About: Thomas R. Eddlem
Posts by Thomas R. Eddlem
Is It American Policy to Shoot the Wounded and Commit War Crimes?
Defense Secretary Robert Gates defended the actions of U.S. soldiers who are shown in a video shooting civilians — a video released by Internet whistleblower website Wikileaks.org April 13....
Austrian Economics Rising
“Peter, you have been mocked on all of these financial shows going back to 2005. Going back to 2005! Not only did you predict problems, you actually explained what...
Mitt Romney’s Magic Act: Creating the Illusion Romneycare Is Different from Obamacare
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney won the Southern Republican Leadership Conference Presidential Poll April 10, defeating Rep. Ron Paul by a single vote, 438-437. ...
Bush Adm. “Knowingly” Imprisoned Innocents
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who was Chief of Staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, has charged in a sworn affidavit that top officials of the Bush administration — including...
Federal Judge Rules Warrantless Wiretapping Violates FISA
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker ruled March 31 that the executive branch cannot flatly ignore the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 in a fiery decision that...
Judge Napolitano Exposes Government Lies
Judge Andrew Napolitano's Lies the Government Told You should be read by every American. His book should especially be read by conservatives who love the U.S. Constitution (i.e., "constitutionalists"); conservative...
Opposition Candidates Arrested in Iraq After Maliki’s Party Losses
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's party, the State of Law Coalition, lost the March 7 parliamentary elections in a fractured vote, but appears to have embarked upon a...
Dingell: Healthcare Law Will “Control the People”
Democratic Congressman John Dingell of Michigan accidentally let slip a truth about Obama's new healthcare package to a Detroit radio talk-show host, telling the host that the new health-care law...
GOP Bigwigs Resort to Lies to Stop Rand Paul
The Establishment neo-conservative wing of the Republican Party has a problem in Kentucky: Their anointed U.S. Senate candidate, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, is losing. According to a...
Social Security Trust Fund in Red, Drawing on Federal IOUs
The March 15 Associated Press story was blunt: "For more than two decades, Social Security collected more money in payroll taxes than it paid out in benefits — billions...
Obama Signs Patriot Act Extension
President Obama signed a one-year extension of three provisions of the USA Patriot Act Saturday February 27. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) explained two days earlier that the...
Congressional Democrats Nix Anti-torture Measure
House Democrats have caved in to Republican pressure, removing an anti-torture provision from the Fiscal 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act (H.R. 2701). “The controversial provision,” the Washington Post reported February...
House Republicans Call for Bigger Deficits Than Obama
An alternative budget proposal submitted by Congressman Paul Ryan (Wis.), the House Budget Committee's Republican ranking member, would increase the federal budget deficit even more than President Obama's bloated budget...
Why Texas Pilot Committed Suicide Against IRS
Texas pilot Joe Stack, who set his house on fire and flew his airplane into an Internal Revenue Service in Austin, Texas, on February 18, was motivated by frustration...
CPAC, the JBS and Conservatism’s Real Fringe
One frequent news angle in stories regarding The John Birch Society's sponsorship of this week's ongoing CPAC conference has been the question of whether so-called “fringe groups” like The...