Matthew Vadum

Obama and Ayers in the News — Finally

It’s amazing that the press is now acting as if Senator Barack Obama’s relationship with terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn is a lighting bolt that’s suddenly come out of the clear blue sky. It’s not and it’s not “Swift Boating” to merely recite facts.

Huffington Post Covers Up Obama’s ACORN Roots

Flaky conservative blowhard-cum-flaky liberal blowhard Arianna Huffington’s much visited gossip website, The Huffington Post, is just the latest media outlet trying to keep Senator Barack Obama’s exhaustively documented history of radical activism out of the public eye.

GREEN ALERT: Hidden Carbon Tax Provisions in Paulson’s Bailout 2.0

Why is the mainstream media ignoring what might be the most earth-shattering provisions in Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s Bailout Package Version 2.0?

ACORN Rent-A-Mob Demands More Welfare Housing in L.A.

The vote fraud factory known as ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is apparently supporting Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s crazy push for $5 billion in so-called affordable housing.

SEC Ruling Could Help Markets

The Washington Post reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a clarification on mark-to-market accounting rules that might help ease the current financial turmoil. The article begins

Wall Street Welfare Package Contains One Good Thing

We noted happily a few hours ago that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s $700 billion Wall Street welfare package no longer includes the infamous ACORN handout that so enraged conservatives.

MoveOn.org Uses Senate Candidate Al Franken to Beg for Money

This is unusual. Al Franken, the liberal Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota, just sent out a solicitation email for MoveOn.org urging MoveOn members to give money to Democratic candidates, including himself. Here is how it goes:

Obama’s Legal Goon Squads

This is disturbing on so many levels. KMOV TV in Missouri is reporting (video link here) that Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has signed up law enforcement officials ”to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading TV ad during the presidential campaign.”

Anti-McCain Ad Highlights Candidate’s Past Medical Problems

The New York Times reports that voter mobilization groups are running an attack ad on TV that highlights Senator John McCain’s battles with cancer:

Liberals Try to Bail Out ACORN and Other Radical Community Organizer Groups

As America peers into the economic abyss, radical community organizer groups are itching to get in on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s big bucks, Big Government bank bailout action. (Maybe we should call it BBBGBBA.) The push comes after President George W. Bush caved this summer and signed another housing bailout that contained slush fund language.

Bloggers Untrustworthy, Threatening to MSM, Journalist Panel Concludes

Stop the presses!

Warren Buffett Endorses Paulson’s $700B Bank Bailout

There had been speculation that gazillionaire Warren Buffett’s purchase of a $5 billion stake in Goldman Sachs constituted an endorsement of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s $700 billion bank bailout package, but now Buffett himself has confirmed the rumor is true. (By the way, our last article on the philanthropy of Buffett and his family is available here.)

Shameless Porkers Press On Despite Financial Crisis

Despite the anxiety roiling America’s markets, lawmakers on Capitol Hill refuse to curb their insatiable appetite for pork barrel spending.

Drilling Ban to Expire!!!

This just in — federal lawmakers are going to let the drilling ban expire at month’s end!

Emmy-Winning Actress Calls Founding Fathers ‘Community Organizers’

Actress Laura Linney demonstrated for all the world to see last night that she has no idea what she’s talking about.

Canadians Demand More Welfare Art

This has got to be one of the lamest protests ever.

Liberal 527 ‘Cavalry’ Coming to Rescue Obama?

It appears that 527s, the voter mobilization groups, are poised for a big comeback.

The “Hidden Soros Slush Fund”

There does indeed seem to be a “hidden Soros Slush Fund” in the Democratic Party’s official platform, as commentator Michelle Malkin recently pointed out.

The Evolving Agenda of George Soros’s Democracy Alliance

The Democracy Alliance, as we observed in the January 2008 issue of Foundation Watch (”Billionaires for Big Government: What’s Next for George Soros’s Democracy Alliance?”), is slowly maturing and becoming more focused in its objectives.

‘Community Organizing’ Deserves to be Ridiculed

Oh, the liberal apoplexy.