Matthew Vadum

Official at ACORN Funder Confirmed as Head of Corporation for National and Community Service

On Feb. 11 the Senate confirmed Obama nominee Patrick Corvington as chief executive of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America.

Max Blumenthal, Equal-Opportunity Hater

It’s quite a stretch to call The Nation’s Max Blumenthal a journalist.

Ex-Moderate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) Embraces Communist Van Jones

BigGovernment.com Facing what could become a bruising primary battle, appointed U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is embracing one of President Obama’s best known communist appointees, former green jobs czar Van Jones.

ACORN Eligible for $4 Billion in Obama’s Fiscal 2011 Budget

Yes, you read that right. Even with all its troubles, the ACORN organized crime syndicate is eligible for $4 billion (well, really $3.99 billion in CDBG slush funds) in President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget.

Media Matters Lies Again, This Time About Obama Intimidating Supreme Court

Confessed serial liar David Brock thinks you're stupid. His left-wing character assassination factory, Media Matters for America, has been caught lying once again. Media Matters uses deception and counts on you not making the effort to read the full quotations it truncates.

Breitbart Suggests O’Keefe Will Be Cleared?

Internet media entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart suggests James O’Keefe will be cleared — or at least I think that’s what Breitbart’s saying.

Disgraced ACORN Employee Sues Filmmakers In Philadelphia

Filmmakers Hannah Giles (Left) and James O’Keefe III (Right) are being sued by a Philadelphia ACORN employee in federal court, according to America’s Right. Here is the legal complaint filed by ACORN’s Katherine Conway-Russell who is apparently attempting to salvage her reputation after being caught on hidden-camera video condoning illegal activities.

ACORN’s Spectacularly Brazen Fraud In California

From today's American Spectator: "ACORN's California Makeover":

Left Posts Blueprint Online

I was tipped off to this several hours ago but it looks like my friend David Freddoso of the Washington Examiner beat me to the punch.

ACORN’s Bertha Lewis Does Esquire

Esquire writer John H. Richardson is a smart man and a good writer but he clearly doesn’t know much about the organized crime syndicate ACORN.

Obama’s Year-End Gift to Big Labor

President Obama has decided to make labor union activities even less transparent than they are now, Don Loos reports at BigGovernment.com.

ACORN Scandal Bigger Than Watergate

So said Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) when I interviewed him recently.

CRS Report On ACORN Is Nonsense

Apparently Congressional Research Service employees are as good at research as ACORN employees are at registering voters.

Obama’s Fascist Healthcare Plan May Pass Senate

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who may be unaware that he is currently enjoying his final term in the U.S. Senate, claims to have the 60 votes he needs to muscle ObamaCare through his chamber. God help us if he does.

Is This Why Progressives Hate Wealth So Much?

Rep. Pete DeFazio (D-Ore.) hates wealthy people. From a report in The Hill:

DOJ Files Papers To Urge Reversal Of ACORN Funding Ruling

This just in from the office of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee:

Organizing for Socialism

I profiled Organizing for America, the community organizing branch of the DNC, for Townhall magazine.

Soros Wants IMF To Subsidize His Green Investments

Leftist troublemaker George Soros has already made it explicitly clear he wishes to destroy capitalism.

Federal Judge Orders Congress To Fund ACORN. Huh?

U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon, a Bill Clinton appointee, issued a temporary injunction prohibiting Congress from cutting off funding for ACORN.

ACORN Causing Trouble in Toronto

ACORN activists protested a proposed fare hike on Toronto, Canada’s public transit system, the Toronto Sun reports.