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D’Souza’s Indictment and Double Standards

Matthew Vadum

My article from today’s FrontPage Magazine: Dinesh D’Souza with Matthew Vadum, 2007. D’Souza’s Indictment and Double Standards By Matthew Vadum The Obama administration’s indictment of critic Dinesh D’Souza on campaign finance law violations is a reminder that it’s dangerous to be in the opposition when the president is a lawless strongman who knows the media will protect him no matter what. Democratic malefactors remained at large on Friday as D’Souza pleaded not guilty to charges that he directed two individuals to each make $10,000 donations to the campaign of Wendy Long, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, on the understanding … Continue reading D’Souza’s Indictment and Double Standards

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ACORN Crooks on the March for Obamacare

Matthew Vadum

My article from today’s issue of FrontPage Magazine: ACORN Crooks on the March for Obamacare By Matthew Vadum A corrupt union ringleader who orchestrated massive campaigns involving identity fraud in furtherance of voter fraud and who covered up a million-dollar embezzlement involving pension funds will soon have unfettered access to confidential information on thousands of people seeking health insurance. The union thug is disgraced ACORN founder Wade Rathke whose shady union will soon be helping people enroll in Obamacare exchanges. Rathke’s labor vehicle, United Labor Unions (ULU) Local 100 in New Orleans, announced on its Facebook page Sept. 15 that it was … Continue reading ACORN Crooks on the March for Obamacare

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Disgraced ACORN founder Wade Rathke is urging Catholics to quit their church

Matthew Vadum

President Obama isn’t the only leftist to declare war on the Catholic church. Disgraced ACORN founder Wade Rathke is urging Catholics to quit their church: In the fall from grace of one institution after another, religious bodies have been on a steady decline for a generation.  No institution claims more members and fills less pews now that the Catholic Church on any given Sunday, nor has any outfit taken more of a licking in the public perception.  The inability to effectively manage the staff at the boundary lines between practice and principle has led to some dioceses declaring bankruptcy, multi-million … Continue reading Disgraced ACORN founder Wade Rathke is urging Catholics to quit their church

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Error in Daily Caller article

Matthew Vadum

(Note: The Daily Caller corrected the article the same day. -MV) A new profile of ACORN founder Wade Rathke in the Daily Caller inaccurately describes a key passage in my book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (published by WND Books). Here’s the offending paragraph from the Daily Caller: His book opens with the provocative question, “How many dead Republicans does it take to satisfy the bloodlust of ACORN founder Wade Rathke?” referring to his contention that ACORN leaders planned “to kill delegates and police” at the 2008 Republican national Convention in … Continue reading Error in Daily Caller article

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Flashback: Soros-Funded Documentary Embraces Left-Wing Terrorists Who Plotted To Kill Republicans

Matthew Vadum

Here’s a link to an interesting piece at Big Journalism by Lee Stranahan. It’s about the vicious propaganda film Better This World which falsely depicts American hero Brandon Darby as a co-conspirator in a plot to attack the 2008 GOP convention with Molotov cocktails. The goal of the two actual conspirators, David Guy McKay and Bradley Neil Crowder, was to kill Republicans. These two would-be murderers accused Darby of making them do it but the accusation was wholly rejected by the judge who heard the criminal case. I was the first to report almost a year ago that this wretched pro-terrorist film … Continue reading Flashback: Soros-Funded Documentary Embraces Left-Wing Terrorists Who Plotted To Kill Republicans

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Communist Cult Leader Wade Rathke Doesn’t Seem to Realize He is the Disaster that Hit Springfield

Matthew Vadum

Wade Rathke, the America-hating 1960s radical who founded ACORN, has a deliciously ironic post up on his Chief Organizer blog. It’s titled Springfield Story: Do We Learn from Disasters? In it this terrorism-loving agitator bemoans the foreclosure rate in Springfield, Mass., and praises the man who helped to cause it, Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), calling the corrupt lawmaker –incredibly enough– a “banking expert and one-man accountability squad.” What ACORN’s real life Doctor Evil doesn’t say is that he caused a disaster in Springfield years ago. The sociopathic Rathke caused a riot in Springfield in order to advance his small-c communist objectives. As … Continue reading Communist Cult Leader Wade Rathke Doesn’t Seem to Realize He is the Disaster that Hit Springfield

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Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback

Matthew Vadum

(originally published at Front Page Magazine, a publication of David Horowitz Freedom Center) Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback By Matthew Vadum 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 … Continue reading Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback

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The Latest from Wade Rathke, ACORN’s Real Life Dr. Evil

Matthew Vadum

Wade Rathke, the America-hating 1960s radical who founded ACORN, isn’t too happy with the adverse publicity he’s been receiving lately as a result of my book Subversion Inc: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (WND Books). Here’s what cult leader Rathke, who’s not a bad writer sometimes, has to say about yours truly: It isn’t hard to hear the death rattle of desperation in the latest farcical efforts of Congressman Steve King to try to revive a dying political career and a blogger trying to flack a mail-order book at the expense of … Continue reading The Latest from Wade Rathke, ACORN’s Real Life Dr. Evil

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USS Cesar Chavez? Why not the USS Saul Alinsky?

Matthew Vadum

Incredibly, the U.S. Navy has decided to name a cargo ship after the guy who came up with the Obama campaign slogan, “Yes, we can!” That man is the late labor agitator and community organizer Cesar Chavez. Chavez’s union, the United Farm Workers, used the saying he coined as its official motto. (In Spanish, “¡Sí se puede!”) The decision to name a Navy ship after this radical is remarkable not only because President Obama’s teleprompter has the phrase “Yes, we can!” burnt into it from the phrase’s overuse, but because the far-left leader was a disciple of communist sympathizer Saul … Continue reading USS Cesar Chavez? Why not the USS Saul Alinsky?

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ACORN plan: ‘Tactics that include extra-legal activity’: Book uncovers president’s links to ‘undisguised authoritarian socialism’

Matthew Vadum

WND highlights the fondness of ACORN founder Wade Rathke for violence.  WND has the story here. Buy the book Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, which is now available in fine bookstores near you. If you’d like an autographed copy, order it directly from  the publisher, WND Books, here. Continue reading ACORN plan: ‘Tactics that include extra-legal activity’: Book uncovers president’s links to ‘undisguised authoritarian socialism’

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ACORN’s Charismatic Cult Leader Embraces Political Violence and Cyberterrorism: ‘Subversion Inc.’ Book Preview (Part 3 of 4)

Matthew Vadum

NewsReal blog has another preview article on my new book Subversion Inc. Read the article here. This preview focuses on the small-c communist cult leader Wade Rathke. He founded ACORN in 1970 and was fired as chief organizer in 2008 following an embezzlement scandal and subsequent cover-up. Buy the book Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, which is now available in fine bookstores near you. If you’d like an autographed copy, order it directly from  the publisher, WND Books, here. Continue reading ACORN’s Charismatic Cult Leader Embraces Political Violence and Cyberterrorism: ‘Subversion Inc.’ Book Preview (Part 3 of 4)

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Obama administration aided ACORN India

Matthew Vadum

I had an exclusive story in the Daily Caller last year about how the Obama administration used U.S. government resources to help ACORN spread the gospel of socialism in India. ACORN founder and racketeer Wade Rathke engineered the U.S. government’s embrace of a group committed to furthering Jawaharlal Nehru’s socialist agenda in India. Socialism, of course, is what has kept India in poverty ever since that nation gained its independence from the United Kingdom. Since ACORN is all about keeping people miserable, sick, and poor, it makes perfect sense that it would open branch offices in India. Read more about … Continue reading Obama administration aided ACORN India

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ACORN Embezzler Dale Rathke liked to party

Matthew Vadum

In 2008 it was revealed that Dale Rathke, brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke, had embezzled close to $1 million from ACORN. Big brother Wade not only engineered a cover-up for eight years, but also kept Dale on ACORN’s payroll! This was too much even for the con artists of ACORN and the group’s national board fired Wade in June 2008. Later it was discovered that Dale (shown above in a photo from New York Social Diary) spent the money on the good life: trips to New York, limousines, shopping, and so on. Read more about the depravity and gangsterism of ACORN … Continue reading ACORN Embezzler Dale Rathke liked to party

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The Truth About ACORN, narrated by Megyn Kelly

Matthew Vadum

In fall of 2009 Fox News Channel aired a good documentary called “The Truth About ACORN.” It was narrated by Megyn Kelly. You can watch it on Hulu. Read about the nihilistic adventures of ACORN in my new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, comes out soon. Pre-order it now! Continue reading The Truth About ACORN, narrated by Megyn Kelly