Matthew Vadum

New Black Panther Party Scandal Grows

The scandal related to the U.S. Department of Justice’s decision to drop voter intimidation charges against the New Black Panther Party is expanding, according to a Washington Times editorial.

Banks Not Out of Trouble Yet

The Congressional Oversight Panel of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) reports that “The financial system [remains] vulnerable to the crisis conditions that [the bailout] was meant to fix.”

ACORN DC PAC Might Be Fined $2,000

Kevin Mooney of the Washington Examiner reports that ACORN’s political action committee in the nation’s capital could be fined for violating disclosure laws:

Rep. Jefferson and ACORN Go Way Back

Birds of a feather flock together.

AARP — Where The Customer is Always Wrong

AARP hates its members, doesn’t care what they think, and wants them to behave and shut up. Philip Klein doesn’t quite use my words at the American Spectator but he gives AARP the sound thrashing the worthless organization deserves.

Lefty Hack Charles Cooper of CBS Calls Healthcare Skeptics “Teabaggers”

CBS News, the TV network of disgraced former anchor Dan Rather, doesn't even pretend anymore to not be siding with Big Government instead of backing the right of patients to choose their own healthcare. (Of course, it would be better yet if CBS just reported the news instead of cheering for one side or the other.)

ACORN Abuses Its Workers, Fights Unionization

A mountain of paperwork detailing extensive, apparently credible allegations of wage and labor law violations against ACORN was received in early August by investigators on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Got Food Stamps? You Can Still Be a Homeowner! Call ACORN for a Mortgage Today.

Demand for food stamps, which help poor people purchase groceries, has surged, according to Reuters.

Congressman Says Democrats Are Censoring Him

Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) says that majority Democrats in the House are clamping down on Republican lawmakers’ freedom to communicate with constituents in their home districts, according to a video interview with Washington News Observer.

Government-Run Health Care May Mean Waiting in Line

ABC’s John Stossel hits the nail on the head in a segment about government-run healthcare in Canada:

What’s Up With Americorps?

In today’s Examiner investigative reporter Byron York reviews what’s known and what isn’t about the circumstances surrounding the firing of the Inspector General charged with overseeing Americorps, the mismanaged agency that is one of President Obama’s favorite programs.

Barney Frank: Public Option is Best Way to Single Payer

Yet more proof emerges that the so-called public option in the Democrats’ healthcare legislation is designed to clear the way for the U.S. government to impose total monopoly control of the nation’s healthcare system.

Communist-Linked Apollo Alliance Dictates to Congress

President Obama’s new “green jobs” czar Van Jones, an avowed militant communist, had been on the board of the pressure group Apollo Alliance, which aspires to flatten the U.S. economy by having government fund “green jobs” scams, according to the “Glenn Beck Program” earlier this week.

ACORN Founder Wade Rathke Plots Downfall of Capitalism

On his TV show today, Glenn Beck spotlighted a fascinating interview that ACORNcracked.com editor Kyle Olson conducted with disgraced ACORN founder Wade Rathke.

The Trouble with Cass Sunstein

An animal rights fanatic is on track to become President Obama’s regulatory “czar.” That individual is the radical legal theorist Cass Sunstein who has argued that:

Shopping Mall Empire Crushes Conservative Store

Congressional Report: ACORN Involved in Organized Crime

A new congressional report accuses the radical activist group ACORN of organized criminal activities. I will have a full article on the American Spectator website in the morning about it.

Congress Protects ACORN Again

ACORN critic Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) says ACORN sympathizers in Congress have slapped down for the seventh time his efforts to block the radical activist group from receiving taxpayer funds.

ACLU, ACORN, Sue to Overturn Penn. Law Against Voter Fraud

ACORN canvassers are facing convictions for voter registration fraud in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so what does ACORN do?

Patients United Now Ad

Patients United Now, which is a project of Americans for Prosperity Foundation, is now running an effective TV ad opposing President Obama’s socialist healthcare scheme.