Matthew Vadum

WSJ: Let Ford Save Ford

The Wall Street Journal has an eye-opening editorial today calling upon the fabulously wealth Ford Foundation to bail out the struggling Ford Motor Co.:

Animal Rights Pirates Insult Inuit

Paul Watson of the criminal Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recently compared a government-ordered cull of doomed narwhals to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War. The narwhals had become trapped without food and were in the process of starving to death. The Canadian government allowed local Inuit to slaughter the animals.

The Big 3 Takeover

The Wall Street Journal reports that Congress and the Bush administration are poised to move on the scary corporatist bailout package for decrepit Detroit automakers:

Hurricane Hank Plans to Strike Again

Probably the worst U.S. Treasury Secretary of all time, Henry Paulson, now wants to try and revive the housing market by forcing banks to cut interest rates on mortgages.

One of the Reasons ACORN Opposes Norm Coleman

ACORN, of course, can like or dislike the policies of any politician it chooses, but it appears one of the reasons the radical vote fraud conglomerate dislikes Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) is that Coleman opposed a so-called living wage initiative backed by the group when he was mayor of St. Paul.

Left Planning Assault on the Constitution in the Name of Health Care

Get used to listening to weak arguments from the left about so-called rights as they use every argument they can think of to justify the further expansion of the size and scope of government.

Nadler Needs to Read the Constitution

Rep. Jerrold “Whiff of Fascism” Nadler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, is demanding that President George W. Bush not issue “pre-emptive pardons of senior officials in his administration during the final 90 days of office.”

Fired ACORN Board Member Karen Inman Speaks Out

We somehow missed an excellent news report from CNN on the ACORN embezzlement scandal earlier this month. (I must have been too busy playing Super Obama World.) In the Nov. 13 report CNN reported that terminated ACORN national board member Karen Inman said it’s time to bring in “the sheriff” to investigate the group’s crooked financial dealings. (See previous blog post on Inman’s dismissal.)

Soros Holds Franken Recount Fundraiser

Not content with merely purchasing the secretary of state post in Minnesota, now George Soros holds a fundraiser to help Democrat Al Franken steal the contested U.S. Senate election in that state.

ACORN’s Night of the Long Knives

Cross big boss Bertha Lewis at ACORN and you get shived. The gang’s “chief organizer” released a statement saying board members ”Karen Inman and Marcel Reid were removed for violating the board’s code of conduct.”

Auto Bailouts Will Give Us Detroitsky

Robert Tracinski of The Intellectual Activist wrote a great op-ed on why bailing out the big automakers in Detroit is a really, really, really bad idea. It begins:

Bill Clinton’s Tangled Finances May Sink Hillary as SecState

Or so says Capital Research Center’s Matthew Vadum in his latest article in the American Spectator.

Runaway Grand Jury in Texas

Some wacky grand jurors in Texas claim to have indicted Vice President Dick Cheney for “organized criminal activity” pertaining to prisoners.

Anti-Proposition 8 Blacklist

Without even taking a position on Proposition 8, the voter-approved referendum that banned gay marriage in California last week (by amending the state constitution), it is fair to say that the proposition’s outraged opponents have gone too far.

Big Trouble on the Horizon for AARP?

The shameless Big Government lobby group AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) is cruising for a bruising, the Des Moines Register editorializes today:

Republican Losses and Conservative Ideas Fifty Years Ago

Although Democratic Party owner George Soros didn’t make the “O List” published by the New Republic, two individuals associated with his Democracy Alliance, the secretive liberal billionaire’s club, did. The O List, according to the liberal magazine, contains “the 30 people who matter most in Obama’s Washington.” The two are [emphases added below]:

George Soros has Many Friends on Capitol Hill and in the New Administration

We already knew that Congressman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) and other lawmakers such as Representative Rahm Emanuel (D-Illinois) have been close to liberal philanthropist George Soros for years, but a Sept. 7, 2004 letter on Frank’s website shows just how close.

CAP’s John Podesta Confirms He’ll Lead Obama Transition

John Podesta, head of the liberal Center for American Progress, confirmed he will be heading President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team.

Change is Coming: Great Depression 2.0 May Be On Its Way

Given the enthusiasm for reactionary economics in the ranks of the victors on Election Day, it seems highly likely that they will repeat the same policy mistakes of the Hoover-FDR era. The recession we now appear to be in could, with a coordinated Big Government approach to policy, be fairly easily parlayed into a full-blown depression.

ACORN Loves High Taxes But Doesn’t Bother Paying Them

Capital Research Center has discovered that ACORN, which relentlessly argues for higher taxes, can’t be bothered to actually pay its own taxes. In the November Foundation Watch we report: