Book Review: A Leftist’s Harsh Words for the Unholy Alliance

My book review from the July 12, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: A Leftist’s Harsh Words for the Unholy Alliance By Matthew Vadum It isn’t often that a leftist thought leader calls out her comrades for aligning themselves with the Islamist enemies of the United States but that’s exactly what Meredith Tax does in her new book. In Double Bind: The Muslim Right, the Anglo-American Left, and Universal Human Rights, published recently by the Centre for Secular Space, Tax claims that a fierce struggle is underway worldwide between Islamic fundamentalists and secularists who favor the separation of religion and the state. … Continue reading Book Review: A Leftist’s Harsh Words for the Unholy Alliance

Government-Approved Race Riots?

My article from the July 11, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Government-Approved Race Riots? By Matthew Vadum The Obama administration deployed government-paid community organizers to Sanford, Florida after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin last year in order to foment racial tensions, newly released government documents show. The news came as the Obama administration publicly pretended to be concerned at the prospect of ugly race riots breaking out across America in the increasingly likely event that defendant George Zimmerman will be acquitted in the case. Race riots benefit the Left, and in particular the Democratic Party, by riling up its … Continue reading Government-Approved Race Riots?

Brotherhood Backers Unleash Hell in Egypt

My article from the July 9, 2013 FrontPage Magazine: Brotherhood Backers Unleash Hell in Egypt By Matthew Vadum Egypt now appears to be moving closer to civil war as that nation’s Islamofascists refuse to accept last week’s ouster of President Mohammed Morsi. The theocratic totalitarians of the Muslim Brotherhood are spilling blood in the streets as they target members of the military, police, and their political opposition in an effort to restore Morsi to power. Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie told a rally at Cairo’s Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque that that they “will not leave the streets until President Morsi … Continue reading Brotherhood Backers Unleash Hell in Egypt

Morsi’s Deadline

It’s already been superseded by new developments, but here’s my July 3, 2013 article from FrontPage Magazine: Morsi’s Deadline By Matthew Vadum As civil unrest grows in Egypt, that country’s Islamofascist president is refusing to bow to military pressure to step down, setting the stage for further bloody conflict. In an impassioned televised speech late Tuesday, Mohammed Morsi vowed not to leave office. “I am prepared to sacrifice my blood for the sake of the security and stability of this homeland.” On Monday the armed forces gave the embattled president and that country’s political parties 48 hours to devise a solution to … Continue reading Morsi’s Deadline

Sen. Jeff Sessions’ Heroic Stand Against Amnesty

My article from the June 28, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Sen. Jeff Sessions’ Heroic Stand Against Amnesty By Matthew Vadum The Democrat-dominated U.S. Senate rammed through an immigration overhaul bill yesterday over the heroic objections of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) whose principled opposition to the legislative monstrosity have earned him a national following. In a statement released after the vote, Sessions savaged the so-called comprehensive immigration reform bill. We can create a lawful immigration system that makes us proud. But for that to happen, this bill must never become law. We must return to the drawing board and produce legislation that … Continue reading Sen. Jeff Sessions’ Heroic Stand Against Amnesty

A Victory for Election Integrity

My article in today’s FrontPage Magazine: A Victory for Election Integrity By Matthew Vadum In a landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down part of the Voting Rights Act that gave the race-baiting ballot box stuffers of the Left a distinct advantage in federal elections. The court opinion in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, is essentially an official finding from the highest court in the land that America is not the racist swamp of leftist myth. The court finally recognized that the anti-discrimination provisions of the Voting Rights Act, which gave the federal … Continue reading A Victory for Election Integrity

Matthew Vadum’s work is cited in 52 books (so far)

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 June 24, 2013: * asterisk indicates New York Times bestseller In reverse chronological order (sorted by year): 52) Breakthrough: Our Guerrilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy, by James O’Keefe, Threshold … Continue reading Matthew Vadum’s work is cited in 52 books (so far)

The Rosenberg Traitors: 60 Years Later

My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: The Rosenberg Traitors: 60 Years Later By Matthew Vadum All those who treasure America’s liberties should solemnly observe the 60th anniversary this week of the execution of Communist spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Given that the Soviet Union they spied for is no more, why are the Rosenbergs still important? They continue to matter because they remain part of the Left’s anti-American mythology. The Left denied the treachery of its pseudo-martyrs for decades, arguing that they were condemned to death in a wave of anti-Communist hysteria. This lie permeates American culture even today — … Continue reading The Rosenberg Traitors: 60 Years Later

Amnesty and the Attack on American Workers

My article from the June 19, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Amnesty and the Attack on American Workers By Matthew Vadum The “dangerous” immigration bill working its way through the U.S. Senate will devastate America’s labor marketplace and “guarantee” the country will have to grant “another amnesty” in the future, says Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama). “This legislation is not going to work,” Sessions told Breitbart News. He described the measure sponsored by the bipartisan so-called Gang of Eight in the Senate as a “surrender to illegality that will guarantee we’ll be back in this position again.” “We have no indication whatsoever that … Continue reading Amnesty and the Attack on American Workers

Syria: The Next Libya?

My article from the June 14, 2013 edition of FrontPage Magazine: Syria: The Next Libya? By Matthew Vadum The Obama administration has finally officially acknowledged that the Syrian government has used illegal chemical weapons in its bloody civil war half a year after reports first surfaced, which opens the door to U.S. involvement in the conflict. After months of heel-dragging, the administration admits Syria crossed the much-vaunted “red line” President Obama laid down for U.S. action in that regime’s two year war against opposition forces. Obama said last summer that if Syria used chemical weapons such an action would be a “game-changer” … Continue reading Syria: The Next Libya?

Roger Ailes attacks political correctness, multi-culti nonsense

Money quote from a speech tonight at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., by Fox News CEO Roger Ailes as he accepted a 2013 Bradley (Foundation) Prize: “We have allowed ourselves to be manipulated by others many of whom want to impose their culture and laws under the manufactured utopian idea that all cultures are equal and most are better than America’s. Now of course all people should be proud of their heritage. They should teach their children to be proud of their history and their traditions and they should be welcomed in America but America is a culture, it … Continue reading Roger Ailes attacks political correctness, multi-culti nonsense

Obama’s Disasters in the Middle East

My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: Obama’s Disasters in the Middle East By Matthew Vadum As the Obama administration quietly transferred $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid to the Islamist government of Egypt, Syria is burning and totalitarian Islam continues its march in the Middle East and North Africa. President Obama’s manmade disasters continue to mount. It turns out Secretary of State John Kerry surreptitiously gave Egypt U.S. military aid last month, rewarding that country’s Islamofascist dictatorship for its increasingly vicious assaults on foreign workers, religious minorities, and civil society. Kerry authorized aid to the violent, totalitarian, anti-American regime despite finding in … Continue reading Obama’s Disasters in the Middle East

Spy Games & Double Standards

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

Obama’s Secret Invisible Government

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

The Tea Party v. The Obama IRS

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

Crimson Tide: Two Tea Party Candidates Vie for GOP Nod in Alabama’s 1st C.D.?

My piece from PJ Tatler yesterday: Crimson Tide: Two Tea Party Candidates Vie for GOP Nod in Alabama’s 1st C.D.? By Matthew Vadum Two Tea Party-friendly Republicans may soon vie for a safe GOP House seat in Alabama in a contest that could foreshadow 2014 GOP nomination battles. The vacancy will occur in Alabama’s solidly Republican 1st congressional district in the southwest corner of the state. Since 2003 it has been represented by Rep. Jo Bonner, a moderate Republican. Bonner announced last week he’s leaving Aug. 15 to become the University of Alabama System’s vice chancellor of government relations and economic development. The … Continue reading Crimson Tide: Two Tea Party Candidates Vie for GOP Nod in Alabama’s 1st C.D.?

What Did Nixon Do?

My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: What Did Nixon Do? By Matthew Vadum Although Richard Nixon left office under a cloud for trying to subvert the democratic process for his own political advantage, Barack Obama’s behavior has been far more serious in its corruption and blatant attempts to manipulate the electoral process by unethical and unconstitutional means. Nixon, bad as he may have been, has been oversold as a villain. He serves as a convenient bogeyman for left-wing historians and journalists to spew self-serving narratives in which they paint him as a devil and themselves as victims. It would, therefore, do … Continue reading What Did Nixon Do?

IRS Targeting of Conservatives: Indisputably Political

My article from the May 23, 2013 issue of FrontPage Magazine: IRS Targeting of Conservatives: Indisputably Political By Matthew Vadum To order David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin’s The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America’s Future, click here. Despite propaganda relentlessly churned out by the mainstream media to justify the Obama IRS crackdown on conservative groups, the fact remains that the American Right is severely outgunned by the much better funded Left. And while highly political left-wing organizations far outpace their conservative counterparts in number and assets, they have never been subjected to the kind of … Continue reading IRS Targeting of Conservatives: Indisputably Political

Obama Scandals vs. Watergate

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

A President’s Enemies List?

My article from today’s Front Page Magazine: A President’s Enemies List? By Matthew Vadum President Obama’s use of the Internal Revenue Service to vex and harass his political opposition is yet more proof that he is far more interested in hunting down his domestic adversaries than Islamic terrorists. Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) said revelations the Obama IRS singled out conservative groups for special scrutiny ought to “send a chill” up Americans’ spines. The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee told Fox News that the tax-collection agency’s recently revealed strong-arming of political organizations “is as dangerous a problem the government can … Continue reading A President’s Enemies List?