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George Soros has visited the White House 5 times

Matthew Vadum

Radical philanthropist George Soros has visited the White House on at least five occasions since Barack Obama became president. Perhaps Soros has some influence over Obama administration policy. Soros co-founded the ultra-secretive Democracy Alliance, a billionaires’ club that wants to radically transform America. He has said that European-style socialism “is exactly what we need now” and favors American decline. Soros, a currency manipulator with an insider-trading conviction, praises Red China effusively, saying the totalitarian nation has “a better-functioning government than the United States.” The data appears in the White House’s online visitor access database. It is possible that Soros, the … Continue reading George Soros has visited the White House 5 times

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Clash of the ACORN Titans

Matthew Vadum

Later today ACORN whistleblower Marcel Reid debates Bertha Lewis, the former squatter who presided over the collapse of the corrupt community organizing outfit ACORN in 2010. The one-hour matchup takes place at 10 o’clock a.m. (Eastern) on WPFW 89.3 FM (Washington, D.C.). Listen live online here. Reid was forced out of ACORN in 2008 after she demanded the group explain massive financial irregularities. She then co-founded a watchdog group called ACORN 8 with other whistleblowers. Reid contributed to the new book Race, Power & Politics: Memoirs of an ACORN Whistleblower, by Michael McCray. Lewis is now president of the Black Institute, an ACORN-like organization in New York … Continue reading Clash of the ACORN Titans

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Obama’s Pre-Election Gift to Illegal Aliens

Matthew Vadum

My article from today’s Front Page Magazine: Obama’s Pre-Election Gift to Illegal Aliens By Matthew Vadum In a move more imperial than presidential, President Obama last week granted what amounts to a kind of de facto citizenship to as many as 1.4 million young illegal aliens. From the Rose Garden of the White House on Friday Obama announced plans to bypass Congress and partially implement the so-called DREAM Act which would have offered a path to U.S. citizenship for youthful illegals who served in the armed forces or attended college. The administration says 800,000 illegal aliens could benefit although Jon … Continue reading Obama’s Pre-Election Gift to Illegal Aliens

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Paranoia from The Nation magazine

Matthew Vadum

The Left is going all-out to push the tired old meme that asking a voter for photo ID somehow discriminates against minorities, the poor, and other aggrieved groups. Longtime fellow-traveler and ACORN apologist Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation magazine, is trying to raise money by promoting this ridiculous idea. Not unexpected but still tedious. Make that very tedious. Here’s a copy of a fundraising letter I received today from her: Continue reading Paranoia from The Nation magazine

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Obama Gives $446 Million to ACORN Veteran

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My article from today’s Front Page Magazine: Obama Gives $446 Million to ACORN Veteran By Matthew Vadum A former senior ACORN official has been put in charge of close to half a billion taxpayer dollars in Illinois, one of the most corrupt states in the Union and the home state of America’s Community Organizer-in-Chief. What could possibly go wrong? In 2010 the Obama administration designated $7.6 billion for a foreclosure relief program. Of that total $445.6 million will be administered by ACORN alumnus Joe McGavin, now a director at the Illinois Housing Development Authority. As Judicial Watch discovered, McGavin was … Continue reading Obama Gives $446 Million to ACORN Veteran

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Left-Wing Terrorist Brett Kimberlin Gets Conservative Blogger Jailed

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Here’s my piece from yesterday’s Front Page Magazine. Left-Wing Terrorist Brett Kimberlin Gets Conservative Blogger Jailed By Matthew Vadum Something is rotten in the State of Maryland. Convicted terrorist bomber and perjurer Brett Kimberlin is free while one of his many harassment victims remains under a judicial gag order for the crime of writing about Kimberlin’s violent criminal history. It’s a bizarre situation, as I reported on “The Source” TV show with Ezra Levant. Kimberlin and his cadre of cyber-stalkers try to bully conservative bloggers into silence. They post personal information and home addresses of their targets to send the … Continue reading Left-Wing Terrorist Brett Kimberlin Gets Conservative Blogger Jailed

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The Anti-Democratic Party

Matthew Vadum

Here is my Front Page Magazine article from yesterday: The Anti-Democratic Party By Matthew Vadum America’s Democratic Party lost its enthusiasm for democracy a long time ago. Today’s gubernatorial recall vote in Wisconsin a short time after the most recent general election is just another reminder of how far the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson has strayed from its honorable roots. Founded as a reaction against the elitist ways of the we-know-what’s-best-for-you Federalists of the early Republic, the modern Democratic Party can’t stop telling Americans what to do. Democrats are acutely mindful of Joseph Stalin’s aphorism that “The … Continue reading The Anti-Democratic Party

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Obama Celebrates Socialist Dolores Huerta

Matthew Vadum

From the May 31 edition of Front Page Magazine: Obama Celebrates Socialist Dolores Huerta By Matthew Vadum When you’re a champion of so-called social justice, there is no end to the accolades you’re likely to receive regardless of your faults. Falsely described by those on the Left as a compassionate humanitarian, radical labor leader Dolores Huerta has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama. Huerta “has fought to give more people a seat at the table,” Obama said euphemistically. The award is not all that surprising for an administration that kisses the ring of Al Sharpton. In an … Continue reading Obama Celebrates Socialist Dolores Huerta

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Sloppy HuffPo writer Clarence B. Jones smears me

Matthew Vadum

Clarence B. Jones, allegedly a Scholar in Residence at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, really should be more careful when writing. This individual wrote at the Huffington Post on May 28: The conservative columnist Mathew [sic] Vadum put all of the above in political election perspective for 2012. He writes, registering minorities [sic] “to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals.” Oh yeah? Where did I write that? I never wrote such a thing. In the article Jones links to about taxpayer-supported registration of welfare recipients I used the quoted phrase in … Continue reading Sloppy HuffPo writer Clarence B. Jones smears me

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Brett Kimberlin and the Threshold Foundation’s radical ties

Matthew Vadum

(This blog item was originally posted at the Capital Research Center blog on  May 30, 2012.) What do self-described “communist” Van Jones, his good friend Arianna Huffington, radical philanthropist George Soros, the Threshold Foundation, and the Tides Foundation all have in common? They all are connected in some way to convicted “Speedway Bomber” Brett C. Kimberlin, a man described by Michelle Malkin as “a radical, violent, lying, dangerous felon.” Kimberlin, as blogger Liberty Chick previously reported, spent nearly 17 years in prison after being convicted of launching a week-long bombing spree that terrorized the residents of Speedway, Indiana in the … Continue reading Brett Kimberlin and the Threshold Foundation’s radical ties

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Orrin Hatch weighs in on the Brett Kimberlin menace

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Sen.  Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who was once a victim of a vexatious lawsuit filed by convicted terrorist bomber Brett Kimberlin, today weighed in on the ongoing Kimberlin saga. As Kerry Picket of the Washington Times reports,  when he was a prisoner Kimberlin sued Hatch baselessly blaming the senator for his failure at the time to win parole. The suit went down in flames. Hatch’s office issued the following statement: Senator Hatch has had run ins with Brett Kimberlin before and they weren’t pleasant. So it’s certainly no surprise that Mr. Kimberlin has now taken to harassing and targeting conservative bloggers. … Continue reading Orrin Hatch weighs in on the Brett Kimberlin menace

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Brett Kimberlin and the Hall of Fame of Leftist Terrorists

Matthew Vadum

Here is my article from today’s Front Page Magazine:  Brett Kimberlin and the Hall of Fame of Leftist Terrorists By Matthew Vadum The Left has a long history of embracing unrepentant, manipulative sociopaths, felons, terrorists, and mass murderers – anything goes, provided that they share the same political ideology.  In fairness, most liberals do not feel affection for the worst of the worst among leftists such as Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Che Guevara, or Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones.  But there are a few domestic radicals who have attained a kind of folk hero status in left-wing circles. … Continue reading Brett Kimberlin and the Hall of Fame of Leftist Terrorists

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Matthew Vadum is cited in 37 books and counting

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I’ve been keeping a running tab of the books that reference my work and/or quote me. Note that authors on the left, such as Arianna Huffington and Center for American Progress visiting fellow Shirley Sagawa, have given my work a vote of confidence by relying on it. Here is the list as of May 22, 2012: * asterisk indicates New York Times bestseller In reverse chronological order: 37) The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown, by Richard L. Hasen, Yale University Press, forthcoming: expected publication summer 2012, page citation unknown 36) The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money-Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens … Continue reading Matthew Vadum is cited in 37 books and counting

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‘Nonviolence’ Explodes in Chicago

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My article from today’s Front Page Magazine: ‘Nonviolence’ Explodes in Chicago By Matthew Vadum The NATO summit in Chicago has produced an impressive list of arrests for demonstrations officially billed by the Left and the compliant mainstream media as “nonviolent.” Some of the alleged pacifists conspired to maim and kill Americans. The wave of violence unleashed by the Obama-endorsed Occupy Wall Street movement and other elements of the activist Left in recent weeks is part of what left-wingers are calling the “99% Spring.” The actions, which are being cheered on by small-c communist terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, are … Continue reading ‘Nonviolence’ Explodes in Chicago