About: Thomas R. Eddlem
Posts by Thomas R. Eddlem
House Constitution Reading Prompts Liberal Media Snark
The new session of the U.S. House of Representatives read the full text of the U.S. Constitution on the House floor January 6, the first time the full text...
Behind Janet Napolitano’s Neighborhood Informant Video
The Department of Homeland Security made national headlines forming a new "partnership" with Walmart using a 40 second video statement by DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano that asked Walmart shoppers...
Ben Franklin Inverted
Poor Lenin’s Almanac: Perverse Leftist Proverbs for Modern Life, by Bruce Walker, Outskirts Press: Denver, Colorado, 2010, 197 pages, paperback, $20.95. Available at Amazon.com. Bruce Walker has almost...
Left Vexed Over Coming GOP Attack on Regulations
Left-wing blogs are fretting over the potential impact of the incoming new majority Republican House of Representatives upon federal regulations, especially possible Republican use of the “Congressional Review Act.” The...
Gingrich Calls Assange an “Enemy Combatant”
Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich called WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange an “enemy combatant” on Fox Business Network's Freedom Watch. He also called on the National Security Agency to...
Bernanke Hints at More “Quantitative Easing”
Stocks retreated and commodities predictably soared Monday after Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke told CBS's 60 Minutes that “it's certainly possible” the Fed could create additional “quantitative easing”...
WikiLeaks: Whistleblowing or Treason?
The Obama administration used bribes of up to $30 billion in foreign aid and spying by the CIA to force underdeveloped nations to agree to the Copenhagen summit documents,...
WikiLeaks Releases U.S. Diplomatic Cables
The Internet-based watchdog site WikiLeaks began releasing more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables in batches beginning November 28, earning the condemnation of the Obama administration and Secretary of State...
North Korea Attacks South Korea
North Korea bombarded a South Korean island with a barrage of as many as 170 shells in the early morning hours of November 23. “I believe we should punish...
Lame Duck Congress to Vote on DREAM Act, Defense Issues
A lame duck session of Congress -- already considering the Food Safety Act -- will vote on the DREAM Act related to immigration as well as the U.S. Defense...
Food Safety Bill to Empower FDA Wins Senate Cloture
Senator Richard Durbin's "FDA Food Safety Modernization Act" (S. 510) passed a cloture vote hurdle Nov. 17 by a 75-25 margin, and appears headed for final Senate passage in...
Bush: “I’d have endorsed Obama if they’d asked me”
President Bush told British officials in the heat of the 2008 presidential election, “I’d have endorsed Obama if they’d asked me,” according to a November 9 blog entry by...
MSNBC Suspends Olbermann For Being Biased?!
This story sounds like something straight out of the satirical newspaper, The Onion. But it's not. MSNBC indefinitely suspended Countdown host Keith Olbermann November 5 because the leftist television...
Commodities Skyrocket After Fed Announces $600 Billion More Inflation
One day after the Federal Reserve Bank's “Federal Open Market Committee” (FOMC) announced it would create an additional $600 billion in currency over the next eight months, commodities markets...
Can House Republicans Govern With No?
The Democratic talking points were reiterated endlessly during the campaign, that the Republican Party can't govern with “no.” “Simply saying 'no' will do nothing to create more jobs and...