Matthew Vadum

The War on Poverty -- $21 Trillion Later

Fifty years and trillions of dollars after the "War on Poverty" was launched, poor Americans aren't much better off, according to a study published by Republican reformers in Congress.

ObamaCare for Illegals

The Obama administration and a group run by senior Obama White House veterans are encouraging illegal aliens to enroll in Obamacare at Mexico's consulates across the United States.

No, Gov. Brownback, Cruz didn't violate Reagan's 11th commandment

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is the latest Republican to twist Ronald Reagan's "Eleventh Commandment" to suit his purposes by falsely accusing Sen. Ted Cruz of violating it.

Medea Benjamin Booted Out of Egypt

Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, a frequent teller of tall tales, claims she was detained and physically abused Monday by Egyptian authorities when she flew into Cairo’s airport –on her way to an anti-Israel rally in Gaza.

Obama's Minimum Wage Ruse

President Obama's newfound enthusiasm for the minimum wage is the political equivalent of a ruse of war.

Showdown in Caracas

In a move that almost guarantees violent clashes, Venezuela's increasingly nervous Marxist caudillo is calling for his supporters to take to the streets Tuesday to combat a large planned march by that oil-rich nation's opposition.

Goodbye, Eric Holder?

Embattled Attorney General Eric Holder told the New Yorker magazine he plans to step down from his post later this year, but a Holder spokesman now denies he made any such commitment.

Robert Reich's Revolutionary Rants

To distract from Barack Obama's failing presidency and the misery it is causing millions of Americans, leftist gadfly Robert Reich is wheeling out tired old paranoid rhetoric about class warfare and "inequality."

Republican Leaders Fight Back Against IRS Power Grab

Republicans are fighting back against proposed new IRS rules that they say would make formal the tax agency's infamous crackdown on Tea Party groups that oppose the Obama agenda, stripping them of their free speech rights during election cycles.

Memo to Conservatives: Republicans Aren't Your Friends

One of the reasons the national Republican Party is such a mess is because Republicans are far too reluctant to criticize their own.

ObamaCare's Economic Destruction Exposed

A new government study projects that ObamaCare will kill 2 million full-time American jobs in 2017, confirming the approaching economic devastation about which the budget-busting program's critics have warned for years.

D'Souza's Indictment and Double Standards

The Obama administration's indictment of critic Dinesh D'Souza on campaign finance law violations is a reminder that it's dangerous to be in the opposition when the president is a lawless strongman who knows the media will protect him no matter what.

Schumer's Plan to Abolish the Tea Party

The Democrats' new much-vaunted master plan for annihilating the Tea Party movement calls for aggressive class warfare, demagoguery, and lying about the beliefs, motives, and goals of Tea Party supporters, Sen. Chuck Schumer revealed yesterday.

Will SCOTUS Reverse Obama’s Recess Appointment Power Grab?

Speculation is running rampant in the nation's capital that the Supreme Court is poised to strike down three purported recess appointments that President Obama used to unconstitutionally manipulate federal labor relations policy.

Patriot Larry Grathwohl, RIP

I learned today that Larry Grathwohl was found dead in his Cincinnati apartment. No cause of death has been announced but my guess is it was natural causes. In the above 2011 photo Larry is shown at the right. The Vietnam vet put his life on the line by infiltrating the Weather Underground Organization. He was in the inner circle of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. He told his fascinating tale in the recently reissued book, Bringing Down America.

Ex-Dem Congressman: Voter Fraud Is Commonplace, Voter ID Is The Cure

The use of absentee ballots makes massive electoral fraud possible, Davis told the Daily Caller's Neil Munro in a startling interview.  Davis's comments came months after a Tunica County, Miss., jury convicted local NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots.  Sowers received a five-year prison term.

Marxist mobocracy

Abraham Lincoln rightly denounced the “mobocratic spirit.” James Madison considered it the sacred duty of government to protect property rights from the violent whims of the mob: “That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.”

TV: Vadum on Occupy Wall Street

I was on the Sun News Network (Canada) yesterday talking about ACORN and the Occupy Wall Street movement.

SEIU’s Stephen Lerner Leaks Plan to Terrorize Corporate Executives

Radical labor organizer Stephen Lerner of SEIU intends to terrorize the families of bank executives in their homes. Lerner, a prime architect of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, said this to Marxists at the left-wing Take the American Dream Back conference in Washington, D.C., on October 3, 2011.

Occupy Wall Street Jumps the Shark

It hasn't taken long for the socialist-organized "occupation" of Wall Street to jump the shark. In a surreal news conference at the United Nations, anti-American radical and rogue financier George Soros (net worth: $22 billion) threw in his lot with the thousands of Communists, anarchists, eco-feminists, malingerers, and professional protesters who have been baiting and taunting police in lower Manhattan as part of a mass demonstration that began September 17.