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		<title>Intifada in Ferguson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2014 05:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-palestine-occupation-ap.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245174" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-palestine-occupation-ap-450x337.jpg" alt="ferguson-palestine-occupation-ap" width="336" height="252" /></a>The same violent protesters in Ferguson, Missouri demonstrating against the killing of Michael Brown have also been taking it to the streets in Detroit and elsewhere to press for the release of a Palestinian terrorist who killed two Israelis.</p>
<p>Activists are blackmailing the grand jury that is now hearing evidence against Wilson. If the grand jurors refuse to indict Wilson, radical activists are promising even more mayhem. The message is unmistakable: indict the cop, and there will be peace; don&#8217;t, and Ferguson will burn.</p>
<p>Brown is the young, black, 6&#8217;4&#8243;, 292-pound man who was killed by white police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9. When media outlets describe Brown they usually omit the fact that he viciously assaulted Wilson and tried to seize his handgun, presumably in an effort to do the officer harm. Journalists also tend to downplay the fact that minutes before Brown attacked Wilson he robbed a convenience store.</p>
<p>The Palestinian terrorist is Rasmea (also spelled Rasmieh) Odeh who was convicted by a Detroit jury on Monday of immigration fraud. Prosecutors accused Odeh of killing Israelis in the Sixties and then lying about it in U.S. immigration papers.</p>
<p>Odeh <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/case/652"><span style="color: #0433ff;">was previously convicted</span></a> in Israel &#8220;for her role in the 1969 bombings of a supermarket and the British Consulate in Jerusalem, which were carried out on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization,&#8221; according to the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Prosecutors said one of the supermarket bombs killed two people and injured others. Odeh received a sentence of life imprisonment but was released after 10 years as part of a prisoner swap.</p>
<p>Odeh used to live in Michigan and resided in Chicago until her bail was revoked Monday. In Chicago she was employed as associate director of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6462"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Arab American Action Network</span></a> (AAAN), which was founded by terrorist promoter Rashid Khalidi and his wife, Mona. Khalidi, a Columbia University professor and former director of the PLO&#8217;s press agency, is a well-known friend of Barack Obama. AAAN, which is hostile to Israel, claims &#8220;to challenge government policies that violate the civil, political and human rights of the Arab American and Arab immigrant community.&#8221;</p>
<p>The seditious collaboration in Ferguson between anti-American left-wingers, some of whom are well-funded, and anti-American Islamofascists isn&#8217;t all that unusual in U.S. politics but it receives scant attention from the media.</p>
<p>Leftist and Islamist groups routinely work together in the U.S. Not many on the activist Left are wary of their comrades&#8217; working relationship with Muslim totalitarians who would joyfully slit their atheist, infidel throats upon coming to power. One such leftist, Meredith Tax, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/a-leftists-harsh-words-for-the-unholy-alliance/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">acknowledged</span></a> in a book last year that aligning with Islamic fundamentalists was a terrible idea.</p>
<p>But Tax is a very rare bird. Most leftists see America&#8217;s enemies as their natural allies, so when an opportunity for a working partnership arises they seize it with gusto. As they see things, whatever it takes to advance so-called social justice is justified.</p>
<p>As a Sixties radical once wrote, &#8220;The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, whatever the cause, whether inner city blacks or illegal aliens or women, it is merely a pretext for action. It is an opportunity to advance the real cause which is the accumulation of the power needed to foment and effectuate revolutionary change.</p>
<p>Rana Baker, a writer at Electronic Intifada, <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rana-baker/palestinians-express-solidarity-people-ferguson-mike-brown-statement"><span style="color: #0433ff;">explained</span></a> the Marxist, identity politics-driven rationale for this cooperation between American leftists and Islamic supremacists in Ferguson. In an article filled with politically correct drivel she wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>Unsurprisingly, many of the police deployed to crush unarmed protesters demanding justice for the brutal murder of eighteen-year-old black American Mike Brown are Israel-trained. Despotic tactics Palestinians largely associate with Israel’s colonial military, such as teargassing protesters and harassing journalists, have all been implemented in Ferguson. Although Ferguson and Palestine are two different contexts, both places and their people are fighting against white supremacist regimes of oppression which continue to view them as &#8220;disposable others&#8221; and act accordingly &#8230; it is the moral responsibility of every Palestinian to support and foster relations with the struggles of the oppressed all over the world.</p></blockquote>
<p>No one who follows the Left should be shocked to learn that Ferguson has been dominated by rent-a-mobs in recent weeks, complete with leftist astroturfers determined to stir the pot.</p>
<p>Groups endorsing Ferguson October, last month&#8217;s festival of leftist looting and self-righteous posturing in the beleaguered St. Louis suburb, included a hodgepodge of activist organizations &#8211;many of them Saul Alinsky-inspired pressure groups &#8212; that have little or nothing to do with Ferguson, Michael Brown, or Darren Wilson. The only thing these labor movement and Occupy Wall Street activists had in common was that they were left-wing.</p>
<p>Among them were: Action for the Common Good; Advancement Project; Alliance for a Just Society; Amnesty International; CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities (Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence); ColorOfChange.org; Catholic Worker; Chinese Progressive Association; Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; Code Pink; Divestment Student Network; Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation; Fighting Against Natural Gas (FANG); Gamaliel Foundation; International Socialist Organization (ISO); Juvenile Urban Multicultural Program (at Syracuse University); Korean American Resource &amp; Cultural Center; LeftRoots; Million Hoodies Movement for Justice; National Domestic Workers Alliance; National Network for Arab American Communities; National Organization for Women (NOW); New Black Panther Party; New Economy Coalition; PICO National Network; Progressive Democrats of America; Sierra Student Coalition (a project of the Sierra Club); St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee; Universal African Peoples Organization; United for Peace and Justice; US Action; US Palestinian Community Network; Veterans for Peace; and Working Families Party.</p>
<p>Many of these groups <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1237"><span style="color: #0433ff;">have taken money</span></a> from radical billionaire George Soros. Those on his payroll include Advancement Project, Gamaliel Foundation, NOW, and US Action.</p>
<p>Lee Cary has also <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/behind_the_dont_shoot_coalition_in_ferguson_.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">painstakingly detailed</span></a> at American Thinker the 45 organizations that are now placing demands on police agencies in the St. Louis area. The groups, which are part of the Don&#8217;t Shoot Coalition, are <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/11/ferguson-protestors-deliver-rules-of-engagement-to-police/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">attempting to define</span></a> the rules of engagement between law enforcement and activists to make it easier for radicals to set Ferguson on fire in the event Wilson is not indicted.</p>
<p>Remnants of the ACORN activist empire are involved in organizing unrest in Ferguson.</p>
<p>Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (<a href="http://organizemo.org/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">MORE</span></a>), a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, is the rebranded Missouri branch of the former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) which filed for bankruptcy in late 2010. That ACORN state chapter reconstituted itself in December 2009 as MORE under orders from ACORN&#8217;s national headquarters. President Obama used to work for ACORN and he represented it in court as a lawyer.</p>
<p>MORE <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/10/is_acorn_behind_violent_unrest_in_ferguson.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">has been active</span></a> in the protests and in efforts to free jailed demonstrators so they can continue vandalizing businesses, intimidating perceived adversaries, setting fires, throwing projectiles and urine at cops, and engaging in the Left&#8217;s usual modes of so-called nonviolent protest. MORE believes that protesters should be given a blank check to inflict whatever harm they wish on the community in pursuit of social justice.</p>
<p>MORE is also a recipient of taxpayer funding &#8212; and to no one&#8217;s surprise &#8212; it is not a good steward of those dollars. MORE received $21,000 for its &#8220;foreclosure prevention&#8221; efforts but &#8220;did not fully comply&#8221; with the rules, according to the St. Louis city comptroller&#8217;s &#8220;fiscal monitoring review&#8221; <a href="https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/comptroller/documents/audits/upload/3586_001.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">released</span></a> a few days before Brown was shot.</p>
<p>MORE&#8217;s executive director is longtime ACORN organizer <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-ordower/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Jeff Ordower</span></a>. Ordower, an outspoken vote fraud apologist, previously ran Missouri ACORN and oversaw ACORN&#8217;s Midwest operations. He was also an SEIU organizer in Texas.</p>
<p>The Working Families Party, founded in New York State in the 1990s by ACORN members, is also involved in Ferguson. It endorsed Ferguson October but the extent of its on-the-ground involvement was unclear at time of writing.</p>
<p><span style="color: #222222;">All these superficially distinct groups have come together in Ferguson to pay homage to violent criminals &#8211;a murderer of Israelis and a would-be murderer of a police officer&#8211; for two reasons.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">First, because Rasmea Odeh and Michael Brown are model citizens, according to the leftist worldview. Radical activists see them and their disruptive, antisocial behavior as representing the best that humanity has to offer.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Second, because banding together and pooling their power to disrupt society helps to create strife and chaos. The subsequent crises can be leveraged to promote the kinds of change that leftists would like to see.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">As the old radical said, the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.</span></p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s IRS Still Persecuting Conservatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 04:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Volpe]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IRS_office_AP.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-201387 alignleft" alt="IRS_office_AP" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IRS_office_AP-450x337.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>About three months after revelations first came out that the Internal Revenue Service was targeting Tea Party and other conservative non-profit groups, the targeting continues largely unabated with many of the same IRS officials doing the same kind of targeting in much the same way.</p>
<p><a href="http://waysandmeans.house.gov/uploadedfiles/dlc_to_irs_on_continued_targeting.pdf">House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Republican Dave Camp sent a letter</a> on August 12, 2013 to acting IRS Chief Dan Werfel complaining that an IRS agent had told Ways and Means Committee investigators that they were still being instructed to flag groups with the term &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; in their name for extra scrutiny.</p>
<p>According to Camp’s letter, an IRS agent told his investigators that, per their manager’s instructions, all groups with “Tea Party” in their names would immediately be sent by the IRS agent for “secondary screening,” a designation assigned by the IRS to any group it deems to be involved in political advocacy.</p>
<p>In the letter, Camp points out that such indiscriminate flagging of Tea Party groups amounts to nothing less than a continuation of the “be on the lookout (BOLO)” policy which caused so much controversy when it was revealed:</p>
<blockquote><p>In a spreadsheet dated August 12, 2010 produced by the IRS to the Committee, under the heading, &#8216;BOLO list&#8217;, (Be on the Look Out) are instructions to refer all Tea Party organization applications to Group 7822 for secondary screening. Today, according to information obtained by the Committee, those applications are still sent to secondary screening, but now they are sent to Group 7823.</p></blockquote>
<p>Front Page Magazine has learned that Tea Party groups are not the only groups still being targeted. The Thomas More Society has represented a number of pro-life organizations. Peter Breen is Vice President &amp; Senior Counsel of the Thomas More Society and in an interview with Front Page Magazine, Breen said three groups have contacted his organization since the revelations in May to complain of continued harassment.</p>
<p>In the case of pro-life groups, Breen said, the IRS would routinely ask these groups how often they intended on holding prayer sessions in front of abortion clinics.</p>
<p>“There has been a real fixation on the prayer activity,” said Breen.</p>
<p>He said that Emerald Coast Coalition for Life, Christian Voices for Life, and Cherish Life Ministries all complained within the last three months that the IRS was holding up their tax exempt application and continuing to ask such questions as how often the group planned on praying in front of abortion clinics.</p>
<p>The three groups were being handled by two IRS agents, Tyrone Thomas and Ms. R. Medley, two agents that Breen said harassed other pro-life groups in the past. In all three cases, concerns were raised by IRS case worker into July 2013 over the perceived propensity to pray of the members of the group. Both Thomas and Medley work out of the same Cincinnati IRS office that has become the subject of so much controversy.</p>
<p>Front Page Magazine has also learned that the continued targeting of at least one pro-Israel group continues. Lori Lowenthal Marcus is the principal of Z Street, a group designed to support the Jewish State of Israel.</p>
<p>Marcus said that her group’s battle with the IRS is more than three years old. On October 24, 2010, Z Street sued the IRS, alleging that the group was unfairly targeted for intrusive and inappropriate questions, thus violating the group’s due process rights.</p>
<p>Marcus said that as a result of the suit the IRS retaliated by putting off the decision on Z Street’s non-profit status indefinitely. The decision has still not been made almost three years later, and the IRS has said it won’t issue a decision until this court case has been settled.</p>
<p>Z Street was back in federal court on July 18, 2013 facing off with the IRS. The IRS continued to maintain in court that the organization would not make a final decision on the group’s status until after the lawsuit was settled.</p>
<p>Marcus said she believes that there are other pro-Israel groups being targeted but that people are afraid to speak up because they are worried that the IRS will target them if they do.</p>
<p>Front Page Magazine has found evidence to corroborate that claim. In one correspondence with an unidentified pro-Israel group, the IRS agent in charge of the case, Tracy Dornette, asks the group, “Does your organization support the existence of the land of Israel? Describe your organization’s religious belief system toward the land of Israel.”</p>
<p>Neither question, said Marcus, should have anything to do with determining the tax exempt status of a group.</p>
<p>While President Obama claimed when this scandal first broke to be taking it seriously, it appears as though, for the most part, it’s business as usual for the IRS. Many of the same IRS agents who were in the middle of the targeting which became the subject of the explosive Office of Inspector General report continue to work in the same capacity, carrying on the same way at the IRS.</p>
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		<title>Smoking Gun: The IRS&#8217;s Abuse of Obama&#8217;s Pro-Israel Enemies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2013 04:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Internal-Revenue-Service.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-194695 alignleft" alt="Internal-Revenue-Service" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Internal-Revenue-Service-450x326.jpg" width="270" height="196" /></a>Barack Obama&#8217;s Internal Revenue Service is targeting certain Jewish advocacy groups which disagree with Obama&#8217;s anti-Israel positions on the so-called &#8220;disputed territories.&#8221; In a document entitled &#8220;Be On the Lookout&#8221; (or BOLO for short), which the IRS disclosed publicly on June 24th,  the tax enforcement agency instructed its agents reviewing applications for tax-exempt status  to be on the lookout for applications from organizations that “deal with disputed territories in the Middle East” and “may be inflammatory.”</span></b></p>
<p>A pattern has emerged with respect to the IRS&#8217;s special focus on groups that were outspoken in opposing President Obama&#8217;s demands that Israel freeze its construction of settlements over the pre-June 1967 boundary line between Israel and the West Bank and West and East Jerusalem, known as the “Green Line.”</p>
<p>One of the targeted groups, Z Street, filed a lawsuit against the IRS in August 2010, alleging that the IRS subjected the pro-Zionist group to additional scrutiny in a discriminatory fashion because of its strong pro-Israel ideological views.</p>
<p>Z Street, a nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the facts relating to the Middle East, particularly as relate to the existence of Israel as a Jewish state, alleged in its complaint the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>The case is brought because, through its corporate counsel, Z STREET was informed explicitly by an IRS Agent on July 19, 2010, that approval of Z STREET’s application for tax-exempt status has been at least delayed, and may be denied because of  a special IRS policy in place regarding organizations in any way connected with Israel, and further that the applications of many such Israel-related organizations have been assigned to &#8220;a special unit in the D.C. office to determine whether the organization&#8217;s activities contradict the Administration&#8217;s public policies.&#8221; These statements by an IRS official that the IRS maintains special policies governing applications for tax-exempt status by organizations which deal with Israel, and which requires particularly intense scrutiny of such applications and an enhanced risk of denial if made by organizations which espouse or support positions inconsistent with the Obama administration’s Israel policies, constitute an explicit admission of the crudest form of viewpoint discrimination, and one which is both totally un-American and flatly unconstitutional under the First Amendment.</p></blockquote>
<p>The IRS has now released the <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/news/irs-we-targeted-supporters-of-israels-disputed-territories/2013/06/25/0/">smoking gun</a> document confirming Z Street&#8217;s suspicions. It demonstrates that the IRS was not administering its decisions on applications for tax-exempt charitable and educational organization status on a content neutral basis. Moreover, its judgments on what content &#8220;may be inflammatory&#8221; are inherently subjective.</p>
<p>On its face, there is simply no legal justification for why the IRS would use &#8220;disputed territories,&#8221; a foreign policy issue, to evaluate a group&#8217;s domestic political activity for purposes of determining eligibility for tax-exempt status. Therefore, without some other compelling content-neutral reason to justify its actions, the IRS&#8217;s limitation of the issuance of tax-exempt status to a nonprofit educational organization on the basis of the substantive views held by the persons who operate the organization &#8212; views that differ from the Obama administration&#8217;s foreign policies &#8212; constitutes an unconstitutional restriction on the freedom of speech of such persons.</p>
<p>The IRS has reportedly offered alternative rationales for its position. First, it apparently tried to argue that Z Street could be ineligible for tax-exempt status if it were engaging in lobbying, or if it were what the IRS calls an “action organization,” which is the case when the only way to accomplish the purpose of the organization is through legislation. These rationales do not apply to an organization like Z Street, whose website, public awareness campaigns, and other activities are educational ones conducted in conjunction with informed advocacy of public policy positions. Z Street has stated that it is not engaged in any lobbying activities. Z Street has also stated that none of its purposes can be accomplished through legislative action. Without any evidence to the contrary, the IRS should have ended its heavy-handed probe right there. But it didn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>The most absurd alternative rationale put forward by the IRS involves its purported concerns about possible funding of terrorism. The IRS claimed, according to an article published on Jewish Press.com, that since Israel is a country where there is a “heightened risk of terrorism,” Z Street required special scrutiny because it might be providing funds to terrorist groups. As the Jewish Press article stated, &#8220;of course, Z STREET doesn’t fund anything, and then there is the little matter of Israel being the <i>object</i> of terrorism, not the source of terrorism&#8221; (emphasis original).</p>
<p>Moreover, when it comes to Islamist charities, some of which have been directly implicated in the funding of terrorist groups such as Hamas, President Obama himself has taken a very different stance. In his June 2009 speech that he delivered to the Muslim world in Cairo, Obama apologized that his country’s “rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation.” Obama then promised to change all that: “I&#8217;m committed to work with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat [the Islamic duty of charitable contributions].”</p>
<p>Obama made good on his promise. After the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), an avowedly anti-Israel Islamist advocacy group, had temporarily lost its tax-exempt status because of its failure to file annual tax reports as required by federal law, its representatives visited the White House. Those visits paid off.  The IRS sent CAIR&#8217;s national office a letter in June 2012 reinstating its exemption even though gaps remained in its tax return filings.</p>
<p>According to information contained in an Investor&#8217;s Business Daily editorial published earlier this month, Obama administration officials &#8220;in 2012 met inside the White House with CAIR officials, according to Secret Service visitors logs. In the months leading up to the IRS decision, in fact, the Obama administration held &#8216;hundreds&#8217; of closed-door meetings with CAIR — including many in the White House.&#8221;</p>
<p>Referring to an article in the Daily Caller posted in early June 2012, Investor&#8217;s Business Daily stated that many of the White House meetings occurred the same month the IRS reversed its decision. In other words, CAIR was given special access to high level Obama administration officials to secure its tax-exempt status although it was not in compliance with basic filing requirements, while Z Street was being given the runaround because of the views it espoused in opposition to Obama&#8217;s policies towards Israel.</p>
<p>Consider too that CAIR had been named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development terrorist funding case in which the Holy Land Foundation, set up expressly to accept zakat, was convicted in 2008 by a federal jury for giving more than $12 million to Hamas.</p>
<p>Thus, when it came to placating Islamists, President Obama seemed to have forgotten that all those tough rules on charitable giving exist for a good reason – to prevent front groups posing as “charities” from funneling donations to terrorists. Yet, his IRS suddenly remembered the terrorist concerns when it came to applying the rules <i>against</i> groups sticking up for Israel, which is in the crosshairs of the true terrorists.</p>
<p>This record makes a mockery of the soon-to-be National Security Adviser Susan Rice&#8217;s declaration to reporters, during her farewell news briefing as the United States&#8217; United Nations ambassador, that the Obama administration has stood &#8220;shoulder to shoulder with Israel on principle.&#8221;</p>
<p>Making matters even worse, Rice&#8217;s nominated successor at the UN, Samantha Power, will be anything but standing &#8220;shoulder to shoulder with Israel.&#8221; More likely, she will be giving the cold shoulder to Israel if she becomes the next UN ambassador, since she believes that America&#8217;s foreign policy decision-makers have too often deferred &#8220;reflexively to Israeli security assessments.&#8221; One way for the Obama administration to address what she considered a &#8220;longstanding foreign policy flaw&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the &#8216;national interest&#8217; as a whole is defined and pursued&#8221; &#8211; is for Obama&#8217;s IRS to go after those &#8220;special interests.&#8221;</p>
<p>President Obama&#8217;s IRS has unconstitutionally sought to use its discretion in granting tax-exempt status, which affects the ability of donors to make tax-deductible contributions, in order to punish groups which do not hew to the Obama administration&#8217;s foreign policy position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This gross abuse of power must be stopped, and the persons responsible must be held fully accountable for their actions.</p>
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		<title>Pro-Life Groups Confirm: IRS Targeting Began in 2009</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/planned_parenthood_sign.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-189774" alt="planned_parenthood_sign" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/planned_parenthood_sign-450x312.jpg" width="315" height="218" /></a>The list of categories included in the IRS&#8217;s effort to target conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status continues to widen. On Wednesday, the Thomas More Society, a Chicago-based public interest law firm, <a href="https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/2013/05/15/broadening-irs-victims-include-pro-life-advocates-as-congress-investigates/">announced</a> that cases they handled &#8220;demonstrate the agency’s abuse of pro-life organizations in addition to those identified as ‘tea party’, ‘patriot’, or ‘government spending’ groups.&#8221; Meanwhile, years of high-profile election involvement from the abortion advocacy group Planned Parenthood have gone unaddressed, including the group&#8217;s highly public campaigning against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in the recall election of 2012.</p>
<p>Two cases the Thomas More Society handled are particularly egregious. In the case of the Coalition for Life of Iowa, approval of their application for tax-exempt status was withheld. In a June 6, 2009 phone call to the group&#8217;s leaders, an IRS agent identified as &#8220;Ms. Richards&#8221; allegedly told them to send a letter to the agency signed by the entire board&#8211;under perjury of the law&#8211;stating that they do not picket or protest, or organize other groups to picket or protest outside of any Planned Parenthood clinic. The agent said that when the IRS received that letter, they would grant approval of the group&#8217;s tax-exempt status.</p>
<p>Yet the IRS continued to send the group letters, asking for more invasive information. That prompted Thomas More Society special counsel Sally Wagenmaker to send a letter to the IRS demanding an immediate granting of tax exempt status.</p>
<p>Wagenmaker expressed concerns about &#8220;the IRS&#8217;s disturbing ability” to thwart legitimate applicants in a variety of ways. These included sending them lengthy questionnaires and making wrong citations of applicable law, as they did with Coalition for Life of Iowa. Wagenmaker noted that the purpose behind these efforts was to effectively prevent groups that possessed neither the necessary fortitude, or access to legal advocates, from exercising their constitutional freedoms.</p>
<p>“The IRS’s role should only be to determine whether organizations fit the section 501(c)(3) test for ‘charitable, religious, or educational’ qualification, not to inquire about the content of prayers, protests, and petitions,&#8221; Wagenmaker said. &#8220;It’s high time that the IRS be called to account for its workers’ potential to trample on our constitutional rights, through such ostensibly innocuous means…what the Ways and Means committee will discuss may only be the tip of the iceberg of IRS abuses.”</p>
<p>In the case of Christian Voices for Life, the IRS withheld approval of the Fort Bend County, Texas, organization&#8217;s tax-exempt status, allegedly questioning their involvement with “40 Days for Life” and “Life Chain” events. The group was also subjected to &#8220;repeated and lengthy unconstitutional requests for information about the viewpoint and content of its educational communications, volunteer prayer vigils, and other protected activities,&#8221; reported the Society.</p>
<p>Wagenmaker again expressed her outrage. “The application of Christian Voices for Life clearly indicated that the organization qualified as a charitable organization under section 501(c)(3),” she said. “The IRS seemed to be intent on denying or delaying tax-exempt status based upon the organization’s pro-life message, rather than any legitimate exemption concern, through its exhaustive, cumbersome questioning. The implication that Christian Voices for Life somehow intended to engage in illegal activity was insulting.”</p>
<p>It was more than that. According to documents obtained by Fox News, the Texas pro-life organization was essentially <a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/irs-told-pro-life-group-not-to-picket-planned-parenthood.html">told</a> they had to promote abortion to balance their programming, when the IRS directed them to explain &#8220;whether the group’s educational programs educate both sides of the issues.&#8221;</p>
<p>After Wagenmaker began her pushback against the IRS, each group got their applications approved.</p>
<p>The timing of the former case is a critical revelation. A report about the IRS&#8217;s abuse of the Coalition for Life of Iowa was made <a href="https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/2011/04/12/christian-voices-for-life/">available</a> to the press by the Thomas More Society on August 4, <i>2009.</i> Yet the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/TIGTA-AppendixVIandAppendixVII.pdf">timeline</a> of IRS harassment, determined from the Inspector General for Tax Administration&#8217;s report on the scandal, dates the IRS targeting to March of 2010.</p>
<p>The Thomas More Society’s press release would mark the <i>third</i> &#8220;revision&#8221; of the timeline. Last Sunday, after <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/irs_knew_in_of_tea_party_targeting_wMySQ6peo6V41FKmuhOd2O">reporting</a> that IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman told a told a House Ways and Means subcommittee on March 22, 2012 that there was &#8220;absolutely no targeting” of conservative groups, the Associated Press, moved the timeline back to &#8220;as early as 2011.&#8221; The Inspector General&#8217;s report ostensibly moves it back to March 2010. Now it’s back to August 2009, meaning the IG&#8217;s report is flawed at best &#8212; or that another lie is being perpetrated by the Obama administration.</p>
<p>Furthermore, a third pro-life group, Cherish Life Ministries, was also told their application for tax-exempt status was <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/irs-tells-pro-life-ministry-to-promote-abortion/">turned down</a>. According to World Net Daily, group founder Peter Shinn says the IRS told him he didn&#8217;t qualify. “The representative was telling me I had to provide information on all aspects of abortion, I couldn’t just educate the church from the pro-life perspective,” he said. “Every time I pressed her on this issue and asked her to clarify her position, she would state that it wasn’t what she was saying, and then, she would repeat it almost the same way.”</p>
<p>He further noted that the agent he spoke to accused him of creating a political organization. &#8220;I asked her why she said we were a political organization and she said it was because we had said in our application that we did less than 5 percent political activity. I explained to her that this was what was stated in the application and all we were doing was acknowledging that we were doing less than 5 percent political activity,” he said.</p>
<p>Shinn continued to press the issue. “She did get nervous though in the end when I pressed her that I wanted specific information about why I had to educate from a pro-abortion perspective not just pro-life,&#8221; Shinn revealed. &#8220;I explained to her that the Pro-Life Action League even has pro-life in their title and they certainly don’t teach pro-abortion topics and they are still 501(c)(3). I also told her that Planned Parenthood does not teach about pro-life issues yet they are also still a 501(c)(3).”</p>
<p>Planned Parenthood is also a government-funded behemoth. Its 2011-2012 annual <a href="http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/annual-report-4661.htm">report</a> revealed the organization <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/07/planned-parenthood-received-542-4-million-in-government-grants-and-reimbursements-2011-2012/">received</a> $542.4 million from taxpayers in the form of government grants and reimbursements, amounting to 45 percent of it total revenue. Planned Parenthood&#8217;s years of involvement in electoral politics has gone unaddressed by the IRS. In 2012, Planned Parenthood played a very visible role in the recall against Republican Gov. Scott Walker, actively campaigning for Walker&#8217;s opponent, Tom Barrett. A spokesperson for Wisconsin&#8217;s Planned Parenthood arm<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/planned-parenthood-wisconsin-recall-election_n_1571830.html"> bragged</a> to the Huffington Post about their work going &#8220;door to door all over the state to motivate people to vote&#8221; and that &#8220;voters are bringing to the polls friends and family members who have never voted before.&#8221;</p>
<p>In a statement released to FrontPage, Ms.Wagenmaker used an apt analogy to describe what the IRS&#8217;s harassment of the Coalition for Life of Iowa amounted to: &#8220;Why the IRS injected Planned Parenthood into its questions to the Iowa group, as if to protect this elephant against a mosquito (relatively speaking, at least in terms of their relatively financial positions), caused me concern then as it still does now,&#8221; she wrote.</p>
<p>That the IRS is harassing <i>or</i> protecting anyone reeks of government abuse and political partisanship of the worst kind.</p>
<p>The president&#8217;s &#8220;solution&#8221; for the crisis? On Wednesday, he announced the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/16/obama-to-meet-with-treasury-officials-over-irs-scandal/">resignation</a> of acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, who was already scheduled to resign in June&#8211;even as ABC News <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/irs-official-in-charge-during-tea-party-targeting-now-runs-health-care-office/">reported</a> yesterday that Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS official who served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations during the time conservative organization were being targeted, is now the commissioner in charge of the IRS office responsible for Obamacare.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the president <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/16/obama-i-certainly-did-not-know-anything-about-irs-scandal/">ducked</a> a direct question about White House involvement in the scandal. According to a White House transcript, he was asked the following question: “Can you assure the American people that nobody in the White House knew about the agency’s actions before your counsel’s office found out on April 22nd?”</p>
<p>His answer: “Let me make sure that I answer your specific question. I can assure you that I certainly did not know anything about the IG report before the IG report had been leaked through the press. Typically, the IG reports are not supposed to be widely distributed or shared. They tend to be a process that everybody is trying to protect the integrity of. But what I’m absolutely certain of is that the actions that were described in that IG report are unacceptable.”</p>
<p>Note that the specific question wasn’t answered. Note also that at least one part of the IG&#8217;s report, the timeline, may be inaccurate. Note still further that the initial number of conservative groups targeted for extra scrutiny has <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/14/lawmakers-say-irs-targeted-dozens-more-conservative-groups-than-initially/">expanded</a> from 75 to nearly 500, that at least <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/05/irs-flagged-patriot-groups-beyond-cincinnati-report-2647494.html">two other</a> offices besides the one in Cincinnati were involved, and that the number of employees involved in Cincinnati has doubled from two to four&#8211;all of whom <a href="http://www.fox19.com/story/22265631/four-cincy-irs-workers-not-two-allegedly-connected-to-scandal">told</a> Fox News &#8220;they simply did what their bosses ordered.&#8221;</p>
<p>The House Ways and Means Committee <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/16/second-irs-official-to-leave-amid-tea-party-scandal/">holds</a> the first congressional hearing on the IRS scandal today. The Senate begins their IRS hearings on May 21. Congress has a lot of work to do.</p>
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		<title>The Obama Advertising Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 04:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/obama_ad.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-147195" title="obama_ad" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/obama_ad.jpg" alt="" width="396" height="223" /></a>Last week, Expedia released a web ad featuring an older Jewish man, Arnie Goldstein, deciding to take a trip. Where’s he traveling? Why, to the lesbian wedding of his daughter, of course! “This is not the dream I had for my daughter,” he narrates. “Coming out to the wedding from back east, I had some real apprehensions about it. What’s this going to look like, two girls getting married? You have to make a decision. Are you going to have a daughter that you’re going to maintain a very wonderful relationship with for the rest of your life? Or are you going to lose that child?”</p>
<p>Now, this sounds like a very serious moral quandary. But no, it’s just an ad for an online travel agency. “All that trepidation just seemed to go away,” says the dad. “That was a big turning point. Walking Jill down the aisle … Judy and I were just swelling with emotion. You come to terms with it and you say it’s a very natural order of things in your life, and it’s supposed to be that way.”</p>
<p>Whether or not it’s supposed to be that way is up for debate – certainly thousands of years of human society tend to argue the opposite. But in advertising, it’s clear that pandering works. There’s a reason that Oreo has endorsed same-sex marriage with a six-layer rainbow cookie and the slogan “Proudly Support Love!” Pandering to particular communities works.</p>
<p>This is something the advertising community has always known: know your audience, and market to it. It’s why your satellite dish carries 205 channels, even though you only watch four of them. Somewhere, there’s some lonely old shut-in desperate to watch Lifetime. And Lifetime is there to pander to her. Where we all used to watch NBC, ABC, or CBS, now dad watches ESPN, son watches SPIKE, daughter watches MTV, and mom watches Oxygen. And gay friend watches LOGO or Showtime.</p>
<p>None of which is to argue that choice should be limited. If you want to shop at Expedia because they seem to like lesbian weddings, more power to you. But there is no question that our common morality has been fragmented by a marketing machine geared toward communities instead of individuals.</p>
<p>All of which is fine in the context of product sales. The biggest problem is that in today’s modern politics, marketing strategies have been adapted to fit politics. Thus the Obama campaign strongly resembles your cable package: African Americans for Obama, Asian Americans &amp; Pacific Islanders for Obama, Catholics for Obama, Educators for Obama, Environmentalists for Obama, Jewish Americans for Obama, Latinos for Obama, LGBT Americans for Obama, Native Americans for Obama, Nurses for Obama, Parents for Obama, People of Faith for Obama, People With Disabilities for Obama, Rural Americans for Obama, Seniors for Obama, Small Business Owners for Obama, Sportsmen for Obama, Veterans &amp; Military Families for Obama, Women for Obama, Young Americans for Obama.</p>
<p>All of those are real groups on Obama’s website.</p>
<p>And that’s sad.</p>
<p>When political campaigns encourage you to vote based on identity politics rather than who you believe will represent America best, the concept of deliberative democracy breaks down. The founders understood that faction was perhaps the greatest danger to any republic; that’s why they focused on interest counteracting interest, so that in order for anything major to happen, Americans would have to think beyond their own personal interests. That’s why the founders built a system of checks and balances.</p>
<p>But the progressive left did away with that system. They decided that the governmental action on behalf of discrete and insular minorities, to use the left’s favored legal phrase, was the most important task of the government. To achieve it, Americans would continue to vote along lines of identity politics – but the system would now have no checks or balances.</p>
<p>Politics should require either a people who think in terms of the greater good, or a government built to filter out parochialism. Our government today has neither. We have become an Expedia government: pandering to each group, and forgetting to serve the whole.</p>
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