About: Thomas R. Eddlem
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Memos Show IRS in D.C. Delayed Tea Party Groups’ Non-Profit Status
The release of 1,400 pages of e-mails and memos to Judicial Watch has confirmed that the Obama administration's IRS in Washington singled out Tea Party and “patriot” organizations for...
Do Romneycare’s Health Connector Failures Signal ObamaCare Woes?
Massachusetts announced May 5 that it was abandoning its Health Connector website — the centerpiece of Romneycare that has been a model for ObamaCare nationally — after eight years of the...
Benghazi Citizens Commission: Attack Made With U.S.-Provided Arms
A private study by military and security professionals has concluded that the Americans killed at the Benghazi consulate annex on September 11, 2012 were killed by rebels who had...
Study: Some Biofuels Release More Greenhouse Gases Than Gasoline
A new scientific study published by the peer-reviewed Nature Climate Change reveals that some federally subsidized ethanol biofuels produce more carbon dioxide than burning gasoline, when the entire production...
Ukrainian False Flag? The Anti-Semitic Leaflets in Donetsk
Widespread news accounts of handbills being circulated in the troubled eastern Ukraine province of Donetsk calling for registration of all Jews with a putative separatist government may have been...
Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty Flouts IRS List Demand
The IRS is demanding that Campaign for Liberty hand over its donor list. But the organization has refused, noting that anonymous political lobbying in America goes all the way...
Captain America Fights Totalitarianism to Box Office Success
The latest Marvel Comic-turned-movie, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, has not only entertained huge audiences, it has won the opprobrium of neoconservative hawks globally for its biting critique of...
Ryan Budget Numbers Belie Claims of Spending Cuts, Balanced Budget
This year's proposal by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is special in that it features a couple of key falsehoods that are thoroughly refuted by the budget document...
Supreme Court Further Eases Campaign Finance Restrictions
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down limits on aggregate campaign donations April 2 by a narrow 5-4 decision. The court plurality in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, while upholding the...
Obama Meets Pope Amid Catholic Lawsuits Against ObamaCare
President Obama met with Catholic Pope Francis at the Vatican for 52 minutes March 27, and largely avoided policy disagreements during the private conversation. The conversation comes at a...
Will South Carolina Retire “Liberal Lindsey” Graham?
South Carolina's Lindsey Graham has become the neoconservative Republican targeted by Tea Party and liberty movement organizations nationally, and the South Carolina U.S. Senate primary on June 10 may...
Florida Bellwether Race Results in GOP Victory
Former Republican lobbyist David Jolly prevailed in a March 12 special election in Florida's 13th Congressional District, a swing district victory many political observers are calling a bellwether for...
Sen. Feinstein: CIA Smashed Constitution, Separation of Powers
Senate Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) publicly charged the CIA with repeatedly spying on her committee staffers conducting oversight of the agency, and of deleting files from...
Is CIA Spying on Senate Intelligence Committee?
Colorado Senator Mark Udall charged in a March 4 letter to President Obama that the CIA has engaged in “unprecedented action against” the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, actions which...
Reaction to Obama Budget: Yawns, Spending Increases Won’t Fly
President Obama dropped his fiscal 2015 budget proposal on Congress March 4 to a chorus of yawns and indifference. The budget featured numerous massive new spending proposals — almost...