As I begin writing this, my innocent 13 year old little girl is in tears sitting in the terminal at Reagan International Airport. Somewhere back at the TSA checkpoint there is a middle aged woman who has just, in clear view of law enforcement, committed a sexual crime...
TSA
Have you gained or lost weight? Congrats, TSA is now tracking you for suspicious activity.
If you fall asleep or use the bathroom during your next flight, those incriminating facts could be added to your federal dossier. Likewise, if you use your laptop or look at noisy children seated nearby with a “cold, penetrating stare,” that may be included on your...
TSA and Border Patrol stole his life savings but never charged him with a crime
His American dream was helping his family in Albania. It ended when he walked through security at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. A U.S. citizen for more than a decade, Rustem Kazazi was flying back to Europe to help his Albanian family repair their home and...
After pointlessly groping countless Americans, the TSA is keeping a secret watchlist of those who fight back
"I need a witness!" exclaimed the security screener at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Because I had forgotten to remove my belt before going through a scanner, he explained, I must undergo an "enhanced patdown." I told him that if he jammed his hand into...
TSA justifies pat downs with op-eds — is my paper trail to blame?
Americans love to grouse about the Transportation Security Agency. I have caterwauled as loudly as anyone over the years. But I learned last week that some of TSA’s absurdities might be my fault. TSA is proud of its 2600 Behavior Detection Officers (BDOs) who lurk in...
Saturday Morning Cartoons
Haha. If you've got the patience, check out Cathy Young and Reason magazine's ridiculous attack on Ron Paul and Antiwar.com to go along with a giant steaming pile of Tom Palmer horseshit about the most dangerous threat to libertarianism -- Tsar Vlad the Terrible of...
News Roundup 3/5/17
The Russia-gate conspiracy theory could push Trump to take a dangerous hard-line approach against Russia. [Link] Trump claims that President Obama was eavesdropping on phone calls. Trump has yet to provide proof this was happening. [Link] TSA patdowns will become more...
11/7/16 David Swanson on the No More Wars initiative
David Swanson, author of War is a Lie, discusses his article “How Drone Pilots Talk;” and the RootsAction.org initiative to tell the next president “No more war!”
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Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...