CAIR’s Money Laundering Scheme

My article from today’s issue of FrontPage Magazine: CAIR’s Money Laundering Scheme By Matthew Vadum The Muslim Brotherhood’s front group in the United States conceals donations from Islamist governments overseas by maintaining a complex web of shell organizations, according to a new report. Right under President Obama’s nose, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) engages in an ACORN-like game of corporate musical chairs with its convoluted corporate structure and head-spinning funding machinations, Charles C. Johnson reports in the Daily Caller. Among the bombshell allegations, previewed Friday in FrontPage, are that CAIR has been “washing” millions of dollars from oil-rich nations … Continue reading CAIR’s Money Laundering Scheme

Revealed: The Obama FBI’s Illicit Partnership with CAIR

My article from the Sept. 20, 2013 issue FrontPage Magazine:  Revealed: The Obama FBI’s Illicit Partnership with CAIR By Matthew Vadum A government watchdog’s new report takes the FBI to task for violating its own policies by continuing to work with the Muslim Brotherhood’s front group in the United States, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).   The report came as CAIR issued a new report denouncing the so-called “Islamophobia” of the Fox News Channel, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, David the Horowitz Freedom Center, and others who dare to engage in an honest discussion of Islam and the politics surrounding it. … Continue reading Revealed: The Obama FBI’s Illicit Partnership with CAIR

Clinton Muslim Brotherhood Operative Arrested in Egypt

My article from the Sept. 19, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine:  Clinton Muslim Brotherhood Operative Arrested in Egypt By Matthew Vadum A fugitive Muslim Brotherhood leader and Clinton operative has been arrested by Egyptian authorities in an ongoing roundup of seditious Islamist militants. The arrest of Gehad el-Haddad for inciting violence is a sobering reminder not just of how close Hillary Clinton’s network is to the brutal Muslim Brotherhood, the Left’s favorite Islamofascist cell, but also of the extent to which Islamist enemies of the United States have infiltrated the American political establishment. And it is yet another vindication for … Continue reading Clinton Muslim Brotherhood Operative Arrested in Egypt

Exploiting Tragedy

My article from the Sept. 17, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Exploiting Tragedy By Matthew Vadum After a gunman calmly murdered 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard yesterday, the Left began trying to exploit the Navy employees’ deaths to advance its never-ending campaign to disarm law-abiding citizens. The FBI identified the shooter, who was killed in a gun battle with police, as Aaron Alexis, 34, of Fort Worth, Texas. A civilian military contractor who was reportedly a practicing Buddhist at one time, Alexis received a general discharge from the Navy Reserve in 2011 after a shooting incident in his home. … Continue reading Exploiting Tragedy

Obama’s Syria Spin

My article from the Sept. 16, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Obama’s Syria Spin By Matthew Vadum Even with the assistance of his media minions, President Obama is failing to articulate any kind of a rational defense of the administration’s nonsensical, on-again, off-again policy toward Syria. Yet somehow despite Obama’s bumbling on the domestic and world stages, Russia and the United States agreed Saturday to take custody of Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons by the middle of next year. Syria is required to hand over an inventory of the illicit weapons within a week. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry … Continue reading Obama’s Syria Spin

One Year Since Benghazi

My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: One Year Since Benghazi By Matthew Vadum Thanks to President Obama’s shameless obstructionism, a year after four Americans died in a terrorist attack at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, it remains unclear what Obama knew about the attack and when he knew it. “When you look at the list of unanswered questions, it is startling how little progress has been made in this investigation over the past year,” said Congressman Frank Wolf (R-Va.). Amidst White House stonewalling, intimidation of witnesses, and Republican gutlessness, little has been done to move the ball forward in the investigation … Continue reading One Year Since Benghazi

Whither the Anti-War Left?

My article from the Sept. 6, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Whither the Anti-War Left? By Matthew Vadum As America’s leftist president demands war against Syria, the anti-war Left is nowhere to be found. Democratic lawmakers who reflexively oppose any military action proposed by a Republican president are for the most part missing in action now that a Democrat occupies the Oval Office. Earlier this week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 10 to 7 to authorize the president to use U.S. forces to attack Syria. The resolution stipulates that military action is restricted to within Syria’s borders, forbids U.S. … Continue reading Whither the Anti-War Left?

Boehner’s Syria Surrender

My article from the Sept. 4, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Boehner’s Syria Surrender By Matthew Vadum House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) indicated yesterday he trusts President Obama to carry out military strikes against Syrian government targets as punishment for that government’s alleged use of poison gas against its own citizens. “The use of these weapons has to be responded to, and only the U.S. has the capability,” Boehner said after President Obama feted him at the White House. “I’m going to support the president’s call for action and I believe my colleagues should support this call for action.” Boehner’s decision … Continue reading Boehner’s Syria Surrender

Conservative Enemies of the State

My article from the Sept. 2, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Conservative Enemies of the State By Matthew Vadum Conservative organizations are “hate groups” and Tea Party supporters are potentially dangerous extremists, according to educational materials the Obama administration is using to indoctrinate members of the nation’s armed forces. In response to a Freedom of Information Act request made by good-government group Judicial Watch, the Pentagon recently released 133 pages of lesson plans and PowerPoint slides provided by the Air Force from a January 2013 Defense Department diversity training center “student guide” entitled “Extremism.” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton slammed the Department … Continue reading Conservative Enemies of the State

Mangling MLK’s Dream

My article from the Aug. 29, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Mangling MLK’s Dream By Matthew Vadum President Obama hijacked a solemn national occasion yesterday, fomenting racial resentment and making crass appeals to envy on the 50th anniversary of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech. In his mercifully brief 29-minute oration on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Obama attacked Republicans without naming them. Obama and other Democratic politicians routinely beat up Republicans rhetorically. They claim Republicans want to prevent blacks and other minorities from voting, and accuse them of being fiscal tightwads who refuse to … Continue reading Mangling MLK’s Dream

Top 10 Racist African-Americans

My article from the Aug. 27, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Top 10 Racist African-Americans By Matthew Vadum Sadly, racism is very much alive in America — among influential black Americans. It was very much on display Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial where prominent black activists gathered a few days ahead of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I have a dream” speech in order to advance their careers by pretending to care about the state of race relations in the nation today. Instead of simply using the opportunity to honor the work of his father in … Continue reading Top 10 Racist African-Americans

Hillary Clinton: Racial Demagogue

My article from the Aug. 20, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Hillary Clinton: Racial Demagogue By Matthew Vadum Hoping to keep Obama-generated racial animosity alive long enough to get her past the presidential finish line in 2016, Hillary Clinton has been bloviating about what racist election laws America supposedly has. “In 2013, so far, more than 80 bills restricting voting rights have been introduced in 31 states,” Clinton told fawning admirers at a meeting of the American Bar Association. Such laws are part of a Jim Crow-like effort to “disproportionately impact African-Americans, Latino and young voters,” she said. Hillary, of … Continue reading Hillary Clinton: Racial Demagogue

Reaping What Obama’s Sown in Egypt

My article from the Aug. 16, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Reaping What Obama’s Sown in Egypt By Matthew Vadum President Obama continues to offer his blessings to the theocratic totalitarians of the Muslim Brotherhood as they spill blood on Egyptian streets in an effort to restore Mohamed Morsi to power. Our terrorist-supporting president has the gall to scold the military, the most stable, trusted institution in Egypt, while his Islamofascist allies burn scores of Coptic churches in the region where Christianity began more than six centuries before the birth of Mohammed. The military has been struggling mightily to shut … Continue reading Reaping What Obama’s Sown in Egypt

Obama’s Neighborhood Race-Watch Program

An article of mine from the August 14, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Obama’s Neighborhood Race-Watch Program By Matthew Vadum President Obama is quietly moving forward with a plan to use your tax dollars to loot American suburbs in order to help Democrats and fund their corrupt big-city political machines. The new plan from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to use federal housing policy to uproot and change American neighborhoods is part of Obama’s effort at “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Long ago Democrats declared war on the suburbs and rural areas because, among other … Continue reading Obama’s Neighborhood Race-Watch Program

Paul Ingrassia vs. The Green Inquisition

My article from the Aug. 2, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Paul Ingrassia vs. The Green Inquisition By Matthew Vadum As interest in the alleged warming of the planet wanes, the global warming inquisition is hoping to make an example of a heretical reporter whose only sin is healthy skepticism. The enviro-Left is busy attempting to subject London-based Paul Ingrassia, an American journalist brought in by Reuters to beef up its worldwide news operation, to a digital auto-da-fé for insisting that the 2,800 journalists at the news agency at least try to provide fair and balanced accounts of the events … Continue reading Paul Ingrassia vs. The Green Inquisition

Murder and Double Standards

My article from the July 31, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Murder and Double Standards By Matthew Vadum Few Americans outside of Knoxville, Tenn., know about the case of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, two young people who were kidnapped, savagely assaulted, raped, and murdered by people of a different race. If Christian and Newsom had been black, and they had been raped, tortured, and murdered by a group of white people, the victims’ names would be painfully seared into the national psyche by the media’s saturation coverage of the atrocities and their aftermath. The reason the case attracted so … Continue reading Murder and Double Standards

Patriot Larry Grathwohl, 65, Infiltrated Weather Underground, Indicted Bill Ayers

A July 24, 2013 blog post of mine from The Spectacle, American Spectator‘s blog: Patriot Larry Grathwohl, 65, Infiltrated Weather Underground, Indicted Bill Ayers By Matthew Vadum A great American who penetrated the Weather Underground terrorist group of longtime Obama pal Bill Ayers and paid a steep price for his patriotism, has died. Larry Grathwohl passed away suddenly at the age of 65 in Cincinnati last week. Time magazine once described Grathwohl as the only successful infiltrator of the Weather Underground. A highly decorated Vietnam War veteran, he served in a Hatchet Force unit of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division. Such units located … Continue reading Patriot Larry Grathwohl, 65, Infiltrated Weather Underground, Indicted Bill Ayers

Obama’s Bankrupt Economic Agenda

My article from the July 25, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Obama’s Bankrupt Economic Agenda By Matthew Vadum President Obama’s much-hyped speech about the economy yesterday was an impressive exercise in left-wing self-congratulation backed by examples of economic illiteracy and lies we’ve grown accustomed to hearing. The banal address delivered at Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois, was 64 long, platitude-filled minutes of nothing. It was a speech the long-suffering American people have heard umpteen times before, endlessly promoted by the mainstream media as something novel and exciting. It underlined the pervasive, ominous atmosphere of unreality that permeates the Obama administration. As America … Continue reading Obama’s Bankrupt Economic Agenda