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Abongo Obama as best man in Barack’s 1992 wedding

Discover the Networks reports that not all non-profit groups had to wait long for their non-profit status and one that had a turnaround time of only one month was the Barack H. Obama Foundation.  And, to top it off, it was granted the non-profit status retroactively for years before Obama had even submitted an application.

As is being widely reported, Tea Party groups are still waiting for their determination three years after first applying.

Here is Discover the Networks on Obama’s Muslim brother who lives in Africa:

The Barack H. Obama Foundation (BHOF) was established in 2008 by Abon’go Malik Obama, the half-brother of U.S. President Barack Obama. Abon’go, a Kenyan-born Muslim with twelve wives, created the foundation in memory of his (and President Obama’s) biological father, Barack H. Obama (1936-82) of Nyan’goma Kogelo village in Kenya.

Seeking to “provide people everywhere with resources to uplift their welfare and living standards,” BHOF claims to be “committed to a wide array of development and humanitarian projects which will help mitigate social shortcomings….[blah, blah, blah!--ed].

Enter Lois Lerner:

Barack and his bro in the White House in 2010

From 2008-11, BHOF operated illegally as a nonprofit group and falsely claimed tax-exempt status—for which it had not yet formally applied. The foundation finally submitted its 2010 application for nonprofit, tax-exempt status on May 23, 2011; seven days later, it submitted its filings for 2008 and 2009. Within just one month of these filings—on June 26, 2011—Lois Lerner, the senior official who headed the IRS’s tax-exempt organizations office, signed paperwork granting tax-exempt status to BHOF. This promptness represented a stark contrast to the experience of many conservative organizations that, beginning in 2010, had been intentionally forced (by Lerner’s office) to wait more than three years, in some cases, for approval. Moreover, Lerner broke with the norms of tax-exemption approval by making BHOF’s tax-exempt status retroactive to December 2008.

According to Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center: “The Obama Foundation raised money on its web page by falsely claiming to be a tax deductible. This bogus charity … had not even applied and yet subsequently got retroactive tax-deductible status.” Boehm described Abon’go Malik Obama’s attempt to raise money under the nonprofit banner as “common law fraud and potentially even federal mail fraud.”

There is more on DTN’s investigation!  Read it all.

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Simon Conway is a conservative radio talk show host who also happens to have been born in the UK.  Reader Paul sent us his commentary at TownHall yesterday entitled, London, a Deeper Horror Than We Might Think

Conway:  We in America are 10,15, maybe 20 years away from becoming the UK and the idea is horrifying.  (I’m posting Conway’s whole piece because I want you to read it! Emphasis below is mine.)

The horrific scenes on a London street yesterday where Islamic terrorists butchered an unarmed soldier left me with more questions than answers. But maybe not the obvious ones.

Let me backtrack first. I was born in London. This is my hometown. This is the place that when I grew up, if you saw someone attacking someone else, then you did something about it. This is especially true if there were lots of onlookers.

This is the country I chose to leave because it was slowly becoming unrecognizable to me. And I know in my heart that if you transplanted that atrocious scene on a London street yesterday, to an American street today, then the outcome would have been entirely different. People, as they did in Boston, would run TOWARDS the danger.

So what happened yesterday? What could possess a crowd to watch two men with knives and machetes hack to death another human being? And why was the only reaction to pull out phones and shoot pictures and video? How could these people then wait 20 minutes for the police to show up without any attempt to take down these terrorists?

It took most of the day for me to reach my conclusion, but I have arrived at something that is really quite uncomfortable – more so because we here in the United States are currently headed down the same path. We might be 10 or 15 or even 20 years away, but unless we change direction then we too will simply record an event and do nothing to try and save another human being.

What am I talking about? Some of you might call it socialism, but whatever label you give it, Britain is now a country that is completely dependent on government. Government will take care of me; government knows best; government has my best interests at heart; government will be here in 20 minutes to deal with these terrorists.

And when you point that out – as I did yesterday on Twitter – then the Brits will fall on you. If you dare to suggest that slain soldier might be alive today if only there were some good guys with guns on the scene at the time, you are told “we don’t want to live in the wild west”, or my personal favorite “a good person wouldn’t have a gun. The armed trained police need to have guns and that’s it” You might also be called a “retard” and a moron(as I was) for pointing out that the “armed trained police” took 20 minutes to get there.

Ever since I have been on the air here, I have pointed out to my audiences that I have lived through where we are headed.

But I never lived through this. I don’t understand the “roll camera” mentality when someone is being butchered before your very eyes.

There’s one picture I’ve seen of one of the terrorists with at least 17 people in the background. All I can think of are the last heard words of 9-11 hero Todd Beamer on Flight 93.

“Are you guys ready? Let’s roll”

He wasn’t talking about video cameras.

We are also 10, 15 or 20 years away from the immigrant population that the UK is supporting as we import 100,000 legal Muslim immigrants a year.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has shrewdly decided that aggressively pushing the nomination of Maryland’s gift to the Obama Administration, Thomas Perez, as Labor Secretary, before he locks in RINO Republicans on the Gang of Eight plus Grover amnesty bill, is too big a risk.

Harry Reid: I’m no dummy, I want to keep the dummies on board with amnesty before we give Obama his Labor pick—Perez.

Here is Reid from the Washington Times:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday he won’t start to pick any big fights with Republicans because he’s afraid of upsetting the momentum to pass an immigration bill — and that includes delaying President Obama’s Labor Department nominee.

Thomas Perez, Mr. Obama’s nominee, faces fierce opposition from Senate Republicans, and Mr. Reid signaled he won’t force a contentious vote on Mr. Perez right now because it could upset the bipartisanship that’s emerged on the immigration bill.

“The question is, when am I going to do Perez? I am not going to do anything — we’re going to finish the farm bill, we may be able to do a little energy bill — but I am not going to do anything to interfere with the immigration bill,” Mr. Reid told reporters.

Hispanic groups desperately want both Mr. Perez’s nomination and the immigration bill, and several Democratic lawmakers have warned Republicans that they risk hurting their standing with Latino voters if they oppose him.

Mr. Perez cleared a Senate committee last week on a 12-10 party-line vote, signaling he could be ripe for a filibuster on the Senate floor.

This information should be a message to waffling Republicans—you are never going to win on the Hispanic issue no matter what you do.  You can give them amnesty and welfare and they are still going to hate you for some other reason.

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The State’s case against local businessman Terry Porter that began with an over-zealous no-knock search warrant event followed by a firestorm of public criticism back in November when a massive police force, including the FBI, came to the rural countryside of Washington County, Maryland to arrest a “dangerous” prepper, ended quietly with the state tucking its tail and allowing Porter to return, with unsupervised probation, to his normal quiet life.

Terry Porter. Photo from ‘Friends for Terry’ Facebook page

By having offered Porter a plea deal the State of Maryland has essentially admitted that the whole subject of the costly and potentially dangerous SWAT on Porter had gone very wrong and the sooner the whole mess was forgotten the happier the Maryland State Police would be.  (Can you hear those sighs of relief coming out of the MSP firearms unit in Pikesville today!)

For readers unfamiliar with the case, please review our special category entitled ‘Sharpsburg SWAT‘‘ for background.

Author/investigator James Simpson, writing at Accuracy in Media last month, penned a thorough summary of what went wrong in Sharpsburg and gives us some idea of what the State did not want aired in a lengthy trial.

Simpson (emphasis mine):

Sharpsburg, Maryland, population 706, is a quiet little town bordering the Antietam National Battlefield in rural Washington County. On Thursday, November 29, 2012 at about 12:30 pm, the quiet was shattered by an invasion of over 150 Maryland State Police (MSP), FBI, State Fire Marshal’s bomb squad, and County SWAT teams, complete with two police helicopters, two Bearcat “special response” vehicles, mobile command posts, snipers, police dogs, bomb disposal truck, bomb sniffing robots, and a huge excavator. They even brought in food trucks.

A heavily armed MSP Special Tactical Assault Team Element (STATE) executed a no-knock search warrant, smashing through the reportedly unlocked door with a battering ram. They worked until after 7:30 p.m., ransacking a modest, 20 ft. by 60 ft. single-family home for weapons, and searching for its owner, one Terry Porter. For hours, neighbors were left worrying and wondering, while countless police blanketed the area.

Local resident Tim Franquist described the scene:

“The event, or siege as we are calling it, involved convoys of police speeding to the area, two helicopters, armored vehicles, command centers, countless police cruisers and officers. They blocked off the roads and commandeered a campground as their staging area.”

Terry Porter is married with three children, has lived in the town all of his life, and owns a modest welding business. He is also a prepper. His preparations include an underground bunker, buried food supplies, and surveillance cameras. Porter really doesn’t like Obama, and tells anyone who will listen.

One of the largest raids in US history, continued Simpson:

The raid was one of the largest in recent U.S. history, twice the size of the 1993 Branch Davidian raid in Waco, Texas, which initially involved 76 ATF agents. It almost rivaled the recent 200-strong statewide manhunt for California cop-killing cop, Christopher Dorner. Yet only a few local stories emerged and those presented a hysterical portrait of Porter while largely underreporting the police presence.

What did it cost the taxpayers? 

Simpson estimated the cost of the raid that lasted from approximately 12:30 p.m. until it was called off at 7:30 p.m. at $11,000 per hour.   By evening, and with no sign of Porter, I believe those having commandeered Porter’s modest home likely determined they were on shaky legal ground just by being there.

This raid cost approximately $11,000 per hour, which dramatically illustrates one reason government spending is so wildly out of control.

Read it all (…Road to Impeachment).  Overzealous SWATs are a growing problem across America.

This morning in Washington County:

Today, in Washington County Circuit Court, Porter plead guilty to two charges, one for violating public safety and another for owning some rifles and shotguns (no mention of assault weapons now!) which  he was not permitted to have in his possession due to a twenty-year-old felony conviction.  Those charges could have netted him 20 years in jail.  Instead, the “dangerous” man who was the subject of an eight hour “manhunt” last fall walked out of court with no jail time, no fine, and only two years of unsupervised probation.

Evidently the State of Maryland decided that he wasn’t a menace to Maryland (or America) after all.   That, readers, is something they could have found out with a simple search warrant served  by a local police officer or two quietly visiting his home in the first place.

Update:  Here is what the Hagerstown Herald Mail said about today’s court decision.

Shades of the IRS targeting scandal?  You will never convince me that Governor Martin O’Malley (looking for Obama brownie points) was not looking for a high profile take-down of a conservative gun owner just before the Newtown, CT nut tragically provided Obama with all the reason he needed to push the gun control issue to the forefront in Washington.

And, here is my message to the Dept. of Homeland Security and the FBI—while you were busy raiding Americans like Terry Porter, you missed the warnings about the Boston bomber Muslim terrorists and many people died and others were horribly injured for life.  How about getting your priorities straight!

Endnote:  Maryland is one of only a few states with a SWAT reporting law that resulted from the hard work of a man who was wrongly SWATTED, please visit Blue Ridge Forum for more on the law.  Marylanders must be diligent  in the 2014 session of the legislature to make sure this law is extended and strengthened.

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Thanks to Jeff, here is a mind-blowing story in the Baltimore Sun on Friday about the arrest of a pair of Palestinians who have been running a multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling scam for years.  Because they lived a modest lifestyle and no one knows where all the money went, it’s a good bet it was leaving the country to fund Islamic terrorists around the world (or maybe funding them right here at home!).

NY Police Commissioner Ray Kelly—tough on terrorism in NYC. Photo Fox News

We need to thank the NYPD and Commissioner Ray Kelly who unraveled the scheme from the New York end.  In Maryland our police are way too busy swatting benign conservative Americans like Terry Porter in rural towns.

And, as is the usual case, there is no mention of the brothers’ immigration status—how did they come to be living legally in America in the first place (assuming they were legal immigrants)?*

From the Baltimore Sun:

The Palestinian immigrant and his brother lived next door to each other in homes in West Ocean City, over the years opening a number of businesses throughout the area — three pizza shops, a Mexican restaurant, a liquor store, gas stations, and development companies, court records show.

This week, however, authorities in New York alleged that Basel, 42, and Samir Ramadan, 39, were also at the top of a multimillion-dollar cigarette-smuggling ring and said they believe members of the organization may have funneled some of their proceeds to terrorist groups. [Update: Photos of the Palestinian alleged terror funders are here---ed]

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and New York Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said the Ramadan brothers had deposited more than $55 million from their untaxed cigarette sales into small banks in and around Ocean City, making a profit of $10 million along the way.

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Only a fraction of the money has been recovered, and the brothers’ lifestyles were described by authorities as modest. That, along with alleged links among some of the members of the ring to known terrorists such as Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind cleric serving a life sentence for a conspiracy to blow up New York City landmarks, raised concerns that the money might be funding militant groups.

There is a lot more!  Read it all!

LOL! Someone should check to see if they were political donors to O’Malley and the boys!

Just for your information, I write often about food stamp fraud (trafficking) busts at Refugee Resettlement Watch (archive here).  The majority of the scams are coming from immigrant-run convenience stores.

* We don’t resettle very many Palestinian refugees (a few in recent years) mostly because the militant Islamists in the Middle East want to leave them right there in their supposed “camps” funded largely by US taxpayers so as to remain a thorn in Israel’s side.  I don’t know how Palestinians get into America legally.   I do think the food stamp scammers are using the Investor visas we give out like pez candy.

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Watch and laugh here at Politico!

I thought this day would never come!

On a serious note, everyone is talking about the three big scandals—the IRS, Benghazi, and the AP phone taps.  But, have we already forgotten, only four weeks ago we learned about the intelligence failure that resulted in the bombing of the Boston Marathon.  There are four major Obama Administration scandals!

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This story, hat-tip Cathy, should ring some alarm bells!  Chemical engineering grads out for a little study!  More likely a dry run!

Quabbin Reservoir, Boston’s water supply!

Here is the AP report (Quabbin Reservoir Tests Normal After Trespassing):

BELCHERTOWN, Mass. — Testing done on water samples from the Quabbin Reservoir showed no abnormalities after seven people were seen at a reservoir park entrance shortly after midnight, officials said Wednesday.

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority said water quality samples were analyzed at its lab Tuesday and all came back normal after the alleged trespassing incident.

The central Massachusetts reservoir supplies drinking water to Boston.

State police spokesman David Procopio said a trooper saw two cars parked at a reservoir park entrance at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, then saw five young men and two young women walking toward them from the reservoir. Procopio said Tuesday that the men told police they recently graduated from chemical engineering programs and were curious about the reservoir.

Procopio said they are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Singapore with addresses in Amherst, Cambridge, Sunderland and Northampton, and New York City. He said law enforcement databases show no warrants, detainers or advisories on them.   [There were no warrants or detainers out for those Boston Chechens either---ed]

Read it all.

Learn more about the Quabbin Reservoir, one of two sources of drinking water for Boston, here.

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…..but we don’t have the financial resources to accept the world’s immigrants!—not to mention the fact that we would be culturally finished as a country.  [Cross-posted from Refugee Resettlement Watch]

Six Members of Congress standing in Speaker Boehner’s way!

That is it in a nutshell!  That is the truth of it all—of the Gang of Eight plus Grover bill now before the Judiciary Committee of the US Senate and the Refugee and Asylum program, the diversity visa lottery, and the list goes on.  When I ask critics of my work here at RRW at what number would they stop before fully closing the borders, they can’t answer.

Six Members of Congress held a press conference on Tuesday maintaining their steadfast opposition to the amnesty plan being labored over in the Senate.  Rumblings on the Hill are that Speaker Boehner wants a bill, and these Members stand in his way of unifying the Republican caucus.

I visited Hill offices yesterday (with a request to strip all refugee and asylum changes from S.744) since I was in DC for the State Department hearing on refugee admissions for FY 2014.

One stop I made was to Rep. Michele Bachmann’s office.  I was surprised that the prominent member of the Tea Party caucus, was not on the steps with Rep. Steve King and the others since she was opposed one month ago!  Getting squishy?  Her new staff person on immigration is Javier Sanchez (Javier.Sanchez@mail.house.gov), you might let him know where you stand.

Here is the NumbersUSA report on the press conference:

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) was joined by five other House Members on Tuesday denouncing the Senate Gang of Eight’s amnesty bill, S.744. Rep. King was joined on the steps of the Capitol by Reps. Mo Brooks of Alabama, John Fleming of Louisiana, Paul Gosar of Arizona, and Steve Stockman and Louie Gohmert of Texas. The six Congressmen said they were concerned about the huge negative impact an amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens would have on the national debt, and they said they stood by the rule of law.

The press conference took place as the Senate Judiciary Committee was continuing its markup of the Gang of Eight’s bill.

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“In each of the past five years, 620,000 to 1.05 million foreigners have been given American citizenship,” Rep. Brooks said. “No country on earth comes close to being as generous as America is with its citizenship.

“The immigration issue is not about whether America is compassionate and generous. We are. The immigration issue is about whether America has the financial resources to accept all the world’s immigrants into America. There are hundreds of millions of foreigners who, if they could, would immigrate to America.”

Readers, more soon on my trip to DC and the State Department hearing.  There is much to report.  But, I will leave you now with this—you came through with testimony and completely swamped the refugee contractors with the number of comments you sent in.  Thank you!

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Doug Mainwaring, co-founder National Capital Tea Party Patriots

Our good friend Doug Mainwaring has penned a very thorough piece at American Thinker listing many of the possible cheerleaders who egged-on the IRS in its targeting of conservative and (we have just learned) pro-Israel groups.

American Thinker:

Where in the world did “Low level IRS employees” get the idea that Tea Party, Patriot, Constitution, and Small Government groups should be harassed?

Read on for the stunning answer(s) as Mainwaring piles up the evidence.  Then here is the wrap-up:

Let’s review the possibilities:  President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi; Former DNC Head Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Senator John McCain, Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA), Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO); New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg; USA Today’s DeWayne Wickham; MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews; ABC’s Brian Ross and George Stephanopoulos;  The New York Times’ Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd,* Nicholas Kristof and Thomas Friedman; The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen, Dana Millbank, and Eugene Robinson; and the Editors of the Wall Street Journal.

And these are just the tip of the iceberg, the fountainhead of the fabricated cascade of false information meant to destroy the Tea Party movement, Patriot, Constitution and Small Government groups.

The IRS’s mistreatment of these groups is evidence of our Political Aristocracy becoming unglued, unhinged and unstable.  It is evidence of the fragility of their grip on both Washington and the Nation.  

I don’t know about you, but are you getting a sense that something is coming unglued—exactly how and why is not yet clear.

* Just a little point of interest, Maureen Dowd is my husband’s first cousin and when the Tea Party movement got underway and she was writing critically about us, I wrote to her to invite her to meet some real Tea Party people.  She never answered my e-mail.

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Obama is stumbling on several fronts these days and one more in the growing list is his inability to get his pick for Labor Secretary, Thomas Perez, confirmed.  This time it’s  not just trouble being caused by the evil GOP, but by fellow Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings.

Obama: My man Tom! AP Photo

We have an extensive archive on Thomas Perez, supported for his present position in the US Justice Department by none other than prominent Maryland Republicans Del. Tony O’Donnell and former MDGOP chairman John Kane (see our extensive archive here).  No word as to whether those two have weighed in favorably on Perez’s potential promotion to US Labor Secretary.

Even if I’m not writing here as often lately (immigration fraud keeping me busy elsewhere), I do want to keep certain long-time topics updated, and in the case of Perez (former board member of CASA de Maryland), do not be surprised if he is back on the Maryland political scene sooner or later running for US Senator or Governor, in which case we will have a handy list of his misdeeds as the second in command to Attorney General Eric Holder cataloged here at PTPR.

Here is the story from the Examiner:

Rep. Elijah Cummings,  D-Md., the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, joined Chairman Darrell Issa in demanding that the White House’s nominee to be labor secretary, Thomas Perez, turn over some 1,200 private emails.

The change is notable because Cummings has been an ardent defender of the nominee. He said a House hearing just Tuesday that Republicans had made “partisan and unsubstantiated claims against Mr. Perez.”

Republicans believe Perez, currently the Justice Department’s top civil rights enforcer, used a private email account to conduct official business in an attempt to  circumvent federal transparency laws. Perez has refused to comply with an earlier subpoena to turn over the emails. To date congressional investigators have been allowed to view only 34 of the 1,200.

On Wednesday, Cummings told Perez he has to turn the emails over and they must be in “unredacted form” as well. Here’s the text of the letter signed by Issa and Cummings:

We write to request that you produce all documents responsive to the subpoena issued to you by the committee on April 10, 2013, regarding your use of a non-official email account to conduct official Department of Justice business. The Department has represented to the committee that roughly 1,200 responsive emails exist. To allow the committee to fully examine these emails, please produce all responsive documents in unredacted form to the committee no later than Friday, May 10, 2013.

This was the second blow Perez’s nomination suffered this week. He was originally scheduled to appear before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Wednesday for a confirmation vote, but it was abruptly postponed until next week.

I wonder how many more in the O-man’s administration keep special e-mail accounts so that the public can’t see what they are up to—the same issue helped bring down Obama’s EPA Administrator a few months ago.