My article from the Dec. 6, 2012 issue of FrontPage Magazine: Pushing Obama Over the Fiscal Cliff By Matthew Vadum As a potentially toxic combination of steep tax hikes and deep spending cuts draws nearer Republicans are consistently being outmaneuvered by President Obama. Disillusioned Democratic pollster Patrick Caddell counsels that this wonkish back-and-forth over the finer points of marginal tax rates is not the hill that Republicans should die on. The GOP doesn’t even grasp the underlying political dynamics now in play, he says. In a nutshell, Republicans need to understand that the real struggle is not with the Obama administration; instead, the real … Continue reading Pushing Obama Over the Fiscal Cliff

A LIST OF ACORN’s “OLD” GROUPS  (updated November 25, 2012) This list is a work in progress. It is compiled and regularly updated by Matthew Vadum at matthewvadum.com. Some of the below information was included in Vadum’s book Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers. These groups already existed before ACORN filed for bankruptcy in New York on Election Day 2010: ACORN Housing Corp. changed its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America Inc. (website) EIN: 72-1048321; pension plan info.; Tax returns: 2010 Form 990 2009 Form 990 2008 Form 990 2007 Form 990 2006 Form 990 2005 Form 990 2004 Form 990 2003 Form 990 2002 Form 990 2001 … Continue reading A LIST OF ACORN’s “OLD” GROUPS

My article from today’s Front Page Magazine: The Fiscal Cliff Draws Near By Matthew Vadum Emboldened by his class warfare-fueled reelection victory, President Obama is demanding $1.6 trillion in tax hikes as congressional leaders scramble to prevent the country from falling over the so-called fiscal cliff. In this high-stakes game of poker, Obama is holding fast to his original budget blueprint, which includes $1.6 trillion in new revenue generated by raising taxes on households earning more than $250,000. Obama’s progressive preening comes as the outgoing 112th Congress meets in a lame duck session to deal with unfinished business. At the top … Continue reading The Fiscal Cliff Draws Near

My piece on Big Government today: Boehner Mocks Tea Party Caucus By Matthew Vadum House Speaker John Boehner dismissed the Tea Party as irrelevant in an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer yesterday, while at the same time sending out contradictory messages on taxes. Two days after the presidential ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan were defeated in the election, Boehner stated incorrectly that there is no “Tea Party caucus to speak of in the House.” He then appeared to say Republicans now take the movement for granted, adding, “all of us who were elected in 2010 were supported by … Continue reading Boehner Mocks Tea Party Caucus

My article from today’s Front Page Magazine: What to Expect in the Next Four Years By Matthew Vadum Americans have narrowly voted to reelect a president who will continue policies that will — not may — eventually lead to the downfall of the American republic. The Tuesday election was a crushing defeat for the Tea Party-energized conservative movement but as a wise person once said, all defeats in politics are temporary. It is unfathomable to many Americans that a man they see as a wrongheaded, arrogant, corrupt Chief Executive could be reelected in a harsh economic climate, but as we saw … Continue reading What to Expect in the Next Four Years

My American Thinker blog post from November 6, 2012: Voter Fraud in Nevada By Matthew Vadum Remember this classic line from Michael Corleone in The Godfather? “Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract.” This is essentially what labor unions are doing in Nevada to help re-elect President Obama. Culinary Workers Union Local 226 appears to be committing voter registration fraud by hoodwinking noncitizen immigrants into registering to vote and then threatening them if they fail to cast their ill-gotten ballots illegally. People who have … Continue reading Voter Fraud in Nevada

My pre-election musings on what a Romney presidency might look like are quite useless now but maybe they’re worth a chuckle or two. Laughs help to ease the pain a little. Along the same lines, somebody grabbed screen shots of the provisional Romney transition website that was set up before it disappeared into the ether. Anyway, here is my November 6, 2012, article from Front Page Magazine: What a Romney Presidency Would Look Like By Matthew Vadum If Mitt Romney is elected 45th president, he will be spending a lot of time cleaning up the mess that President Obama leaves … Continue reading What a Romney Presidency Would Look Like

From today’s issue of Front Page Magazine: Obama’s Army of Illegal Election Workers By Matthew Vadum Democrats have enlisted thousands of young illegal immigrants to drag their supporters to the polls on Election Day tomorrow. These get-out-the-vote workers may or may not be breaking the law by helping with voter mobilization. Because the workers are already unlawfully present in the United States, presumably all employment they engage in –including electioneering— already violates laws against unauthorized employment. It’s not like their patron, President Obama, would do anything about it anyway. This past summer Obama swept aside federal law in order to pander to … Continue reading Obama’s Army of Illegal Election Workers

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 November 4, 2012: * asterisk indicates New York Times bestseller In reverse chronological order (sorted by year): 49) The Maclean’s Book of Lists, Rogers Publishing, 2012, page citation unknown. 48) Judge Me By … Continue reading Matthew Vadum’s work is cited in 49 books (so far)