Leftist meddler extraordinaire George Soros has named President Obama’s far-left ambassador to South Africa, Patrick Gaspard, as acting president of his philanthropic network, the Open Society Foundations (OSF), effective at the end of the year. There is an excellent chance … Continue reading Soros picks ACORN, SEIU hack Patrick Gaspard to head Open Society Foundations
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
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
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
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
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
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
Those obnoxious hecklers who tried to shout down Mitt Romney at the Iowa State Fair last week weren’t just random Iowans trying to participate in the democratic process, as I write at Front Page Magazine. They were members of a Marxist, ACORN-like group called Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (Iowa CCI). Iowa CCI is an affiliate of a street thug outfit called National People’s Action (NPA). NPA may not be corrupt like ACORN but they’re still bad people. NPA is participating in a nationwide economic terrorism campaign with the new ACORN front groups and SEIU aimed at destabilizing the nation’s … Continue reading Romney Hecklers in Iowa Part of Radical Street Thug Group
Does President Obama approve of the SEIU/ACORN-led economic terrorism campaign that is now directed at JPMorgan Chase? It seems like a reasonable question to ask. SEIU is President Obama’s favorite union and ACORN is his favorite community organizing outfit. The campaign, engineered by SEIU board member Stephen Lerner, is designed, in Lerner’s words, “to disrupt and create uncertainty for capital, for how corporations operate … there are actually extraordinary things that we could do right now that would start to destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement.” According to White House visitor logs, “Stephen … Continue reading Does Obama support SEIU/ACORN-led economic terror campaign against JPMorgan Chase?
“Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback” is the name of my latest piece at Front Page Magazine. Here’s the top of it: Radical activist groups associated with President Barack Obama have launched a campaign of economic terrorism and sabotage – possibly with his blessing. Mortgage and student loan strikes, crippling bank boycotts, intimidation, and who knows what else are all on the agenda. The idea of leftists using terrorism to achieve political objectives isn’t new. Leon Trotsky supported the use of terrorism to advance so-called social justice. Decades before an ice-axe found its way into his skull, Trotsky argued in Dictatorship vs. Democracy that Communists who reject … Continue reading Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback