Tag: TSA

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,"...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Federal officers at the government agency responsible for securing the nation's transportation system have been arrested for committing crimes...

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...

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...

John Pistole told USA Today he wanted to bring the TSA to “the next level,” and he didn’t mean better service.

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...