Month: August 2014

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The IRS’s ‘Lost’ Email Deception

Matthew Vadum

My article from the June 20, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: The IRS’s ‘Lost’ Email Deception By Matthew Vadum Emails from disgraced former IRS tax-exempt division chief Lois Lerner that could throw light on the Obama administration’s thuggish crackdown on conservative nonprofit groups have been sucked into an electronic black hole, IRS officials now claim. It is the latest outrage from the Obama administration which has been on a vindictive rampage in recent years, using the feared tax collection agency to vex and persecute its political enemies, especially those associated with the Tea Party movement. Under hyper-partisan, left-wing Democrat Lois … Continue reading The IRS’s ‘Lost’ Email Deception

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Benghazi ‘Suspect’ Captured

Matthew Vadum

My article from the June 18, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Benghazi ‘Suspect’ Captured By Matthew Vadum A man the Obama administration claims orchestrated the deadly attack on the American diplomatic complex in Benghazi, Libya, on the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 atrocities is now in U.S. custody. This means that — abracadabra! — a suspect is in U.S. custody even before anyone knew there was a suspect. After all, it was supposed to be a video that no one saw that mocked the Islamic prophet Mohammed that sparked spontaneous riots complete with attackers armed with military-grade weapons. After the administration orchestrated … Continue reading Benghazi ‘Suspect’ Captured

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Lionizing the Enemy

Matthew Vadum

My article from the June 17, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine Lionizing the Enemy By Matthew Vadum A project is underway to rehabilitate the self-exiled Sixties radical, anti-Semite and “black power” advocate Stokely Carmichael. The opening salvo in this revisionist project of the Afro-centrist Marxist Left in academia is Stokely: A Life, by Peniel E. Joseph, which was recently published by BasicCivitas Books. It is more infomercial than biography, calculated to transform its negligible subject into a towering figure of historic importance, and to whitewash the damage he did. Joseph’s central argument is that Carmichael was a “rock star” activist who … Continue reading Lionizing the Enemy

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Shinseki’s Last Stand?

Matthew Vadum

My article from the May 30, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Shinseki’s Last Stand? By Matthew Vadum Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki is one step closer to falling on his sword as the deadly, politically explosive VA health care scandal forces even Democratic lawmakers to demand his removal. The added political pressure came after a new interim report by the VA’s inspector general determined that the agency’s officials were involved in a massive conspiracy to cover up the long, life-threatening delays that America’s veterans have been subjected to in the assembly-line abattoir that is the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). In the words … Continue reading Shinseki’s Last Stand?

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Billionaire Leftists Attack Your Gun Rights

Matthew Vadum

My article from the May 28, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Billionaire Leftists Attack Your Gun Rights By Matthew Vadum Gun control advocates hoping to capitalize on the tragic incident this weekend in Santa Barbara, California have a powerful asset in their corner this year: Second Amendment-hating billionaires led by George Soros are gearing up for a fresh assault on your constitutional right to defend yourself, your family, and your property. The Democracy Alliance, a donors collaborative of well over 100 far-left venture capitalists, heirs and heiresses, Hollywood moguls, and unethical bankers, is throwing millions of dollars at left-wing gun-control … Continue reading Billionaire Leftists Attack Your Gun Rights

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VA Scandal: This Is What Death Panels Look Like

Matthew Vadum

My article from the May 21, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: VA Scandal: This Is What Death Panels Look Like By Matthew Vadum The Veterans Administration hospital scandal that has claimed the lives of at least 40 U.S. military veterans continues to expand, adding to the image of a president who neither knows nor cares what happens to those who shed their blood on the battlefield for their fellow Americans. With a little under six months before the crucial midterm elections, it is a helpful reminder to voters of the horrors that are not glitches, but essential features, of government-provided … Continue reading VA Scandal: This Is What Death Panels Look Like

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Big Labor Taking Over Soros Piggybank

Matthew Vadum

My article from the May 8, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Big Labor Taking Over Soros Piggybank By Matthew Vadum An ultra-secretive left-wing money machine for super rich radicals is bringing more representatives of Big Labor into the fold in order to prevent the likely Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate this November. Thanks to a Democracy Alliance member’s oversight, Americans are getting a sense of what the nation’s wealthy left-wingers have in store for the fall elections and beyond. As Lachlan Markay of the Washington Free Beacon reported, leftist billionaire George Soros’s son Jonathan left behind a partial membership list … Continue reading Big Labor Taking Over Soros Piggybank

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Hillary, the Left-Wing Money Machine and a New IRS Crackdown

Matthew Vadum

My article from the April 25, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Hillary, the Left-Wing Money Machine and a New IRS Crackdown By Matthew Vadum The Internal Revenue Service has revoked the charitable status of a conservative nonprofit group that disseminated statements critical of Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry a decade ago. This is President Obama’s unambiguous warning shot calculated to intimidate conservative activists ready to work against Hillary Clinton if she decides to seek the presidency. And it is the latest outrage committed by an administration that has been on a vindictive rampage in recent years, using the feared … Continue reading Hillary, the Left-Wing Money Machine and a New IRS Crackdown

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No Mere “Hate Crime”

Matthew Vadum

My article from the April 17, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: No Mere “Hate Crime” By Matthew Vadum Former KKK leader Frazier Glenn Cross’s Sunday shooting spree that left three dead outside a Jewish retirement home and a Jewish community center in the Kansas City, Mo., suburbs was a heinous atrocity, and the reflexive “hate crime” label being applied to it diminishes the true scope of the evil at its core.  Calling Miller’s acts hate crimes trivializes anti-Semitism, the evil that was Nazism and the monstrosity that was the Holocaust. The “hate crime” designation is over-relied on nowadays and this … Continue reading No Mere “Hate Crime”

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Labor Fascism in Chattanooga

Matthew Vadum

My article in American Thinker from April 18, 2014: Labor Fascism in Chattanooga By Matthew Vadum As the labor movement tells the story, two months ago, the silly, ungrateful Volkswagen factory workers in Tennessee foolishly rejected the generous invitation of the company and the United Auto Workers to welcome the Detroit-killing union with open arms. In an election supervised by the federal National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the workers in VW’s Chattanooga plant rejected UAW representation by a vote of 712 to 626. Amazingly, the UAW and the automaker both refuse to take the workers’ “no” for an answer.  The two sides … Continue reading Labor Fascism in Chattanooga