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How to Improve Thanksgiving Air Travel
CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE
Millions of Americans will deal with the hassles of air travel this week as they join their families for Thanksgiving. Airports...
A Jittery Adam’s Apple May Land You on a TSA Watch List
BY BOB BARR
Next time you board a commercial airliner, be careful not to sweat too much, glance out the window nervously, visit the bathroom...
TSA Still Awful After 17 Years
CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE
It has been 17 years since the federal government took over security screening at the nation’s airports, and they still haven’t figured out...
Show Me What Books You’re Reading — TSA’s New ARMAP
BY BOB BARR
Much has been said of the ineffectiveness and intrusiveness of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) over the last decade and a half....
Privatizing the Transportation Security Administration
CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE
After the terrorist attacks in 2001, the federal government moved quickly to increase spending on aviation security and take control of...
Mayor Bloomberg, M.D.
BY BOB BARR
New York’s penal code makes it a felony to practice medicine without a license. I suspect, however, that one potential defendant who...
Senate Panel OKs TSA Fee Hike
NEWSROOM AMERICA STAFF
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved a fee hike for airline passenger security, as the Democrat-controlled panel said the increase was...
DHS IG Exposes “Gaping Hole” In Airport Security
CORRUPTION CHRONICLES
In the latest scandal to rock the agency charged with securing aviation from another terrorist attack, high-ranking officials at the Transportation Security Administration...
Former TSA Head Calls Airport Security A National Embarrassment
CORRUPTION CHRONICLES
More than a decade after the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history it’s a national embarrassment that our airport security system remains so...
TSA Asked Woman to Prove Breast Pump Real
LIBERTIES/RIGHTS NEWSROOM AMERICA
A Hawaii woman says she was humiliated by Transportation Security Agency officials when they asked her to prove her breast pump was...
Airport Video Does Not Show ‘Irate’ Senator Paul
BILL OF RIGHTS, NEWSROOM AMERICA
Newly released security video footage of Sen. Rand Paul taken at the Nashville International Airport doesn't show him being "irate,"...
TSA Plagued With “Bureaucratic Morass And Mismanagement”
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles
The multi-billion-dollar federal agency created after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to protect the nation’s transportation system is inept, bloated and has...
TSA and America's Misplaced Rage
By Dennis Behreandt
When blogger Jill Filipovic, who writes at Feministe.us, opened her luggage after passing through a TSA checkpoint, she found an unexpected surprise.
Taking...
Security Theater Adds a New Act
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Wendy McElroy
“Where are you going? What is the purpose of your trip? Where will you be staying? Who will...
Terrorists Slip By TSA Behavior Detection Officers
The Homeland Security agency responsible for protecting the nation’s transportation system failed to detect terrorists at U.S. airports on nearly two dozen occasions.
TSA Screeners Rob Passengers
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles
Federal officers at the government agency responsible for securing the nation's transportation system have been arrested for committing crimes...
On Real Respect for the Constitution
Texas Straight Talk with Ron Paul
I am pleased that the Constitution has received a lot of attention in recent weeks, thanks to the tea...
A Feature, Not a Bug
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Steven Horwitz
In a recent appearance on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch (Fox Business), Ralph Nader talked optimistically about a...
Do We Need the “Next Level” of State Security?
John Pistole told USA Today he wanted to bring the TSA to “the next level,” and he didn’t mean better service.
TSA Misses Luggage That Explodes After Flight
Despite a $98 million infusion for state-of-the-art baggage screening machines the TSA somehow missed a suitcase filled with explosives that blew up...