Justin Raimondo,Antiwar.com So, you’re sick and tired of being hassled by Transportation “Security” Administration (TSA) thugs,who fondle your “junk” and force 95-year-old grandmothers to take off their adult diapers? Well,that’s tough – because it’s about to get worse. Since 2006,the TSA has been developing a $1 billion program called “Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques” [.pdf] (SPOT) [...] Doug Book Since its inception in 2002,the Department of Homeland Security has grown increasingly contemptuous of the rights of the American people. Indeed,the Gestapo-like tactics of one of the Department’s better known masters of overreach–the TSA–are responsible for countless examples of the organization’s daily assault on the Constitution. But recently,another of [...] Ben Johnson,The White House Watch Before the invention of movable type,newspapers created a tablet for each page they wished to print and broke it at the end of the day. If the media wanted to conserve resources,they could simply fuse the words “The Obama administration lied”to the opening line of [...] Dr. Joseph J. Horton,FloydReports.com A “Woman Screams for Help After TSA Molestation,” and the “Texas Pat Down Ban May Be Back.” Those are just two of the headlines breaking around the nation this morning,as summer travel picks up—and so do concerns over excessive airport security. How much indignity are you willing to [...] Jonathan Strong,The Daily Caller A leading Republican on the House oversight committee is demanding answers from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on why a 6-year-old girl was given an “enhanced” pat-down at an airport by TSA agents,an incident Napolitano defended as conducted “professionally and according to the protocols.” A video [...] Chris Moody,The Daily Caller Facing outrage after a video surfaced online of a Transportation Security Agency (TSA) worker performing the new enhanced pat-down techniques on a six-year-old girl,TSA defended its decision in a statement Wednesday. “Some folks are asking if the proper procedures were followed. Yes. TSA has reviewed the incident and [...] Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com As Egyptians half a world away ponder what kind of government they want to live under,Americans must also ask themselves the same question in the wake of Barack Obama’s latest State of the Union Address. Although his salmon joke got a few (undeserved) laughs,few commented that it [...] Stephen Pidgeon,FloydReports.com Department of Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano has ordered TSA personnel to have sexual contact with travelers who refuse to be photographed in the nude by means of the body scanners now deployed in airports,and TSA agents have complied. The person is subjected to such sexual contact by [...] Ben Barrack,FloydReports.com When it comes to the impeachment and subsequent removal from office of a sitting president,the ‘how’is found in the Constitution;much of the ‘why’is found in the Declaration of Independence. The former was an extension of the latter. As a Constitutional law professor,Barack Obama is [...] Connie Hair,Human Events The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has completed training for 2,200 Transportation Safety Officers (TSOs) at the Los Angeles International Airport according to a press release found on the MPAC website. The MPAC release notes that the two-month training course informed officers of “the diversity of Muslims around [...] Michael Reagan,FloydReports.com Four years ago I had hip replacement surgery —which involves having an implant containing metal —and that means that every time I fly,which is often,a Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) employee passes a wand over my body to be sure I’m not concealing some explosive device [...] | |