“Community organizing” on The Daily Caller

Bertha Lewis, the potty-mouthed chief organizer of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) announced today that her group has filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition. (more)

Grass-roots activists organizing boycotts against large corporations like Target stores and BP now find themselves directing some of their ire at another corporate monolith: Facebook. (more)

Grassroots activists organizing boycotts against large corporations like Target Stores and BP now find themselves directing some of their ire at another corporate monolith: Facebook. (more)

While Fox News host Glenn Beck spoke to the droves of people that flooded the Lincoln Memorial to attend his “Restoring Honor” rally Saturday, the Reverend Al Sharpton also drew a sizable, though much smaller, crowd across town for his “Reclaiming the Dream” rally at Dunbar High School. Sharpton’s rally concluded with a march to the proposed site of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall. (more)

Tucked away in the corner of U and 9th street of Washington DC is a thriving community based on local Ethiopian businesses. Since 2001, many Ethiopians moved to the area and established several successful restaurants and shops in the once dodgy part of town. In a bittersweet result, residents and business owners have to find affordable housing outside the city as housing prices rise. (more)

A liberal group is attacking the Tea Party movement with a new project called “F*CK Tea” to discredit the solutions offered by conservative activists. It is a three-tiered campaign that includes selling t-shirts and coffee mugs with the derogatory slogan on it. (more)

Last week in Las Vegas, an ideological showdown occurred in the political backyard of embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, as the left-wing Netroots Nation Convention and conservative RightOnline Conference squared off for the third year in a row. (more)

“This is a very bad day for us.” (more)

MSNBC and talk radio host Ed Schultz delivered his address to the progressive congregation of bloggers at the Netroots Nation conference, and he had some strong words for the White House. Alluding to the Shirley Sherrod fiasco, Schultz quipped that the White House “must have a sissy room,” and that despite the fact that he “busted my ass for Obama,” the President visited Special Report with Bret Baier, “in my time slot.” (more)

LAS VEGAS, NV — It is well known that you should never stand between a blogger and a free lunch, but at NetRoots Nation, all rules get thrown out the window if you’re doing it for a cause. (more)

The radical activist group ACORN “works” for the Democratic Party and deliberately promotes election fraud, ACORN employees told FBI investigators, according to an FBI document dump Wednesday. (more)

British Airways cabin crew have begun a fresh five-day strike, the third and last in their current series of walkouts. (more)

While the Obama administration runs away from ACORN here in the United States it is quietly embracing ACORN overseas. (more)

For a supposedly dead organization, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now sure has been busy. (more)

I’ll admit, maybe the flat-screen TV’s and minifridges are a bit much, but, as far as socialist-leaning countries go, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for Scandinavia. While for many libertarians and conservatives the “taxation is theft” debate immediately comes to mind when speaking of such countries, I’d rather point to the rationale behind Norway building the world’s “most humane prison”—to attempt to give people who are imprisoned a real chance at reintegrating into society upon release. In other words, a real, tangible concern for the welfare of people other than one’s self. Time writes: (more)

ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis praised socialism and said the Tea Party was a “bowel movement” filled with racists in a speech to a left-wing youth group, a new video shows. (more)

NEW YORK  — A federal appeals court on Wednesday handed the government a victory by temporarily blocking a judge’s finding that Congress was wrong to halt federal funding to the activist group ACORN. (more)

On Sunday March 21, 2010, ACORN’s Board voted to cease operations nationwide on April 1, 2010, i.e. April Fool’s Day. This was almost exactly a year after I testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution calling on the committee to investigate ACORN. The chairman of the full Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), initially agreed with me that ACORN needed to be investigated. Now, ACORN the organization may be gone but it has still not been investigated. (more)

BALTIMORE — The community organizing group Acorn, battered politically from the right and suffering from mismanagement along with a severe loss of government and other funds, is on the verge of filing for bankruptcy, officials of the group said Friday. (more)

ACORN’s state chapter in Missouri is the latest to rebrand itself as part of ACORN’s national strategy to distance itself from its negative public image. (more)