Matthew Vadum

Obama’s Amerikkka Corps

Obama’s Amerikkka Corps is coming to your town. Barack Obama’s campaign is mobilizing 3,600 volunteers for six weeks of political work in 17 states, calling the campaign jobs “Obama Organizing Fellowships,” the Washington Post reports.

It Takes a Collective, Obama Believes

Red diaper baby Barack Obama’s collectivist beliefs go way back. We dug up an enlightening old article, “What Makes Obama Run?” (by Hank De Zutter, Chicago Reader, Dec. 8, 1995) that offers more insight into what Obama, the Democrats’ presumptive presidential candidate, thinks about America and traditional American values. The short answer: not much.

Victor Davis Hanson on America’s Cultural Amnesia

Writer Mary Kapp attended the Hudson Institute’s symposium yesterday at which Victor Davis Hanson, who received a 2008 Bradley Prize at the Kennedy Center last night, gave a talk. She writes:

Green Warfare?

The misanthropic movement known as environmentalism doesn’t mind the military killing people, but God forbid if an instrument of warfare generates carbon dioxide! According to this LiveScience article, Environmentally Friendly Bombs Planned:

Terrorist-Supporting Venezuelan Strongman Has Famous Allies

Venezuela’s Marxist strongman Hugo Chavez is the kind of anti-American that certain kinds of American leftists swoon over. In September 2006, he stood before the United Nations General Assembly in New York City to insult President George W. Bush, who had stood at the same podium the day before. He called Bush “the Devil” and made the sign of the cross, adding “and it smells of sulfur still today.” Chavez held up Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance, a book by the famous linguist Noam Chomsky, a radical critic of U.S. foreign policy, and urged his audience to read it. Within days the book had jumped to the top 10 in sales at the Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites, and its publisher, Henry Holt, ordered a reprinting.

What’s Next for George Soros’s Democracy Alliance?

Summary: Just three years ago the Democratic Party was in disarray. Despite record high-dollar donations from affluent supporters, Democrats had failed to reclaim the White House and Congress. Shell-shocked by their defeat, George Soros and other wealthy liberals formed a loose-knit group to consider how to fund a political comeback.