Last year’s controversy over the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a left-wing group that draws much of its funding from the taxpayer, probably helped begin the turning of public opinion against special government subsidies for liberal groups. It has since been eclipsed by the Obama administration’s subsequent and ambitious legislative action, but it remains important.

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has not forgotten about it. Hie has released his second long report on ACORN based on “over 50,000 pages of documents: from ACORN offices in California and Oklahoma,” and containing information gleaned “from ACORN insiders in Missouri, Colorado, New York and Louisiana, and from Secretary of State investigations in nearly every state”