From www.humanevents.com: Obama's IRS targets Tea Party

Obama's IRS targets Tea Party

Today, Obama has an enemies list.  The IRS is investigating conservative political groups including the Tea Party who oppose Obama's agenda.
 
Tea Party groups in many states applied to the IRS for recognition as non-profit organizations under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(4) which allows the organization to engage in political debate but does not allow a tax deduction to donors for donations made to the group.
 
Tens of thousands of such political non-profit organizations exist across the political spectrum, including ACORN, and one much in the news these days: Media Matters, the liberal clearing house for reporters and columnists eager to echo the liberal line of the day.
 
Just since the first of this year, Tea Party groups in Hawaii, Texas, Ohio, California, Kentucky, and Virginia report receiving inquiries from the IRS challenging their claim to non-profit status.

Up to 80 conservative/constitutionalist groups, including 9/12 Project groups around the country have reportedly received these letters.  The IRS letters all come from a single office of the IRS in Cincinnati, Ohio.
 
The letters contain lengthy questionnaires asking for information well beyond the facts necessary under the IRC to establish the legal parameters of the 501(c)(4) designation.
 
For example, the Kentucky 9/12 Project applied for a non-profit designation in December 2010.  The IRS return letter stated that there would be a determination within 90 days. The Kentucky group next heard from the IRS on February 14, 2012 in a letter containing 30 main questions with a total of 88 separate inquiries.
 
The IRS letter demanded the schedule and contact of every event sponsored by the group, speaker’s names and what the speaker said, and every written communication associated with the event.  The letter demanded the names and personal information of every member and volunteer.
 
Other questions in the letter demand the names of donors and ask for the names of "board members or officers who have run or will run for office (including relatives)"
 
The letters give the groups two weeks to reply.
 
This wave of letters closely follows a letter from six liberal U.S. Senators to the Commissioner of the IRS.  Senators Bennett, Schumer, Franken, Udall, Shaheen, Whitehouse and Merkley requesting the IRS investigate political activity by these conservative groups.
 
Why the sudden focus now by Obama and the Democrats on the grassroots citizen groups who changed the 2010 election by raising public awareness of the dangers of Obama's out of control federal deficit spending, the bailout of Wall Street, the phony "Stimulus", and the folly of ObamaCare?
 

From Americanthinker.com: Obama, Israel and Iran

Obama, Israel and Iran:

Israelis are especially threatened because there is no doubt whatsoever that Iran's first order of business after acquiring nuclear weapons would be to attack Israel with them in an effort to wipe the country off the map, to remove it from the face of the earth. That is a given and the Israeli's know it.
 
They also know that the only way to stop an attack from happening is to keep nuclear weapons out of Iran's hands in the first place, that military intervention is the only way to do it, that the chances of Obama launching a preemptive strike are non-existent, that they will have to launch a preemptive strike themselves or suffer terrible consequences including millions of Israeli deaths and the very real possibility that their country will be destroyed and cease to exist and that time is running very short. It is a very simple proposition for the Israelis. Kill or be killed. If they want to survive they have to attack and they have to succeed.

A preemptive Israeli strike is something Obama doesn't want because it would reflect very badly on his failed policies, his lack of leadership, his inability to control or even influence events in the Middle East, his antipathy towards Israel, his sympathy for the Islamic world and his general ideological bent. That is something he cannot afford in this election year because it would cost him a large number of votes, which in turn could keep him from getting re-elected.

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Israelis have learned through bitter experience that Obama can indeed be bluffed because they have been watching Iran (and many other enemies of America and Israel too for that matter) call his bluff for years. Should they trust Obama this time around in spite of his history and character and ideology?

Absolutely not. Not if they want to survive that is.

Trust Obama? No one else does, so why should they.

I'm back

Two things have prompted me to revive this blog:
1. I've been posting articles almost daily to Facebook and realized that they were probably being ignored. :) I will perhaps still post there but I will also post here with commentary. The articles are things I find important and what the mainstream media is keeping from the American people because of their agenda to support the Progressives.

2. Andrew Breitbart died. He was only 43 but he was such a bulldog for the conservative movement. We've lost a warrior.

And I guess a third thought is that I must do something. I'm in Montana and not in the central fields of battle in getting this country back on track. I can't really make a difference but I do have a voice. I will record.

We are living in times that are historical and we don't know how this will turn out. Either America survives or it doesn't. We are seeing the most corrupt administration in US history and a Progressive movement that is out in the open on what they are accomplishing. I heard a commentator say they only need one more election, if Obama wins, for their plans to come to fruition.

We must stop this and them.

The United States of America is worth fighting for. And sadly this is the generation that will have to fight for it ... again. We can't sit on the wayside hoping it will turn out okay. It won't.