About: Thomas R. Eddlem
Posts by Thomas R. Eddlem
400k Americans’ E-Mails, Texts Read by NSA Without Warrant
The Washington Post reported July 5 that 400,000 or more innocent Americans have their e-mail and text messages read by the NSA every year without the constitutionally-required warrant and...
U.S. Troops Secretly Operating in Somalia Since 2007
The Bush and Obama administrations have conspired to send at least 120 U.S. troops to Somalia without the consent of Congress, according to a Reuters wire service report. ...
Supreme Court Levels Blow at Unions, 10th Amendment
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to unions and yet another blow to the Tenth Amendment in the 5-4 decision of Harris v. Quinn. ...
High Court: Obama Violated Constitution on “Recess” Appointments
The U.S. Supreme Court dished out a unanimous condemnation of President Obama's dictatorial usurpation of the power of appointment in the June 26 decision of NLRB v. Noel Canning....
David Brat: What Kind of Congressman Will He Be?
The primary victory of Randolph-Macon College Economics Professor David Brat over sitting House Majority Leader Eric Cantor will make the voting pattern of the district more constitutionally oriented, but...
Naming NSA Victims? Greenwald Says Game-Changer “Imminent”
Investigative reporter Glenn Greenwald has promised to name victims of NSA warrantless surveillance, calling such an expose “imminent” in an interview with Fox News. Such an exposé may prove...
House Hearings: IRS Broke Records Law on Lerner E-mails
The IRS broke federal law in not reporting Lois Lerner's hard drive failure and the loss of e-mail demanded by Congress, a federal archivist told the House Oversight Committee...
Citizen Koch: Repealing the First Amendment as an Article of Faith
The liberal-left faithful want everyone to repeat their mantra: The radical Right is buying American elections, and they are all Jew-hating, Nazi-wannabes. But this mantra is as untrue as...
Obama: I Need No Congressional Resolution to Fix Iraq
President Obama privately told congressional leaders he didn't need permission from them to send approximately 300 additional soldier/advisors to help the Iraqi government battle ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq...
Udall Amendment: The Eerie Shadow of the 1798 Sedition Act
A proposed constitutional amendment by Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.) to give Congress the unlimited power to criminalize political speech has political roots that date back to the 1798 Sedition...
VA Investigations May Be Headed Toward Prosecutions
The May 28 release of a scathing Veterans Administration Office of Inspector General report on dishonest scheduling practices at the VA clinics in the Phoenix, Arizona, area has produced calls for —...
USA Freedom Act Gutted Before House Passage; Heads to Senate
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the USA Freedom Act in gutted form May 22, forcing most of its original sponsors to vote against the legislation. The House passed...
Is a Runaway Article V Convention a Myth? 1787 Proves Otherwise
Proponents of utilizing Article V of the U.S. Constitution to convene a convention of states to amend the U.S. Constitution claim that a well-worded resolution by state legislatures would not go...
The VA Scandal in Brief: Yes, It’s Bad
The emerging cover-up of long waiting periods for care at Veterans Administration hospitals has burgeoned into national news in recent weeks, with “secret waiting lists” being exposed in half...
Rep. Amash Introduces Next Round of Anti-Snooping Amendments
Michigan Congressman Justin Amash has introduced two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 2015 that would ban bulk NSA surveillance of Americans. ...