The 99 Percent: Why Are They Barely Treading Water?
The Left is correct that the top one percent of Americans have gotten richer while the bottom 99 percent have stagnated, but they couldn’t be more wrong about the...
About: Thomas R. Eddlem
Posts by Thomas R. Eddlem
If I Were an ISIS Recruiter
If I were an ISIS recruiter, I’d tell Iraq and Syria that our government is the enemy of Islam, bombing Muslim countries and interfering with their governments worldwide. ...
Surveillance of the Right Is Not New: The IRS Scandal in Historical Perspective
The “Reuther Memorandum” — written by Democrat Party operatives in 1961 — outlined steps the Kennedy administration could use to isolate the political Right via government. ...
Inside Track
According to a damning report from Bloomberg News January 8, “U.S. weapons intended for Iraq’s beleaguered military are winding up in the possession of the country’s Shiite militias,” militias...
Obama’s SOTU: Gearing Up for 2016
President Obama tried to set the national conversation for the 2016 elections, outlining in his State of the Union address a host of expensive new social programs that are...
Will the New Congress Rein in Obama?
With President Obama sending troops to war in defiance of Congress, granting amnesty, and spending money on foreign aid, can the new Congress rein in the runaway executive? ...
DEA Began Warrantless Surveillance in 1990s!
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency officials have admitted in court filings that they engaged in widespread warrantless surveillance of the American people as far back as the 1990s, back during...
Police Continue Militarization Amid Disarmament of Citizens
The Washington Times published two news stories December 30 in which America's Founding Fathers would have seen as a disturbing pattern. The paper reported that the pace of military-grade...
Der Spiegel Reveals Loose Standards Needed for Drone Assassination
The German magazine Der Spiegel has has published a revealing exposé about the loose standards with which the Obama administration assassinated people, including many non-combatants, in Afghanistan. The December...
NSA Admits Ongoing Violations of Americans’ Privacy
The NSA has been forced to admit it has violated Americans' personal privacy thousands of times — and even transgressed its own insanely loose rules — with warrantless surveillance, thanks...
The Tortured Logic of the Torture Lobby
Some argue that the torture of innocents under the Bush/Cheney program simply needs to be reformed. But you can't reform the abuse of a program when the program is...
Are Dick Cheney and Michael Hayden Afraid of Torture Prosecution?
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and CIA Director Michael Hayden have been out front in the media defending the torture methods used by the CIA in the past decade...
Obama’s Latest Executive Order: $263 Million Federal Police Aid Program
President Obama announced a massive new federal spending program by executive decree on December 1. The program would create an expensive new federal aid program for local police agencies...
Obama Secretly Authorizes U.S. Combat Extension of Afghan War
The New York Times has reported that the Obama administration has secretly extended U.S. armed forces participation in ground combat operations in Afghanistan through 2015, although the president had...
“I’m Just a Bill”: Sat. Night Live Skewers Obama Exec. Orders
On Nov. 22 Saturday Night Live broadcast a satiric Obama-era update to the School House Rock video “I'm Just a Bill,” lampooning the president's executive order pretending to change...