Big Government

On August 25th 2009, Big Hollywood’s Patrick Courrielche broke the story of a conference call he attended with other “rising artist and art community luminaries“: On Thursday August 6th, I was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to

Everything you needed to know about the unorthodox roll out of the now-notorious ACORN sting videos was hidden in plain sight in my Sept. 7 column, “Katie Couric, Look in the Mirror.” ACORN was not the only target of those

If rightwing operatives succeed in bringing down the community group, Democrats and minorities will have lost a valuable ally By Brad Friedman Communism is dead. Al-Qaida isn’t as scary as it used to be. But an American rightwing without a

***Full interview below*** Today Chris Wallace interviewed ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis and noted ACORN critic Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA). Politico reports on the interview here: Issa to ACORN: Will you come before Congress? Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) challenged ACORN chief

Today, the New York Post rolls out an almost 2,000 words on the history, and troubles, of ACORN. It is a great place to start cracking open the ACORN nut: Just how nutty is ACORN? Very, say longtime watchers of

From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says there should be an investigation into the hidden-camera video involving employees at the activist group ACORN and a couple posing as a prostitute and her pimp. The two ACORN

You’d think for $53 million in federal funds — not to mention hundreds of millions of dollars from left-wing foundations — over the years, ACORN would be able to pay its own employees well. It turns out that while their

In a front page story today, the Washington Post digs into many of the troubles and scandals that have plagued ACORN in recent years. Here’s a key graph on the last ‘independent review’ ACORN conducted: In a June 2008 report