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Fox News Lied, ACORN died

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Conservative Hero

Jame O’Keefe became an instant conservative hero last fall when he released film allegedly showing ACORN employees advising him on how to break the law. In the video, he dressed up like a pimp in a cheap X rated movie. However it was later determined that O’Keefe edited the video footage to change appearances. For […]

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People who live in glass houses, shouldn’t throw Acorns

Senator David Vitter (R-LA) claims on his website that he “has been the Senate’s most outspoken critic of ACORN”. In the wake of tapes that show ACORN employees offering tax advice to two conservative operators posing as a prostitute and a pimp, Vitter has “offered multiple admendments to bar them from receiving federal funding.” What […]

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Caught between an Acorn and a Hard Place

Congress was falling all over themselves to pass a bill punishing ACORN. In fact, they refer to the bill (in the bill itself) as the “Defund ACORN Act”. The bill passed both the House and Senate. There is only one problem with that — bills that punish a single person or organization without a trial […]

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Stung!

© Dwane Powell

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ACORN could have gotten away with it if they said this

ACORN is under fire for appearing to encourage tax evasion and prostitution, but perhaps the real problem was that they were giving this advice to poor people. © Kevin Siers

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Conservatives in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones, part 2

Wing-nut lawmaker Michele Bachmann has come out against the census, saying that she “won’t be answering any information beyond” how many people live in her home. She claims that ACORN will be part of the Census Bureau’s efforts “They will be in charge of going door to door and collecting data from the American public. […]

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