Yes, Virginia, the GOP Establishment did stick a shiv in Ken Cuccinelli

My article from the Nov. 7, 2013 issue of American Thinker: Yes, Virginia, the GOP Establishment did stick a shiv in Ken Cuccinelli By Matthew Vadum Reagan conservative Ken Cuccinelli lost his bid for the Virginia governorship because the patrician, turf-protecting Republican Party establishment in his state wanted him to lose. It’s really that simple.  Cuccinelli campaign strategist Chris La Civita suggested on election night Tuesday that the federal government’s partial shutdown last month may have hurt his candidate in parts of Virginia where many federal employees and contractors live. He also suggested that Cuccinelli could have won if he … Continue reading Yes, Virginia, the GOP Establishment did stick a shiv in Ken Cuccinelli

Lying to Save Their Skins

My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: Lying to Save Their Skins By Matthew Vadum Beset by criticism from all sides for its bungled healthcare exchange rollout, the Obama administration expects to weather the growing storm by lying, rationalizing, and running out the clock. Mendacity, stalling, and stonewalling have worked well as part of a public relations strategy for the Obama administration over its first five years, so there is no point in changing a winning formula now.  Besides, extravagant healthcare subsidies begin to kick in next year, and all that free money floating around is bound to calm irate consumers. … Continue reading Lying to Save Their Skins

Obama Lied, Healthcare Coverage Died

My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: Obama Lied, Healthcare Coverage Died By Matthew Vadum Although federal officials have known for at least three years that Obamacare would cause millions of Americans to lose health insurance coverage, that didn’t stop President Obama from lying repeatedly, reassuring voters the law would not adversely impact their existing coverage. In an uncharacteristically media-savvy move aimed at capitalizing on current affairs,  Republicans compiled a list of 13 Democrats –including Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.)– who deceived voters by obediently repeating Obama’s lies. Providing another ground for impeachment to pile on to … Continue reading Obama Lied, Healthcare Coverage Died

Soros and Hillary Take on America

My Oct. 29, 2013 article from FrontPage Magazine: Soros and Hillary Take on America By Matthew Vadum Radical anti-American billionaire George Soros is going all-in for Hillary Clinton’s yet to be officially declared run for the presidency in 2016. And because Soros’s wealthy leftist friends often follow his lead, a tsunami of early money may be poised to swamp the former U.S. secretary of state’s zygotic campaign. Soros is lending his name to the “Ready for Hillary” super PAC, giving $25,000 to snag a co-chair post on the organization’s National Finance Committee. Soros’s political director Michael Vachon confirmed Soros’s involvement with the … Continue reading Soros and Hillary Take on America

The ObamaCare Meltdown

My Oct. 25, 2013 article from FrontPage Magazine: The ObamaCare Meltdown By Matthew Vadum Sometimes politics imitates life. It turns out the pregnant, diabetic woman who nearly fainted in President Obama’s arms at the Obamacare damage-control press event Obama held this week, isn’t herself sold on Obamacare. The experience of Californian Karmel Allison is a metaphor for the entire rollout of the healthcare exchanges. Failure after failure, glitch after glitch, and spin, spin, spin. Allison was part of the president’s embarrassing media event this week in which a few Americans who somehow managed to sign up for Obamacare online were paraded for … Continue reading The ObamaCare Meltdown

George Soros’s Illegal Alien Guerrilla Activists

My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: George Soros’s Illegal Alien Guerrilla Activists By Matthew Vadum Radical community organizers and illegal aliens are stepping up their in-your-face campaign against the nation’s immigration laws by illegally using physical force to prevent federal officials from carrying out lawful deportations. Given that illegal immigrants got here by breaking the law, their continued lawbreaking activity shouldn’t be all that surprising. It certainly doesn’t bother President Obama, who won’t do anything about these abusive protests because he agrees with the activists. In recent weeks activists across America complaining about high deportation rates have used chains and pipes to … Continue reading George Soros’s Illegal Alien Guerrilla Activists

The World According to Andrea Mitchell

My article from the Oct. 4, 2013 issue of American Thinker: The World According to Andrea Mitchell By Matthew Vadum In an incident ignored by the media, race-baiter extraordinaire Andrea Mitchell and other big-name journalists candidly exposed their bigotry and racial prejudices at a friendly forum in the nation’s capital last year. In an unusually candid conversation, mainstream media stars Mitchell, David Gregory, and Dana Milbank let loose in an orgy of Caucasian self-flagellation during a panel discussion titled, “Media: Race & Politics – The Impact of Race in Politics 2012,” at the National Action Network’s conference in Washington, D.C.   … Continue reading The World According to Andrea Mitchell

NBC Liberals Fan Sharpton’s Flames of Racial Resentment at Private Event

On Oct. 8, 2013 Newsbusters published a modified version (below) of my Oct. 4, 2013 American Thinker article, “The World According to Andrea Mitchell.” Here’s the Newsbusters piece: NBC Liberals Fan Sharpton’s Flames of Racial Resentment at Private Event By Matthew Vadum In an incident ignored by the media, race-baiter extraordinaire Andrea Mitchell and other big-name journalists candidly exposed their bigotry and racial prejudices at a friendly forum in the nation’s capital last year. In an unusually candid conversation, mainstream media stars Mitchell, David Gregory, and Dana Milbank let loose in an orgy of Caucasian self-flagellation during a panel discussion … Continue reading NBC Liberals Fan Sharpton’s Flames of Racial Resentment at Private Event

ACORN is Back!

My post from the American Thinker blog on Oct. 16, 2013 is below. It is a shorter version of my article “Obama’s Secret Collaboration with ACORN Bosses” that ran the day before at FrontPage Magazine. ACORN is Back! By Matthew Vadum Operatives of the disgraced radical group ACORN continue to advise the Obama administration and guide its destructive far-left policies years after the group filed for bankruptcy. Good-government group Judicial Watch has discovered through Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) requests that former ACORN Housing mouthpiece Bruce Dorpalen, now head of the National Housing Resource Center (NHRC), has been meeting with and advising senior … Continue reading ACORN is Back!

Obama’s Secret Collaboration with ACORN Bosses

My article from the Oct. 17, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Obama’s Secret Collaboration with ACORN Bosses By Matthew Vadum Former officers of the disgraced radical group ACORN are still advising the Obama administration and guiding its catastrophic far-left policies almost three years after the group filed bankruptcy. Former ACORN Housing public affairs director Bruce Dorpalen, who now runs the National Housing Resource Center (NHRC), has been meeting with and advising senior Obama administration officials on housing policy, according to good-government group Judicial Watch. The watchdog discovered the secret collaborations after filing a Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) request. Like a grifter … Continue reading Obama’s Secret Collaboration with ACORN Bosses

Hollywood’s Obamacare Zombies

Here is my article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: Hollywood’s Obamacare Zombies By Matthew Vadum If you’re sick and tired of TV news broadcasts spewing pro-Obamacare propaganda, get ready to be inundated with even more progressive health care proselytizing in the dramas and comedies that follow those news shows. For this you have the left-wing California Endowment to thank. The radical philanthropy is in the news because it is funding Obamacare public outreach efforts. As Newsmax reports, the Obama administration is “turning its focus on prime time television series, using the influential platform and the power of celebrity to spread the word … Continue reading Hollywood’s Obamacare Zombies

Veterans Break the Obama Blockade

My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: Veterans Break the Obama Blockade By Matthew Vadum Thousands of World War Two veterans fed up with President Obama’s needlessly cruel closure of national shrines in order to put pressure on his political enemies, yesterday stormed the cordoned-off open-air Washington, D.C., memorial that was created to honor them. In a touching moment that ought to warm every red-blooded patriots’ heart, nonviolent protesters removed barricades on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., erected by the National Park Service to keep veterans and other members of the public from enjoying the National World War Two memorial that was … Continue reading Veterans Break the Obama Blockade

Obama to Boehner: Drop Dead

My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: Obama to Boehner: Drop Dead By Matthew Vadum President Obama has rejected a proposed compromise from House Republicans that could have helped to end the congressional standoff that led to the now 11-day-old partial federal government shutdown. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) pitched a “clean” six-week increase with nothing in return to the community organizer in the White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). As Big Government’s Matthew Boyle reports, “Obama’s and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s decision to completely reject any offer of a compromise from House Republicans confirms what most conservatives already … Continue reading Obama to Boehner: Drop Dead

Fox News quotes me in a story about NPR and PBS

Fox News quotes me in a news story about how NPR and PBS are continuing to receive government funding despite the so-called shutdown. Here’s the relevant passage: However, one expert we spoke to said loopholes enable the CPB and other nonprofits like it to receive federal funding while still claiming independence. “CPB is a nonprofit corporation that is technically separate from the government. So is NeighborWorks, a nonprofit that receives congressional appropriations, just as CPB does. NeighborWorks helped cause the housing bubble; CPB provides the propaganda that anesthetizes the public, preventing people from laying blame for failed policies at the door of the … Continue reading Fox News quotes me in a story about NPR and PBS

About that radical funder, the California Endowment, that’s funding pro-Obamacare propaganda in Hollywood

The awful, radical left-wing California Endowment is in the news because it is funding Obamacare propaganda. This is beyond creepy. As Newsmax reports […] The Obama administration is turning its focus on prime time television series, using the influential platform and the power of celebrity to spread the word about its healthcare initiative. The University of California’s Annenberg Norman Lear Center, which promotes its Hollywood Health & Society program, received a $500,000 grant last week from the California Endowment, a private source aimed an informing more people about the federal program, Deadline Hollywood reported. The goal is to keep producers, writers and … Continue reading About that radical funder, the California Endowment, that’s funding pro-Obamacare propaganda in Hollywood

Elderly Veterans Feel Obama’s Wrath

My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: Elderly Veterans Feel Obama’s Wrath By Matthew Vadum President Obama’s Machiavellian drive to hurt and irritate Americans to win the budget fight kicked into high gear this week as jackbooted police refused to allow World War II veterans to make a pilgrimage to the open-air Washington, D.C., memorial that was created to honor them. As a whiff of fascism blows through the nation’s capital, the president is demonstrating to the whole world how revoltingly out-of-control the hyper-bloated U.S. government is. Obama is doing petty, irritating things like needlessly shutting down national parks in order … Continue reading Elderly Veterans Feel Obama’s Wrath

ACORN Crooks on the March for Obamacare

My article from today’s issue of FrontPage Magazine: ACORN Crooks on the March for Obamacare By Matthew Vadum A corrupt union ringleader who orchestrated massive campaigns involving identity fraud in furtherance of voter fraud and who covered up a million-dollar embezzlement involving pension funds will soon have unfettered access to confidential information on thousands of people seeking health insurance. The union thug is disgraced ACORN founder Wade Rathke whose shady union will soon be helping people enroll in Obamacare exchanges. Rathke’s labor vehicle, United Labor Unions (ULU) Local 100 in New Orleans, announced on its Facebook page Sept. 15 that it was … Continue reading ACORN Crooks on the March for Obamacare

It Doesn’t Matter If the Obamacare Defunding Gambit Fails

My article from the Sept. 27, 2013, issue of American Thinker: Matthew Vadum with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Awesome) It Doesn’t Matter If the Obamacare Defunding Gambit Fails By Matthew Vadum The current campaign to deprive President Obama’s health care leviathan of the life-sustaining tax dollars it needs for full bureaucratic metastasis is what left-wingers call a consciousness-raising exercise.  It matters next to nothing if current Republican efforts succeed in immediately defunding Obamacare.  That’s because this is just the opening round of what promises to be a protracted struggle to restore sanity to the American health care system.  A temporary defeat … Continue reading It Doesn’t Matter If the Obamacare Defunding Gambit Fails

America’s Obamacare Crisis

My article from the Sept. 26, 2013, issue of FrontPage Magazine: America’s Obamacare Crisis By Matthew Vadum Sen. Ted Cruz’s talking filibuster against Obamacare has helped to draw attention to the endless problems the program’s implementation is causing in society. The 21 hour, 19 minute-long speech by Cruz, the junior Republican senator from Texas, that ended midday yesterday, served as a highly informative infomercial that detailed how the incipient entitlement program is boosting health insurance premiums, unemployment, and misery across the nation. No one seems to think Obamacare is ready for prime time, except perhaps for the Obama administration and … Continue reading America’s Obamacare Crisis