Matthew Vadum

MoveOn Founder Creates Statist Mothers’ Group

Mother’s Day is a good time to look at yet another left-wing group, MomsRising.org, demanding your wallet be raided. This organization is brought to you by the same people who brought MoveOn.org to America.

Slashing Labor Union Enforcement

The Obama administration has embraced fiscal austerity — but only at the Department of Labor, Philip Klein reports in the American Spectator.

ACORN News Roundup

It’s all ACORN — all the time. Much has been happening in the wacky world of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now in recent days.

Nevada Vote Fraud Charges for ACORN

The Las Vegas Sun is reporting that voter registration fraud charges have been laid against the left-wing community activist group ACORN.

Housing Market Hasn’t Bottomed Yet

The arguments of Bloomberg commentator John F. Wasik make a lot of sense. Wasik writes

Greens Planning to Lie More Effectively About Global Warming

The New York Times reports that environmentalists inadvertently emailed a copy of a memo in which they argued their vocabulary needs a strategic overhaul:

MoveOn Unleashing Legal Terror

The would-be revolutionaries of George Soros-funded MoveOn.org aren’t content merely to demand that witch hunts be conducted regarding enhanced interrogation techniques, now they want to impeach a federal judge for a legal opinion he wrote regarding those techniques

What Took the Catholic Campaign for Human Development So Long to Cut Off ACORN?

I have an article in the current issue of Catholic World Report entitled, “Why Did It Take So Long?”

Stopping Sunstein

Conservatives have launched a campaign to prevent Cass Sunstein, an obtuse law professor with no understanding of the U.S. Constitution, from becoming regulatory czar.

“Commission on Accountability” is a Soros Front Group

The “Commission on Accountability,” which is calling for show trials of Bush administration officials in connection with enhanced interrogations during the War on Terror, is a creation of liberal philanthropist George Soros.

Cap-and-Trade is a Tax, Dingell Says

As my colleague Eric Heidenreich says, cap-and-trade is a tax.

ACORN Covering Up Its Ties To SEIU?

A photo retrieved from SEIU Local 100's website today. The original photo caption reads: “Organizers from Local 100, ACORN, and SEIU, supporters and attorneys celebrate our victory on February 3, 2002.” The man with the sandy hair to the right of the microphones is Wade Rathke, founder and then-chief organizer of ACORN.

Book on the New Deal of FDR, America’s Worst President Ever, a Hit on the Hill

The Politico reports that Amity Shlaes’ wonderful book, The Forgotten Man, is in great demand on Capitol Hill as misguided lawmakers press ahead with another disastrous New Deal that could do more damage to society than the first.

Sharpton’s Group Fined

The guy who masterminded the Tawana Brawley hoax, Al Sharpton, and his community group, National Action Network, have been fined for election law violations. The Discoverthenetworks.org NewsReal blog reports

Media Matters for America’s Lying Continues Unabated

Left-wing fabulist Eric Boehlert of the character-assassination factory, Media Matters for America, has outdone himself this time.

What didn’t make it to air

Matthew posted earlier about the remarkably unprofessional behavior of CNN’s Susan Roesgen at the Chicago Tea Party yesterday.

Southern Poverty Law Center Tries to Cash in on DHS Report

The serial exaggerators at the radical left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center are trying to capitalize on the Department of Homeland Security report that smears Americans on the political right.

Quebec Has Helicopters for Pepe Le Pew But Not for Emergency Patients

Authorities in the province of Quebec, Canada, seem to care more about the well-being of skunks and power lines than the well-being of patients with life-threatening health concerns.

Soros Critiques Obama’s Bank Policy

The preeminent funder of the American left, financier George Soros, an early supporter of President Obama, is now hitting Obama from the left.

HuffPo and ACORN to Crash Tea Party?

Jeff Poor of NewsBusters reports that the Huffington Post and radical activist group ACORN are planning to infiltrate Tax Day “tea parties” protesting out-of-control government spending.