Michael Brown Funeral: Cop-Lynching Pep Rally

My article from the Aug. 26, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Michael Brown Funeral: Cop-Lynching Pep Rally By Matthew Vadum An Al Sharpton-led memorial service yesterday for Michael Brown, the black 18-year-old thug who gave a white Ferguson, Mo. police officer a severe head injury while trying to seize his handgun, became the grotesque political rally some observers feared it would be. The distinctly anti-police tone of the service was proof that the lie that Brown tried to surrender to white police officer Darren Wilson, rather than trying to beat the life out of him, won’t die. The racial-grievance industry, egged … Continue reading Michael Brown Funeral: Cop-Lynching Pep Rally

Holder’s Lynch Mob in Ferguson

My article from the Aug. 22, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Holder’s Lynch Mob in Ferguson By Matthew Vadum The cop-hating radical lawyers of Eric Holder’s Justice Department are reportedly continuing to feed the passions of the lynch mob in Ferguson, Mo., that is screaming for the blood of the white cop who shot and killed a young black man earlier this month in what now almost certainly appears to be an act of self-defense. A white police officer’s racism, an allegation for which there is no evidence whatsoever, supposedly caused the unfortunate incident. But the leftists who run the … Continue reading Holder’s Lynch Mob in Ferguson

The Ferguson Fix Is In

My article from today’s FrontPage magazine: The Ferguson Fix Is In By Matthew Vadum As mass hysteria over the fatal shooting of Ferguson, Missouri resident Michael Brown grips the progressive movement, President Obama is sending the most divisive, corrupt race-baiter in his cabinet to the riot-torn St. Louis suburb where the suspect died. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who has single-mindedly focused on converting the Department of Justice into a racial grievance incubator, is scheduled to visit Ferguson, Mo., today in an appearance billed as an attempt to restore calm to a community that has erupted in almost daily violence … Continue reading The Ferguson Fix Is In

Michael Brown: A Criminal and a Thug

My article from today’s FrontPage magazine: Michael Brown: A Criminal and a Thug By Matthew Vadum As the media-sanctioned rioting, bloodshed and looting continue in Ferguson, Missouri, evidence is emerging that police shooting victim Michael Brown wasn’t the upstanding citizen that many on the Left have claimed him to be. All of this is happening as mobs have been attacking cops with Molotov cocktails and destroying community infrastructure. Some blacks in the region are reportedly randomly assaulting non-blacks as collective payback for what happened to Brown. Looting and property destruction are rampant. Scores of people have been arrested. Aircraft were ordered … Continue reading Michael Brown: A Criminal and a Thug

Race Riot Romance

My article from the Aug. 14, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Race Riot Romance By Matthew Vadum The fatal police shooting of a young black suspect in a Midwestern town last weekend has given the Left yet another opportunity to advance its destructive, racially polarizing agenda. After 18-year-old Michael Brown, a black man was killed by police in Ferguson, a mostly black community in St. Louis County, Mo., the city and region surrounding it have been under siege. Not content to wait for the wheels of the justice system to spin, some view this tragedy as a license to riot. … Continue reading Race Riot Romance

President Obama’s 16 Watergates (So Far)

It’s always a thrill to get attacked by George Soros’s character assassins at the slander shop called Media Matters for America. At least I think today’s post, President Obama’s 16 Watergates (So Far), was intended as an attack. Here’s the relevant part of the post: The Gibson Guitar Raid, The GM Bailout, And The NLRB/Boeing Dispute In a 2013 column titled, “Obama Scandals vs. Watergate,” FrontPageMag columnist Matthew Vadum posited, “Obama’s serial acts of malfeasance have cost hundreds of lives while Nixon’s caused no loss of life. Both attacked their political enemies using taxpayer resources and tried to rig the system to … Continue reading President Obama’s 16 Watergates (So Far)

Border Horror

My article from today’s FrontPage magazine: Border Horror By Matthew Vadum The brutal slaying of a U.S. Border Patrol agent by illegal aliens highlights the perils of the Obama administration’s de facto open borders policy that has transformed the nation’s southern boundary into a taxpayer-funded welcome center for desperately poor unskilled and low-skill workers, sick children, welfare mooches, and violent criminal gang members. This horrific crime happened not too far from the same border that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) sedately insisted was “secure.” “We hear a lot on TV that the border is secure, that the border is safer and that … Continue reading Border Horror

The Arrogance of Eric Holder

My article from today’s FrontPage magazine: The Arrogance of Eric Holder By Matthew Vadum Attorney General Eric Holder argues in a new interview that activism is the proper role of the nation’s chief law enforcement officer — and it is precisely this radical conceit that by itself ought to disqualify him from holding the office. “If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label,” he told left-wing journalist Juan Williams. “Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job,” Holder pontificated, skating over the long-recognized fact that an attorney … Continue reading The Arrogance of Eric Holder

Conservatives Triumph in Border Bill Victory

My article from today’s FrontPage magazine: Conservatives Triumph in Border Bill Victory By Matthew Vadum Conservatives in Congress scored a major triumph last week as the House approved emergency legislation that strengthens border security and attempts to rein in a lawless president. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), a conservative champion, took a well-deserved victory lap in an interview with the WND news website. The “legislative miracle” approved by the House represents a “stunning turnaround” and “a huge victory for the conservatives in Congress.” Its approval is also a big win for the American people who, Bachmann said, “saved Congress from itself” by jamming the congressional switchboard to state their opposition to President … Continue reading Conservatives Triumph in Border Bill Victory

Conservatives Kill Amnesty Bill —- For Now

My article from the Aug. 1, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Conservatives Kill Amnesty Bill —- For Now By Matthew Vadum A conservative-led uprising among House Republicans scuttled Speaker John Boehner’s worse-than-useless border crisis and immigration legislation yesterday but party leaders vowed to try again today to pass the emergency funding bill. “The bill as it was had more loopholes than a knitted afghan,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said in a statement released exclusively to FrontPage late yesterday. Tonight, many members were able to come together and hammer out many of those problems so that we could live with the … Continue reading Conservatives Kill Amnesty Bill —- For Now

Down to the Wire

My article from the July 31, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Down to the Wire By Matthew Vadum Republican lawmakers in the nation’s capital are racing against the legislative clock to approve measures aimed at cleaning up the border mess that President Obama created and preventing him from issuing unilateral decrees making it much, much worse. The Obama administration is threatening to plunge the nation into a dire constitutional crisis after Labor Day by using executive orders to grant a huge amnesty to millions of illegal aliens now in the United States. Of course, in the American system of government, … Continue reading Down to the Wire

Bracing for Amnesty

My article from the July 28, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Bracing for Amnesty By Matthew Vadum Amnesty is coming — big time. Americans need to brace themselves for a huge new wave of Obama-led lawlessness because the president is planning what a top schemer in the White House calls a “very significant” executive action on immigration after the summer. Undoubtedly this means some kind of amnesty for illegal aliens is in the works over and above what Obama has already done, the Constitution and public fury notwithstanding. Obama’s “planned executive orders” would give legal status “to another 5–6 million illegal … Continue reading Bracing for Amnesty

Americans Say Obamacare Is Hurting Families

My article from the July 25, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Americans Say Obamacare Is Hurting Families By Matthew Vadum The American people hate Obamacare and recognize the lasting damage it is inflicting, according to a new national poll. Americans seem to recognize that the Obamacare law will boot people out of their health care plans, encourage idleness, drive wages down, increase the government’s tax take, and fail to put a dent in the number of Americans without health insurance coverage. “Obamacare is helping some people; mostly Americans with preexisting conditions and those who are eligible for very generous subsidies,” … Continue reading Americans Say Obamacare Is Hurting Families

The Obama Administration’s Homeland Security Hypocrisy

My article from the July 15, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: The Obama Administration’s Homeland Security Hypocrisy By Matthew Vadum After years of working hard to comfort America’s terrorist enemies and erase U.S. borders, the nation’s perpetually embattled attorney general is suddenly concerned that Middle Eastern jihadists are working together to create undetectable explosives that could be used to blow up U.S. airliners. Intelligence reports suggest Islamic terrorists in Yemen and Syria have joined forces to make the stealthy bombs and this development is “more frightening than anything I think I’ve seen as attorney general,” Eric Holder said on ABC’s … Continue reading The Obama Administration’s Homeland Security Hypocrisy

Soros Network Ready to Boost Radical Groups

My article from the July 11, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Soros Network Ready to Boost Radical Groups By Matthew Vadum Amidst internal dissent, George Soros’s shadowy political funding powerhouse is planning to execute a $200 million fundraising campaign this election cycle in order to benefit key groups pushing for a permanent radical left-wing Democrat majority. The billionaire members of the elite fundraising empire known as the Democracy Alliance have reportedly funneled $500 million or more into leftist and pro-Democrat organizations. The goal of the Alliance is to foster a permanent political infrastructure of left-wing nonprofits, think tanks, media outlets, … Continue reading Soros Network Ready to Boost Radical Groups

Supreme Court: Obama is Out of Order

My article from the July 3, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Supreme Court: Obama is Out of Order By Matthew Vadum The Supreme Court has wrapped up its 2013-2014 term by handing stinging defeats to the increasingly unpopular President Obama. Doing its job for a change, the high court reined in the power of the Executive Branch of the federal government, striking down a forced unionization scheme, an abortifacient mandate, and improper recess appointments. The Court also rejected the Obama administration’s contention that police be allowed to search Americans’ cellphones without warrants. In the nearly five and a half years Obama has … Continue reading Supreme Court: Obama is Out of Order

Supreme Court Rebukes Obama Lawlessness

My article from the June 27, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Supreme Court Rebukes Obama Lawlessness By Matthew Vadum In a humiliating rebuke to President Obama, the Supreme Court affirmed in a labor relations case yesterday that there continue to be constitutionally prescribed limits to the powers of the nation’s Chief Executive. The Court invalidated three recess appointments the president made in an attempt to unconstitutionally manipulate federal labor relations policy. Justices held unanimously in National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning Thursday that Obama overreached on Jan. 4, 2012 when he recess-appointed three members to the NLRB without bothering to wait … Continue reading Supreme Court Rebukes Obama Lawlessness

The Mounting Proof of an IRS Cover-Up

My article from the June 25, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: The Mounting Proof of an IRS Cover-Up By Matthew Vadum More proof the Obama administration is covering up the political persecution it inflicted on its conservative political enemies through the Internal Revenue Service emerged yesterday as a federal official accused the White House of breaking the law by hiding emails. Whenever the records, including emails, of federal agencies are destroyed — whether intentional or inadvertent — the law requires that the National Archives be notified. But that did not happen when the computer hard drives of a former IRS … Continue reading The Mounting Proof of an IRS Cover-Up