Matthew Vadum

Too Crazy to Fail

The governments of Iran and Venezuela have joined forces to create a joint bank aimed at promoting their exports, Reason’s Hit and Run blog reports.

Statistical Voodoo Practitioner Tapped for Census Post

A practitioner of the statistical voodoo known as “sampling” has been selected by President Obama to head the Census Bureau, which is poised to carry out the decennial census next year with ACORN’s help. Liberal pressure groups have long favored using statistical modeling, a practice controversial because it’s flagrantly unconstitutional and because it opens up the counting process to political manipulation.

What’s The Matter with Media Matters?

Capital Research Center’s Matthew Vadum has an article on George Soros’s character assassination factory, Media Matters for America, in the April print edition of Townhall magazine. (Executive Editor Chris Field previews the April issue here.)

Bean Counting Breakthrough Boosts Bourses

Quasi-governmental good news for a change.

ACORN Probe On Track, Says House Judiciary Chairman

House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-Michigan) reaffirmed that he still plans to launch a congressional probe into the wrongdoings of the radical direct-action group ACORN.

Democracy Alliance Member Funds New HuffPo Journalism Program

Internet gossip Arianna Huffington announced that her left-wing gossip website, the Huffington Post, is launching the Huffington Post Investigative Fund. She said on her site that

Canadian Socialist Says Canada’s Socialist Medical System Didn’t Kill Natasha Richardson

In the Vancouver Sun, a physician who belongs to a socialist group is, not surprisingly, defending Canada’s socialist health care system that allows sick people to linger and die untreated every day. From the top of the article:

Media Matters Lies About GM CEO’s Firing by White House

Media Matters for America, the George Soros-funded* organization that even the New York Times calls a “highly partisan research organization,” is deliberately misrepresenting the political purge of GM CEO Rick Wagoner by the Obama administration.

Podesta’s Center for American Progress Spinoff Becomes A Media Critic

An affiliate of the George Soros-funded think tank and pressure group, Center for American Progress (CAP), has emulated the sleazy Media Matters for America by becoming a media critic.

Charities Will Suffer if Regulators Have Their Way

Loren A. Smith Jr., senior fellow for Labor and Employment Policy at the Institute for Liberty, has a good op-ed at the Fox Forum on the Obama administration’s attack on the charitable tax deduction in his budget. An excerpt:

All’s Not Well at ACORN-Aligned Radical Union SEIU

George Soros-backed SEIU laid off 75 workers and they demonstrated outside the radical union's offices.

MD Agrees Canadian Government Health Care A Factor in Actress’s Death

Writing in the New York Post, Dr. Cory Franklin concurs with my assertion that Canada’s government-run health care system may have been a contributing factor in the death of actress Natasha Richardson.

Rob Witwer on the Colorado Democracy Alliance

Former Colorado state rep. Rob Witwer has an excellent article in National Review on what the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes has dubbed the Colorado Model.

Half the News That’s Fit to Print

While everyone else was enjoying the first weekend of Spring 2009, The New York Times was busy writing about food. Three news articles, an op-ed, an editorial, and an expert symposium later, the newspaper managed to mention obesity at least 10 times. Can you guess how many times “exercise” or “physical activity” was mentioned in all of this news coverage? Hint: it rhymes with “hero.”

Common Cause Florida & New Jersey Chapters Go Kaput

Common Cause's state chapters in Florida and New Jersey are going out of business, Tampa Bay Online reports:

Did Universal Health Care Kill Actress Natasha Richardson?

Did the fact that Canada has a socialist, government-run healthcare system kill acclaimed actress Natasha Richardson? The short answer is yes, it may very well have done so. Regarding the case of the actress who fell on a ski slope at Mont Tremblant resort in Quebec, AP reports:

Conyers Urges ACORN Probe

House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers, an outspoken liberal, is calling for a congressional probe of the radical direct-action group ACORN. Conyers’s proposal came on the same day as Judiciary’s subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties received testimony from lawyer Heather Heidelbaugh about the extent of ACORN’s corrupt activities, the Washington Times reports:

ACORN’s Mob-Style Tactics Discussed at Congressional Hearing

In recent months demands for ACORN to be investigated under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) for repeated incidents of electoral fraud have been growing.

ACORN Involved in 2010 Census

ACORN, the radical direct-action group that excels at bringing the dead, illegal aliens, people who have already voted, and minors to the polls, is seeking to take its ballot box-stuffing operation to the next level.

China Seeks Its Pound of Flesh

The Chinese government wants security for all the money it has in effect lent the U.S. by purchasing government debt, the Wall Street Journal reports.