My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: Spy Games & Double Standards By Matthew Vadum As details of President Obama’s massive domestic spying operation continue to dribble out into the public domain, the Left for the most part is quiet and content. Left-wingers are unable even to entertain the idea that Obama, who billed himself on the campaign trail as a champion of civil liberties, is a power-mad authoritarian who views the Constitution as worthless parchment. Obama promised: “no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. … Continue reading Spy Games & Double Standards

My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: Obama’s Secret Invisible Government By Matthew Vadum A media outlet has uncovered what may be a massive conspiracy by the Obama administration to evade public accountability laws — and in at least one case to intimidate the media from asking questions. “There is widespread use throughout the administration of private email accounts to do public business for the obvious reason that it avoids transparency,” Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow and attorney Christopher C. Horner told this writer in an interview yesterday. Horner is also author of The Liberal War on Transparency. Horner spoke in light … Continue reading Obama’s Secret Invisible Government

My FrontPage Magazine article today: The Tea Party v. The Obama IRS By Matthew Vadum The IRS is being sued by 25 Tea Party groups in federal court over the political witch-hunt the agency has been conducting against conservative and libertarian grassroots organizations since the start of the Obama presidency. The action comes three weeks after the Internal Revenue Service apologized to Tea Party groups and similar organizations for what it described as overzealous investigations of their requests for tax-exempt status. The White House denies directing the IRS to crack down on the groups. Apart from Obama shills like Josh … Continue reading The Tea Party v. The Obama IRS

My article today in Front Page Magazine: Obama Scandals vs. Watergate By Matthew Vadum How does President Barack Obama compare to Richard Nixon who was nearly impeached in 1974 for corruption and egregious abuses of power? The short answer? Not well. Obama’s serial acts of malfeasance have cost hundreds of lives while Nixon’s caused no loss of life. Both attacked their political enemies using taxpayer resources and tried to rig the system to favor their side. But Nixon, unlike Obama, didn’t come from what bestselling author Michelle Malkin termed a “culture of corruption.” Nixon lost the 1960 presidential election to … Continue reading Obama Scandals vs. Watergate

My article from the May 10, 2013 issue of Front Page Magazine: What Did Obama Know and When Did He Know It? By Matthew Vadum Congressional testimony this week showed the appalling lengths to which the Obama administration went to cover-up its mishandling of last fall’s terrorist attack at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, but President Obama’s precise role in the cynical operation remains hidden. Americans still don’t know what President Obama knew and when he knew it. We don’t know what exactly he did when he learned on Sept. 11, 2012 that U.S. officials in Benghazi were under … Continue reading What Did Obama Know and When Did He Know It?

I’ll be on the Andrea Tantaros Show talking about my article, Obama’s Benghazi Propagandist, at 10:15 Eastern this morning. Continue reading I’ll be on the Andrea Tantaros Show re Benghazi at 10:15 Eastern this morning

My article from the May 2, 2013 issue of Front Page Magazine: Obama’s Lifeline to the Boston Bomber By Matthew Vadum The Obama administration is reportedly negotiating a plea bargain that would spare the life of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and that could allow the FBI to continue interrogating the suspect about other terrorist plots. NBC News reports that federal prosecutors and Tsarnaev’s lawyers “have begun very early discussions about a possible deal in which he could avoid the death penalty in return for a full accounting to the FBI of what happened and why as investigators continue working to find … Continue reading Obama’s Lifeline to the Boston Bomber

My article from the April 26, 2013 issue of Front Page Magazine: John Kerry: National Security Menace By Matthew Vadum Secretary of State John Kerry’s credibility has taken a major hit with the revelation that his favorite Middle Eastern dictator has been killing his own people with illegal chemical weapons. Kerry’s abominable judgment, coupled with his anti-Americanism, has blinded him for a long time to the threat posed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. For years Kerry functioned as an unofficial lobbyist for Assad in Washington, D.C., making excuses for him and doing his bidding in Congress. So it must … Continue reading John Kerry: National Security Menace

My article from the April 25, 2013 issue of Front Page Magazine: Russia’s Multiple Warnings About Tamerlan Tsarnaev By Matthew Vadum Russian authorities warned the Obama administration repeatedly — not merely once — that Boston Marathon bombing mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev could be an Islamic terrorist, but those admonitions went unheeded in Washington, D.C. It’s a depressingly familiar tale of intelligence failures, official lies, politically correct posturing, and bureaucratic bungles coming from an administration that has little interest in protecting Americans from the Islamic terrorist threat, a danger President Obama refuses even to acknowledge. Time magazine previously reported that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) … Continue reading Russia’s Multiple Warnings About Tamerlan Tsarnaev

My article from the April 23, 2013 issue of Front Page Magazine: Saudi Connection to Boston Bombing? By Matthew Vadum Questions remain about whether there is a Saudi connection to the Boston Marathon bombing last week and if the Obama administration has been interfering in the investigation of the Islamic terrorist attack. These questions take on greater urgency as Islamic terrorist organizations continue preparing attacks. Canadian authorities yesterday upended an ambitious terrorist plot that could have killed hundreds of Americans and Canadians. In the spotlight is Saudi visa student Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi (also spelled al-Harbi) who was injured in the marathon … Continue reading Saudi Connection to Boston Bombing?

My article from the April 19, 2013 issue of Front Page Magazine: Manhunt By Matthew Vadum Dramatic events are unfolding in Boston. As of 8am EDT, an MIT police officer has been killed by the suspects on Cambridge campus. One Boston Marathon bombing suspect is dead and another is on the run. Reports indicate that the bombers, who turn out to be brothers, are from Chechnya. We will keep you posted as the breaking news comes in. One Boston Marathon bombing suspect is dead, while the other one is on the run. The search for these terrorists was significantly helped by bombing victim Jeff Bauman, … Continue reading Manhunt

My article from the April 17, 2013 issue of Front Page Magazine: Boston Blame Game By Matthew Vadum As speculation continues to rage over who bombed the Boston Marathon, the Left has been doing its best to paint its enemies in the Tea Party as the likely perpetrators without any evidence whatsoever. Some left-wing commentators hedged in their statements, acknowledging that nobody knows for sure who was behind the attack, the first bombing of a U.S. target since 9/11, but those pundits tended to receive little media attention. Obama senior advisor David Axelrod refused to let this crisis go to … Continue reading Boston Blame Game

From the April 11, 2013 issue of Front Page Magazine: Selling Out on Guns By Matthew Vadum Two senators have brokered a Faustian bargain on gun purchaser background checks that they hope will allow the Democrats’ anti-gun legislation to pass the Senate. Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Pat Toomey (R-PA), both of whom have “A” ratings with the National Rifle Association, have assigned the creepy Orwellian name, the “Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act,” to their legislation. The measure, which the sponsors plan to offer as an amendment today to the main anti-gun bill pending in the Senate … Continue reading Selling Out on Guns

From the April 4, 2013 issue of Front Page Magazine: To Hire A Murderer By Matthew Vadum Convicted cop killer and Weather Underground terrorist Kathy Boudin is now teaching as an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s notorious School of Social Work, the New York Post revealed. Amazingly, the communist revolutionary had been lecturing at the school for several years unnoticed by the media until now. She serves as director of the school’s “Criminal Justice Initiative.” There’s no question Boudin has expertise in criminality — after years as a fugitive, she served 22 years in prison for her role in an assault on … Continue reading To Hire A Murderer

My Front Page Magazine article from March 29, 2013: From Their Cold Dead Hands By Matthew Vadum Emboldened by the public’s waning enthusiasm for tougher gun control measures, five Republican senators are now vowing to filibuster any of President Obama’s gun-control measures to block their enactment. The sweet smell of statist defeat is in the air. Tired of being harangued by an authoritarian president, polls suggest Americans have largely returned to their senses after a fleeting flirtation with gun control proposals. It’s quite a turnaround from the dark days of December when a madman gunned down innocent schoolchildren in New … Continue reading From Their Cold Dead Hands