About: Bob Adelmann
Posts by Bob Adelmann
Cato Institute Starts National Police Misconduct Reporting Project
The conservative think tank Cato Institute has announced its latest effort to hold local police accountable by establishing its National Police Misconduct Reporting Project. Its purpose is to “determine...
JOBS Act Is Starting to Work
ClearSign Combustion in Seattle, Washington, is one of the first small “early-stage” companies to raise public capital under the JOBS Act enacted in early April. The company’s core expertise...
Book Review: “The Amateur, Barack Obama in the White House”
Edward Klein, a certified member of the establishment, has exposed Barack Obama for what he is: arrogant, prideful, and unsuited to be President. ...
Congressional Budget Office Predicts U.S. Recession
The latest report from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released on Tuesday said that if the country falls off the “fiscal cliff” — variously also called “taxmageddon” — it will...
Reining in the Regulators: More than Executive Orders Needed
Executive Orders to reduce regulatory burdens on the economy, such as the one issued last week by President Obama, are likely to have little if any effect. A better...
Taxmageddon Confrontation Has Already Begun
In the face of the $500 billion "taxmageddon" tax increase coming in 2012, Congress will pass the buck. Nothing is likely to happen before the election, and the lame...
Officials Confiscate Cash and Property — for No Reason
Outrageous examples in the United States of the misuse of civil asset forfeiture laws — whereby government officials confiscate money, though the people carrying the cash have done nothing...
New Evidence that Obama Was Born in Kenya is Explained Away
The revelation of a 1991 biographical sketch of Barack Obama that states he was born in Kenya, plus other evidence that he is Kenyan-born, have been discounted as irrelevant...
Congressional Budget Wrangling Continues
On Wednesday the Senate voted down five budget proposals, reflecting gridlock and unwillingness to face reality. Four of the budget proposals were presented by Republican senators, while the fifth was based...
Boehner Fires First Salvo in Taxmaggedon Wars
House speaker John Boehner decided on Tuesday to fire the first round in the coming battle to deal with the huge tax increases taking place after the first of the year...
NLRB’s “Ambush Rule” Overturned, for the Moment
On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled against the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) “ambush rule” that would greatly shorten the time an employer had to defend...
Eurozone Teetering on the Edge of Recession
The latest numbers on the Eurozone economies are showing nothing, with an official recession call barely avoided. And without Germany’s slightly better economic performance in the first quarter, the recession...
JPMorgan Chase’s 2 Billion Trading Loss Results in Calls for More Regulation
JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion trading loss has predictably generated calls for more bank regulation. But one free-market advocate, Dan Amoss of the Daily Reckoning made this suggestion: "Here’s an idea: it’s called...
Romney Campaign Adopts Key Advisor’s Tactics
Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney's veteran campaign director, assures that his campaign will be dirty while ignoring key issues facing the republic. ...
Illegals Ripping Off U.S. Taxpayers
The Additional Child Care Credit scam, wherein the IRS allows someone to get a tax credit for children claimed to be residing part of the year at a residence...