John Podhoretz is a blithering idiot

The talentless beneficiary of nepotism pontificates once again in Commentary that it is a bad idea to talk about President Obama’s exhaustively documented left-wing radicalism. The notion that Obama is a dangerous extremist helps him, because it makes him seem reasonable and his critics foolish. It also helps those who peddle it, because it makes them notorious and helps them sell their wares. But it has done perhaps irreparable harm to the central conservative cause of the present moment—making the case that Obama’s social-democratic statism is setting the United States on a course for disaster and that his anti-exceptionalist foreign policy … Continue reading John Podhoretz is a blithering idiot

Tom Perez: Obama’s Radical Labor Secretary Nominee

My article from the March 15, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Tom Perez: Obama’s Radical Labor Secretary Nominee By Matthew Vadum President Obama intends to nominate in-your-face radical lawyer Thomas Perez as his next Secretary of Labor, according to media reports. Now an assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice, Perez is a former top aide to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and possibly a perjurer, which makes him a perfect fit for the ethically-challenged Obama cabinet. If confirmed, Perez would replace Hilda Solis, a former Democratic congresswoman from Los Angeles who resigned in January. Solis treated the … Continue reading Tom Perez: Obama’s Radical Labor Secretary Nominee

Rachel Maddow Smears ‘Racist’ Scalia

My article from the March 8, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Rachel Maddow Smears ‘Racist’ Scalia By Matthew Vadum Some left-wingers can’t handle it when a Supreme Court justice takes on one of their sacred cows, the blatantly racist Voting Rights Act of 1965. Affective leftist Rachel Maddow flew into a rage of ignorant indignation, blasting Justice Antonin Scalia as a “troll” on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” for criticizing a racist law that she supports precisely because it is racist in means and effect. The revered federal law uses racist means not only to protect black Americans’ right to vote, … Continue reading Rachel Maddow Smears ‘Racist’ Scalia

The Chavez Nightmare Comes To An End

My article from the March 6, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: The Chavez Nightmare Comes To An End By Matthew Vadum After a long battle with cancer, Barack Obama’s less media-savvy comrade Hugo Chavez is finally dead. Venezuela’s Vice President, Nicolas Maduro, announced that the communist tyrant died yesterday after seeking medical treatment from the quacks and bunglers laughingly referred to as the Cuban health care system. Hidden away from the public for months, Chavez, whose election in 1999 sparked a leftist revival throughout Latin America, may have actually died some time ago. Chavez will be remembered not only for … Continue reading The Chavez Nightmare Comes To An End

Matthew Vadum’s work cited in 50 books (so far)

I’ve been keeping a running tab of the books that reference my work and/or quote me. Authors on the right, such as John Fund, Phyllis Schafly, Michael Reagan, David Horowitz, and Michelle Malkin rely on my research and commentary. Authors on the left, such as Arianna Huffington, Thomas Frank, and Center for American Progress visiting fellow Shirley Sagawa, have also given my work a vote of confidence by relying on it. Here is the list as of March 19, 2013: * asterisk indicates New York Times bestseller In reverse chronological order (sorted by year): 50) Change Agents: Alinskyian Organizing Among Religious Bodies, Volume 1, by Stephanie Block, CreateSpace Independent Publishing … Continue reading Matthew Vadum’s work cited in 50 books (so far)

The Racism of Gun Control

My piece from the March 4, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: The Racism of Gun Control By Matthew Vadum Black conservative leaders warn that new gun control proposals threaten Americans’ most fundamental civil rights. Star Parker, founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), recalled the racist pedigree of gun control laws and the grave dangers they create, not just for blacks, but for all Americans. “I believe that it is our duty to stand together and challenge the proposals currently on the table in the Senate, which invoke painful memories of Jim Crow laws and … Continue reading The Racism of Gun Control

Smearing Ted Cruz

From today’s issue of FrontPage Magazine: Smearing Ted Cruz By Matthew Vadum Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is not disappointing his conservative supporters. In his first few weeks in the world’s most sclerotic deliberative body, Cruz has already come under intense fire from the Left, and surprisingly, from a few corners in the GOP. Leftist Obama sycophant Greg Sargent, the Washington Post‘s in-house ideological purity enforcer, confers a kind of credibility on Cruz and those like him by calling them crazy. Cruz “keeps untold numbers of base voters in a state of perpetual delusion,” Sargent writes. He does this with “the hints … Continue reading Smearing Ted Cruz

Hagel: Israel An Apartheid State

My article from the Feb. 20, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Hagel: Israel An Apartheid State By Matthew Vadum President Obama’s would-be defense secretary claimed in a speech that Israel is a treaty-breaking rogue nation that is in the process of becoming an apartheid state. The comments from top Pentagon nominee Chuck Hagel came two years ago during a question and answer session following a speech the former U.S. senator made at Rutgers School of Law. With his suspicious ties to theocratic Iran, Hagel is part of President Obama’s Islamist-appeasement dream team, alongside CIA director nominee John Brennan, and John … Continue reading Hagel: Israel An Apartheid State

Dorner, Folk Hero of the Left

My piece from the Feb. 14, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Dorner, Folk Hero of the Left By Matthew Vadum Nobody loves cop killers more than left-wingers do. The grotesque outpouring of love for cop killer Chris Dorner, an ex-cop now presumed dead in a fiery shootout at Big Bear Lake, California, should make all sane Americans fear for the future of their country. Dorner is suspected of killing at least one police officer and two others. He allegedly gunned down 28-year-old Monica Quan and her husband-to-be 27-year-old Keith Lawrence outside their home. Quan’s father Randy, a former Los Angeles … Continue reading Dorner, Folk Hero of the Left

Double-Voting for Obama

My piece from the Feb. 13, 2013, issue of FrontPage Magazine: Double-Voting for Obama By Matthew Vadum After publicly boasting that she voted twice for President Obama in November, a left-wing Ohio activist associated with a George Soros-funded group claims she did nothing wrong by double-voting. “There’s absolutely no intent on my part to commit voter fraud,” said Melowese Richardson, a longtime Cincinnati poll worker and Democratic activist whose unlawfully cast ballot canceled out a lawful ballot and thereby deprived another citizen of his or her right to vote. Voter fraud, also known as vote fraud, election fraud, and electoral fraud, refers to the … Continue reading Double-Voting for Obama

Raking Brennan Over the Coals

From the Feb. 8, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Raking Brennan Over the Coals By Matthew Vadum CIA director nominee John O. Brennan took heat during a confirmation hearing yesterday but not on the issues that matter most to America’s survival. The nature of the struggle between the United States and the rest of Western civilization with totalitarian, irredentist Islam, was barely touched upon during Brennan’s confirmation hearing. Distressingly, Brennan is an intellectually vapid, double-talking bureaucrat and leading Obama administration apologist for Islamic terrorism who has exonerated radical Islamists again and again. But instead of asking Brennan about his softness … Continue reading Raking Brennan Over the Coals

Oliver Stone’s Bush Derangement Syndrome

From the Feb. 6, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Oliver Stone’s Bush Derangement Syndrome By Matthew Vadum Editor’s note: The following is the ninth installment of a series of articles Frontpage is running in response to Oliver Stone’s neo-Communist documentary series, “The Untold History of the United States.” Frontpage will be reviewing each episode of the Stone series, exposing the leftist hateful lies about America and setting the record straight. Below is a review of Part 9 of the series. George W. Bush schemed and plotted to become virtually an American emperor long before becoming president in 2001, according to … Continue reading Oliver Stone’s Bush Derangement Syndrome

Amnesty 2013

From the Jan. 30, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Amnesty 2013 By Matthew Vadum Left-wingers are once again pushing a so-called comprehensive immigration reform package that helps their cause more than it helps America. The proposal, still in rough outline, was unveiled at a Capitol Hill press conference Monday. It makes vague promises, the same promises that have been echoing in the corridors of power for decades, of finally enforcing the nation’s porous border with Mexico. It comes days after left-wing groups vowed to lay the groundwork to turn Texas deep Democrat blue. The plan is backed by a bipartisan … Continue reading Amnesty 2013

Kerry as Obama’s Overseas Enforcer

From the Jan. 25, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Kerry as Obama’s Overseas Enforcer By Matthew Vadum Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) promised yesterday to faithfully execute President Obama’s chaotic, destructive foreign policy if confirmed as the new U.S. secretary of state. At a congressional hearing, Obama’s nominee to replace Hillary Clinton at Foggy Bottom vowed to de-emphasize the military role “thrust upon us” by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, saying “we cannot afford a diplomacy that is defined by troops or drones or confrontation.” Kerry told his fellow senators that it was time to highlight U.S. programs abroad aimed at … Continue reading Kerry as Obama’s Overseas Enforcer

Obama Prepares to Community-Organize America

My article from the Jan. 22, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Obama Prepares to Community-Organize America By Matthew Vadum In his latest unprecedented move in American history, President Obama announced he is converting his campaign apparatus into a permanent in-your-face campaign aimed at furthering Obama’s divisive, radical politics. The new tax-exempt advocacy group, Organizing for Action, will “play an active role” in “mobilizing around and speaking out in support of important legislation” during Obama’s second term, the president said last week. In the same vein, in his second inaugural address yesterday, Obama bullied the opposition. Reinforcing his long-running “spread the wealth” theme, … Continue reading Obama Prepares to Community-Organize America

Algeria in Jihadi Flames

My article from the Jan. 18, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Algeria in Jihadi Flames By Matthew Vadum Emboldened by America’s projection of weakness abroad, Islamists apparently linked to al-Qaeda reportedly continue to hold about 40 foreign hostages including seven Americans seized Wednesday at a natural gas field in Algeria. At press time, conflicting media reports had been emerging from the region. Some claimed that the hostages have been freed; others, that several hostages have been killed. The mass kidnapping at a BP (formerly British Petroleum) gas site near the Libyan border, which may very well have been accomplished with … Continue reading Algeria in Jihadi Flames

Oliver Stone’s Distortion of the Eisenhower Era

From the Jan. 14, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Oliver Stone’s Distortion of the Eisenhower Era By Matthew Vadum Editor’s note: The following is the fifth installment of a series of articles Frontpage is running in response to Oliver Stone’s neo-Communist documentary series, “The Untold History of the United States.” Frontpage will be reviewing each episode of the Stone series, exposing the leftist hateful lies about America and setting the record straight. Below is a review of Part 5 of the series. President Dwight D. Eisenhower is responsible for transforming America into the imperialist global bully it supposedly is today, … Continue reading Oliver Stone’s Distortion of the Eisenhower Era

Gun Confiscation By Presidential Decree?

From the Jan. 10, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Gun Confiscation By Presidential Decree? By Matthew Vadum President Obama may soon act unilaterally to curtail Americans’ right to keep and bear arms and impose a new national firearms policy without congressional approval. Spurred on by the Newtown, Connecticut schoolhouse massacre last month that took 26 lives, Obama could restrict, perhaps even abolish, private gun ownership with the stroke of his auto-pen. Second Amendment backers are justifiably angry after Vice President Joe Biden spoke yesterday about ways to curb violent gun-related crime. He suggested that the president may take swift, decisive … Continue reading Gun Confiscation By Presidential Decree?

Off With a Bang: Assault on Second Amendment Begins

From the Jan. 8, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Off With a Bang: Assault on Second Amendment Begins By Matthew Vadum President Obama is planning an aggressive, in-your-face, blitzkrieg-style campaign against Americans’ fundamental Second Amendment right to self-defense. After a madman murdered 26 people including 20 young schoolchildren last month at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama initially urged a reinstatement of the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban. The demonstrably useless law lapsed in 2004 and had no detectable impact on crime. It was designed to cater to big-city liberals and their irrational fear of firearms. But the … Continue reading Off With a Bang: Assault on Second Amendment Begins

Fiscal Cliff Showdown Postponed to March

From the Jan. 2, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Fiscal Cliff Showdown Postponed to March By Matthew Vadum With a cocky President Obama no doubt grinning from ear-to-ear, federal lawmakers yesterday gave their blessing to legislation that boosts income tax rates and government spending while kicking many of the “fiscal cliff” issues down the road for several weeks. The $1.2 trillion in scheduled spending cuts –falling largely on the Pentagon– have now been officially postponed for two months. The next manufactured crisis comes March 1, the day the cuts will take effect unless Congress intervenes again to stop them. Putting … Continue reading Fiscal Cliff Showdown Postponed to March