The Left’s Libya Schizophrenia

Up to and during the Iraq War, leftists across America cheered an outspoken lawmaker who characterized the administration’s latest intervention in the Middle East as reckless military adventurism that would backfire on the United States. “Us rushing headlong into a war unilaterally was a mistake and may still be a mistake,” Illinois state senator Barack Obama said in late 2002 as President Bush readied Operation Iraqi Freedom. “What’s our long term commitment there? How much is it going to cost?” “It’s time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of … Continue reading The Left’s Libya Schizophrenia

Socialist Thom Hartmann never lets reality get in the way of a good narrative

Thom Hartmann, a socialist and 9/11 truther, isn’t exactly an honest guy. I was on his radio show this week and conceded a point to him and he went on as if I hadn’t done so. Listen to the scatterbrained stream-of-consciousness style in which he conducted an interview with me: Or maybe Hartmann isn’t nearly as bright as he thinks he is. Decide for yourself. Continue reading Socialist Thom Hartmann never lets reality get in the way of a good narrative

It’s time to go Galt: Atlas Shrugged movie is a winner

Finally a movie comes along that sticks it to the ruling class that is deliberately and maliciously driving America into the ground. The message of the movie adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1,200-page opus, Atlas Shrugged, is that the productive should be able to go about their business without being hindered by the nonproductive and the anti-productive mischief makers of government. It is a celebration of the many virtues of capitalism, a topic I editorialized about previously at NewsReal. And it turns out it’s surprisingly good! I saw the movie Wednesday at a special advance screening kindly provided by the Washington, … Continue reading It’s time to go Galt: Atlas Shrugged movie is a winner

Bill Maher calls Sarah Palin a “twat”

On his TV show non-comedian Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a “twat,” Hollie McKay of FoxNews.com reports. Of course the National Organization for Women (NOW) was nowhere to be found. NOW only defends women it agrees with. (I profiled NOW here.) FoxNews.com quotes me on the subject: Matthew Vadum, Senior Editor at the Capital Research Center in Washington DC, said Maher’s insults spotlight hypocrisy in the media.“Bill Maher feels he can get away with such jaw-droppingly offensive verbal attacks on Sarah Palin because virtually the entire media-academia-entertainment complex agrees with him,” Vadum said. “Clinging to their political correctness and disdain … Continue reading Bill Maher calls Sarah Palin a “twat”

Economic Terrorism: Alinskyites, union goons plan downfall of capitalism

Yes, they actually said that according to an audio clip featured at The Blaze. I had this story a year ago. George Goehl of ACORN wannabe group National People’s Action foreshadowed this economic sabotage at a Washington confab last summer put together by the leftist Campaign for America’s Future. I wrote this in the American Spectator: As Congress considers the Democrats’ unprecedented legislative assault on Wall Street, radical leftists say the bad economy gives them new opportunities to push America even farther down the road to socialism. “The banking crisis is the next big thing,” said George Goehl, executive director of … Continue reading Economic Terrorism: Alinskyites, union goons plan downfall of capitalism

Chronicle of Philanthropy weighs in on James O’Keefe’s NPR undercover video sting

The Chronicle of Philanthropy has a new article on the fallout from James O’Keefe’s skillfully engineered undercover video takedown of NPR. Here’s the passage that quotes me: But some conservatives see Mr. O’Keefe and his associates as “folk heroes” for helping to put Acorn out of business, says Matthew Vadum, senior editor at Capital Research Center, a right-leaning philanthropy watchdog. While Acorn helped some people over the years, he says, its leaders followed a leftist philosophy of “attack the system by any means necessary,” he says. (The group often staged confrontational protests against banks and other businesses.) Mr. O’Keefe’s video stings … Continue reading Chronicle of Philanthropy weighs in on James O’Keefe’s NPR undercover video sting

Even in bankruptcy, ACORN is still scamming its members

Although ACORN is in the process of being dissolved in bankruptcy court, the notorious group continues to deduct membership dues from the bank account of Kerry Sheldon of Delaware. The article at FoxNews.com quotes me: Matthew Vadum … said historically ACORN has made it difficult for people to quit their memberships. “People decide they don’t want to be members anymore, but the membership deductions kept going,” he told FoxNews.com. “The question is if they did it intentionally or if it was an honest mistake,” he added. Sheldon said that she made contact with the former ACORN employee who set up her … Continue reading Even in bankruptcy, ACORN is still scamming its members

Wall Street Journal pushes lie that debtors’ prisons have returned to America

Another day, another leftist lie. This time it is an attack on the financial system that left-wing policies crippled over time. The lie is that bankers are conspiring against innocent people and having them rounded up and put in jail. It is complete and utter hogwash motivated by an abiding hostility toward markets. Unfortunately, from time to time conservatives need to be reminded that apart from its op-ed pages the Wall Street Journal is not a conservative newspaper. Not even close. Take this drivel by Jessica Silver-Greenberg whose virtually fact-free hit piece suggests that debtors’ prisons have returned to America. … Continue reading Wall Street Journal pushes lie that debtors’ prisons have returned to America

Death of a Venezuelan storm trooperette

I had a piece recently in Front Page Magazine about a vicious communist hoodlum in Venezuela who died. Her name was Lina Ron and this is what I wrote about her: History has shown that female fanatics on the left can be every bit as bloodthirsty and nihilistic as their male counterparts. Elena Ceausescu was keen on political murder and repression. She helped to steal from the Romanian people in order to feed her megalomaniacal husband’s edifice complex. During China’s grotesquely brutal Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong’s homicidal wife Jiang Qing did her bit to ideologically purify the People’s Republic. She … Continue reading Death of a Venezuelan storm trooperette

Why do some conservatives still assume Obama and the Left are acting in good faith?

(originally posted at NewsReal blog) Why is it so difficult for some conservatives to accept the idea that the left is hellbent on destroying America as we know it? It’s not like it’s a far-out conspiracy theory. It’s a well documented ongoing process. These people have been at it for decades. The Cloward-Piven Strategy, which is one piece of the subversive puzzle, is real. We’ve proven it here at NewsReal and I’ve proven it in my upcoming book Subversion Inc. Since the culturally catastrophic 1960s elements within the left have been more or less open about their movement’s desire to overthrow … Continue reading Why do some conservatives still assume Obama and the Left are acting in good faith?

The Left’s Assault on Democracy in Wisconsin

A few days ago Front Page Magazine published an article of mine called The Left’s Assault on Democracy in Wisconsin. Here are the top paragraphs: Leftist radicals don’t believe in democracy in the way the term is used in America. If they win, it’s democracy in action, a noble rendering of the wise judgment of the people. If they lose, democracy has been undermined and usually some cabal of corporate villains in a smoke-filled backroom somewhere is to blame for the injustice.  The union goons and paid protesters wreaking havoc in Madison, Wisconsin believe in the radical left-wing un-American conception of … Continue reading The Left’s Assault on Democracy in Wisconsin

The Left’s hate campaign against an American hero intensifies, love affair with traitors grows

The New York Times has retracted its smear of Brandon Darby yet the character assassination campaign against this American hero is only just beginning. By way of background, Darby is the former left-wing community organizer who risked his life to prevent leftist terrorists from firebombing the GOP national convention in Minnesota in 2008. The Times falsely reported that he had “encouraged” the conspiracy even though one of the now-imprisoned terrorists admitted he lied about Darby’s complicity (and the trial judge made a specific finding that Darby was blameless — and then added extra time to the terrorist’s sentence for lying). … Continue reading The Left’s hate campaign against an American hero intensifies, love affair with traitors grows

Politico disguises hit piece on Cong. Michele Bachmann as fact-checking

People who get paid to talk for a living are bound to make a lot of innocent mistakes when they talk. This includes our elected representatives. But mistakes made by conservatives almost always generate more media coverage than mistakes by liberals. And so yet another dreary left-wing hit piece on Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) emerges. This time it is disguised as a fact-checking exercise. (Of course Bachmann’s misstatements are trifling compared to those of Barack “57 States” Obama and Joe “Stand Up For Chuck” Biden.) The phony fact-checkers are Jonathan Martin and Kendra Marr of the Politico. They say Bachmann … Continue reading Politico disguises hit piece on Cong. Michele Bachmann as fact-checking

Hero sues New York Times for accusing him of complicity in terrorism

I have an article up on the Daily Caller about former far-left activist Brandon Darby. Darby helped to undermine an anarchist plot to attack the 2008 Republican national convention yet a New York Times article accused him of being part of the plot. It’s a lie and today Darby filed a defamation lawsuit against the newspaper. Read my article here. I provide more details about the plot and its aftermath in my new book, Subversion Inc. Continue reading Hero sues New York Times for accusing him of complicity in terrorism

Congratulations to James O’Keefe III for another successful video expose!

Congratulations to James O’Keefe and Veritas Visuals on another job well done. O’Keefe, who along with Hannah Giles slew ACORN in 2009, has generated another uproar at the conduct of the left. O’Keefe’s latest video shows a then-NPR executive spewing the most uninformed, bigoted views about the Tea Party and middle America. I associate myself with the comments Rush Limbaugh made today about the NPR sting: Continue reading Congratulations to James O’Keefe III for another successful video expose!

Subversion Inc. now listed on Amazon

Now that Subversion Inc. is listed on Amazon.com, you can pre-order the book by clicking here. Release date is May 10, 2011. Here is the promotional writeup from Amazon: Review “A riveting journey through the tangled web of ACORN … This is one of the most comprehensive compilations of evidence against ACORN available.” -Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) “A well-researched, irresistibly written book that every American should read. The criminal enterprise called ‘ACORN’ is the largest, most elusive, and most dangerous radical organization in America. If you are wondering about the operations and influence of a vast left-wing conspiracy, this is … Continue reading Subversion Inc. now listed on Amazon

Media Matters Videotapes Vadum at CPAC 2011

Apparently Media Matters for America thought I said something scandalous or ridicule-worthy at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) here in Washington, D.C., last month. Here’s is a short video from the panel on the activist left:   Another video was shot by two Media Matters videographers who posed as young conservatives. They interviewed me in hopes I would say something nasty about Glenn Beck. Here’s the video (the blog post they wrote is here): Continue reading Media Matters Videotapes Vadum at CPAC 2011