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Obama Gives $446 Million to ACORN Veteran

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My article from today’s Front Page Magazine: Obama Gives $446 Million to ACORN Veteran By Matthew Vadum A former senior ACORN official has been put in charge of close to half a billion taxpayer dollars in Illinois, one of the most corrupt states in the Union and the home state of America’s Community Organizer-in-Chief. What could possibly go wrong? In 2010 the Obama administration designated $7.6 billion for a foreclosure relief program. Of that total $445.6 million will be administered by ACORN alumnus Joe McGavin, now a director at the Illinois Housing Development Authority. As Judicial Watch discovered, McGavin was … Continue reading Obama Gives $446 Million to ACORN Veteran

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Left-Wing Terrorist Brett Kimberlin Gets Conservative Blogger Jailed

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Here’s my piece from yesterday’s Front Page Magazine. Left-Wing Terrorist Brett Kimberlin Gets Conservative Blogger Jailed By Matthew Vadum Something is rotten in the State of Maryland. Convicted terrorist bomber and perjurer Brett Kimberlin is free while one of his many harassment victims remains under a judicial gag order for the crime of writing about Kimberlin’s violent criminal history. It’s a bizarre situation, as I reported on “The Source” TV show with Ezra Levant. Kimberlin and his cadre of cyber-stalkers try to bully conservative bloggers into silence. They post personal information and home addresses of their targets to send the … Continue reading Left-Wing Terrorist Brett Kimberlin Gets Conservative Blogger Jailed

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The Anti-Democratic Party

Matthew Vadum

Here is my Front Page Magazine article from yesterday: The Anti-Democratic Party By Matthew Vadum America’s Democratic Party lost its enthusiasm for democracy a long time ago. Today’s gubernatorial recall vote in Wisconsin a short time after the most recent general election is just another reminder of how far the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson has strayed from its honorable roots. Founded as a reaction against the elitist ways of the we-know-what’s-best-for-you Federalists of the early Republic, the modern Democratic Party can’t stop telling Americans what to do. Democrats are acutely mindful of Joseph Stalin’s aphorism that “The … Continue reading The Anti-Democratic Party

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Obama Celebrates Socialist Dolores Huerta

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From the May 31 edition of Front Page Magazine: Obama Celebrates Socialist Dolores Huerta By Matthew Vadum When you’re a champion of so-called social justice, there is no end to the accolades you’re likely to receive regardless of your faults. Falsely described by those on the Left as a compassionate humanitarian, radical labor leader Dolores Huerta has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama. Huerta “has fought to give more people a seat at the table,” Obama said euphemistically. The award is not all that surprising for an administration that kisses the ring of Al Sharpton. In an … Continue reading Obama Celebrates Socialist Dolores Huerta

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Sloppy HuffPo writer Clarence B. Jones smears me

Matthew Vadum

Clarence B. Jones, allegedly a Scholar in Residence at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, really should be more careful when writing. This individual wrote at the Huffington Post on May 28: The conservative columnist Mathew [sic] Vadum put all of the above in political election perspective for 2012. He writes, registering minorities [sic] “to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals.” Oh yeah? Where did I write that? I never wrote such a thing. In the article Jones links to about taxpayer-supported registration of welfare recipients I used the quoted phrase in … Continue reading Sloppy HuffPo writer Clarence B. Jones smears me

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Brett Kimberlin and the Threshold Foundation’s radical ties

Matthew Vadum

(This blog item was originally posted at the Capital Research Center blog on  May 30, 2012.) What do self-described “communist” Van Jones, his good friend Arianna Huffington, radical philanthropist George Soros, the Threshold Foundation, and the Tides Foundation all have in common? They all are connected in some way to convicted “Speedway Bomber” Brett C. Kimberlin, a man described by Michelle Malkin as “a radical, violent, lying, dangerous felon.” Kimberlin, as blogger Liberty Chick previously reported, spent nearly 17 years in prison after being convicted of launching a week-long bombing spree that terrorized the residents of Speedway, Indiana in the … Continue reading Brett Kimberlin and the Threshold Foundation’s radical ties

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Orrin Hatch weighs in on the Brett Kimberlin menace

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Sen.  Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who was once a victim of a vexatious lawsuit filed by convicted terrorist bomber Brett Kimberlin, today weighed in on the ongoing Kimberlin saga. As Kerry Picket of the Washington Times reports,  when he was a prisoner Kimberlin sued Hatch baselessly blaming the senator for his failure at the time to win parole. The suit went down in flames. Hatch’s office issued the following statement: Senator Hatch has had run ins with Brett Kimberlin before and they weren’t pleasant. So it’s certainly no surprise that Mr. Kimberlin has now taken to harassing and targeting conservative bloggers. … Continue reading Orrin Hatch weighs in on the Brett Kimberlin menace

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Brett Kimberlin and the Hall of Fame of Leftist Terrorists

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Here is my article from today’s Front Page Magazine:  Brett Kimberlin and the Hall of Fame of Leftist Terrorists By Matthew Vadum The Left has a long history of embracing unrepentant, manipulative sociopaths, felons, terrorists, and mass murderers – anything goes, provided that they share the same political ideology.  In fairness, most liberals do not feel affection for the worst of the worst among leftists such as Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Che Guevara, or Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones.  But there are a few domestic radicals who have attained a kind of folk hero status in left-wing circles. … Continue reading Brett Kimberlin and the Hall of Fame of Leftist Terrorists

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Matthew Vadum is cited in 37 books and counting

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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. Here is the list as of May 22, 2012: * asterisk indicates New York Times bestseller In reverse chronological order: 37) The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown, by Richard L. Hasen, Yale University Press, forthcoming: expected publication summer 2012, page citation unknown 36) The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money-Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens … Continue reading Matthew Vadum is cited in 37 books and counting

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‘Nonviolence’ Explodes in Chicago

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My article from today’s Front Page Magazine: ‘Nonviolence’ Explodes in Chicago By Matthew Vadum The NATO summit in Chicago has produced an impressive list of arrests for demonstrations officially billed by the Left and the compliant mainstream media as “nonviolent.” Some of the alleged pacifists conspired to maim and kill Americans. The wave of violence unleashed by the Obama-endorsed Occupy Wall Street movement and other elements of the activist Left in recent weeks is part of what left-wingers are calling the “99% Spring.” The actions, which are being cheered on by small-c communist terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, are … Continue reading ‘Nonviolence’ Explodes in Chicago

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Chicago Braces for Leftist Violence and Mayhem

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My article from the May 18 edition of Front Page Magazine: Chicago Braces for Leftist Violence and Mayhem By Matthew Vadum The Left’s violent attacks on the yet-to-begin NATO summit in Chicago are already underway as anti-American activists hope to recreate the mayhem that accompanied the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle. Radicals clamoring for “change” have said for months that the actions in Chicago are only the beginning. During a heart-warming “F*** the Police” protest action Tuesday night in Chicagoland, mask-wearing demonstrators clad in black clothing carried communist and anarchist flags in hopes of winning the hearts and minds of … Continue reading Chicago Braces for Leftist Violence and Mayhem

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VADUM: Revving up the race card: Democrats’ backers deploy radical tactics to expand welfare state

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Here is my oped from the Friday edition of the Washington Times: VADUM: Revving up the race card: Democrats’ backers deploy radical tactics to expand welfare state A George Soros-funded pressure group is behind a new drive to teach Democratic congressmen how to smear their opponents as racist. By Matthew Vadum Last week House Democrats were tutored by the radical, left-wing, racial spoils group known as the Center for Social Inclusion. The group was brought in “to address the issue of race to defend government programs,” Joel Gehrke reported in the WashingtonExaminer. “The prepared content of a Tuesday presentation to … Continue reading VADUM: Revving up the race card: Democrats’ backers deploy radical tactics to expand welfare state

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Soros-Funded Alinsky Smear Machine Invades Congress

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My article from today’s Front Page Magazine: Soros-Funded Alinsky Smear Machine Invades Congress By Matthew Vadum George Soros is behind a newly uncovered effort to teach Democratic congressmen how to smear their opponents as racist. Last week House Democrats invited the radical, left-wing, Soros-financed group called the Center for Social Inclusion “to address the issue of race to defend government programs,” according to documentation reviewed by Joel Gehrke of the Washington Examiner. “The prepared content of a Tuesday presentation to the House Democratic Caucus and staff indicates that Democrats will seek to portray apparently neutral free-market rhetoric as being charged … Continue reading Soros-Funded Alinsky Smear Machine Invades Congress

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Soros Opens the Spigot

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My article from today’s Front Page Magazine: Soros Opens the Spigot By Matthew Vadum George Soros is once again putting his money where his mouth is. The Left’s favorite Wall Street billionaire and a cohort of his radical confederates are promising to contribute as much as $100 million to help the Democratic Party win this November so it can lay the groundwork for the destruction of what’s left of American civil society. News of the trust fund tidal wave comes after the Soros-funded Democracy Alliance opted to drown Democrats and President Obama’s re-election campaign in an ocean of cash this … Continue reading Soros Opens the Spigot