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Federal tax dollars still rolling in for ACORN

By: Ralph Smith 07/13/11 2:43 PM
President Obama has said that both parties must take on their “sacred cows” in order to reach a debt-ceiling compromise. He could start by taking on ACORN, a cow so sacred to the Democratic Party that it is still receiving federal funding despite a 2009 vote by Congress to stop giving the controversial group any more tax dollars. Read More

Federal bureaucrats still handing tax dollars to ACORN

By: Mark Tapscott 07/06/11 6:08 AM
Congress passed and President Obama signed legislation last year banning federal grants and contracts to ACORN or any of its affiliates. Somebody should tell the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) about the ban. Read More

ACORN files for bankruptcy

By: Mark Hemingway 10/31/10 7:00 PM
If you’re a Republican looking for a cherry to put on top of your election sundae, here it is — pulled straight from the website of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now: Read More

UPDATE: Leftists call Virginia Democrat Rahm Emanuel’s ‘robot’

By: Barbara Hollingsworth 09/15/10 12:00 AM
Hard to believe, but Congressman Tom Perriello, D-Va. – who told startled Tea Partiers earlier this year that “If you don’t tie our hands, we will keep stealing.” – has also managed to infuriate left-wing activists in his Charlottesville district by pretending to be more conservative than he really is. Read More

Examiner Editorial: Congress should take initiative on ACORN

By: Staff report 09/05/10 12:00 AM
When the leaders of organizations tell employees not to cooperate with FBI investigators, they usually have something to hide. This is especially true when the organization in question is the infamous Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, or ACORN. Read More

Federal appeals court rules against ACORN

By: Staff report 08/12/10 12:00 AM
A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court decision that prevented Congress from withholding funds from ACORN. According to the Associated Press, “The ruling Friday reverses a decision by a district court. That judge found Congress had violated ACORN’s rights by punishing it without a trial.” Read More

ACORN employees spill beans to FBI about election fraud, claim to be working for Democratic party

By: Mark Hemingway 06/09/10 12:00 AM
Matthew Vadum, writing for The Daily Caller, summarizes the latest development in the neverending ACORN scandal: Read More

ACORN & Chuck Schumer beat hipsters & firemen

By: Timothy P. Carney 04/26/10 12:00 AM
I’ve written in the past about the development of the Nets (basketball) new arena in Brooklyn — a development that has involved eminent domain, subsidies, and race-baiting. Read More

Fmr ACORN head calls Tea Parties "bowel movement" and claims "they're coming after you"

By: J.P. Freire 04/21/10 12:00 AM
Former ACORN head Bertha Lewis told a group of the Young Democratic Socialists on that they should "do everything [they] can" to build their organization, and then insisted that our times are worse than internment under the Japanese and the years of Jim Crow laws (h/t Morga Read More

ACORN funding ban reinstated

By: Mark Hemingway 04/20/10 12:00 AM
New York Judge Nina Gershon issued a temporary in junction preventing the government from defunding ACORN last December. She later handed down a decision that made that injunction permanent. Read More
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