The Christian Science Monitor highlighted a tweet I wrote about the recent “Saturday Night Live” skit that featured Dakota Johnson running off to join ISIS. Apparently some humorless people out there were offended by the bit. I tweeted: Why are people upset about the #SNL spoof about ISIS that featured Dakota Johnson? Were the ISIS scum not barbaric enough? — Matthew Vadum (@vadum) March 1, 2015 Continue reading Quoted by Christian Science Monitor
The popular Powerline blog hailed an article I wrote as one “of the most interesting and/or important pieces of analysis and commentary published in the past few weeks.” The FrontPage magazine article cited was about Rashad Hussain and was titled “Terror apologist named to federal anti-terror post.” Continue reading Noted by Powerline
My article from the March 5, 2015 issue of FrontPage magazine: Dems Spin Furiously for Hillary By Matthew Vadum Democrats are circling the wagons to shield their likely 2016 presidential nominee after it was revealed that Hillary Clinton transacted sensitive government business using her personal email during her time as America’s top diplomat. The Benghazi bungler, the nation has learned, set up an email system worthy of a James Bond movie villain when she became U.S. secretary of state in 2009. Mrs. Clinton used private instead of government email and even established her own private email server that has been … Continue reading Dems Spin Furiously for Hillary
My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: The U.S.-Supported Terrorists of the Palestinian Authority By Matthew Vadum A federal jury in Manhattan found the Palestinian Authority and its terrorist arm civilly liable yesterday for six terrorist attacks a decade ago that left 33 dead and more than 450 injured. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected the “international community to continue to punish those who support terrorism, just as the U.S. federal court has done, and to back the countries that are fighting terrorism.” “Today as well we remember the families that lost their loved ones; our heart is with them … Continue reading The U.S.-Supported Terrorists of the Palestinian Authority
My article from the Feb. 23, 2015 issue of FrontPage magazine: America is the root cause of violent extremism, Congress’s foremost apologist for Islamic terrorism told a White House conference last week. In rambling remarks Feb. 18 at President Obama’s … Continue reading Rep. Keith Ellison: Apologist for Jihad
My article from the Feb. 20, 2015 issue of FrontPage magazine: Terror Apologist Named to Federal Anti-Terror Post By Matthew Vadum President Obama is appointing an openly terrorist-sympathizing Muslim to head a government office dedicated to countering Islamic State propaganda. In April, Rashad Hussain will take over as director of the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, a small office within the U.S. Department of State that Obama plans to make bigger. A new component called the Information Coordination Cell will be added to the expanded center and will reportedly be staffed by intelligence analysts. It will have a staff of … Continue reading Terror Apologist Named to Federal Anti-Terror Post
My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Sessions: Obama Dismantling the Immigration System By Matthew Vadum Conservative champion Sen. Jeff Sessions is accusing President Obama of “systematically” dismantling the nation’s immigration enforcement system — and he’s got proof. Obama’s attacks on America’s immigration laws are “undermining the very rule of law upon which our nation was founded and upon which its greatness depends,” said the Alabama Republican. Sessions has put together an exhaustive 50-page report in the form of a detailed timeline that catalogs Obama’s specific assaults on the U.S. immigration system since becoming president. Some conservatives say Obama is deliberately flooding the … Continue reading Sessions: Obama Dismantling the Immigration System
My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Obama White House Partners with ISIS-Linked Group By Matthew Vadum A Boston-based hub of terrorism associated with a top Islamic State propagandist and producer of hostage-beheading videos will receive the red carpet treatment at an anti-terrorism conference at the Obama White House this Wednesday. The so-called Summit on Countering Violent Extremism comes as President Obama seeks formal authorization from Congress to wage war against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL). The terrorist-friendly Islamic Society of Boston (ISB), which is a known front for Islamist terrorist groups, operates mosques in and around Boston. Members of the … Continue reading Obama White House Partners with ISIS-Linked Group
My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: The Real Kayla Mueller By Matthew Vadum The presumed Islamic State murder victim Kayla Mueller isn’t quite the saintly martyr that President Obama and the media are trying to make Americans believe. Family and friends told reporters Mueller was “a deeply idealistic young woman eager to help those less fortunate.” A neighbor of hers, a 66-year-old Vietnam veteran, said Mueller “represented everything good about being an American. In the outgoing battle between good and evil, she represented the best of the good. She took great risks to help other people.” Fresh from the golf … Continue reading The Real Kayla Mueller
My article from the Feb. 12, 2015 issue of FrontPage magazine: ISIS Claims Another American By Matthew Vadum Kayla Mueller, the young American activist kidnapped by Islamic State terrorists 18 months ago, is dead, probably after being murdered by her captors. Mueller was abducted by Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS or ISIL) as she left a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Aleppo, Syria and held by IS in its stronghold of Raqqa, Syria. A U.S. mission to liberate Mueller and other American hostages last year failed. After bungling the rescue effort, President Obama now plans to use Mueller’s death to press Congress for … Continue reading ISIS Claims Another American
My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Killing Qaddafi: Hillary’s Secret Role By Matthew Vadum To justify an illegal ouster of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi, Hillary Clinton falsely claimed the Libyan leader was planning genocidal attacks against his domestic enemies, an investigative report in the Washington Times suggests. Documents and audio recordings examined by the newspaper suggest the former U.S. secretary of state had no clear plan for how to deal with the Libyan crisis she created and whether the lawlessness and chaos she spawned in that country led to the deadly Muslim terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012. Clinton … Continue reading Killing Qaddafi: Hillary’s Secret Role
My article from today’s FrontPage magazine: Obama’s Shadow Visa Network By Matthew Vadum President Obama is running a massive illegal operation that has issued 5.5 million work permits never authorized by Congress, according to a disturbing new report from the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies. The report comes as Congress prepares to vote today on legislation that would reverse some of Obama’s executive overreaches that reward illegal aliens with lawful status for breaking the nation’s immigration laws. The report also comes as Republicans grapple with profoundly disturbing comments made by the president’s nominee to replace Attorney General Eric Holder. Loretta Lynch, … Continue reading Obama’s Shadow Visa Network
My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Obama Funding the Anti-Bibi Campaign By Matthew Vadum The Obama administration is using taxpayer dollars to fund a radical anti-Israel group that aims to drive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from office in March parliamentary elections. And the U.S.-based group receiving the U.S. government money, OneVoice International, in turn is working with V15, an “independent grassroots movement” in Israel, according to Ha’aretz. V15’s unofficial motto is said to be “anyone but Bibi,” a reference that includes the prime minister’s nickname. OneVoice has reportedly hired Obama campaign aides such as Jeremy Bird of political consulting powerhouse 270 … Continue reading Obama Funding the Anti-Bibi Campaign
My article from the Jan. 20, 2015 issue of FrontPage magazine: Obama Prepares to Polarize By Matthew Vadum President Obama’s sixth State of the Union address tonight, slated to begin at 9 p.m. EDT, represents Obama’s desperate attempt to convince the American people that he remains relevant. Obama’s speech will be a buffet of misdirection calculated to make the audience forget that Obama is now, at least in theory, a lame duck president facing newly resurgent Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress. What he says shouldn’t count for much, assuming there is a vibrant opposition party in Congress willing … Continue reading Obama Prepares to Polarize
My article from the Jan. 15, 2015 issue of FrontPage magazine: FBI Foils Terror Attack on Congress By Matthew Vadum A Muslim convert trying to join the Islamic State terrorist group was arrested by the FBI in Ohio yesterday for plotting to bomb the United States Capitol and murder government employees. The uncovering of the alleged plan of 20-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell to detonate pipe bombs around the Capitol and shoot people in the complex is especially impressive because the Obama administration has placed politically correct handcuffs that limit federal investigators. Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) praised the FBI, adding that the Cornell … Continue reading FBI Foils Terror Attack on Congress
My article in today’s FrontPage: Hating Whitey’s Brunch By Matthew Vadum Taking a page from the Ku Klux Klan, Black leftists are now trying to bring about social change by terrorizing people as they get together for Sunday brunch. This past weekend, “Black Brunch” organizers and their followers stormed upscale eateries in New York City and Oakland, Calif., reading out the names of black criminals killed by the police and shrieking that whites had no right to be there. They accused whites of committing “genocide.” This is what the Left does. Left-wingers politicize everything. Now they’re getting in the faces … Continue reading Hating Whitey’s Brunch
My article from the Jan. 5, 2015 issue of FrontPage: House Conservatives Revolt By Matthew Vadum Two conservative Republican lawmakers have stepped forward to contest moderate John Boehner’s bid for reelection as Speaker of the new House of Representatives. The news that Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) and conservative champion Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) plan to challenge Boehner (R-Ohio) for the Speaker’s gavel comes after a new survey shows 60 percent of Republican voters would pick a new candidate for Speaker over Boehner. The survey was conducted by The People’s Poll and carried out by Caddell Associates. Rep. Gohmert was a featured speaker at … Continue reading House Conservatives Revolt
My Jan. 2, 2015 article in FrontPage: Josh Williams: ‘Peaceful’ Protester Posterboy & Arsonist By Matthew Vadum A media darling who became the face of so-called peaceful protesters in Ferguson has been arrested for arson, proving once again that nonviolent left-wing protest remains the rarest of unicorns in the age of Obama. The black teenager, Joshua Williams, who marched shoulder-to-shoulder with radical left-wing professor Cornel West, was dubbed a peace activist by his many admirers in the fourth estate. As a National Review Online article described the situation, “Williams has been portrayed in the media as an innocent victim fighting back against authority; he … Continue reading Josh Williams: ‘Peaceful’ Protester Posterboy & Arsonist
My article from the Dec. 25, 2014 issue of FrontPage: Backlash Against de Blasio By Matthew Vadum Cop-bashing New York mayor Bill de Blasio seems genuinely surprised at the ferocious backlash against him in light of the execution-style weekend killing of two local cops. After spending the past year in office attacking police, the mayor is now scrambling to put the pin back into the grenade he threw into the local body politic. His crusade against the police goes back at least to his election campaign last year when he caustically criticized then-mayor Michael Bloomberg’s stop-and-frisk policy. De Blasio is appealing for calm … Continue reading Backlash Against de Blasio
My article from the Dec. 19, 2014 issue of FrontPage: Senators Vow to Halt Obama’s Castro Odyssey By Matthew Vadum Lawmakers opposed to President Obama’s sudden move to cozy up to Communist Cuba are vowing a full-court press to prevent official diplomatic recognition of the tropical prison republic from going forward. But it is far from clear if lawmakers will be able to do much about Obama’s Cuban escapades. Presidents typically enjoy great latitude in foreign policy, especially concerning recognition of foreign governments. Lawmakers are probably on stronger ground in resisting repeal of the trade embargo that has been in … Continue reading Senators Vow to Halt Obama’s Castro Odyssey