Leftist Mob Mobilizes Against the GOP

Here is my article in today’s Front Page Magazine: Leftist Mob Mobilizes Against the GOP By Matthew Vadum In American politics, only the Left mobilizes the mob against its opponents. That’s why history textbooks don’t contain references to marauding bands of Reagan supporters roughing up Mondale backers. But leftist groups and groups aligned with the Democratic Party have long viewed Republicans as fair game. The Obama-backed “Occupy” movement has been working nonstop in New Hampshire bullying, intimidating, harassing, and provoking the Republican Party’s presidential candidates. It is the kind of unseemly, Latin American-style political activism that threatens to become a … Continue reading Leftist Mob Mobilizes Against the GOP

A Terrorist Returns

An article of mine from the Dec. 27, 2011, issue of Front Page Magazine: A Terrorist Returns By Matthew Vadum Convicted terrorist collaborator Lori Berenson is fortunate that in the United States citizenship is not a license that expires upon bad behavior. Berenson is back in America for the holidays, nearly two decades after the trust fund baby left to advance communism in Latin America. A Peruvian court convicted her in 1996 of aiding a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group that even now aspires to overthrow Peru’s government by force, but the 42-year-old New Yorker is free on parole. She was granted permission to … Continue reading A Terrorist Returns

Florida city fights homelessness by giving street people one-way bus tickets out of town

Finally a wise government investment. The City of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, is fighting homelessness locally by giving homeless people one-way bus tickets to those who have relatives outside the area willing to take them in, according to CBS Miami. The $25,000 program is being funded by the Florida Law Enforcement Trust Fund, which is made up of money confiscated from criminals. Continue reading Florida city fights homelessness by giving street people one-way bus tickets out of town

More Democrats convicted of voter fraud

Voter fraud, the crime the Left says doesn’t exist, keeps rearing its ugly head. Four Democrats associated with ACORN’s political party, New York’s Working Families Party, have entered guilty pleas in connection with an illegal scheme in Troy, N.Y. As Eric Shawn of Fox News reports, signatures were forged on absentee ballots in the Working Families Party primary in 2009. The four men to have pleaded guilty are former Troy Democratic City Clerk William McInerney, Democratic Councilman John Brown, and Democratic Party operatives Anthony Renna and Anthony DeFiglio. Voter fraud is both commonplace and standard operating procedure for the Left, as … Continue reading More Democrats convicted of voter fraud

Politico’s Bungling Ben moving to BuzzFeed

ACORN-loving Ben Smith, the bungling reporter at Politico who claimed to be knowledgeable about New York politics but who knew little about former SEIU 1199 mastermind Patrick Gaspard until I told him about him, is heading off to BuzzFeed. Smith did everything he could to ignore the ACORN scandals while at the Politico. Perhaps he’ll do the same at BuzzFeed. Continue reading Politico’s Bungling Ben moving to BuzzFeed

ACORN Visits Obama White House

Leaders of the resurrected radical group ACORN are lobbying the Obama administration in what appears to be a concerted effort to game the electoral system to help Democrats, new evidence suggests. As I write in today’s American Spectator, at least five Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now leaders have visited the White House this year alone. One of those ACORN officials, Estelle Rogers of Project Vote (shown in photo above), has been involved in vetting Department of Justice hires who may help to enforce the voter fraud-enabling National Voting Rights Act (NVRA), also known as the Motor-Voter law. The Department has … Continue reading ACORN Visits Obama White House

Union Gangsters: Ron Bloom

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Union Gangsters: Ron Bloom By Matthew Vadum Sometimes union thugs wear pinstriped business suits. Investment banker Ron Bloom is one of those thugs. He decided in the 1970s to devote his life to helping labor unions stick it to America’s corporations. As an organizer, negotiator, and researcher for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Booth observed that many union negotiators didn’t have the skills they needed to bargain effectively with management. “Unions were being backed into corners by companies and couldn’t understand on a sophisticated level, the company’s arguments … Labor needed to be armed … Continue reading Union Gangsters: Ron Bloom

Richard Cordray’s ‘Heroes’ Occupy Banks and Private Homes

John Berlau has an excellent article in today’s American Spectator. He writes that Richard Cordray, President Obama’s nominee for director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is a longtime supporter of violent community organizers: Cordray has long supported ESOP, formerly known as the East Side Organizing Project, an Ohio housing advocacy group that has distinguished itself by storming into banks and launching plastic “shark attacks” on the lawns of private homes. ESOP’s leaders brag about what they call their “organized hits” on banks and other targets, which have included the home of the late Congressman and Housing and Urban Development … Continue reading Richard Cordray’s ‘Heroes’ Occupy Banks and Private Homes

Well, duh! Of Course New York Agency for Community Affairs is a front group for ACORN.

President Obama’s Department of Justice finally noticed that the New York Agency for Community Affairs is a front group for ACORN. In a new report the dawdling gumshoes of DOJ explain that All of the individuals who worked on behalf of NYACA were ACORN employees. Further, the former NYACA Executive Director stated that she served concurrently as the Executive Director for both NYACA and the New York branch of ACORN. NYACA entered into a contractual agreement with ACORN for contract employees and all NYACA grant funds were transferred to ACORN for contractual payroll and fringe benefit charges paid to ACORN employees. This is … Continue reading Well, duh! Of Course New York Agency for Community Affairs is a front group for ACORN.

Emboldening Big Labor

Here is my article from today’s Front Page Magazine: Emboldening Big Labor By Matthew Vadum Big Labor scored a significant victory Wednesday when the National Labor Relations Board gave preliminary approval to a rule that severely limits the ability of employers to fight unionization drives. On a vote of 2-to-1, the NLRB, a socialist anachronism left over from the New Deal, agreed to move forward with the “microwave” rule, which would allow workers to create unions more quickly and provide employers less time to fight such moves in courts or otherwise. The rule zaps the rights of employers by slashing … Continue reading Emboldening Big Labor

Frank’s Departure Unleashes Radical Waters

I had an article in yesterday’s Front Page Magazine: Frank’s Departure Unleashes Radical Waters By Matthew Vadum Few politicians combine ignorance, obstinate self-righteousness, racial demagoguery, and extremism quite as perfectly as the congresswoman from South Central now poised to become a major force shaping federal banking policy. Rep. Maxine Waters, a longtime cheerleader for Fidel Castro, was only too happy to use the 1992 Los Angeles riots as a political advertisement. She viewed the 53 deaths, thousands of injuries, and $1 billion in property damage as a shining example of participatory democracy. The word riot never escaped her lips. She called the … Continue reading Frank’s Departure Unleashes Radical Waters

Obama uses taxpayer cash to back ACORN: Name changes used to dodge the law

I had an op-ed in yesterday’s Washington Times. It begins: The Obama administration has showered its allies at ACORN Housing with $729,849 so far this year despite powerful, newly unveiled evidence of corruption and massive accounting irregularities at the longtime affiliate of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Watchdog group Cause of Action recently pressured NeighborWorks America, a taxpayer-funded federal nonprofit that funneled more than $26.5 million in federal foreclosure-avoidance money to ACORN Housing, to disclose an internal audit furnished to then-Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, late last year. The audit, provided to Cause of … Continue reading Obama uses taxpayer cash to back ACORN: Name changes used to dodge the law

Union Gangsters: Heather Booth

From yesterday’s Front Page Magazine: Union Gangsters: Heather Booth By Matthew Vadum When today’s labor leaders want to hone their gangster skills they call 1960s radical Heather Booth, a mentor to generations of the activist Left. A disciple of Saul Alinsky, the socialist-feminist Booth co-founded the Chicago-based Midwest Academy, a training institute for community organizers. “Alinsky is to community organizing as Freud is to psychoanalysis,” she says. The Midwest Academy is funded in part by radical left-wing philanthropies such as George Soros’s Open Society Institute, Tides Foundation, and the Woods Fund of Chicago. (Barack Obama and Bill Ayers served together … Continue reading Union Gangsters: Heather Booth

Occupiers to Terrorize Bargain Shoppers

From Friday’s Front Page Magazine: Occupiers to Terrorize Bargain Shoppers  By Matthew Vadum The nihilistic Occupy Wall Street movement is poised to blunder into what may be its greatest tactical mistake to date. The thugs of the Occupy movement, which serves as a natural magnet for criminals, malingerers, and drifters, are planning to disrupt shopping on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the biggest retail sales day of the year. Black Friday falls on the same day as Buy Nothing Day, which has long been promoted by the anti-capitalist magazine Adbusters. “The idea is simple, hit the corporations that corrupt … Continue reading Occupiers to Terrorize Bargain Shoppers

Error in Daily Caller article

(Note: The Daily Caller corrected the article the same day. -MV) A new profile of ACORN founder Wade Rathke in the Daily Caller inaccurately describes a key passage in my book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (published by WND Books). Here’s the offending paragraph from the Daily Caller: His book opens with the provocative question, “How many dead Republicans does it take to satisfy the bloodlust of ACORN founder Wade Rathke?” referring to his contention that ACORN leaders planned “to kill delegates and police” at the 2008 Republican national Convention in … Continue reading Error in Daily Caller article

Vadum on Fox Business at 10 p.m. Eastern tonight

I’ll be on Fox Business tonight (“Follow the Money” with host Eric Bolling) at 10 o’clock Eastern time. The topic?  Agenda 21, a kooky idea that liberals and environmentalists are enamored of.  To boil it down, it’s about so-called smart growth, i.e. pressuring people to live in cities in order to supposedly help the environment, fight global warming, yada yada yada. * * * * * Americans need to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical … Continue reading Vadum on Fox Business at 10 p.m. Eastern tonight

Ex-Dem Congressman: Voter Fraud Is Commonplace, Voter ID Is The Cure

A new article of mine from Big Government: Ex-Dem Congressman: Voter Fraud Is Commonplace, Voter ID Is The Cure By Matthew Vadum Voter fraud is not a figment of your imagination, says former Congressman Artur Davis (D-Alabama). The use of absentee ballots makes massive electoral fraud possible, Davis told the Daily Caller’s Neil Munro in a startling interview.  Davis’s comments came months after a Tunica County, Miss., jury convicted local NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots.  Sowers received a five-year prison term. “Most voter fraud doesn’t happen on Election Day,” Davis said.  “Very few … Continue reading Ex-Dem Congressman: Voter Fraud Is Commonplace, Voter ID Is The Cure

Vadum’s work now cited in 32 books — and counting!

I’ve been keeping a running tab of the books that reference my work and/or quote me. Note that authors on the left, such as Arianna Huffington and Center for American Progress visiting fellow Shirley Sagawa, have given my work a vote of confidence by relying on it. And this is just a list of books that reference my work. 🙂 Here is the list as of November 19, 2011: * asterisk indicates New York Times bestseller In reverse chronological order: 32) Masters of Audacity and Deceit, by William E. Been, Tate Publishing, 2011, 343n522, 343n524-6, 344n527, 345n544, 353n672 31) Democracy Denied: How Obama is Ignoring You and Bypassing Congress to … Continue reading Vadum’s work now cited in 32 books — and counting!

Union-Backed Occupiers on the March

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Union-Backed Occupiers on the March By Matthew Vadum The sudden eviction of Occupy Wall Street squatters from lower Manhattan hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm of organized labor for their increasingly violent anarchist and neo-communist brethren. The occupiers now say they plan to shut down Wall Street on Nov. 17 and occupy the New York subway. One Occupy Wall Street supporter was captured on video saying radicals plan to “burn New York City to the ground.” The movement that has spread across America is what ACORN’s neo-communist founder Wade Rathke, a former SEIU boss, calls an “anti-banking … Continue reading Union-Backed Occupiers on the March

Houston Chronicle sends no one to my speech, attacks me anyway

I spoke about my book Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, at two events sponsored by King Street Patriots in Houston, Texas, yesterday. The local paper, the Houston Chronicle, sent no one to cover either event. Yet lazy Chronicle writer Geoff Berg trashed me anyway. Apparently, having a clue what you’re writing about isn’t too important to the Chronicle. It’s always instructive to watch the dinosaur media at work. Continue reading Houston Chronicle sends no one to my speech, attacks me anyway