Bernie Sanders Is A Communist And An Ignoramus

My article from the July 15, 2015 issue of FrontPageMag: Bernie Sanders Is A Communist And An Ignoramus By Matthew Vadum Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been getting away for years with describing himself as a socialist, when in reality he is an outright America-hating communist. This belief in communism is reflected in the Sanders platform. Even a brief glance reveals his plan to be hopelessly utopian and insane. It will extinguish freedom and shutter businesses and cause widespread suffering especially among the poor people he claims to want to help. It is a program for exporting the best and … Continue reading Bernie Sanders Is A Communist And An Ignoramus

Ending Mass Incarceration One Murdering Illegal Alien at a Time

My article from the July 13, 2015 issue of FrontPageMag: Ending Mass Incarceration One Murdering Illegal Alien at a Time By Matthew Vadum The hostility of the radical left-wing sheriff of San Francisco to America’s prison system — not just to federal immigration law — may have been a factor in the decision to release a Mexican illegal alien who went on to murder young Kate Steinle. Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi (pronounced: Meer-kah-ree-me) is taking heat for releasing Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a 45-year-old illegal alien with a second grade education who reportedly has seven felony convictions and has been deported from the … Continue reading Ending Mass Incarceration One Murdering Illegal Alien at a Time

Trump is Right About Illegals, Says Grieving Father

My article from the July 10, 2015 issue of FrontPageMag: Trump is Right About Illegals, Says Grieving Father By Matthew Vadum A fiery black opponent of so-called sanctuary cities whose teenaged son was murdered in cold blood by an illegal alien gangster from Mexico is cheering on Donald Trump for demanding that the U.S. government enforce existing immigration laws. “I felt happy for the first time,” Jamiel Shaw Sr. said in an interview with Fox News. “When that happened, I felt good. I felt hope. This is the hope that Obama thought he was gonna get. That was false hope.” Shaw was … Continue reading Trump is Right About Illegals, Says Grieving Father

Traitor Cities

My article from the July 9, 2015 issue of FrontPageMag: Traitor Cities By Matthew Vadum The “sanctuary city” movement that gave illegal aliens permission to rob, rape, and murder Americans is the product of decades of concerted collusion by radical groups like the ACLU to get cities to pledge to violate laws that protect U.S. national security. Cheered on by the Left, sanctuary cities frustrate immigration enforcement efforts and shield illegal aliens from federal officials as a matter of policy. The Obama administration is fine with that. President Obama has made America a sanctuary country, rolling out the red carpet … Continue reading Traitor Cities

The Progressive Policies That Murdered Kate Steinle

My article from the July, 6, 2015 issue of FrontPageMag: The Progressive Policies That Murdered Kate Steinle By Matthew Vadum Left-wingers in San Francisco should be hanging their heads in shame after their borderline seditious, destructive immigration policies allowed an illegal alien felon to murder a young woman randomly in broad daylight. Nor did gun control laws prevent Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a 45-year-old illegal alien deported five times to Mexico, from allegedly firing one bullet into the upper body of medical device sales representative Kate Steinle on busy Pier 14 last Wednesday, a popular tourist destination. Steinle was cut down in front of her … Continue reading The Progressive Policies That Murdered Kate Steinle

Is the Clinton Email Coverup Unraveling?

My article in the July 3, 2015 issue of FrontPageMag: Is the Clinton Email Coverup Unraveling? By Matthew Vadum Federal investigators may be closer to seizing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s illicit off-site email server as evidence emerges that she transmitted classified information through it and that key Obama White House officials knew about her clandestine email account for years. On Tuesday the Department of State made available on its website 3,000 pages of Clinton’s emails. Clinton emphatically declared months ago that none of the thousands of emails she sent using her hacker-friendly dedicated server contained classified information. As it … Continue reading Is the Clinton Email Coverup Unraveling?

Journalistic Treachery

My article in the July 1, 2015 issue of FrontPageMag: Journalistic Treachery By Matthew Vadum More American journalists were involved in spying for the Soviet Union than was previously believed, according to new research published in the Journal of Slavic Military Studies. Traditionally, research has focused on the role that U.S. reporters played as messengers, recruiters, and sources of information (and disinformation), but some of those “journalist spies also collected a large amount of secret diplomatic and military information” from 1941 through 1946 as World War II gave way to the Cold War, writes Alexander G. Lovelace of Ohio University. The article, … Continue reading Journalistic Treachery

Commie Pope

My article in today’s FrontPageMag: Commie Pope By Matthew Vadum Two years into his reign, Pope Francis has emerged as an extreme socialist obsessed with the usual phony leftist problems such as manmade global warming, American institutional racism, and income inequality. Muslims are indiscriminately slaughtering Christians around the world while Christianity itself seems on the verge of being eclipsed globally by Islam, but these things barely register with this pope. This pseudo-intellectual pope keeps on spouting the same misanthropic Marxist platitudes as he hitches his papacy to global warming, the new international totalitarian cause. Sounding like Mao Zedong, Francis said … Continue reading Commie Pope

Occupy Wall Street Mainstreams Communism

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Occupy Wall Street Mainstreams Communism By Matthew Vadum Though many have declared the Occupy Wall Street movement a failure, it won a major propaganda victory when it forced the phony political issue of “income inequality” into the national political debate, according to one of its leaders in a new article. The article, titled The Triumph of Occupy Wall Street, appears at the Atlantic, the home of radical leftists, market participants in the racial grievance industry, and mushy moderates. It was written by radical left-winger Michael Levitin, a co-founder of The Occupied Wall Street Journal, an OWS … Continue reading Occupy Wall Street Mainstreams Communism

The Progressive Crime Wave

My article in today’s FrontPageMag: The Progressive Crime Wave By Matthew Vadum After two decades of falling crime rates nationwide, rising levels of intense cop-hatred across America appear to be contributing to a spike in violent crime in major cities, according to leading scholar Heather Mac Donald. The “most plausible explanation of the current surge in lawlessness is the intense agitation against American police departments over the past nine months,” writes Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. Some of the anger in the streets that has turned into rioting and looting sprees is … Continue reading The Progressive Crime Wave

Why Rand Paul Won’t Fight

My article in today’s FrontPageMag: Why Rand Paul Won’t Fight By Matthew Vadum Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul really isn’t into the fight against America’s Islamofascist enemies. It’s just not his thing. And it’s not that Paul, like so many left-wingers out there, hates America. He doesn’t hate the country of his birth. But his hardline libertarian political views make it very difficult for him to care about the Global War on Terror. That’s why he didn’t mind allowing a law that gave the federal government tools to fight terrorist groups to sunset a few days ago. That battle in … Continue reading Why Rand Paul Won’t Fight

The Myth That Republicans Are Growing More Extreme

My article in today’s FrontPageMag: The Myth That Republicans Are Growing More Extreme By Matthew Vadum There is an insidious meme afoot that in the Obama era Democrats have been heroically restraining themselves by clinging to moderate policies while ideologically extreme Republicans have gone hog-wild in the pursuit of conservative purity. Today’s Democratic Party makes common cause with the criminals who burn down poor people’s neighborhoods in American cities. And yet the Right is somehow alleged to be more susceptible to “extremism.” Sharpening her class-warfare guillotine, Hillary Clinton calls for the “toppling” of the one percent. She copycats her potential … Continue reading The Myth That Republicans Are Growing More Extreme

Housing Panel at National Press Club Today

I will appear on a panel about the Left’s ridiculous, destructive housing policies at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., today at 12 Noon.  It is scheduled to run till around 4 p.m. Media are welcome. The panel discussion is being hosted by RestoreAmericasMission.com, and is titled, “Reality Check: Fueling a 21st Century Recovery for All Americans.”  Here’s a summary of the event from the group’s website: Restore America’s Mission (restoreamericasmission.com) is pleased to assemble a premier team of economists and analysts for a panel discussion at which we will reveal the path to economic growth, jobs, prosperity and … Continue reading Housing Panel at National Press Club Today

Martin O’Malley’s Disastrous Declaration

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Martin O’Malley’s Disastrous Declaration By Matthew Vadum Former Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley’s (D) past came back to haunt him over the weekend during the carefully staged hometown announcement that he was running for president. Although Baltimore’s advanced urban decay has something to do with the fact that the city hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1967 when Theodore R. McKeldin left office, O’Malley was heckled and shouted at Saturday. Protesters were upset with the policies O’Malley, who frequently shows off his well-developed biceps while playing guitar and singing badly, introduced when he was the troubled … Continue reading Martin O’Malley’s Disastrous Declaration

The Left’s Reign of Terror Continues in Baltimore

My article in FrontPageMag today: The Left’s Reign of Terror Continues in Baltimore By Matthew Vadum As Maryland’s largest city grieves for a mother and her 7-year-old son found shot to death, it is becoming clear that criminals emboldened by left-wingers are terrorizing the people of Baltimore like never before. The city’s radical, left-wing, thug-loving mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D), has emasculated the local police she despises and abandoned her constituents by giving criminals a green light to do as they please. Police officers have been ordered not to do their jobs which is just as well because many of them … Continue reading The Left’s Reign of Terror Continues in Baltimore

Obama Amnesty Stays Shut Down

My new article in today’s FrontPageMag: Obama Amnesty Stays Shut Down By Matthew Vadum President Obama’s unilaterally imposed immigration amnesty plan will remain suspended for the time being, thanks to a federal appeals court ruling that serves as a desperately needed reminder to Americans that the United States is not supposed to be a one-man dictatorship. On Tuesday two members of a three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit allowed an injunction to remain in place that blocks Obama from moving forward with his immigration plan. The ruling effectively extends the stay that was ordered … Continue reading Obama Amnesty Stays Shut Down

Hillary the Arms Dealer

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Hillary the Arms Dealer By Matthew Vadum While presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was America’s top diplomat the Department of State that she oversaw approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments forked over millions of dollars to the now-embattled Clinton Foundation. According to an International Business Times report by David Sirota and Andrew Perez, “at least seven foreign governments that received State Department clearance for American arms did donate to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary.” The article identified the seven nations as Algeria, Australia, Kuwait, Norway, … Continue reading Hillary the Arms Dealer

Baltimore Cops Indicted in Freddie Gray Case

My article from the May 25, 2015 issue of FrontPage magazine: Baltimore Cops Indicted in Freddie Gray Case By Matthew Vadum Six Baltimore police officers were indicted Friday in the death of Freddie Gray after prosecutors forced a local grand jury to move at what is considered lightning speed in the criminal justice system. Although there may indeed be police malfeasance in the death of Gray, news of the indictments that the grand jury considered at an unseemly pace is anticlimactic. It’s not like anyone expected grand jurors to toss the charges out in the anti-cop lynch mob environment that … Continue reading Baltimore Cops Indicted in Freddie Gray Case