Matthew Vadum

ACORN lobbying efforts continue in Washington under Communities United name

For a supposedly dead organization, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now sure has been busy.

For Leftist Drones At ‘Media Matters,’ National Security Is One Big Joke

To the leftists at Media Matters for America, even mere days after a suspected Islamist bomb plot was defused in Manhattan's Times Square, national security is one big joke.

Goldman Sachs is the Left’s Favorite Bank

In the ubiquitous echo chambers of the left, the embattled Goldman Sachs is being falsely characterized as both Republican-friendly and a symbol of free-market corruption.

The left-wing architects of the subprime mortgage collapse have yet to be called to account

Much has already been written about the possibly criminal conduct of Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who relentlessly gamed the political system to clear the way for their friends at government-sponsored Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make billions at the expense of taxpayers, but very little has been written about the role that their liberal friends and allies in the private and nonprofit sectors played in bringing the U.S. economy to its knees.

Tea Party is a ‘bowel movement,’ says ACORN boss Bertha Lewis

ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis praised socialism and said the Tea Party was a “bowel movement” filled with racists in a speech to a left-wing youth group, a new video shows.

“Dissolved” ACORN Still Hitting Up Supporters For Funds

The organized crime syndicate known as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which has been making much ado about its feigned withdrawal from the national political stage, continues doing business as usual.

What Powerful Post Does Obama Have In Mind For Andy Stern?

The Politico reports that Andy Stern is quitting the presidency of his public-sector union, the radical Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Stern, a frequent antagonist of TV talk show host Glenn Beck, is reportedly stepping down from his post at arguably the most powerful union in America. It’s unclear why Stern chose this precise moment to leave SEIU. One theory is Stern’s high profile, high pressure job left him exhausted. “Health care getting done is a good culmination,” said one unidentified union official. According to the Politico:

Brandon Darby, the Man Who Foiled a Left-Wing Terrorist Attack on the 2008 GOP Convention

From the April 2010 issue of Townhall magazine: Brandon Darby learned something from Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela. Once a hard-core radical who sided with progressive revolutionaries, Darby prevented a left-wing terrorist attack on the 2008 GOP convention. Now, this America-loving patriot is the target of the domestic extremists he once called “friends.”

Justice Department Appeals ACORN Ruling

Some weeks ago the U.S. Department of Justice filed an appeal of U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon’s (absurd) ruling on ACORN funding.

ACORN Dropping Foreclosure Counseling, EITC Agitation

Unlike leftist shills John Atlas, Peter Dreier, and the pathologically truth-averse Brad Friedman (BradBlog), City Hall continues to provide cutting-edge coverage of the transformation of ACORN, the left’s favorite organized crime syndicate.

Texas Organizing Project Is Newest ACORN Spinoff Group

An inside ACORN source has just confirmed this to me: the Texas chapter of ACORN has pretended to break off from the national group and has incorporated itself under the name Texas Organizing Project. You read it here first. Here’s a helpful chart I made:

Obama Administration Restores ACORN Funding

From my post at BigGovernment.com:

New Indictments Hit Crumbling ACORN

In today’s Washington Times I have an op-ed on ACORN’s latest legal troubles. It begins.

Nutty Court Ruling: ACORN Has A Constitutional Right To Your Money

If you thought you sent representatives and senators to Washington, D.C., to exercise the constitutionally mandated power of the purse — you're wrong.

ACORN Housing Boom

I have an article in the American Spectator today on the latest activities by the con artists who run ACORN. The piece begins:

Gangster Group Will Be Bankrupt Soon But Fake Spinoff Groups Will Carry On The Corruption

The ACORN crime syndicate is not going away anytime soon, but it’s going to look different. ACORN will probably run out of money and fold by year’s end but a dozen ACORN state chapters reincorporated to seem like new, independent organizations will spring up in the next week to carry on ACORN’s business, a leaked email from ACORN’s online director suggests.

Don’t be fooled. ACORN is not going away.

ACORN is attempting to perpetrate yet another spectacular fraud on the American people in order to keep tax dollars and foundation grants flowing into its coffers.

Obama Acknowledges ACORN Relationship In New Video

WASHINGTON (at CPAC 2010) — On the campaign trail in 2008 then-candidate Barack Obama did his best to distance himself from his past involvement with the radical advocacy group ACORN, a new video of his explaining the relationship has surfaced.

ACORN Conspirator Sought Separate Trial

The Las Vegas Sun reports

Lawyers for the woman accused by the Nevada attorney general’s office of approving questionable voter registration tactics told a Clark County District Court judge Wednesday that the bad publicity swarming around her co-defendant – the grassroots organizing group ACORN – would make it impossible for her to receive a fair trial.

USCAP Falling Apart

Breaking news from the Competitive Enterprise Institute: