Matthew Vadum

National Endowment for the Arts is Trying to Create a Cult of Obama

Patrick Courrielche reveals at Big Hollywood that he participated in a teleconference call in which the National Endowment for the Arts –the largest funder of the arts in the U.S.– encouraged artists to create pro-Obama art:

Obama’s Desecrators of 9/11

I have a follow-up article in the American Spectator about President Obama’s greenwashing of 9/11. It’s called “Obama’s Desecrators of 9/11.”

Van Jones and His STORMtroopers Denounced America the Night After 9/11

Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), the revolutionary group formed by self-described “communist” and “rowdy black nationalist” Van Jones, held a vigil in Oakland, California, “mourning the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world” on the night after Sept. 11, 2001.

Leftist False Flag Operation in Colorado?

Colorado Citizens’ Coalition, a 527 pressure group, may have been behind an attack on a Democratic Party office in Denver calculated to depict opponents of ObamaCare as violent.

Reactionaries Demand Chinese Abandon Organ-Harvesting That Saved Socialist Healthcare System

Well, not exactly. Communist China has, though, finally admitted it harvests the organs of executed prisoners and uses those organs for transplantation. The organs account for two-thirds of China’s transplant organs.

Pelican Institute Liens on ACORN

Steve Beatty of the Pelican Institute for Public Policy reports that he found (PDF) that:

MoveOn Already Using Ted Kennedy’s Death To Promote Government Healthcare Takeover

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) hasn’t been dead for 24 hours yet MoveOn.org is already invoking his memory to press for the Sovietization of America’s healthcare system.

Don’t Cry for US, Argentina

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, warned earlier today that the nation’s economy could spiral into early 1980s-style hyperinflation if the Federal Reserve does not tighten its monetary policy soon, The Hill reports.

Einem Nationalen Tag der Zustellung

The whole idea of a National Day of Service on Sept. 11, whether voluntary or not and regardless of who is promoting the idea, ought to make advocates of limited government jittery. I mean, aren't taxes, by which the productive subsidize the nonproductive, enough? How much more service to the government is needed? Where does it end?

Nouriel Roubini: The risk of a double-dip recession is rising

Economist Nouriel Roubini says in a Financial Times op-ed more or less what I’ve been saying since last fall (he says it better than I ever could): there is not yet light at the end of the economic tunnel. The recession is not over.

Yes, There Was A Deal To Free Terrorist, Libyan Dictator’s Son Says

Despite official denials from Her Majesty’s Government, the son of Libya’s strongman says the British government cut a deal with his country to release a despicable terrorist in order to promote trade between the two countries.

ACORN Ex-Official To Testify Against ACORN

Former ACORN Las Vegas field director Christopher Edwards cut a deal with prosecutors and has pleaded guilty to “two gross misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit the crime of compensation for registration of voters,” the Las Vegas Sun reports. Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and Secretary of State Ross Miller, both Democrats, unveiled the charges in May. (Previous blog post; article in Human Events)

Cindy Sheehan Is Right

I never thought I would agree with Cindy Sheehan but she actually said something that makes sense.

White House Admits to ObamaCare Spamming

After repeatedly denying that it was sending out unwanted email spam about President Obama’s plans for the healthcare industry, the White House did an abrupt about-face, according to a news report.

New ACORN Expose: Money for Nothing

I have a new expose of ACORN corruption in today’s American Spectator online.

Priest Attacks Socialist Healthcare

Rev. Harry Jackson smacked around MSNBC’s lefty blowhard Ed Schultz in a show about what position Christians should take on President Obama’s proposed seizure of the healthcare sector.

Catholic Charities USA Signs Federal Contract

The Catholic News Agency reports that Catholic Charities USA has been awarded a five-year contract by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Administration for Children and Families (ACF) section.

Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine

An oldie but a goodie... Here is a 1961 video narrated by Ronald Reagan spelling out what's wrong with socialist medicine.

Goldman Sachs Gears Up To Profit From America’s Coming Financial Collapse

“What’s bad for America is good for Goldman Sachs,” writes Terry Keenan, anchor of “Cashin’ In,” a Fox News Channel show about investing.

Communist Green Jobs Czar’s Group Takes Aim at TV’s Glenn Beck

The particularly unsavory left-wing pressure group Color of Change has an axe to grind with Glenn Beck -- and it's personal.