Martin O’Malley’s Disastrous Declaration

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Martin O’Malley’s Disastrous Declaration By Matthew Vadum Former Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley’s (D) past came back to haunt him over the weekend during the carefully staged hometown announcement that he was running for president. Although Baltimore’s advanced urban decay has something to do with the fact that the city hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1967 when Theodore R. McKeldin left office, O’Malley was heckled and shouted at Saturday. Protesters were upset with the policies O’Malley, who frequently shows off his well-developed biceps while playing guitar and singing badly, introduced when he was the troubled … Continue reading Martin O’Malley’s Disastrous Declaration

The Left’s Reign of Terror Continues in Baltimore

My article in FrontPageMag today: The Left’s Reign of Terror Continues in Baltimore By Matthew Vadum As Maryland’s largest city grieves for a mother and her 7-year-old son found shot to death, it is becoming clear that criminals emboldened by left-wingers are terrorizing the people of Baltimore like never before. The city’s radical, left-wing, thug-loving mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D), has emasculated the local police she despises and abandoned her constituents by giving criminals a green light to do as they please. Police officers have been ordered not to do their jobs which is just as well because many of them … Continue reading The Left’s Reign of Terror Continues in Baltimore

Obama Amnesty Stays Shut Down

My new article in today’s FrontPageMag: Obama Amnesty Stays Shut Down By Matthew Vadum President Obama’s unilaterally imposed immigration amnesty plan will remain suspended for the time being, thanks to a federal appeals court ruling that serves as a desperately needed reminder to Americans that the United States is not supposed to be a one-man dictatorship. On Tuesday two members of a three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit allowed an injunction to remain in place that blocks Obama from moving forward with his immigration plan. The ruling effectively extends the stay that was ordered … Continue reading Obama Amnesty Stays Shut Down

Hillary the Arms Dealer

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Hillary the Arms Dealer By Matthew Vadum While presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was America’s top diplomat the Department of State that she oversaw approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments forked over millions of dollars to the now-embattled Clinton Foundation. According to an International Business Times report by David Sirota and Andrew Perez, “at least seven foreign governments that received State Department clearance for American arms did donate to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary.” The article identified the seven nations as Algeria, Australia, Kuwait, Norway, … Continue reading Hillary the Arms Dealer

Baltimore Cops Indicted in Freddie Gray Case

My article from the May 25, 2015 issue of FrontPage magazine: Baltimore Cops Indicted in Freddie Gray Case By Matthew Vadum Six Baltimore police officers were indicted Friday in the death of Freddie Gray after prosecutors forced a local grand jury to move at what is considered lightning speed in the criminal justice system. Although there may indeed be police malfeasance in the death of Gray, news of the indictments that the grand jury considered at an unseemly pace is anticlimactic. It’s not like anyone expected grand jurors to toss the charges out in the anti-cop lynch mob environment that … Continue reading Baltimore Cops Indicted in Freddie Gray Case

Sidney Blumenthal Fathers Yet Another Clinton Scandal

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Sid Vicious #1 (L) and Sid Vicious #2 (R), or is it the other way around? Sidney Blumenthal Fathers Yet Another Clinton Scandal By Matthew Vadum Longtime Clinton attack dog Sidney Blumenthal is under fire over allegations that he used his connection to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to promote an unusual business scheme involving Libya and possibly the embattled Clinton Foundation. Blumenthal, Bill Clinton’s legendary hatchet man who earned the richly deserved sobriquet “Sid Vicious” for his scorched-earth assaults on Clinton’s enemies, is now at the center of yet another percolating Clinton scandal … Continue reading Sidney Blumenthal Fathers Yet Another Clinton Scandal

Ferguson Rent-A-Mobs Exposed

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Ferguson Rent-A-Mobs Exposed By Matthew Vadum ACORN’s successor group in Missouri has been paying protesters $5,000 a month to generate civil unrest in Ferguson, the troubled St. Louis suburb where black youth Michael Brown was killed by a white police officer last August. We know this because some of the protesters haven’t been paid and, now, they are demanding what they were promised. They held a sit-in at the offices of Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) and posted a demand letter online. MORE is the rebranded Missouri branch of the former Association … Continue reading Ferguson Rent-A-Mobs Exposed

Leaders of the Lynch Mob

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Leaders of the Lynch Mob By Matthew Vadum Leaders of the “Black Lives Matter” movement are obliquely endorsing killing cops and rioting as legitimate forms of political activism as the radical community organizers of the so-called Black Spring ramp up political violence and civil unrest. For example, on-the-record statements by Twitter stars DeRay Mckesson, 29 and Johnetta Elzie, 26, are all over the Internet. Mckesson (Twitter handle: @deray) and Elzie (Twitter handle: @Nettaaaaaaaa) are influential activists who have become legacy-media darlings by using social media to push their racial-grievance agenda. A very long, fawning profile of … Continue reading Leaders of the Lynch Mob

The Clintons’ Criminal Board of Trustees

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: The Clintons’ Criminal Board of Trustees By Matthew Vadum At least four board members of the highly efficient cash-for-favors trading platform known as the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation have either been charged with or convicted of serious crimes, including bribery and fraud, according to an eagerly awaited blockbuster of a book. The book is Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, by acclaimed best-selling author Peter Schweizer. Although it only became available for sale to the public on May 5, on … Continue reading The Clintons’ Criminal Board of Trustees

Black Spring: The ACLU Joins the Lynch Mob

My new article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Black Spring: The ACLU Joins the Lynch Mob By Matthew Vadum Cooling down the churning cauldron of mob violence that Baltimore has become is not on the agenda of the ACLU which is now preparing to turn up the heat in cities across America. Following the suspicious death in police custody of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man with a long rap sheet, angry mobs and radical agitators have turned Maryland’s largest city into a Hobbesian jungle. They were already angry at the endlessly sensationalized deaths in recent years of black males such … Continue reading Black Spring: The ACLU Joins the Lynch Mob

Geert Wilders: I Won’t Stop Warning the West About Islam

My article from the May 5, 2015 issue of FrontPage magazine: Geert Wilders: I Won’t Stop Warning the West About Islam By Matthew Vadum After two Muslim lawmakers tried to block world-renowned activist Geert Wilders from entering the country, he defiantly vowed his warnings about the existential threat Islam poses to Western civilization would never cease. “I know one thing,” Wilders told the audience April 29 at a Capitol Hill reception co-sponsored by Reps. Steve King (R-Iowa) and Louie Gohmert (R-Texas). “They are very ineffective because I’m here,” he said to laughter and applause. “It’s really risky to tell the … Continue reading Geert Wilders: I Won’t Stop Warning the West About Islam

The Anti-Cartoon Jihad Comes To America

My article from today’s FrontPage magazine: The Anti-Cartoon Jihad Comes To America By Matthew Vadum Two gunmen were killed by police Sunday night after they opened fire wounding a security officer at a Texas art competition featuring works depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad, a practice that is strictly forbidden in Islam. As of very early Monday morning, the identity of the two attackers was unclear, but it is hard to believe the assault was not carried out by Islamists. Watchdog group Judicial Watch has claimed the Muslim terrorists of Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS or ISIL) are operating a training camp in Mexico … Continue reading The Anti-Cartoon Jihad Comes To America

Clinton Aide Gets Life in Prison

My article in the April 29, 2015 issue of FrontPage magazine: Clinton Aide Gets Life in Prison By Matthew Vadum [1]An Islamic terrorist leader who jumped straight from his job at the Clinton Foundation to a post with Egypt’s jihadist Muslim Brotherhood has received a life sentence back home for seditious activities. It provides yet more damning proof of the ties of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to totalitarian Muslims while throwing more light on the shady goings-on of the terrorist-friendly international cash-for-favors clearinghouse known as the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. (The endlessly corrupt foundation, which has taken oceans … Continue reading Clinton Aide Gets Life in Prison

Baltimore Burns While Obama Plots

My article from the April 28, 2015 issue of FrontPage magazine: Baltimore Burns While Obama Plots By Matthew Vadum [1]Baltimore is burning because community organizers and various thugs are tearing the city apart in the aftermath of the strange death of a young black man who was in the custody of police — and President Obama is trying to make things worse. In an incredible non-coincidence the rioting follows a weekend rally by the Occupy Wall Street-like Baltimore Peoples Assembly. There also was a first wave of rioting over the weekend. Outside activists have been flooding into Baltimore, according to … Continue reading Baltimore Burns While Obama Plots

The Clinton Cash-for-Favors Program

My long, authoritative article in today’s FrontPage magazine: The Clinton Cash-for-Favors Program By Matthew Vadum Professional leftists are going berserk over a yet-to-be-released book documenting the breathtaking graft and anticipatory bribes that foreign governments and mega-multinationals gave the Clinton Foundation during Hillary Clinton’s years at the State Department. This progressive apoplexy is being generated by a bombshell of a book that won’t even hit the bookstands for another 10 days. The opus terrifying left-wingers isClinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, by acclaimed best-selling author Peter Schweizer. The … Continue reading The Clinton Cash-for-Favors Program

The Feminist Fantasy of Women in Combat

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: The Feminist Fantasy of Women in Combat By Matthew Vadum President Obama seems hellbent on forcing the women of the U.S. military into direct combat units at great potential risk both to themselves and their fellow soldiers. Obama supplicants in the military have been cowed by radical feminist ideology. They are promoting change for the sake of of ideology, not because it is actually needed. Two years ago the current Joint Chiefs Chairman General Martin Dempsey called for a “critical mass” or “significant cohort” of women to be placed in combat. Standards in excess … Continue reading The Feminist Fantasy of Women in Combat

Clinton Campaign Chaos

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Clinton Campaign Chaos By Matthew Vadum Democrat dowager Hillary Clinton has had a rough few days since she launched her inevitable presidential campaign Sunday with a vapid, vacuous, class warfare-oriented video on YouTube that pushed all the right politically correct buttons. Charles Krauthammer mocked [1] Mrs. Clinton and her ongoing tour of flyover country. She wants to get the big money out of politics, he said, but she is aiming to generate an unprecedented campaign war chest of $2.5 billion. “She has been taking in money ever since she took the silverware from the White House when … Continue reading Clinton Campaign Chaos

Taking Cuba Off State Sponsor of Terrorism List

My FrontPage magazine article today: Taking Cuba Off State Sponsor of Terrorism List By Matthew Vadum President Obama wielded his pen yesterday to begin the process of removing the longstanding U.S. designation of Communist Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, a move that pushes the U.S. closer to restoring full diplomatic ties with the brutal Caribbean dictatorship. Obama’s action comes as watchdog group Judicial Watch yesterday claimed [1] that America has a terrorist problem closer to home than Cuba which is 90 miles away from the U.S. coast in Florida. The group says the Muslim terrorists of Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS or … Continue reading Taking Cuba Off State Sponsor of Terrorism List