When a district court judge issued an injunction blocking Congress from cutting off federal funding for ACORN, she was just wrong, found the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. (more)

BigGovernment has a summary report from Judicial Watch, which filed a FOAI request for documents related to Federal investigations involving voter registration fraud by ACORN. The first investigation involves allegations stemming from the 2008 elections:Two specific complaints were filed against ACORN for alleged voter fraud in October 2008 by Lucy Corelli and Joseph Borges, Republican Registrars of Voters in Stamford and Bridgeport, Connecticut, respectively. As part of its continuing investigation int... (more)

Because they can’t stand real grass-roots competition. And because thug thizzle is how they roll. ACORN affiliates from the astroturf brigade goes nuts on Tea Party activists protesting the Democrat government health care takeover plans in Suffolk County NY (more)

Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) leaders are using the threat of a law suit to silence and intimidate critics, according to current and former members of the liberal activist group. In a letter dated June 11 an attorney for ACORN advised top whistleblowers that their unauthorized use of the organization’s name could make them liable for monetary damages and injunctive relief... (more)

The 2008 election has passed, and some people are going to tell me to just drop it...Obama won, but I answer did he win fairly? There are new allegations coming out of Nevada, that might suggest that over half of the votes in Las Vegas could be fraudulent. This might have turned the state to Obama, and John McCain should have won the state.... (more)

ACORN was out for power from the start and not concerned about legalities, much less niceties. Glenn Beck is focusing on the scandal that is ACORN in a big way. Great! Investigation shows that the notion that ACORN is a good organization that recently lost its way is untrue. Beck should check with a source of mine — "Margy the Teacher" — about whom I wrote an article posted on October 24, 2008 and titled "'Margy the Teacher' Appreciated the ACORN Threat. ACORN was out for power from the start and no... (more)

The march of corporatism continues today as the Obama administration’s “stress tests” for TARP-funded financial institutions await release. Now the Obama administration has heavily hinted that it will expect these institutions to change management if they don’t do well on these mid-term exams, apparently aiming for the decapitation of CEOs at companies like Citi and BofA just as Obama did with GM (h/t Geoff A): (more)

GLENN BECK, HOST: New charges filed against the organization that registered voters in the names of "Mickey Mouse" and "Donald Duck," charges against ACORN and two of its former employees in Nevada. The state alleges that ACORN has policies requiring employees in Vegas to sign up 20 new voters a day or be fired. Is that against the law? (more)

The radical ACORN organization worked closely with the Obama campaign during the election this past year although the community organizing group was not open about this. The photo below was scrubbed from the ACORN website before the election: One of Barack Obama's first big "community organizer" jobs involved ACORN in 1992. Obama also trained ACORN employees. He represented ACORN in court. Obama worked with and protested with ACORN. His campaign donated $800,000 to ACORN this year for voter registrati... (more)

Republicans hammered Barack Obama over his connection to ACORN during last year’s election, but now ACORN is taking a swing at some Democrats — with the help of liberal activists at MoveOn.org. The role reversal arises out of the groups’ anger at moderate House Democrats who opposed a housing bill that has more generous bankruptcy rules for people facing foreclosure. Next week this coalition will begin airing TV ads criticizing House Democrats who voted against the measure, which would for the fi... (more)