About: Thomas R. Eddlem
Posts by Thomas R. Eddlem
Big Brother: NSA’s “Perfect Citizen” Program
The National Security Agency (NSA) initiated another cyber-snooping program it dubbed “Perfect Citizen” with a $100 million contract for the Raytheon Corporation, according to the Wall Street Journal for...
ACLU: Right and Wrong on Immigrants
The ACLU has begun using Arizona's S.B. 1070 immigration law as a fundraising tool. ...
Alleged Wikileaks Source Bradley Manning Arrested
Federal officials charged the alleged source for the April Wikileaks video that exposed U.S. helicopter gunners committing war crimes in Baghdad in 2007, Pfc. Bradley Manning, with a variety...
The End of the Library with Books?
The July 4 news story in the Boston Globe described a scene that will be played out in virtually every school and community in the United States over the...
Grade Inflation in American Education
The Boston Globe reported July 4 that students have been studying less in high school and college compared with past decades. “In survey after survey since 2000, college and...
Obama Proposes Supplementing Afghan/Iraq Soldiers With Social Workers
President Obama renewed his call for a “Civilian Expeditionary Workforce” to supplement the efforts of soldiers in U.S. war-zones in Iraq and Afghanistan in a June 30, 2010 town...
CBO Labels Current U.S. Debt Path “Unsustainable”
The non-partisan U.S. Congressional Budget Office declared that the U.S. government is on an “unsustainable” path of accumulating debt in a new analysis entitled The Long-Term Budget Outlook. ...
NYT’s Krugman Claims Europeans Balancing Budgets Means Worldwide Depression
Several European nations recently announced spending cuts to bring their budgets closer to balance in the wake of the current global economic recession, especially Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain....
The Founding Fathers, Political Civility, and Journalism
“In the American imagination,” author Ron Chernow wrote in the Wall Street Journal June 28, “the founding era shimmers as the golden age of political discourse, a time when...
Provincetown Revising Condoms-for-schoolchildren Policy?
The Massachusetts Cape Cod town of Provincetown will take a second look at a policy the school board adopted back in May that would allow children as young as...
Dozens of U.S. Citizens May Be on Obama Assassination List
The Washington Times reported June 24 that dozens of U.S. citizen may be targets for assassination by the Obama administration. “There are, in my mind, dozens of U.S. persons...
Xe/Blackwater Wins $100 Million CIA Contract
The Obama-era CIA has awarded a $100 million contract to the private mercenary firm Xe Services, the former Blackwater Worldwide, to guard its facilities in Afghanistan, according to the...
Glenn Beck: History Vindicated Joe McCarthy
Fox News host Glenn Beck aired an extraordinary program June 24 explaining how the facts released from the files of the FBI and the World War II-era Office of...
Joe Lieberman: Follow China’s Lead on Internet
Senator Joseph Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-Independent Senator from Connecticut, told CNN's State of the Union program June 20 that the United States government needs to follow the lead of Internet...
CFR Gen. Petraeus Replaces CFR Gen. McChrystal
President Obama announced June 23 that he had “accepted the resignation” of Afghanistan theater commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal and will replace him with Gen. David Petraeus, who commanded the...