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

I just made my National Public Radio debut on Southern California Public Radio (SCPR). We talked about budget cuts, federal appropriations, and the like. It was less boring than it sounds. NPR listeners should feel free to comment on this blog. As long as a comment is civil it will be allowed to stand. And no swearing please. I don’t have a problem with cuss words in the offline world but once they’re allowed in the comments section the conversation inevitably sinks down into the gutter (as in DailyKos). UPDATED a few hours later: This web page contains an audio … Continue reading Welcome NPR Listeners!

Neo-communist subversive Frances Fox Piven has once again called for a violent uprising against the American system. Interviewed by “Democracy Now!” at the site of the increasingly unruly demonstrations around Wall Street, Piven said: I am here because I am so enthusiastic about the possibilities of this sit-in, over the marches that are occurring over postal worker issues, the sister demonstrations that are starting in Chicago and Los Angeles, and maybe in Boston. I think we desperately need a popular uprising in the United States. None of us know. I study movements. None of us know the exact formula for … Continue reading Neo-Communist Subversive Frances Fox Piven Calls for Violent Uprising

I was invited onto Thom Hartmann’s TV show “The Big Picture” to talk about the controversial comments of London-based trader Alessio Rastani whom leftist idiots the world over have called a sociopath. Somehow we ended up talking about Goldman Sachs and the role of markets. Hartmann argued that markets must “serve” people. Of course markets don’t “serve” anyone. They represent the sum total of all economic activity. People serve their own self-interest by participating in the markets. The same people who believe the U.S. Constitution is a “living” document also believe that markets are supposed to serve someone or something. It … Continue reading TV: Vadum re Goldman Sachs on “The Big Picture”

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Union Gangsters: Richard Trumka By Matthew Vadum [Editor’s note: The following is the second installment of FrontPage’s new series, “Union Gangsters.” In this profile, award-winning investigative reporter Matthew Vadum unmasks Big Labor kingpin Richard Trumka, whose dirty agitation tactics have earned him the moniker “thug-in-chief.” To read about union consigliere Craig Becker, click here.] Richard Trumka is a thug’s thug, and a crafty one at that. The AFL-CIO boss believes the end justifies the means. Breaking the law is acceptable if it advances the cause. Unions should “forget about the law; this is about more than … Continue reading Union Gangsters: Richard Trumka

From today’s Front Page Magazine: Day of Poseurs By Matthew Vadum The US Day of Rage protest on Wall Street has been largely nonviolent so far, so organizers now appear to be trying to use political theatrics to recruit more activists to their anti-capitalist cause. They are falsely accusing the New York City Police Department of using violent tactics against them. The mass demonstration that began September 17 is still in progress. It comes months after ACORN founder Wade Rathke proclaimed an “anti-banking jihad” and SEIU schemer Stephen Lerner vowed to “bring down the stock market” through a campaign of … Continue reading Day of Poseurs

The time could change but right now I’m scheduled to do a segment on the “Roger Hedgecock Show” at 7:20 Eastern tonight. We’ll be talking about how ACORN and other radical left-wing groups would be eligible for up to $15 billion in federal funding if President Obama’s new economic stimulus package becomes law. Note that the key word here is “eligible.” ACORN and other leftist groups won’t get all the money because they will have to compete with state and local governments. But it’s a crime that any of these terrible groups will be eligible for any taxpayer dollars. It’s time … Continue reading Vadum on Roger Hedgecock Show at 7:20 p.m. ET (4:20 p.m. PT) Tonight

I’ll be on the Sun News Network in Canada at 5 p.m. Eastern offering thoughts on the Republican presidential candidates’ debate last night. The show is called “The Source.” Live streaming online is available here. * * * * * 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 … Continue reading Vadum on TV at 5 ET, Sun News Network’s show The Source

(originally posted at Front Page Magazine) Union Gangsters: Craig Becker By Matthew Vadum In the past year, America has witnessed the true face of organized labor and the thuggery and mob tactics that typify it. This behavior is no less than what national labor union figureheads have been promoting for decades — but in truth, they desire to see much worse. These fixtures of the Democratic political machine commonly push their followers into committing acts of criminality and brutish intimidation, while inciting hatred toward union enemies and free-market capitalism. Greed and an obsession with power have spawned a syndicalist culture that … Continue reading Union Gangsters: Craig Becker

(cross-posted at Big Government) President Obama has given ACORN $729,849 so far this year and billions more in federal cash may be in the pipeline. The president’s new economic stimulus package, the so-called “jobs bill,” contains as much as $15 billion for radical left-wing groups such as ACORN (his former employer). Obama has been using his presidential bully pulpit to demand that Republicans in Congress “pass this bill,” even though there is no bill yet. Despite all the rhetoric, the proposed “American Jobs Act of 2011” apparently hasn’t even been introduced in Congress. Meanwhile, longtime ACORN ally Shaun Donovan, who heads Obama’s … Continue reading Obama’s HUD Has Given $730,000 to ACORN This Year Alone. What’s Another $15 Billion More for Alinsky Groups?

Here’s a new article of mine in Front Page Magazine. The Sorry State of Immigration By Matthew Vadum The conventional wisdom among conservatives is that if President Obama wins a second term, things on the immigration policy front will become worse. But it’s difficult to see how the situation could become much worse when the state of immigration in the US today is in chaos and disarray, with no foreseeable political will to fix it. Republicans are much more divided on immigration than Democrats. Many pro-business GOPers support lax immigration enforcement and full or partial amnesty for illegal aliens already … Continue reading The Sorry State of Immigration