About: Thomas R. Eddlem
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Snowden Says He “Won” Contest With Obama
After six months of silence, National Security Administration (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden has begun speaking publicly about how he “won” a debate over massive warrantless surveillance of Americans by...
Texas: Cornyn-Stockman U.S. Senate Race
Texas U.S. Senator and Republican Minority Whip John Cornyn will face a wild four-way primary battle, featuring constitutionalist-minded Representative Steve Stockman and two other primary opponents. “The struggle here...
President to Sign Budget Spending/Deficit Increases
President Obama has pledged to sign into law the Murray-Ryan budget deal formally known as the “Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013.” The bill would increase discretionary spending limits over...
IRS Seeks to Stamp Out Voter Information
The IRS has proposed new regulations that would carve out an exception to federal rules on tax-exempt organizations, regulations that would essentially ban conservative tax-exempt educational organizations from informing...
Bipartisan Budget Deal: Tax and Tax, Spend and Spend
House Liberty Caucus Chairman Justin Amash (R-Mich.) aptly summed up the bipartisan budget deal being pushed by House Speaker John Boehner in this quip on his Facebook page: “Republicans...
OECD: U.S. Schools Mediocre on Education Compared to World
American high-school students scored "average" in a standardized test created by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, when compared with the rest of the developed world. American students...
Pope Francis Denounces Market-based Capitalism
Pope Francis issued an apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel) November 24 that explicitly condemned free market economics with an epithet against "trickle-down" economics, causing great gloating...
“Catching Fire”: Best Action Movie So Far This Year
High-quality science fiction/action film Catching Fire burned up the box office in its opening weekend, and — unusually for a sci-fi film — drew a majority female audience. The movie grossed...
GOP “Keep Your Health Plan Act” to the Left of Bill Clinton’s Stance
The House-passed “Keep Your Health Plan Act” would allow millions of Americans whose healthcare plans were cancelled under ObamaCare to renew their plans for one year. But the Republican-backed...
Rand Paul’s Plagiarism Scandal Explained
Sen. Rand Paul has had a rough few weeks with a burgeoning “plagiarism” scandal for borrowing multiple ideas from a variety of sources without attribution. ...
White House Claim: Government Shutdown Cost Billions, GDP Growth
The partial government shutdown in October will cost taxpayers more than $2 billion and a quarter percent or more in GDP growth for the U.S. economy this year, claimed...
I Confess: I’m a “Terrorist”
Only in America are the ones who want to balance the budget and make raising the national debt limit unnecessary labeled “terrorists,” while those who want to raise the...
Fed Says Spending Cuts Hurt Economy; QE-Infinity Will Continue
In an October 30 press release, the Federal Reserve Bank's Open Market Committee blamed the soft economy on a lack of government spending and announced it would continue the...
Liberal Brookings Institution Admits: Cash for Clunkers a Failure
The left-leaning Brookings Institution admitted in an October 31 report that the Obama administration's “Cash for Clunkers” program was an almost complete waste of billions of taxpayer dollars. The...
The Fifth Estate: Well-Acted, but Between Two Genres
The Fifth Estate is more like a documentary — without the context or the strict adherence to documentable facts — than it is an dramatization. It's not a bad film,...