The U.S. Park Police are standing around McPherson Square talking to each other. They continue to refuse to enforce the law and evict the leftist occupiers who have quite literally destroyed the park in recent months. The photos below were taken about 3:25 p.m. today. There used to be lush grass where the tents of the Occupy squatters now sit. There are plenty of television news crews in place in case something actually happens. The “Fuck Patriarchy” table is a crowd pleaser. The tarp no longer covers the equestrian statue of Civil War General James B. McPherson but the Guy Fawkes … Continue reading Police still refuse to enforce law, evict DC occupiers

The leftists occupying McPherson Square in Washington, D.C. have defaced the statue of Civil War General James B. McPherson. The occupiers have not only placed a huge blue tarp over the statue of the Union Army hero killed in the Battle of Atlanta in 1864, but they have mounted a Guy Fawkes mask on the late general’s head. The Guy Fawkes mask was featured in the 2005 film, V for Vendetta. I took two photos of the statue at 11 this morning. They are below. Update: Reports indicate a few minutes ago a man came by and ripped down or attempted to … Continue reading DC Occupiers Deface Statue of War Hero

I can understand why some Republicans can support Mitt Romney for the GOP presidential nomination but I can’t understand why those same people might believe Romney is a conservative. Where’s the proof that Romney is a conservative? He didn’t govern as a conservative when he was governor of Massachusetts. He enacted RomneyCare, which became the inspiration for ObamaCare, and even now continues to defend his failing socialistic program to the bitter end. Some of the most nonsensical defenses of Romney have come from the otherwise sensible Ann Coulter. Her recent columns assume that Romney has long been a conservative but that … Continue reading Where’s the proof that Romney is a conservative?

Front Page Magazine published this article of mine today: Will Occupiers Get Their Violent Chicago Riot? By Matthew Vadum The anti-American activists of the Occupy Wall Street movement announced they plan to violently disrupt the G8/NATO summit in Chicago on May 19. Adbusters, the Noam Chomsky-friendly magazine that spearheaded the Occupy movement, claims the movement will conduct a massive occupation of Chicago “in the tradition of the Chicago 8.” Of course the radicals of the Chicago 8 organized riots at the Democratic Party’s national convention in that city in 1968. Hundreds of police officers were injured. Adbusters vows that this time the rioters … Continue reading Will Occupiers Get Their Violent Chicago Riot?

Here is an article of mine published on January 26 by Front Page Magazine: Soros’s ‘Glee’ Over OWS Violence  By Matthew Vadum George Soros is delighted that chaos is coming to his adopted homeland. “In the crisis period, the impossible becomes possible,” the anti-American financier told Newsweek in a recent interview, restating the Alinskyite adage that a good crisis is a terrible thing to waste. “I am not here to cheer you up. The situation is about as serious and difficult as I’ve experienced in my career,” Soros says. “We are facing an extremely difficult time, comparable in many ways to the … Continue reading Soros’s ‘Glee’ Over OWS Violence

U.S. Park Police gave notice to the socialists, communists, and anarchists of Occupy D.C. that they planned to evict them at 12 Noon Eastern time. The deadline passed and not much happened. The site at Freedom Plaza is quiet and there aren’t too many people around. The site at McPherson Square, on the other hand, is a beehive of activity. Unfortunately at this point reporters seem to outnumber police at McPherson Square. I dropped by both sites a little past 1 p.m. today and took a few photos. It looks like it’s Occupy business as usual: McPherson Square: McPherson Square: … Continue reading DC ‘Occupy’ Evictions Not Happening So Far

Here is my article in today’s Front Page Magazine: Leftist Mob Mobilizes Against the GOP By Matthew Vadum In American politics, only the Left mobilizes the mob against its opponents. That’s why history textbooks don’t contain references to marauding bands of Reagan supporters roughing up Mondale backers. But leftist groups and groups aligned with the Democratic Party have long viewed Republicans as fair game. The Obama-backed “Occupy” movement has been working nonstop in New Hampshire bullying, intimidating, harassing, and provoking the Republican Party’s presidential candidates. It is the kind of unseemly, Latin American-style political activism that threatens to become a … Continue reading Leftist Mob Mobilizes Against the GOP

An article of mine from the Dec. 27, 2011, issue of Front Page Magazine: A Terrorist Returns By Matthew Vadum Convicted terrorist collaborator Lori Berenson is fortunate that in the United States citizenship is not a license that expires upon bad behavior. Berenson is back in America for the holidays, nearly two decades after the trust fund baby left to advance communism in Latin America. A Peruvian court convicted her in 1996 of aiding a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group that even now aspires to overthrow Peru’s government by force, but the 42-year-old New Yorker is free on parole. She was granted permission to … Continue reading A Terrorist Returns

Finally a wise government investment. The City of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, is fighting homelessness locally by giving homeless people one-way bus tickets to those who have relatives outside the area willing to take them in, according to CBS Miami. The $25,000 program is being funded by the Florida Law Enforcement Trust Fund, which is made up of money confiscated from criminals. Continue reading Florida city fights homelessness by giving street people one-way bus tickets out of town

President Obama’s Department of Justice finally noticed that the New York Agency for Community Affairs is a front group for ACORN. In a new report the dawdling gumshoes of DOJ explain that All of the individuals who worked on behalf of NYACA were ACORN employees. Further, the former NYACA Executive Director stated that she served concurrently as the Executive Director for both NYACA and the New York branch of ACORN. NYACA entered into a contractual agreement with ACORN for contract employees and all NYACA grant funds were transferred to ACORN for contractual payroll and fringe benefit charges paid to ACORN employees. This is … Continue reading Well, duh! Of Course New York Agency for Community Affairs is a front group for ACORN.

Here is my article from today’s Front Page Magazine: Emboldening Big Labor By Matthew Vadum Big Labor scored a significant victory Wednesday when the National Labor Relations Board gave preliminary approval to a rule that severely limits the ability of employers to fight unionization drives. On a vote of 2-to-1, the NLRB, a socialist anachronism left over from the New Deal, agreed to move forward with the “microwave” rule, which would allow workers to create unions more quickly and provide employers less time to fight such moves in courts or otherwise. The rule zaps the rights of employers by slashing … Continue reading Emboldening Big Labor

I had an article in yesterday’s Front Page Magazine: Frank’s Departure Unleashes Radical Waters By Matthew Vadum Few politicians combine ignorance, obstinate self-righteousness, racial demagoguery, and extremism quite as perfectly as the congresswoman from South Central now poised to become a major force shaping federal banking policy. Rep. Maxine Waters, a longtime cheerleader for Fidel Castro, was only too happy to use the 1992 Los Angeles riots as a political advertisement. She viewed the 53 deaths, thousands of injuries, and $1 billion in property damage as a shining example of participatory democracy. The word riot never escaped her lips. She called the … Continue reading Frank’s Departure Unleashes Radical Waters