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ObamaCare for Illegals

Matthew Vadum

My article from today’s FrontPage magazine: ObamaCare for Illegals By Matthew Vadum The Obama administration and a group run by senior Obama White House veterans are encouraging illegal aliens to enroll in Obamacare at Mexico’s consulates across the United States. Apparently it’s not enough for President Obama to redistribute the wealth of Americans to other Americans. Now he wants to redistribute the wealth of Americans to the Third World. American taxpayers will undoubtedly foot the bill for these illegal immigrants who enroll in Obamacare. This enrollment free-for-all appears to be but one prong of President Obama’s program to undermine America’s … Continue reading ObamaCare for Illegals

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Obama’s Illegal Immigration Free-For-All

Matthew Vadum

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Obama’s Illegal Immigration Free-For-All By Matthew Vadum The Obama administration is barely enforcing immigration laws against illegal immigrants now and intends to do even less in the future, according to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama). “The evidence reveals that the Administration has carried out a dramatic nullification of federal law,” Sessions told Breitbart News. “Under the guise of setting ‘priorities,’ the Administration has determined that almost anyone in the world who can enter the United States is free to illegally live, work and claim benefits here as long as they are not caught committing a felony or … Continue reading Obama’s Illegal Immigration Free-For-All

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Celebrating Voter Fraud

Matthew Vadum

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Celebrating Voter Fraud By Matthew Vadum Cincinnati-area Democrats made headlines last week when they embraced one of their own, serial vote fraud offender Melowese Richardson, after getting her released early from prison. At a “voting rights” rally, National Action Network (NAN) president Al Sharpton and Bobby Hilton, president of NAN’s Cincinnati chapter, celebrated criminal overachiever Richardson who was sentenced to five years behind bars last July for multiple counts of fraudulently casting ballots.  Richardson had bragged that she voted twice in the 2012 presidential election. She also voted illegally in three elections by using the names … Continue reading Celebrating Voter Fraud

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Foment Hysteria With This One Weird Trick

Matthew Vadum

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Foment Hysteria With This One Weird Trick By Matthew Vadum Why do so many right-of-center websites run ads for shady-sounding consumer products and services that portend gloom and doom? When surfing the Internet conservatives can’t avoid sales pitches for miracle cures, magic elixirs, life problem fixers, floating in a sea of Buzzfeed-style listicles and other junk food for the mind. The intellect-bypassing memes are everywhere. Every day we’re told how “this one weird trick” can solve our problems. Many on the Right are enabling this kookiness, joining in with those on the Left for … Continue reading Foment Hysteria With This One Weird Trick

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Florida Loss Spells Doom for Democrats

Matthew Vadum

My article in the March 14, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Florida Loss Spells Doom for Democrats By Matthew Vadum The defeat of an Obamacare-loving Democrat in a closely watched special election in the Tampa area ought to give comfort to Republicans aiming to control both houses of Congress after the upcoming elections in November. On Tuesday, Republican David W. Jolly had mainstream journalists across the nation popping Prozac as he polled 48.52 percent in the special election in Florida’s 13th congressional district, triumphing over Democrat Alex Sink who garnered 46.64 percent and over Libertarian Lucas Overby who received 4.84 … Continue reading Florida Loss Spells Doom for Democrats

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De-Imagining America

Matthew Vadum

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: De-Imagining America By Matthew Vadum A little-known consortium of radical groups, public-funded universities and the federal government is quietly seeking to transform the arts and other academic disciplines into vehicles of left-wing extremism and indoctrination. The initiative, called “Imagining America,” embraces the philosophy of Communist historian Howard Zinn, famous for manipulating historical fact to fit Marxist paradigms of human “progress” and to plant the seeds of radicalism in unsuspecting youth. Imagining America is headquartered at taxpayer-funded Syracuse University in upstate New York and was virtually unknown until Glenn Beck threw some light on it in a … Continue reading De-Imagining America

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Lois Lerner’s Lies and Cover-Up Revealed

Matthew Vadum

My article from today’s FrontPage magazine: Lois Lerner’s Lies and Cover-Up Revealed By Matthew Vadum Former IRS mandarin Lois Lerner orchestrated an unprecedented crackdown on Tea Party and conservative groups and then attempted to scapegoat those nonprofits, blaming them for the harsh treatment they received at her instigation, according to a damning report released yesterday by congressional investigators. The report came out six days after Lerner appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee under subpoena and for a second time refused to testify about IRS targeting of right-of-center 501c4 nonprofit advocacy groups during the 2010 and 2012 election … Continue reading Lois Lerner’s Lies and Cover-Up Revealed

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Association of Counties Pushes Obamacare for Prisoners

Matthew Vadum

My inaugural news article for Newsmax ran March 5, 2014. Here it is: Association of Counties Pushes Obamacare for Prisoners By Matthew Vadum At least six states and several local governments are signing up prison inmates on Obamacare exchanges after the National Association of Counties (NACo) began encouraging counties to shift some prisoner healthcare expenses onto federal taxpayers. Convicted prisoners under sentence may not be covered under the Obamacare law, but inmates awaiting trial can be signed up on the healthcare exchanges under a provision in the Affordable Care Act that expanded eligibility for Medicaid on Jan. 1.  Giving prisoners … Continue reading Association of Counties Pushes Obamacare for Prisoners

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Will Lois Lerner Be Held in Contempt?

Matthew Vadum

My article in the March 7, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Will Lois Lerner Be Held in Contempt? By Matthew Vadum As the Obama administration’s coverup of former IRS official Lois Lerner’s wrongdoings moves into high gear, Democrats are doing everything they can to direct public attention away from the scandal and tamp down growing calls for the president’s impeachment. Lerner may soon be compelled to testify or be cited for contempt of Congress. After a hearing concluded Wednesday at which Lerner refused to answer questions, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) indicated that Republicans are growing tired of … Continue reading Will Lois Lerner Be Held in Contempt?

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Glenn Greenwald: Raving Leftist

Matthew Vadum

My article from the March 6, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Photo: courtesy of USASurvival.org Glenn Greenwald: Raving Leftist By Matthew Vadum Adding to a long tradition of misleading the public with dubious information, Princeton history professor Sean Wilentz recently unleashed a scathing attack on Edward Snowden promoter Glenn Greenwald in a 7,600-word essay published by The New Republic. Although Wilentz never comes out and says it directly, the reader is left with the distinct impression that he believes neo-communist Greenwald shouldn’t be considered a member-in-good-standing of the Left. In fact, Wilentz seems to insinuate that Greenwald is an extreme right-winger at heart, … Continue reading Glenn Greenwald: Raving Leftist

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Medea Benjamin Booted Out of Egypt

Matthew Vadum

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine about anti-American trust fund commie Medea Benjamin: Medea Benjamin Booted Out of Egypt By Matthew Vadum Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, a frequent teller of tall tales, claims she was detained and physically abused Monday by Egyptian authorities when she flew into Cairo’s airport –on her way to an anti-Israel rally in Gaza. Benjamin, who has close ties to the Obama White House, was traveling to Egypt for a meeting with international delegates before a scheduled trip to Gaza for what Amy Goodman of “Democracy Now” described innocuously as a “women’s conference.” Hours later after being … Continue reading Medea Benjamin Booted Out of Egypt

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If the Left knew Christians were coming they’d’ve baked a cake

Matthew Vadum

My article in yesterday’s American Thinker: If the Left knew Christians were coming they’d’ve baked a cake By Matthew Vadum The religious freedom legislation that gelatin-spined Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed wasn’t controversial until the Left started lying about it. The state-level civil rights bill that Brewer mothballed Feb. 26 was killed by a media-led propaganda campaign that falsely characterized it as “anti-gay.”  To no one’s surprise, both of the GOP’s last two RINO losers, Mitt Romney and John McCain, urged a veto. As Ed Whelan blogs at National Review, There has been a blizzard of hysterical misinformation about Arizona’s SB 1062.  … Continue reading If the Left knew Christians were coming they’d’ve baked a cake

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Obama’s Minimum Wage Ruse

Matthew Vadum

My article in today’s American Thinker: Obama’s Minimum Wage Ruse By Matthew Vadum President Obama’s newfound enthusiasm for the minimum wage is the political equivalent of a ruse of war. With an eye on the approaching midterm elections, the Demagogue-in-Chief hopes to lure his Republican enemies into a discussion on his ideological home turf so he can pound away at them mercilessly and distract from his own political problems. As his approval rating slides, Obama has heartily embraced the red herring as the cornerstone of his public relations strategy.  Bearing his by now familiar deer-in-the-headlights look, he officially knows next … Continue reading Obama’s Minimum Wage Ruse

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Obama’s News Police

Matthew Vadum

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Obama’s News Police By Matthew Vadum The Obama administration is planning to send what critics characterize as government spies into the newsrooms of the nation’s media outlets. This unprecedented assault on Americans’ First Amendment freedoms is part of the Community Organizer-in-Chief’s political war against the few pockets of media resistance he has encountered at Fox News and in the world of talk radio. Sending federal bureaucrats to meddle in newsroom affairs by conducting an alleged “study” will chill news coverage and make government-licensed broadcast media think twice about airing stories that place the Obama … Continue reading Obama’s News Police

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You Subsidize Leftist Anarchy

Matthew Vadum

My column in today’s American Thinker: You Subsidize Leftist Anarchy By Matthew Vadum You have been subsidizing the efforts of radical left-wing community organizers for years, and you probably didn’t even know it. Fifty years ago as Barack Hussein Obama inhaled the values of his communist parents, grandparents, and mentors, their comrades were drafting plans to destroy American civil society. Armed with your parents’ and grandparents’ tax dollars, America-hating extremists Richard Cloward, Frances Fox Piven, and Saul Alinsky were hard at work in the 1960s laying the foundation to wreak havoc on America and its people in an effort to force … Continue reading You Subsidize Leftist Anarchy

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Ukraine Bleeding

Matthew Vadum

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Ukraine Bleeding By Matthew Vadum Parts of the Ukrainian capital were on fire last night as protesters battled security forces of that nation’s repressive government — months after it announced Ukraine would align itself with Russia instead of the European Union. After a late-night pow-wow with opposition figures Vitaly Klitschko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych blamed the violent episodes on opposition leaders, but added that it was still “not too late to stop the conflict.” Activists took over City Hall in Kiev yesterday and anti-riot police moved into Independence Square. BBC reports that at … Continue reading Ukraine Bleeding

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MSNBC’s “The conservative case to limit voting”

Matthew Vadum

I have no beef with MSNBC.com reporter Zachary Roth. He quotes me accurately in today’s piece, “The conservative case to limit voting.” But the assumptions underlying the article are in my view wrong. Roth writes: Progressives think of voting as a right. It’s the way a society of equals makes decisions. That’s why progressives generally see bringing new voters into the process as a good thing in itself. The more people involved, the more democratic the process, and the more legitimate the outcome. Well, I’m not sure that conservatives have a uniform position on voting and elections but I think it’s … Continue reading MSNBC’s “The conservative case to limit voting”

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Showdown in Caracas

Matthew Vadum

My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Showdown in Caracas By Matthew Vadum In a move that almost guarantees violent clashes, Venezuela’s increasingly nervous Marxist caudillo is calling for his supporters to take to the streets Tuesday to combat a large planned march by that oil-rich nation’s opposition. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is asking his allies, including state employees, to demonstrate in force against Leopoldo Lopez, leader of the opposition party, Popular Will (Voluntad Popular). Lopez, who has been accused by Maduro of inciting violence, asked Venezuelans to dress in white and march alongside him, daring authorities to arrest him. Opposition Governor Henrique … Continue reading Showdown in Caracas