My post from the American Thinker blog on Oct. 16, 2013 is below. It is a shorter version of my article “Obama’s Secret Collaboration with ACORN Bosses” that ran the day before at FrontPage Magazine. ACORN is Back! By Matthew Vadum Operatives of the disgraced radical group ACORN continue to advise the Obama administration and guide its destructive far-left policies years after the group filed for bankruptcy. Good-government group Judicial Watch has discovered through Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) requests that former ACORN Housing mouthpiece Bruce Dorpalen, now head of the National Housing Resource Center (NHRC), has been meeting with and advising senior … Continue reading ACORN is Back!

My article from the Oct. 17, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Obama’s Secret Collaboration with ACORN Bosses By Matthew Vadum Former officers of the disgraced radical group ACORN are still advising the Obama administration and guiding its catastrophic far-left policies almost three years after the group filed bankruptcy. Former ACORN Housing public affairs director Bruce Dorpalen, who now runs the National Housing Resource Center (NHRC), has been meeting with and advising senior Obama administration officials on housing policy, according to good-government group Judicial Watch. The watchdog discovered the secret collaborations after filing a Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) request. Like a grifter … Continue reading Obama’s Secret Collaboration with ACORN Bosses

Fox News quotes me today on its website in an article about ACORN’s Obamacare navigators. Continue reading Fox News quotes me in article about ACORN’s Obamacare navigators

Here is my article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: Hollywood’s Obamacare Zombies By Matthew Vadum If you’re sick and tired of TV news broadcasts spewing pro-Obamacare propaganda, get ready to be inundated with even more progressive health care proselytizing in the dramas and comedies that follow those news shows. For this you have the left-wing California Endowment to thank. The radical philanthropy is in the news because it is funding Obamacare public outreach efforts. As Newsmax reports, the Obama administration is “turning its focus on prime time television series, using the influential platform and the power of celebrity to spread the word … Continue reading Hollywood’s Obamacare Zombies

My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: Veterans Break the Obama Blockade By Matthew Vadum Thousands of World War Two veterans fed up with President Obama’s needlessly cruel closure of national shrines in order to put pressure on his political enemies, yesterday stormed the cordoned-off open-air Washington, D.C., memorial that was created to honor them. In a touching moment that ought to warm every red-blooded patriots’ heart, nonviolent protesters removed barricades on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., erected by the National Park Service to keep veterans and other members of the public from enjoying the National World War Two memorial that was … Continue reading Veterans Break the Obama Blockade

My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: Obama to Boehner: Drop Dead By Matthew Vadum President Obama has rejected a proposed compromise from House Republicans that could have helped to end the congressional standoff that led to the now 11-day-old partial federal government shutdown. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) pitched a “clean” six-week increase with nothing in return to the community organizer in the White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). As Big Government’s Matthew Boyle reports, “Obama’s and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s decision to completely reject any offer of a compromise from House Republicans confirms what most conservatives already … Continue reading Obama to Boehner: Drop Dead

Fox News quotes me in a news story about how NPR and PBS are continuing to receive government funding despite the so-called shutdown. Here’s the relevant passage: However, one expert we spoke to said loopholes enable the CPB and other nonprofits like it to receive federal funding while still claiming independence. “CPB is a nonprofit corporation that is technically separate from the government. So is NeighborWorks, a nonprofit that receives congressional appropriations, just as CPB does. NeighborWorks helped cause the housing bubble; CPB provides the propaganda that anesthetizes the public, preventing people from laying blame for failed policies at the door of the … Continue reading Fox News quotes me in a story about NPR and PBS

The awful, radical left-wing California Endowment is in the news because it is funding Obamacare propaganda. This is beyond creepy. As Newsmax reports […] The Obama administration is turning its focus on prime time television series, using the influential platform and the power of celebrity to spread the word about its healthcare initiative. The University of California’s Annenberg Norman Lear Center, which promotes its Hollywood Health & Society program, received a $500,000 grant last week from the California Endowment, a private source aimed an informing more people about the federal program, Deadline Hollywood reported. The goal is to keep producers, writers and … Continue reading About that radical funder, the California Endowment, that’s funding pro-Obamacare propaganda in Hollywood

My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: Elderly Veterans Feel Obama’s Wrath By Matthew Vadum President Obama’s Machiavellian drive to hurt and irritate Americans to win the budget fight kicked into high gear this week as jackbooted police refused to allow World War II veterans to make a pilgrimage to the open-air Washington, D.C., memorial that was created to honor them. As a whiff of fascism blows through the nation’s capital, the president is demonstrating to the whole world how revoltingly out-of-control the hyper-bloated U.S. government is. Obama is doing petty, irritating things like needlessly shutting down national parks in order … Continue reading Elderly Veterans Feel Obama’s Wrath

My article from the Sept. 26, 2013, issue of FrontPage Magazine: America’s Obamacare Crisis By Matthew Vadum Sen. Ted Cruz’s talking filibuster against Obamacare has helped to draw attention to the endless problems the program’s implementation is causing in society. The 21 hour, 19 minute-long speech by Cruz, the junior Republican senator from Texas, that ended midday yesterday, served as a highly informative infomercial that detailed how the incipient entitlement program is boosting health insurance premiums, unemployment, and misery across the nation. No one seems to think Obamacare is ready for prime time, except perhaps for the Obama administration and … Continue reading America’s Obamacare Crisis

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

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

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?

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