Matthew Vadum

Washington Examiner Scores Big

Congratulations are in order for the Washington Examiner which recently acquired some top-notch journalistic talent, FishbowlDC reports.

Fairness Doctrine Sweeps Venezuela as Opposition Media Head Indicted

Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez is imposing his own version of the Fairness Doctrine.

Smoot-Hawley Lives

As I wrote previously, it seems as if the disastrous Smoot-Hawley protectionist statute has been quietly revived. Protectionism has come back to America, and only now have we begun to notice.

ACORN Claims Democratic Officials Are Persecuting It

Sometimes news is stranger that fiction. Lisa Rasmussen, who represents the extremely partisan ACORN, said that election fraud charges laid against the group in Nevada are motivated by politics, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.

HuffPo’s Investigative Journalism Effort Struggling

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund is struggling, according to the Business Insider. Arianna Huffington unveiled plans for her left-leaning gossip website's foray into investigative journalism in March but so far the site is reportedly having trouble generating content.

Leftists Using Tiller Murder to Advance Agenda

Leftists are using the murder of abortionist Dr. George Tiller to urge Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to reconsider the now-withdrawn politically motivated DHS report that labeled all conservatives, libertarians, and returning veterans as potential right-wing terrorists.

The Climate-Industrial Complex

Danish enviro-skeptic Bjorn Lomborg had an excellent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal earlier this month.

Lawmaker Calls for ACORN Probe

House Judiciary Committee member Steve King (R-Iowa) is demanding congressional hearings about the twisted finances of the radical activist group ACORN.

Justice Department Nixes Voter Intimidation Suit Against Black Panthers

This is a head scratcher.

Socialist Sales Tax May Be Coming to America

The Washington Post reports that a national sales tax, embraced by some because it would prop up the faltering social welfare state, is gaining fans in Congress.

ACORN Allies Scheme to Distract from Corruption Allegations

John Podesta’s left-wing Center for American Progress Action Fund has invited many liberal and radical groups to a meeting Thursday morning to discuss how to use rhetorical misdirection to take the focus off ACORN’s increasingly well publicized corruption. One of the groups, Alliance for Justice, is advertising the crisis management meeting called “Reframing the Attack on Voter Registration” on its website.

Sotomayor and Her Radical Liberal Legal Group

For what it's worth, President Obama's radical new nominee to replace Associate Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, used to serve on the board of LatinoJustice PRLDEF. (White House backgrounder)

Bill Ayers and Kool-Aid

Retired terrorist Bill Ayers, a kind of folk hero among today's left, had a run-in with Washington Times editorial staffer Kerry Picket.

You-Won’t-Get-A-Credit-Card-Unless-You’re-Rich Bill Passes Senate

People with good credit will soon be forced to pay more to subsidize people with bad credit.

Former ACORN Organizer Warns of Census Fraud

Former ACORN organizer Gregory Hall warns in a Washington Examiner op-ed about the dangers of letting ACORN participate in the U.S. Census.

Smoot-Hawley by Stealth

Looking up from their particular circle of Hell, Senator Reed Smoot (R-Utah) and Representative Willis C. Hawley (R-Oregon) must be laughing.

Blog Entry Suggests Media Matters Incapable of Logical Thinking

Rabidly partisan hack Eric Boehlert of the left-wing slander site Media Matters for America is a fundamentalist incapable of rational thought.

The Liberal-Caused Social Security Disaster Looms

FDR’s proudest accomplishment, the national Ponzi scheme known as Social Security, is significantly closer to collapse than it was last year — and liberal groups have a lot to do with this fact, but more on that in a moment.

Soros Lawyer Rosa Brooks Working in the Pentagon

Rosa Brooks, a radical, anti-American academic who shares Michael Moore's dissenting views on the War on Terror and the Islamo-fascist threat, has been installed by President Barack Obama as advisor to Michelle Flournoy, the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.

Chavez and CITGO Plunder Venezuela’s Oil Service Sector

Venezuela’s socialist strongman Hugo Chavez ordered the expropriation of some 60 oil service companies and assisted government-owned oil company PDVSA (parent of CITGO) in looting those firms unfortunate enough to have invested in the workers’ paradise.