Vadum to speak in Houston on November 14

I’ll be speaking about my book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (WND Books), at two events in Houston, Texas, this Monday, November 14. Both events are sponsored by King Street Patriots. Details: “Subversion Inc.” author Matthew Vadum appears at a King Street Patriots luncheon in person to discuss his new book about ACORN and President Obama. Tickets may be purchased through King Street Patriots. When: Monday, November 14, 2011, 11:30 AM Where: Maggiano’s Little Italy, 2019 Post Oak Blvd., Houston, Texas, United States 77056-4401 KING STREET LIVE! “Subversion Inc.” author … Continue reading Vadum to speak in Houston on November 14

Union Gangsters: Leo Gerard

From yesterday’s Front Page Magazine: Union Gangsters: Leo Gerard By Matthew Vadum The United Steelworkers (USW) Marxist president Leo Gerard believes if Big Labor can’t get what it wants through the ballot box it’s time to start cracking skulls. The Canadian-born Gerard loves a brawl. In 1999 he helped the violent anarchists protesting in Seattle block access to the World Trade Organization meetings. USW sent 1,400 goons to shut the talks down. Gerard’s agitation helped to push Algoma Steel of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, into bankruptcy in the 1990s. USW president since 2001, Gerard wholeheartedly supports the labor-backed Occupy Wall … Continue reading Union Gangsters: Leo Gerard

Issa Demands ACORN Fraud Probe Over OWS

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Issa Demands ACORN Fraud Probe Over OWS By Matthew Vadum The House of Representatives’ top investigator has asked a federal prosecutor to look into fraudulent fundraising practices that ACORN’s New York front group allegedly used to raise money for Occupy Wall Street. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wants to know if New York Communities for Change (NYCC) “engaged in fraud through its participation in the Occupy Wall Street protests.” (Front Page Magazine reported a month ago that NYCC was raising money for Occupy Wall Street.) In a letter Monday Issa asked Brooklyn-based … Continue reading Issa Demands ACORN Fraud Probe Over OWS

ACORN Front Group Destroys Evidence of OWS Ties

From today’s Front Page Magazine: ACORN Front Group Destroys Evidence of OWS Ties By Matthew Vadum Even more convincing evidence linking the ACORN network to Occupy Wall Street has emerged. The protests, which have spread to dozens of other large U.S. cities, are part of what ACORN’s neo-communist founder Wade Rathke calls an “anti-banking jihad.” After I reported a month ago that ACORN front group New York Communities for Change (NYCC) was raising money for Occupy Wall Street, NYCC is in turmoil. FoxNews.com is reporting that NYCC executive director Jon Kest, a longtime ACORN activist and brother of former ACORN executive director Steve Kest, … Continue reading ACORN Front Group Destroys Evidence of OWS Ties

Occupy Wall Street and Soros’ Fingerprints

From yesterday’s Front Page Magazine: Occupy Wall Street and Soros’ Fingerprints By Matthew Vadum The fingerprints of the preeminent funder of the activist Left today, George Soros, are all over the anti-American “Occupy Wall Street” movement. The seventh-wealthiest person in America (net worth: $22 billion), Soros has publicly embraced Occupy Wall Street and financially supports a left-wing group that is funneling money to the movement. As I note in my new book Subversion Inc., this Communist sympathizer co-founded the ultra-secretive Democracy Alliance, a billionaires’ club that wants to radically transform America. He has said that European-style socialism “is exactly what we … Continue reading Occupy Wall Street and Soros’ Fingerprints

Union Gangsters: Jimmy Hoffa Jr.

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Union Gangsters: Jimmy Hoffa Jr. By Matthew Vadum Few union gangsters have the exquisitely barbaric pedigree of International Brotherhood of Teamsters president James P. Hoffa. And few labor unions can match the Teamsters, the million-plus member union of truckers and blue-collar workers, for its legendary connections to organized crime, corruption, and violence. For decades the word Teamster was essentially a synonym for gangster. Hoffa is the son of James R. Hoffa, the relentlessly corrupt, larger-than-life Teamsters president who worked closely with figures from the crime underworld. In July 1975 the elder Hoffa disappeared mysteriously outside a suburban Detroit restaurant at … Continue reading Union Gangsters: Jimmy Hoffa Jr.

FoxNews.com hypes story about ACORN involvement in Occupy Wall Street that I had weeks ago

FoxNews.com has been promoting an “exclusive” story that reiterates what I previously reported. The story by Jana Winter is titled EXCLUSIVE: ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role in ‘Occupy’ Movement. To be clear, Winter’s story is a good one. She has put a lot of meat on the bones but I had the story first. Winter reports that The former New York office for ACORN, the disbanded community activist group, is playing a key role in the self-proclaimed “leaderless” Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing “guerrilla” protest events and hiring door-to-door canvassers to collect money under the banner of various causes while spending … Continue reading FoxNews.com hypes story about ACORN involvement in Occupy Wall Street that I had weeks ago

George Soros Funds Occupy Wall Street

I have a piece at Human Events Online today titled “George Soros Funds Occupy Wall Street.” Here’s the top of it: Radical anti-American billionaire George Soros is a major backer of a left-wing group that is funneling money to the Occupy Wall Street movement. The nonprofit organization at the receiving end of Soros’ largesse, Alliance for Global Justice, is managing donations benefiting the communists, socialists, anarchists and hippies now occupying Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan.  As of Oct. 19, OWS had taken in a grand total of $435,000 from all sources, including donations made by individuals online and in person, … Continue reading George Soros Funds Occupy Wall Street

Union Gangsters: Andy Stern

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Union Gangsters: Andy Stern By Matthew Vadum Andy Stern is one of the most outspoken, cocksure neo-communists of the American labor movement. “We like to say: We use the power of persuasion first,” Stern said, channeling Rules for Radicals author Saul Alinsky. “If it doesn’t work, we try the persuasion of power.” Stern quotes Karl Marx in television appearances. In 2007 the wannabe Bolshevik told Bill Moyers that his Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was expanding to Australia, Switzerland, England, South America, and Africa. We’ve been working with unions around the world. And what we’re … Continue reading Union Gangsters: Andy Stern

Vadum on Fox re Occupy Wall Street

I was on “Follow the Money” with Eric Bolling on Fox Business last night. We discussed the scummy, violent communists and anarchists of Occupy Wall Street. Here’s the video: * * * * * 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 leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it. Buy my book Subversion Inc. at Amazon … Continue reading Vadum on Fox re Occupy Wall Street

Commies and Nazis and Protesters

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Commies and Nazis and Protesters By Matthew Vadum Being endorsed by scary, hateful, self-marginalizing extremists isn’t necessarily the kiss of death in American politics. After presidential candidate Ronald Reagan was endorsed by a Louisiana chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in 1980 –an endorsement he quite correctly and forcefully rejected— he prospered and went on to evict Democratic incumbent Jimmy Carter from the White House. But it’s different when the endorsee shares the core tenets of the fringe-dwelling endorsers. It really shouldn’t be altogether surprising that Occupy Wall Street is now endorsed by both the … Continue reading Commies and Nazis and Protesters

RIP, Dennis Reilly, founder of National Alliance for Taxicab Justice

I just learned that a friend of mine died. His name was Dennis Reilly and he was the founder and president of a group called National Alliance for Taxicab Justice that sought to reform the taxicab system. Dennis was 72 years old. He was a good man who wanted to make his corner of the world a better place. Rest in peace, Dennis. I am advised that a funeral-wake for Dennis is scheduled for this Friday, October 21, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Collins Funeral Home, 500 University Blvd., Silver Spring, Md. 20901. Continue reading RIP, Dennis Reilly, founder of National Alliance for Taxicab Justice

The Face of the Democratic Party

From Front Page Magazine today: The Face of the Democratic Party By Matthew Vadum Salvador Dali would have been comfortable painting a mural of the surreal Occupy Wall Street movement. Supported by billionaire Marxists, mega-rich Hollywood airheads, radical libertarians, indebted students, sexual exhibitionists, malingerers, and professional protesters, the neo-communist “Occupy Wall Street” movement is fast becoming the face of the modern Democratic Party. This is a wonderful thing, says conservative columnist George F. Will. Will said he wants the Occupy Wall Street protests to prosper: I think they do represent the intellectual spirit of the American left, but also I … Continue reading The Face of the Democratic Party

WND: Thousands of fraud cases just ‘tip of iceberg’

WND quotes me in a new article about the growing menace of voter fraud. * * * * * 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 leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it. Buy my book Subversion Inc. at Amazon and in Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million bookstores. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter. Continue reading WND: Thousands of fraud cases just ‘tip of iceberg’

Marxist Mobocracy

My new op-ed in the Washington Times: Marxist mobocracy Let them protest and rage – it lays the groundwork for GOP domination By Matthew Vadum Abraham Lincoln rightly denounced the “mobocratic spirit.” James Madison considered it the sacred duty of government to protect property rights from the violent whims of the mob: “That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.” Lincoln and Madison would not have … Continue reading Marxist Mobocracy

TV: Vadum on Occupy Wall Street

I was on the Sun News Network (Canada) yesterday talking about ACORN and the Occupy Wall Street movement. The show is “Byline” with Sun Media’s Ottawa correspondent Brian Lilley. Here is a link to the video. * * * * * 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 leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to … Continue reading TV: Vadum on Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street’s ACORN Rent-A-Mobs

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Occupy Wall Street’s ACORN Rent-A-Mobs By Matthew Vadum Evidence suggests that ACORN, the Left’s premiere astro-turfing organization, has been paying people to participate in the Occupy Wall Street protests. Astro-turfing campaigns can generate big money, and ACORN’s lucrative protest-for-profit program is nothing new. As I note in my book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, ACORN has acquired great expertise in manufacturing so-called grassroots protests. Left-wing loan sharks Herb and Marion Sandler, the founders of World Savings Bank, gave ACORN affiliates close to $11 million to manufacture … Continue reading Occupy Wall Street’s ACORN Rent-A-Mobs

ACORN: Puppet Master of Occupy Wall Street

From today’s Front Page Magazine: ACORN: Puppet Master of Occupy Wall Street By Matthew Vadum The Working Families Party, an infamous ACORN front group notorious for corruption, was instrumental in organizing the Occupy Wall Street protests, according to radical journalist Laura Flanders of Free Speech TV. The protests, which have spread to several other large U.S. cities, are part of what ACORN’s neo-communist founder Wade Rathke calls an “anti-banking jihad.” Working Families Party (WFP) organizer Nelini Stamp has “been here since day one and she is part of the organizing team and the outreach team that has managed to bridge … Continue reading ACORN: Puppet Master of Occupy Wall Street

SEIU’s Stephen Lerner Leaks Plan to Terrorize Corporate Executives

Radical labor organizer Stephen Lerner of SEIU intends to terrorize the families of bank executives in their homes. Lerner, a prime architect of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, said this to Marxists at the left-wing Take the American Dream Back conference in Washington, D.C., on October 3, 2011. Here’s the video: Like any good Alinskyite organizer Lerner poses as a mere liberal instead of as an anti-American radical. If Lerner gets his way, more labor and leftist-inspired violence and mayhem are on their way. * * * * * Americans need to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect … Continue reading SEIU’s Stephen Lerner Leaks Plan to Terrorize Corporate Executives

Union Gangsters: Stephen Lerner

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Union Gangsters: Stephen Lerner By Matthew Vadum Editor’s note: The following is the third installment of FrontPage’s new series, “Union Gangsters.” In this profile, award-winning investigative reporter Matthew Vadum unmasks economic terrorist Stephen Lerner. To read about union consigliere Craig Becker, click here. To read about Big Labor kingpin Richard Trumka, click here.] One of the boldest labor thugs in America today is Stephen Lerner, a crafty economic terrorist who manages to sound like a folksy self-improvement seminar leader while he explicitly calls for the overthrow of capitalism. “People are ready to move,” said Lerner, an organizer … Continue reading Union Gangsters: Stephen Lerner