Matthew Vadum

A Victory for Global Warming Alarmism

New York’s uber-liberal attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, has strong-armed Xcel Energy into fanning the flames of global warming alarmism, the New York Times reports. Cuomo, who was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Bill Clinton, pressed Xcel to disclose to investors detailed information regarding the risks that global warming supposedly poses to its business.

The Audacity of Terrorist Bill Ayers’s ‘Hope’

It is hardly surprising to learn that three years after the 9/11 attacks former terrorist leader William Ayers remained unrepentant about his violent past, as Fox News reports.

Is Criticizing Obama a Crime?

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign really dislikes it when anyone points out anything that makes the Illinois senator look bad.

Liberal Intimidation

Left-wingers have long said “the personal is political,” and they really mean it.

Lawbreakers are Victims, according to the Associated Press

Perhaps it’s time for an in-depth study of America’s worst news-gathering organization, the Associated Press, also known as AP. AP has perfected the Orwellian use of language whereby a thing can be made into its opposite. Think “war is peace” and “freedom is slavery.”

D.C.’s Gun Control Travesty

I couldn’t say it better than David B. Kopel and Robert A. Levy so I won’t even try. Here is a link to their Wall Street Journal op-ed on the District of Columbia’s new oppressive, unconstitutional gun law. An excerpt:

Terrorist Financier Hugo Chavez Funds Maryland Charity

Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, who funds Iran-aligned terrorist group Hezbollah, has given $1.5 million to a Washington, D.C.-area charity that advocates for illegal aliens, the Washington Post reports. (See my previous Boston Herald op-ed about Chavez and terrorism here.)

San Francisco Recycling Gestapo

Yet another breaktakingly dumb proposal emerges from liberal San Francisco: Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to fine those who don’t separate their trash $1,000, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. According to the Chronicle:

Al Gore, Oilman

It was two weeks ago, that Al Gore challenged Americans to “move quickly and boldly to shake off complacency, throw aside old habits and rise, clear-eyed and alert, to the necessity of big changes” by jumping on his alternative energy bandwagon. In a much-hyped speech July 17, the former vice president urged the nation “to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.”

The Marxist Media Analysis of the Center for American Progress

Whenever Dr. David Madland of the Center for American Progress writes, Karl Marx must look up from the fiery torments of Hell and smile.

The Greenlining Institute: Shakedown Artists

The weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal highlighted the growing menace of groups like California’s Greenlining Institute. Greenlining is a left-wing pressure group that threatens adverse public relations campaigns against lenders that refuse to bow to its agenda. The Journal editorial begins:

Hold on There, Barack

Talk about presumptuous. Not content to wait for the verdict of the voters, Senator Barack Obama, who is not even the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party yet, has already directed his aides to begin making transition plans for the first 10 years (ha ha) of the Obama administration, Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic reports. Ambinder quotes an Obama campaign official as saying:

We’re All Going to Die if We Don’t Listen to Al Gore, Aspiring Billionaire Al Gore Says

Al Gore’s global warming hype machine presses on, oblivious to the fact that hard science -as opposed to semi-scientific crystal ball gazing- shows the planet is cooling. Just yesterday Daily Tech reported that the American Physical Society, an organization representing almost 50,000 physicists, did an about-face and re-opened its debate on global warming after its leadership previously called the evidence for global warming “incontrovertible.”

Lawsuit Bait: New D.C. Handgun Legislation

We may be able to measure the life of the District of Columbia’s newly proposed handgun law with a stopwatch. Unveiled today by Mayor Adrian Fenty and D.C. Council members, this measure is lawsuit bait that makes a mockery of the Supreme Court’s landmark District of Columbia v. Heller (PDF file) on June 26 by imposing maximum inconvenience on law-abiding D.C. residents who want to own firearms.

Rangel Nailed for Rent Control Abuse

Could Charles Rangel be in trouble with the law again? Here he is after being arrested at a protest at the Sudanese Embassy in 2004. It’s good to be the king, or a powerful congressman. House Ways and Means Committee chairman Charles Rangel (D-New York) has been living high off the hog, the New York Times reports. While ordinary New Yorkers struggle with sky-high rents, the archliberal Democratic lawmaker, the scourge of landlords, has not one, not two, not three, but FOUR rent-controlled apartments in New York City.

ACORN Fall Vote Fraud Campaign Underway

The vote fraud specialists at the radical group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) have already gotten their fall vote fraud campaign underway.

Hugo Chavez, Terrorism’s Director of Development

Venezuelan President Hugo chavez (left) with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in September 2006. The acronym shown on their helmets, PDSVA, stands for Petroleos de Venezuela SA, the parent company of CITGO.

Global Warming as Mass Neurosis”

The Wall Street Journal carried a wonderful op-ed by Bret Stephens called “Global Warming as Mass Neurosis” earlier this week. It begins:

CRC on The Rush Limbaugh Show

We got a hit on The Rush Limbaugh Show today. My work on the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was cited during the “Stack of Stuff” segment. From Limbaugh’s website (we’re posting this because we don’t have an audio file of the broadcast yet and because the content on the talk show host’s website is changed frequently):

Al-Qaeda’s Law Firm

Much has already been written of the U.S. Supreme Court’s lawless, nonsensical decision in Boumediene v. Bush that gives America’s terrorist enemies unprecedented access to our civilian court system, but little has been written about the aggressively anti-American public interest law firm that helped to make it happen.*