RIP, Dennis Reilly, founder of National Alliance for Taxicab Justice

I just learned that a friend of mine died. His name was Dennis Reilly and he was the founder and president of a group called National Alliance for Taxicab Justice that sought to reform the taxicab system. Dennis was 72 years old. He was a good man who wanted to make his corner of the world a better place. Rest in peace, Dennis. I am advised that a funeral-wake for Dennis is scheduled for this Friday, October 21, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Collins Funeral Home, 500 University Blvd., Silver Spring, Md. 20901. Continue reading RIP, Dennis Reilly, founder of National Alliance for Taxicab Justice

The Face of the Democratic Party

From Front Page Magazine today: The Face of the Democratic Party By Matthew Vadum Salvador Dali would have been comfortable painting a mural of the surreal Occupy Wall Street movement. Supported by billionaire Marxists, mega-rich Hollywood airheads, radical libertarians, indebted students, sexual exhibitionists, malingerers, and professional protesters, the neo-communist “Occupy Wall Street” movement is fast becoming the face of the modern Democratic Party. This is a wonderful thing, says conservative columnist George F. Will. Will said he wants the Occupy Wall Street protests to prosper: I think they do represent the intellectual spirit of the American left, but also I … Continue reading The Face of the Democratic Party

WND: Thousands of fraud cases just ‘tip of iceberg’

WND quotes me in a new article about the growing menace of voter fraud. * * * * * Americans need to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it. Buy my book Subversion Inc. at Amazon and in Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million bookstores. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter. Continue reading WND: Thousands of fraud cases just ‘tip of iceberg’

Marxist Mobocracy

My new op-ed in the Washington Times: Marxist mobocracy Let them protest and rage – it lays the groundwork for GOP domination By Matthew Vadum Abraham Lincoln rightly denounced the “mobocratic spirit.” James Madison considered it the sacred duty of government to protect property rights from the violent whims of the mob: “That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.” Lincoln and Madison would not have … Continue reading Marxist Mobocracy

TV: Vadum on Occupy Wall Street

I was on the Sun News Network (Canada) yesterday talking about ACORN and the Occupy Wall Street movement. The show is “Byline” with Sun Media’s Ottawa correspondent Brian Lilley. Here is a link to the video. * * * * * Americans need to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to … Continue reading TV: Vadum on Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street’s ACORN Rent-A-Mobs

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Occupy Wall Street’s ACORN Rent-A-Mobs By Matthew Vadum Evidence suggests that ACORN, the Left’s premiere astro-turfing organization, has been paying people to participate in the Occupy Wall Street protests. Astro-turfing campaigns can generate big money, and ACORN’s lucrative protest-for-profit program is nothing new. As I note in my book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, ACORN has acquired great expertise in manufacturing so-called grassroots protests. Left-wing loan sharks Herb and Marion Sandler, the founders of World Savings Bank, gave ACORN affiliates close to $11 million to manufacture … Continue reading Occupy Wall Street’s ACORN Rent-A-Mobs

ACORN: Puppet Master of Occupy Wall Street

From today’s Front Page Magazine: ACORN: Puppet Master of Occupy Wall Street By Matthew Vadum The Working Families Party, an infamous ACORN front group notorious for corruption, was instrumental in organizing the Occupy Wall Street protests, according to radical journalist Laura Flanders of Free Speech TV. The protests, which have spread to several other large U.S. cities, are part of what ACORN’s neo-communist founder Wade Rathke calls an “anti-banking jihad.” Working Families Party (WFP) organizer Nelini Stamp has “been here since day one and she is part of the organizing team and the outreach team that has managed to bridge … Continue reading ACORN: Puppet Master of Occupy Wall Street

SEIU’s Stephen Lerner Leaks Plan to Terrorize Corporate Executives

Radical labor organizer Stephen Lerner of SEIU intends to terrorize the families of bank executives in their homes. Lerner, a prime architect of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, said this to Marxists at the left-wing Take the American Dream Back conference in Washington, D.C., on October 3, 2011. Here’s the video: Like any good Alinskyite organizer Lerner poses as a mere liberal instead of as an anti-American radical. If Lerner gets his way, more labor and leftist-inspired violence and mayhem are on their way. * * * * * Americans need to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect … Continue reading SEIU’s Stephen Lerner Leaks Plan to Terrorize Corporate Executives

Union Gangsters: Stephen Lerner

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Union Gangsters: Stephen Lerner By Matthew Vadum Editor’s note: The following is the third installment of FrontPage’s new series, “Union Gangsters.” In this profile, award-winning investigative reporter Matthew Vadum unmasks economic terrorist Stephen Lerner. To read about union consigliere Craig Becker, click here. To read about Big Labor kingpin Richard Trumka, click here.] One of the boldest labor thugs in America today is Stephen Lerner, a crafty economic terrorist who manages to sound like a folksy self-improvement seminar leader while he explicitly calls for the overthrow of capitalism. “People are ready to move,” said Lerner, an organizer … Continue reading Union Gangsters: Stephen Lerner

Marxist Heather Booth on VIDEO: Progressive FAIL: Liberals Really DO Sit Around Singing ‘Kumbaya’!

Who said it’s a stereotype that liberals and left-wingers sit around singing ‘Kumbaya’? (Or in this case, ‘Solidarity Forever.’)  That what’s neo-communist, Saul Alinsky-inspired, community organizer Heather Booth did with a group of Marxists at the left-wing Taking the American Dream Back conference in Washington, D.C., on October 4, 2011. Booth has been at this for a long time. Like any good Alinskyite organizer she poses as a mere liberal instead of as an anti-American radical. Here’s a video of Booth with commentary: * * * * * Americans need to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help … Continue reading Marxist Heather Booth on VIDEO: Progressive FAIL: Liberals Really DO Sit Around Singing ‘Kumbaya’!

Occupy Wall Street Jumps the Shark

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Occupy Wall Street Jumps the Shark By Matthew Vadum It hasn’t taken long for the socialist-organized “occupation” of Wall Street to jump the shark. In a surreal news conference at the United Nations, anti-American radical and rogue financier George Soros (net worth: $22 billion) threw in his lot with the thousands of Communists, anarchists, eco-feminists, malingerers, and professional protesters who have been baiting and taunting police in lower Manhattan as part of a mass demonstration that began September 17. Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) also jumped on the anti-Wall Street bandwagon. In a move that ought … Continue reading Occupy Wall Street Jumps the Shark

Welcome NPR Listeners!

I just made my National Public Radio debut on Southern California Public Radio (SCPR). We talked about budget cuts, federal appropriations, and the like. It was less boring than it sounds. NPR listeners should feel free to comment on this blog. As long as a comment is civil it will be allowed to stand. And no swearing please. I don’t have a problem with cuss words in the offline world but once they’re allowed in the comments section the conversation inevitably sinks down into the gutter (as in DailyKos). UPDATED a few hours later: This web page contains an audio … Continue reading Welcome NPR Listeners!

Roseanne, the Red Queen

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Roseanne, the Red Queen By Matthew Vadum Although the revolutionary bloodlust of the Left is never far beneath the surface, sometimes it takes a crisis to bring it out into the open. Take the case of Roseanne Barr, a self-described socialist and proud ACORN member. As part of her vanity campaign for the presidency, the unfunny comedian has managed to make liberal Hollywood crusader Susan Sarandon seem like a thoughtful moderate. Barr is now calling for the forced reeducation and murder of wealthy Americans just as Bill Ayers’s Weather Underground Organization proposed decades before. When meeting with the … Continue reading Roseanne, the Red Queen

Neo-Communist Subversive Frances Fox Piven Calls for Violent Uprising

Neo-communist subversive Frances Fox Piven has once again called for a violent uprising against the American system. Interviewed by “Democracy Now!” at the site of the increasingly unruly demonstrations around Wall Street, Piven said: I am here because I am so enthusiastic about the possibilities of this sit-in, over the marches that are occurring over postal worker issues, the sister demonstrations that are starting in Chicago and Los Angeles, and maybe in Boston. I think we desperately need a popular uprising in the United States. None of us know. I study movements. None of us know the exact formula for … Continue reading Neo-Communist Subversive Frances Fox Piven Calls for Violent Uprising

TV: Vadum re Goldman Sachs on “The Big Picture”

I was invited onto Thom Hartmann’s TV show “The Big Picture” to talk about the controversial comments of London-based trader Alessio Rastani whom leftist idiots the world over have called a sociopath. Somehow we ended up talking about Goldman Sachs and the role of markets. Hartmann argued that markets must “serve” people. Of course markets don’t “serve” anyone. They represent the sum total of all economic activity. People serve their own self-interest by participating in the markets. The same people who believe the U.S. Constitution is a “living” document also believe that markets are supposed to serve someone or something. It … Continue reading TV: Vadum re Goldman Sachs on “The Big Picture”

Union Gangsters: Richard Trumka

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Union Gangsters: Richard Trumka By Matthew Vadum [Editor’s note: The following is the second installment of FrontPage’s new series, “Union Gangsters.” In this profile, award-winning investigative reporter Matthew Vadum unmasks Big Labor kingpin Richard Trumka, whose dirty agitation tactics have earned him the moniker “thug-in-chief.” To read about union consigliere Craig Becker, click here.] Richard Trumka is a thug’s thug, and a crafty one at that. The AFL-CIO boss believes the end justifies the means. Breaking the law is acceptable if it advances the cause. Unions should “forget about the law; this is about more than … Continue reading Union Gangsters: Richard Trumka

Day of Poseurs

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Day of Poseurs By Matthew Vadum The US Day of Rage protest on Wall Street has been largely nonviolent so far, so organizers now appear to be trying to use political theatrics to recruit more activists to their anti-capitalist cause. They are falsely accusing the New York City Police Department of using violent tactics against them. The mass demonstration that began September 17 is still in progress. It comes months after ACORN founder Wade Rathke proclaimed an “anti-banking jihad” and SEIU schemer Stephen Lerner vowed to “bring down the stock market” through a campaign of … Continue reading Day of Poseurs

Vadum on Roger Hedgecock Show at 7:20 p.m. ET (4:20 p.m. PT) Tonight

The time could change but right now I’m scheduled to do a segment on the “Roger Hedgecock Show” at 7:20 Eastern tonight. We’ll be talking about how ACORN and other radical left-wing groups would be eligible for up to $15 billion in federal funding if President Obama’s new economic stimulus package becomes law. Note that the key word here is “eligible.” ACORN and other leftist groups won’t get all the money because they will have to compete with state and local governments. But it’s a crime that any of these terrible groups will be eligible for any taxpayer dollars. It’s time … Continue reading Vadum on Roger Hedgecock Show at 7:20 p.m. ET (4:20 p.m. PT) Tonight

Soros Stooge Terry Krepel Can’t Stop Lying About ACORN and My Research

Terry Krepel, a whiny, petty, undistinguished former journalist, now makes a living writing drivel. The sloppy Media Matters for America writer has published yet another nearly fact-free attack on an article that cites my investigative journalism. The article Krepel criticizes was published Sept. 19 by WND.com. The WND report states that President Obama’s so-called jobs bill contains $15 billion for a program called “Project Rebuild.” According to the article, “The funds would go to state and local governments and to ‘qualified nonprofit organizations’ to redevelop abandoned and foreclosed properties.” Krepel claims “ACORN no longer exists” because “it filed for Chapter … Continue reading Soros Stooge Terry Krepel Can’t Stop Lying About ACORN and My Research

Flashback: Soros-Funded Documentary Embraces Left-Wing Terrorists Who Plotted To Kill Republicans

Here’s a link to an interesting piece at Big Journalism by Lee Stranahan. It’s about the vicious propaganda film Better This World which falsely depicts American hero Brandon Darby as a co-conspirator in a plot to attack the 2008 GOP convention with Molotov cocktails. The goal of the two actual conspirators, David Guy McKay and Bradley Neil Crowder, was to kill Republicans. These two would-be murderers accused Darby of making them do it but the accusation was wholly rejected by the judge who heard the criminal case. I was the first to report almost a year ago that this wretched pro-terrorist film … Continue reading Flashback: Soros-Funded Documentary Embraces Left-Wing Terrorists Who Plotted To Kill Republicans