Saving Thelma Diaz
When 17-year-old Thelma Diaz showed up for work at Lolo’s Seafood restaurant on Tuesday morning, September 21, in Ascencion, Mexico, about an hour’s...
About: Bob Adelmann
Posts by Bob Adelmann
States’ Budget Shortfalls: Pressure From Above, Pressure from Below
With all the attention being focused on extending the “Bush tax cuts,” granting additional unemployment benefits, and the arrival in Washington of newly...
Judge Porteous Is History
Federal Judge Thomas Porteous is only the eighth federal judge to be impeached, convicted, and removed from office since the founding of the...
The Fed’s Bernanke: Hubris and Dissimulation
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s recent 60 Minutes interview raised more questions than it answered. Some even questioned the questions. Gary North explained that...
Pearl Harbor Was No Surprise
True history is not served if all that is remembered about December 7 is that it is the 61st anniversary of Japan’s surprise...
American Austerity and the End of Wars of Choice
Foreign Affairs, the mouthpiece of the Council on Foreign Relations, is like a 500-pound canary: When it speaks, people listen. Gary North referred...
Deficit Commission Report: Dead On Arrival
Now that the President's Deficit Commission has failed to reach critical mass (14 favorable votes of the panel's 18 members were required for...
Smithsonian Exhibit Outrage: Asking the Wrong Questions
Although the “Hide/Seek” exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution opened on October 30th, it didn’t start generating national outrage until CNS News published a...
Don Alejo Garza Tamez: True Grit
Many still remember the movie True Grit, with John Wayne playing Rooster Cogburn, the irascible drunk who reluctantly agrees to help Mattie track...
Sorry, Charlie, No Reprimand for You
Embattled Harlem Democrat Charles Rangel wants his sentence for various deeds of misconduct reduced from censure to reprimand, holding that censures are only...
Breaking Hauser’s Law
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, chairman emeritus of the Hoover Institution, Kurt Hauser, strongly disagreed with the Obama administration’s claim that by...
Rep. Joe Wilsons Political Problems
Best known for his unseemly outburst "You lie!" during President Obama's speech on immigration reform in September, 2009, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) was...
Who Funded the Mayflower?
Richard Maybury’s “The Great Thanksgiving Hoax,” first published in 1999 summarized the sanitized version of the Pilgrim’s landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620...
The Fed: Defending the Indefensible
In defending the Federal Reserve against what CNBC considered to be “an unprecedented level of attacks,” former Fed governor Frederic Mishkin said it...
Bloodbath Coming?
White House deficit commission co-chairman Alan Simpson spoke at a Christian Science Monitor roundtable on Friday morning saying, “I can’t wait for the...