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Police Reports Suggest Dem IT Scandal Ringleader Abused Several Muslim Immigrant Women
[PJ] If you thought the Democrat IT scandal couldn't possibly get any crazier, think again. Because now it has been revealed that Imran Awan, the ringleader of the Pakistani clan under criminal investigation for allegedly stealing equipment and data from Congress, allegedly also beat Muslim immigrant women in his spare time.

Police reports obtained by The Daily Caller show that several woman outside of Awan's marriage to Hina Alvi have contacted law enforcement to report various forms of abuse at his hands, including battery, wiretapping, and threatening family members of one of the women.

In a recent piece designed to minimize the scandal, the Washington Post reported that the indicted former IT aide was popular with House Democrats because he was "charismatic and accommodating." That may be so, but he also apparently had a dark and sinister side.

According to the police reports, he "bloodied" one girlfriend and treated another one like his personal slave. He allegedly intimidated his stepmother by telling her that he had the power to have people kidnapped back home in Pakistan.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/22/2017 00:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are we soon to learn that Imran Awan's ophthalmologist was Salomon Melgen ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/22/2017 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  It's Indo-Pak cultures, y'know.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/22/2017 9:05 Comments || Top||

#3  How very Islamic of him.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/22/2017 9:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe Awan didn't know Dr. Melgen in a professional capacity but since he was "storing ill-gotten money in his father’s name" they may have used Mossack Fonseca to stash money offshore. The offshore leaks are yielding surprising ties and used to counter money laundering.
Posted by: Whavish Thusoling5684 || 09/22/2017 12:01 Comments || Top||


Philadelphia finds hundreds of illegal voters
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Hundreds of noncitizens were registered to vote in Philadelphia over the last decade, and at least 90 of them actually ended up casting ballots that should never have been allowed, City Commissioner Al Schmidt said Wednesday, adding more fuel to complaints of bogus voting in U.S. elections.

The voters are all self-admitted noncitizens who went back and canceled their registrations later ‐ but not before casting illegal ballots a total of 227 times in elections in 2006 and 2007, Mr. Schmidt said.

He said most of those noncitizens signed up to vote at PennDOT, the state motor vehicles bureau, when they went to get a driver’s license. While legal residents and long-term visitors are allowed to hold licenses, they are not allowed to vote in federal elections ‐ yet thanks to a federal law, the sign-up for both licenses and voter registration is often tied together.

"The current voter registration process at PennDOT is both harmful to election integrity and to members of the immigrant community seeking citizenship," Mr. Schmidt said.

The data offers a boost to President Trump, who has claimed voters are tainted by noncitizens casting illegal ballots.

While Mr. Trump’s claims of millions of such votes have not been substantiated, Philadelphia’s data does show that fraudulent voting happens ‐ contradicting the claims of voting rights activists who said it is so rare as to not be worth investigating.

Posted by: Fred || 09/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The nullification of legitimate votes, real voter suppression. It's all Freudian projection of the Left. They do it and cast their guilt upon others.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/22/2017 6:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Note that these are only the self-admitted ones who went back and cancelled their registration later. Likely a small percentage of the illegal voters.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/22/2017 8:47 Comments || Top||

#3  But Philadelphia acknowledged there was some abuse! Philadelphia! Maybe New York City can top that?
Posted by: Bobby || 09/22/2017 8:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Out of how many?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/22/2017 16:51 Comments || Top||


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McCain May Have Killed Republicans' Last Chance To Repeal Obamacare
[Daily Caller] Sen. John McCain of Arizona announced Friday afternoon that he will vote against his Republican colleagues’ last-ditch effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.

"I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal. I believe we could do better working together, Republicans and Democrats, and have not yet really tried," he said in a statement Friday.

Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, along with Sens. Dean Heller of Nevada and Ron Johnson Wisconsin, put forth a bill that would repeal major portions of Obamacare and replace the system’s funding mechanism with block grants in an attempt, according to the senators, to promote state innovation in the implementation of health care.

McCain was, along with Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky, serving as one the key holdouts.

Republicans need 50 "yes" votes to pass the bill under the Senate’s budget reconciliation, and they currently have roughly 48 senators behind the bill, according to Cassidy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/22/2017 14:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can we return the favor?
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/22/2017 14:44 Comments || Top||

#2  As long as we have RINOs, we will always have a three party system.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 09/22/2017 15:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Sorry Theatch, we'll have the current (corrupt) 2 party system. It's just more difficult to calculate the score.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/22/2017 15:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Having observed the two for some time now I think it seems unusual for McCain and Graham to be on different sides of an issue. My only theory on the matter has nothing to do with principle but instead I wonder if Graham no longer sees McCain as a viable partner.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/22/2017 16:22 Comments || Top||

#5  If he doesn't die soon from his brain tumor the country is in dire need of primarying him out. All of his contrariness is simply because he wants to see nothing succeed during the Trump administration because he is so jealous Trump was able to get elected President and he could not. He proves himself unworthy of any public office almost daily now.
Posted by: Warthog || 09/22/2017 16:25 Comments || Top||

#6  McCain's legacy.

I guess we just give it two or three years without life support and all this will be moot.
Posted by: gorb || 09/22/2017 16:45 Comments || Top||

#7  Yes, let us proceed in a spirit of love and bipartisanship. *BLEEP*. Perhaps, in his dotage, John has forgotten all the one-sided weaseldom and parliamentary bumfoolery that was involved in passing Obamacare in the first place. (long string of *BLEEP*s redacted)
Posted by: SteveS || 09/22/2017 17:06 Comments || Top||

#8  The worst Democrat is often a Tame Republican.
Posted by: Iblis || 09/22/2017 17:20 Comments || Top||

#9  He was always the Manchurian Candidate.

Sorry to other ex-POWs.

Posted by: 3dc || 09/22/2017 23:40 Comments || Top||



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