- The Southern Poverty Law Center: A Twisted Definition of ‘Hate’ (2006 report)
With the Southern Poverty Law Center now under federal indictment, now is a good time to repost my influential Organization Trends paper from November 2006. Here is a link to the PDF. And below is the text of the paper: The Southern Poverty Law Center A Twisted Definition of ‘Hate’ By Matthew Vadum Summary: Obsessed with fundraising, the fabulously wealthy [...]
- Southern Poverty Law Center indicted in $3 million scheme to pay Ku Klux Klan and other extremists
Holy Reichstag fire, Batman! The fabulously wealthy Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Alabama. This is the same outrageous radical left-wing “civil rights group” I have been reporting on for 20 years. The SPLC allegedly paid the same violent extremists it routinely denounces to manufacture racial incidents. The U.S. [...]
- Supreme Court seems inclined to limit FCC’s authority to issue fines
The Supreme Court on April 21 seemed poised to rein in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) power to levy large fines through its in-house adjudication system. In the cases of FCC v. AT&T and Verizon Communications v. FCC, which were heard together, the telecommunications companies argued that provisions in the federal Communications Act of 1934 are [...]
- Supreme Court leaks are nothing new: guest opinion column
An eye-opening essay from V for Verbatim, republished here with permission. I never knew President James Buchanan had a confederate on the Supreme Court. I already didn’t like him, but this gives me another reason. Here is the piece: V’s Legalese: Judiciary Antebellum Federal courts have made a lot of news lately. Most of it is not good. We ask a lot of [...]
