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Want a preview of what an Obama Department of Justice would look like? Look no further than Obama for America General Counsel Bob Bauer’s letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey from last Friday. Bauer wants the Special Prosecutor investigating the U.S. Attorney firings to start investigating John McCain, Sarah Palin, and other Republicans including Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). Their crime? Calling on our nation’s law enforcement officers to investigate wide spread reports of voter fraud. Bauer writes:As Election Day approaches - just as in 2004 and 2006 - Republican Party officials and operatives nationwide, including...

Newly discovered evidence shows the radical advocacy group ACORN has a man in the Obama White House. This power behind the throne is longtime ACORN operative Patrick Gaspard. He holds the title of White House political affairs director, the same title Karl Rove held in President Bush's White House. Evidence shows that years before he joined the Obama administration, Gaspard was ACORN boss Bertha Lewis's political director in New York. Lewis, the current "chief organizer" or CEO of ACORN, was head of New York ACORN from at least 1994 through 2008, when she took over as national leader of ACORN....

People live in their own little worlds and have a tendency to shut out or ignore information that makes them uncomfortable. This is particularly true of liberal politicians and journalists, who find it easier and easier to ignore facts and developments that run counter to their view of how things ought to be. This fact has been on stark display recently as liberals have dismissed anyone who questions the wisdom of President Barack Obama’s demands on our national priorities as cranks or, worse, racists. One can easily demonstrate one’s racist tendencies these days by simply attending town hall meetings or...

  From Pennsylvania Right-to-Work:Most readers are already aware of a growing scandal involving the pro-forced unionism Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) in New York, Baltimore, Washington, and now, California. For those who missed it, ACORN representatives were caught on camera giving advice to undercover journalists on how to open an illegal brothel, launder its profits, and commit a host of other illegal activities.According to The Washington Examiner, teacher union officials have contributed over 1.3 million dollars (in mostly forced union dues) to ACORN since 2005.We decided to do a little digging into union financial disclosure forms on...

In a post this morning, we reported testimony tying ACORN with President Obama's Election Committee. Moncrief also testified that, in November 2007, she was given a massive database of Barack Obama donors who had already reached the maximum that they are allowed to give to the Democratic presidential nominee. Her task was to cull it for potential donors who, though prohibited from giving any more to Obama, could give to ACORN. Moncrief said that she received the database from her supervisor and that the person insisted the Obama campaign had provided it. Big Government has found another Connection

James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles are the young activists who have blown the lid off the criminal left-wing enterprise known as ACORN. If they were left-wingers exposing some conservative or religious organization, government-funded or not, the mainstream media would have hailed them as heroic whistleblowers, perhaps worthy of a Time cover. Instead, the media are doing their damndest to slime them. Michael Barone reflects here on how the Washington Post has treated O'Keefe and Giles in the context of the ACORN story: The Post's Thursday news story (headlined "ACORN to review incidents") helpfully identifies Giles as "the eldest daughter of...

CHICAGO (CBS) ― The fireworks just keep coming in the ACORN case. Another official was fired Friday. ACORN employees were secretly recorded giving advice on everything from how to smuggle in illegal immigrants to setting up brothels for teen prostitutes. Conservatives paid for a sting that secretly videotaped employees of ACORN. The employees appeared willing to help two undercover actors, even though the two said they were setting up a brothel for teen-aged prostitutes. Posing as a female madam and a male pimp, the actors recorded ACORN employees in Maryland, New York, California, D.C. and other places – but not...

ACORN Registration Forms Found In Apartment During Drug Bust. “A search of a northeast Albuquerque apartment as part of a drug investigation led to the discovery of about a dozen voter registration forms, police said. The forms were filled out and had dates from late last month, Albuquerque police said. Authorities had not determined the authenticity of the forms. The occupant of the apartment, a Cuban national, was arrested on drug charges. He told authorities he obtained the documents while working for the Association of Communities Organized for Reform Now or ACORN.” (“Albuquerque Police Find Voter Registration Forms At...

Here is video from Jay Leno last night where he made fun of ACORN with a spoof commercial that featured various people saying, "Thank you, ACORN." The tag line of the commercial: "ACORN. We'll help you get away with stuff." (VIDEO)

Barack Obama’s dear friends at ACORN are busy trying to lie, cheat, and steal their way to victory in November. The latest ACORN Watch entry comes to you from the battleground state of New Mexico, where election officials have notified prosecutors of an estimated 1,100 possibly fraudulent voter registration cards. The Bernalillo County clerk has notified prosecutors that some 1,100 possibly fraudulent voter registration cards have been turned in to her office. Some cards in New Mexico’s most populous county have the same name as a voter who’s already registered, but carry a different birth date or Social Security number;...

ORIGINAL TITLE: "Trabajo encubierto exhibe ilícitos de empleados de la ACORN; Llevan a EU niñas de México y El Salvador para prostituirlas"(SPANISH TO ENGLISH TRANSLATION):They have girls from Mexico to the United States and El Salvador for Prostitution Antonio Heras Antonio Heras Corresponsal Correspondent Mexicali, BC, 17 de septiembre. Mexicali, BC, Sept. 17. An undercover work done by Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe, activists, human rights advocates, revealed illegal actions of employees of the Association of Community Organizations for the New Reform (ACORN, for its acronym in English), who advise the import United States of girls from Mexico and...

Original Title in Polish: "W ACORN Radzili, Jak Założyć Dom Publiczny "(TRANSLATION FROM POLISH TO ENGLISH): TEXT: "A young American amateur filmmaker and activist conservative revealed the illegal practices of ACORN, the well-known organizations help the poor and racial minorities. The film shows how an employee advises ACORN hand, how to set up a public brothel. .. . Hidden camera filmed the visit. O'Keefe asked the secrets from the pfficials ... Afera w ACORN: (17-09-09, 11:40) The ACORN affair: White House indignant, joins the criticism (17-09-09, 11:40) Filmmaker James O'Keefe hidden camera filmed their visit to the local branch...

ORIGINAL TITLE: "Obama-Støttegruppe Felt Av Falsk Hore Og Hhallik"Norwegian news outlet Dabgladet carries a HUGE, above the fold story on the ACORN STING including a link to the video.Here is the English quick automatic translation from the Norwegian:(TRANSLATION): "Obama-Support Group Helps Fake Whore and Pimp Tips: Tip: Send tips til Dagbladet.no MMS/SMS: 2400 Tlf: 2400 0000 e-post: 2400@db.no Send tips to Dagbladet.no MMS / SMS: 2400 Tel: 2400 0000 e-mail: 2400@db.no ACORN activists working to improve conditions for low-and mellominnteksamerikanere. The two pictured here demonstrating against what they perceive as the financial industry's gambling with the housing market, and is...

(Automatic Translation from Spanish to English)Source: Channel T47, TelemundoTitle: Immigration / "Illegal Immigrants Can Buy Homes" (Indocumentados Pueden Comprar Casa) by Delinés Batlle (BEGIN TRANSLATION) PUBLISHED: September 7, 2005 at 12:11 pm (ET) UPDATED: 30 September 2005, at 9:16 am (eastern) NEW YORK, NY. -- Thanks to an initiative of private banking it is now possible for illegal immigrants to buy homes in the United States without having a social security number. A new program helps immigrants who can not afford home to fulfill their American dream. Elena Hernandez has long had the dream of buying a home, but...

Election '08: Barack Obama lies about his ACORN past while agreeing to let the group shape the policies of his administration. He hopes his community organizer pals will help him make America "less mean-spirited.As far back as Harvard Law School, Obama dreamed of transforming America in the image of community organizations such as ACORN with whom and for whom he trained. In the May 3, 1990, edition of Chicago's Daily Herald newspaper, there's an article in which Obama, while attending Harvard Law School, gives his skewed view of American society and his plans for it. "I'm interested in organizations, not...

(AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION FROM FRENCH):ACORN fronting "Borat to the right" L'organisation de gauche ACORN , qui lutte contre la pauvreté aux États-Unis, n'en est pas à sa première controverse. The leftist organization ACORN, which fights against poverty in the United States, is not at its first controversy. During the last presidential campaign, she found herself in the crosshairs of Republicans, who were accused of falsifying voter registration campaign. ACORN, which openly supported Barack Obama, believed to have gathered 1.3 million voters poor, mostly black, in 21 states during the largest voter registration operation of the country's history ... But the...

[Freepers and lurkers: Apologies for the odd English (machine translation) but one gets the point. From Arutz-Sheva, from Israel--in Russian [news the US State Controlled Media (SCM) will not report to protect the Presidency of Barack Obama]:Scandal With "Amuta" Barack Obama (Седьмой Канал - Скандал с «амутой» Барака Обамы)-- 23:54 13 Сентября 2009 23:54 13 September 2009 -- The Conservatives welcomed the decision by the Census Bureau to sever ties with ACORN (amuta Barack Obama) because of loss of confidence in the group, but the hidden filming, proving that the officers advised the non-profit organization "pimp" and "prostitute", as they...

What does it say when John Stewart covers a story before Katie, Brian, and Charlie? ACORN suspended operations yesterday, calling the actions of their employees at four separate locations indefensible. This was after ACORN Bertha Lewis called the BigGovernment videos a scam, that ACORN employees were just "playing along", which came right after they claimed they were suing FoxNews for making ACORN their Willie Horton for 2009, which wasn't too long after they called this an isolated incident. Next up? Bertha Lewis saying "we would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids"? Zoinks! Read...

She finally decided to crawl out of the bunker and hit some cable shows this afternoon. Not surprisingly, Blitzer’s segment is the more informative of the two: Watch her thank O’Keefe and Giles for helping weed out the very few bad apples in the ACORN system before (a) threatening to sue them, (b) accusing them of doctoring the vids, and (c) alleging that they were turned away from “dozens” of offices.

SAN BERNARDINO - The head organizer for California ACORN says a new video that appears to show a staffer at the organization's San Bernardino office is fake journalism. The video, which was posted shortly before 2 p.m. Tuesday on a Web site called Big Government.com, shows a female ACORN employee talking to a man who claims to be a pimp interested in establishing a brothel where underage immigrant prostitutes would turn tricks in order to raise money for political activity. The woman, identified on the video as Tresa Kaelke, appears on posted footage to be interested in cooperating the plan....