told Fox News that the victim was grabbed from behind by two men who proceeded to steal his hat and asked him “what are you doing with that hat on?” When the victim put up a fight, one of the men pulled out a knife.

The men fled with the hat and remain at large.

Police have released a sketch of one of the suspects. He is described as being an almost bald, 6-foot-tall white man in his 20s or 30s, with light facial hair.

According to the New York Post, he was last seen wearing a tan or brown jacket, dark pants and a baseball cap.

The second suspect was described as a white male, with no additional details.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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Trump Completely Unloads on James Comey After Book Excerpts Leak to Press

Now, THIS is fire and fury.

As excerpts from former FBI Director James Comey’s new book began leaking into the media this week, President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday morning to blast the man he fired from the nation’s top law enforcement agency.

And he left absolutely no doubt about his opinion of Comey — or his job performance.

“James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR,” Trump wrote. “Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did — until he was, in fact, fired.”

Judging by the material that’s been released so far, Trump’s rage is understandable.

Comey did more than just characterize Trump as a man “untethered to the truth,” surrounded by sycophants and with a style of leadership more suitable to a mob boss than a president of the world’s greatest country.

He went so far as to question the strength of the president’s marriage, by reprising some of the most salacious accusations that were presented in the now-debunked “Trump dossier,” about Trump engaging in actions with Russian prostitutes that can only be described as disgusting.

From his Twitter posts, the president’s outrage is almost palpable.

 

Comey obviously has an axe to grind against the commander in chief, and he’s willing to stoke even baseless suspicions in order to strike back.

Is James Comey damaging the country just to hurt Donald Trump?

In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos

published Friday morning

, Comey told the former

Clinton White House toady

that Trump had asked him to investigate the dossier’s claims that Trump had engaged in urination games with prostitutes in Moscow.

Comey said the conversation took place when the two men shared a private dinner in January 2017, a week after Trump’s inauguration.

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“He may want me to investigate it to prove that it didn’t happen,” Comey said. “And then he says something that distracted me because he said, you know, ‘If there’s even a 1 percent chance my wife thinks that’s true, that’s terrible.’”

A normal person might think that was perfectly understandable. Every man would like to think his wife would not believe such a thing to be possible, but every man wrongly accused would also like to have the evidence of his innocence out for everyone — including his spouse — to see.

Comey chose to view the conversation differently. And it’s tough to believe that his own bitterness at being kicked out of the FBI director’s post isn’t skewing his thinking.

“In what kind of marriage, to what kind of man, does a spouse conclude there is only a 99 percent chance her husband didn’t do that?” Comey wrote, according to the New York Post.

The legions of Trump critics in the media and the Democrat Party are going to lap up observations like that.

But decent people — regardless of their politics — should be disgusted. Judging by the account of the Comey-Stephanopoulos interview published by ABC on Friday, the former FBI director is bent on making his personal grievance against Trump into a national issue based on the tawdriest of accusations.

And considering this is the man who headed the infamously biased investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server when she was secretary of state — and publicly declared that she should not be prosecuted when everyone in America who’s not blinded by partisanship knew she was guilty of abusing the nation’s secrets, at the very least — Comey’s judgment has to be taken as suspect.

When Trump was presented with an apparent betrayal by former chief strategist Steve Bannon in the White House gossip-fest “Fire and Fury” by Michael Wolff, his outrage was legendary.

What’s going to come after Comey’s book is officially released is likely to be what real “fire and fury” looks like.

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