My article in today’s FrontPage Magazine:  Republican Leaders Fight Back Against IRS Power Grab By Matthew Vadum Republicans are fighting back against proposed new IRS rules that they say would make formal the tax agency’s infamous crackdown on Tea Party groups that oppose the Obama agenda, stripping them of their free speech rights during election cycles. “Every American needs to know about this abuse of power,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) said in a recent speech on the Senate floor. “Let me be clear: What the administration is proposing poses a grave threat to the ability of ordinary Americans … Continue reading Republican Leaders Fight Back Against IRS Power Grab

I was on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” last night discussing national political organizations getting involved in local political fights. For some reason I was labeled a “political insider” on the chyron (see above screen grab), which is definitely not a label I would self-apply. Here is the video clip from yesterday: The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on Facebook My appearance was written up by The Week, Huffington Post, and CNN. This was my second appearance on “The Daily Show.” I was previously on the show on Oct. 30, 2008. Continue reading Matthew Vadum on The Daily Show last night

My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: ObamaCare’s Economic Destruction Exposed By Matthew Vadum A new government study projects that Obamacare will kill 2 million full-time American jobs in 2017, confirming the approaching economic devastation about which the budget-busting program’s critics have warned for years. The study came as Obama administration allies unveiled plans to saturate the airwaves with animal videos in a bid to dupe young women into signing up for the failing government program. As the government report shows, contrary to the promises of President Obama, the Obamacare law will boot people out of their health care plans, encourage … Continue reading ObamaCare’s Economic Destruction Exposed

My article from the Jan. 23, 2014 FrontPage Magazine: Al Qaeda In Jerusalem By Matthew Vadum Israeli security forces have shut down a massive al-Qaeda plot coordinated by terrorist mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri that involved attacking the Jerusalem Convention Center and the American embassy in the diplomatic center of Tel Aviv. This is believed to be the first time that al-Qaeda chief al-Zawahiri has gotten personally involved in engineering strikes within Israel. The foiled plot is a sobering reminder that al-Qaeda has been experiencing a comeback in the Obama era. Weeks before the November 2012 election Obama bragged, “al-Qaeda is on the path … Continue reading Al Qaeda In Jerusalem

My article in today’s FrontPage Magazine: Putin’s Showdown With Terror By Matthew Vadum Russian President Vladimir Putin is augmenting security for the upcoming Winter Olympics in southern Russia in the hope of preventing possible Islamic terrorist attacks at the international sporting event. Putin tried to reassure Russian media that visitors will be safe at the Olympics that will take place from Feb. 6 through Feb. 23 in Sochi in the Caucusus mountains in the region of Krasnodar Krai on the Black Sea, not too far from Russia’s land border with Georgia. Islamists have already threatened to attack the games and … Continue reading Putin’s Showdown With Terror

My article from the Jan. 10, 2014 issue of FrontPage Magazine: The War on Poverty’s Biggest Casualties By Matthew Vadum Fifty years after liberals launched their sacrosanct “War on Poverty,” Americans, and black Americans in particular, aren’t better off. But neo-Marxist ideologue that he is, President Obama is determined to double-down on leftist failure, widening the so-called war by calling for the biggest welfare spending increases in American history— amounting to more than $10 trillion over a decade, according to the Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector. This War on Poverty that Obama wants to escalate came on the heels of the … Continue reading The War on Poverty’s Biggest Casualties

I’ve been keeping a running tab of the books that reference my work and/or quote me. Authors on the right, such as John Fund, Phyllis Schafly, Michael Reagan, David Horowitz, and Michelle Malkin rely on my research and commentary. Authors on the left, such as Arianna Huffington, Thomas Frank, and Center for American Progress visiting fellow Shirley Sagawa, have also given my work a vote of confidence by relying on it. Here is the list as of January 7, 2014: * asterisk indicates New York Times bestseller In reverse chronological order (sorted by year): 58) Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle … Continue reading 58: That’s how many books cite my work

My article from the Dec. 30, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: The New York Times’ Benghazi Revisionism By Matthew Vadum To help put Hillary Clinton in the White House, the once-great New York Times has published a dubious report swallowing the Obama administration’s lies about the Sept. 11, 2012 Islamist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. In an act of journalistic malfeasance, the agenda-setting newspaper of record concluded over the weekend that the once-obscure “Innocence of Muslims” YouTube video sparked the armed assault that left four Americans dead at the height of last year’s presidential election cycle. The newspaper also concluded that … Continue reading The New York Times’ Benghazi Revisionism

My article from the Dec. 27, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: 2014: A Bad Year for the Left? By Matthew Vadum Most political indicators point to a terrible 2014 for American leftism amidst an auspicious resurgence of conservatism throughout the nation. As Americans continue to suffer in the weak Obama-era economy and as their anxiety over President Obama’s hated health care program grows, an electoral tsunami appears to be in the offing. Americans have never bought into President Obama’s contention that income inequality was what he called “the defining challenge of our time.” The AP-Times Square New Year’s Eve Poll … Continue reading 2014: A Bad Year for the Left?