AND IN ENLIGHTENED SAUDI ARABIA: Two Asian Maids Sentenced to 10 Years and 1,000 Lashes for Practicing Sorcery

But according to Leftists like the loathsome Juan Cole, it's Israel that's barbaric.

A Saudi court sentenced two Asian housemaids to 10 years in jail and ordered their lashed 1,000 times each after they were found guilty of indulging in sorcery at their employers’ houses... Their Saudi employers reported the two maids to the Gulf country’s feared religious police, saying they had discovered that their families had been harmed because of sorcery practiced by the maids against them.

Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice who searched the two houses in Riyadh found talismans and other magic items in the bedrooms of the two maids... Saudi Arabia, which strictly enforces Islamic law, has beheaded many persons convicted of practicing magic over the past years.

And I'm sure they were given a fair trial with a jury of their peers.

NO CONSPIRACY, NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Voter Integrity Group targeted by IRS, FBI, OSHA, and ATF

There's a word for a government using the force of law to target and harass its political opponents: fascism.

Such is the story of the non-partisan voter integrity group True the Vote, founded by business owner Catherine Engelbrecht. For the last three years, Engelbrecht and her business have been systematically harassed and intimidated by the Obama administration.

[In] February [2012], True the Vote received a third request for information from the IRS, which also sent its first questionnaire to King Street Patriots. Catherine says the IRS had “hundreds of questions — hundreds and hundreds of questions.” The IRS requested every Facebook post and Tweet she had ever written. She received questions about her family, whether she’d ever run for political office, and which organizations she had spoken to.

“It’s no great secret that the IRS is considered to be one of the more serious [federal agencies],” Catherine says. “When you get a call from the IRS, you don’t take it lightly. So when you’re asked questions that seem to imply a sense of disapproval, it has a very chilling effect.”

On the same day they received the questions from the IRS, Catherine says, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) launched an unscheduled audit of their machine shop, forcing the Engelbrechts to drop everything planned for that day. Though the Engelbrechts have a Class 7 license, which allows them to make component parts for guns, they do not manufacture firearms. Catherine said that while the ATF had a right to conduct the audit, “it was odd that they did it completely unannounced, and they took five, six hours. . . . It was so extensive. It just felt kind of weird.”

That was in February. In July, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration paid a visit to Engelbrecht Manufacturing while Bryan, Catherine, and their children were out of town. The OSHA inspector talked with the managerial staff and employees, inspecting the premises minutely. But Bryan says the agent found only “little Mickey Mouse stuff, like, ‘You have safety glasses on, but not the right kind; the forklift has a seatbelt, but not the right kind.’” Yet Catherine and Bryan said the OSHA inspector complimented them on their tightly run shop and said she didn’t know why she had been sent to examine it.

Not long after, the tab arrived. OSHA was imposing $25,000 in fines on Engelbrecht Manufacturing. They eventually worked it down to $17,500, and Bryan says they may have tried to contest the fines to drive them even lower, but “we didn’t want to make any more waves, because we don’t know [how much further] OSHA could reach.”

There's also a word for the coordinated targeting of a political opposition group by four different arms of the government: conspiracy.

I can assure you that when the entire history of this administration is written, we will discover that Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett and/or David Axelrod instigated these illegal and un-American attacks.

It's time for a special prosecutor and, if the president won't begin a legitimate inquiry, one can assume he's guilty of coordinating the conspiracy.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: The Impeachment Option

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Nation

The Impeachment Option: NRO
Within Range: Belmont Club
On #Benghazi, “What did Obama do, and when did he do it?”: LI

About those “doctored” Benghazi e-mails…: Jazz Shaw
Obama DOJ tracked Fox News reporter: Blaze
Sen. Cornyn blasts White House for 'culture of cover-ups, intimidation': Hill

The Liberal Faith in the Perfectibility of Politics: Elephant
Complaints of IRS targeting by religious groups on the rise: Hill
AG Harris Bans All New Semiautomatic Handguns in California: TAG

Obama’s Secret to Corruption: Never Appoint a Special Counsel: CFP
What did Hillary and Obama discuss at 10pm?: McCarthy
The Actual Issue on Benghazi?: Denninger

Economy

Multiculti U.: Mac Donald
Washington Hits the $16.7T Debt Ceiling with $300B in New Debt: Foundry
Senior Advisor to Obama: "The Law Is Irrelevant.": Ace

Scandal Central

Top Obama Official on IRS Scandal: “The Law Is Irrelevant”: USCFP
Two IRS offices targeted Hawaii GOP leader at the same time: DC
Yes, the IRS asked Pro-Life groups what their members prayed about: Daley Gator

Media

Great job by CBS News' Bob Schieffer: hammers Obama senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer's evasive answers: NB
Homicide Rates Before Guns?: Extrano's Alley
Beck: Failure to Impeach Over IRS Scandal Means America 'Already Operating Under Tyranny': Clash

The Autocrat Accountants: Steyn
Obama’s tapped-out trust: Will
IRS Attacking Politically Active Veterans?: MrConservative

World

Obama Administration Behind Another Leak, Hanging Israel Out To Dry, Putting Them In Greater Danger: WZ
Al-Jazeera runs then deletes anti-Semitic screed by Columbia Univ. Prof. Joseph Massad: LI
2 Minn. women sentenced in al-Shabab terror case: PoliceOne

Cornucopia

If armed resistance to tyranny is 'un-American,' America has died: Examiner
PIC OF THE DAY: BRING A SPARE GUN…: MSW
Civil disobedience going mainstream: Countdown

Image: @DPhilipVeitch
Sponsored by: Audit THIS! Tea Party groups to protest at IRS offices nationwide on Tuesday

QOTD: “Why Is It You Apologize To Muslims and Lie To Americans?”

“Why is it that you use the IRS to silence political dissent and the DOJ to threaten the press?”

“Why is it that you mobilize the IRS to go after political enemies but you can’t mobilize troops to save American lives in Benghazi?” --Jeanine Pirro

DAMNING: The Complete Benghazi Timeline Spreadsheet [Updated]

The complete Benghazi timeline, now augmented with information from eyewitness testimony before Congress, various leaks from the warring Obama/Clinton camps, Stephen Hayes, Sharyl Attkisson, and the House Oversight Committee [PDF], leads me to four inescapable conclusions.


It is now clear to me that:

a) Hillary Clinton lied to Congress.
b) Barack Obama went to sleep knowing that a U.S. Ambassador and other Americans were under terrorist attack.
c) Barack Obama awoke refreshed the next day to begin fundraising.
d) The entire Executive Branch lied repeatedly to the American people to save Obama's chances for reelection.

Could someone drag John Boehner out of whatever bar he's in, wake him up, and get him to name a Select Committee on Benghazi?



Related: OBAMA AIDE: It's Now "Offensive" to Ask What President Did for Eight Hours as Four Americans Fought and Died in #Benghazi

Nancy Pelosi's Greatest Hits

Guest post by Allan Erickson of Clash Daily


Actual quotations or paraphrases from former speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA):

• Unemployment benefits are the best form of economic development.

• The IRS admission it illegally targeted conservative groups is the fault of the Supreme Court.

• ObamaCare is responsible for bringing down the deficit.

• We have to pass the bill (ObamaCare) to see what’s in it.

• The Tea Party is astroturf.

• Every week we don’t pass a Stimulus package, 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

• I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.

• We don’t have a spending problem.

• The CIA misleads us all the time.

• I didn’t know about torture. Bush tricked us. OK, I did know but I didn’t think it mattered because it worked, but now I’m definitely against it, although I didn’t know it was going on.

• Enforcing immigration laws is un-American.

Editor's postscript: And to think, Pelosi is what passes for an intellectual in the modern Democrat Party.


Hat tip: BadBlue.com/Guns.