Gross Failure of the Media
How can over a quarter of the country believe something that is patently untrue, utterly ridiculous, and lacking even one iota of proof?
How can over a quarter of the country believe something that is patently untrue, utterly ridiculous, and lacking even one iota of proof?
Will Bunch | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
If you ever needed proof that 26 percent of America is totally bat-guano out-of-their-freakin'-minds crazy, check out the new poll just out on Obama and ACORN.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
A new Public Policy Polling survey finds. that 52% of all Republicans believe that the group ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama. Here's what people are saying about ACORN on Twitter.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
Your "This Day In Government Contractor Abuses" comes via Spencer Ackerman, who flags this release from the U.S. Department of Justice: The United St...
AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
NEW ORLEANS — State investigators raided ACORN offices on Friday, taking away computer hard drives and documents as part of a probe into alleged...
Paul Loeb | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
Losing the Virginia and New Jersey governorships hurt. Local factors played a part, but these are major states. So it matters why the Democrats lost them. Here are eight reasons -- and lessons for next time.
Mike Stark | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
You may remember Andrew Breitbart as the proprietor of BigGovernment.com, and, apparently, babysitter for juvenile delinquents James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, the conservative, hidden-camera-wielding duo that went undercover to obtain footage of low-level ACORN staffers.
Daniel Goldstein | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York
Where are the charges of frivolity when it comes to Ratner's, Bloomberg's and Paterson's hardheaded goal of building the most expensive arena in history, in the middle of a recession and housing crisis?
AP | PETE YOST | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Two conservative activists released a new undercover video targeting the community organizing group ACORN on Wednesday, an attempt ...
Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media
If Jonathan Klein were as responsible an executive as Ted Turner, and as conscientious a citizen as Ted Turner, he would be as concerned as Ted Turner about the danger of Lou Dobbs.
Miguel Guadalupe | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
Republican Senators have proposed to require all those who fill out census surveys to affirm their citizenship. That may be the final nail in the coffin of the GOP/Latino relationship.
Posted 10.30.2009 | Comedy
Last month, two ACORN employees were caught on tape advising a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp to lie about her profession in order to qualify ...
The Times-Picayune | Gordon Russell | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home
Beth Butler, the longtime executive director of Lousiana ACORN, was terminated by the organization's national leadership Monday amid a power struggle ...
AP | SHARON THEIMER and PETE YOST | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Conservative Republicans are capitalizing on the troubles of community activist group ACORN – ranging from charges of voter r...
Bill Maher | Posted 10.10.2009 | Comedy
This weekend is the perfect time for Obama to announce he's repealing "don't ask, don't tell" and committing to a full-throated endorsement of gay marriage. But of course that's not going to happen.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
I think that all homo sapiens can understand how the mere thought of an organization that receives government money through contract mechanisms being ...
Art Levine | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
Berman has established a bevy of anti-reform "non-profit" websites that enable him to attack everything from ACORN to unions to MADD while defending trans-fats and a low minimum wage as good for the economy.
Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
When Congress rushed to stop sending federal money to ACORN in the wake of the prostitution scandal involving a few of their employees, Republicans wr...
David Jones | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
While the guerrilla theater video made for interesting TV, it does not accurately portray the work ACORN does. ACORN has a done a tremendous amount of good.
Rinku Sen | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
The attack on ACORN isn't about fighting corruption. If it was, then dozens of corporations with federal contracts far larger than ACORN's would be under investigation now.
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics
I talked with Congressman Alan Grayson in detail about his efforts to stop the government cash flow to contractors that cheat the government and overcharge the American taxpayers.
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
Being progressives and promoting a positive agenda of Socio-Spiritual Liberation and Joyful Justice doesn't mean being wimpy.
AP | KEN RITTER | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
LAS VEGAS — The political advocacy group ACORN and a former supervisor were ordered Wednesday to stand trial on charges that they illegally paid...
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Lost in all of the sensationalism and selective truths is that there has been no connection between ACORN and underage prostitution, until a kid walked in and started talking about it to anyone he could get to listen to him.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) sent out a fundraising e-mail Wednesday touting the GOP's Defund ACORN Act -- which was both deemed likely...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media