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A mildly dismaying tale of lying liberal liars who must have struggled in English class

Matthew Vadum

So many bloggers have a disdain for the facts. Especially on the Left. Take the bloggers in my former home state of Pennsylvania at “2 political junkies.” In a piece called the “The Right Wing Echo Chamber/Filter,” they accuse me of “skewing” or something in an article about loathsome radical union thug Leo Gerard. They accurately quote from my FrontPage Magazine article last year about Gerard. In it I wrote: To Gerard, it is not radical leftist agitation that leads to violence but capitalism itself. Economic “inequality,” he says, “leads to instability and violence.” In a Huffington Post column dated Halloween 2011 … Continue reading A mildly dismaying tale of lying liberal liars who must have struggled in English class

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Union-Backed Occupiers on the March

Matthew Vadum

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

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Union Gangsters: Leo Gerard

Matthew Vadum

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