Belly-Bomb Baloney: the TSA Lies Yet Again
Ah, belly-bombs -- the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) newest scare-story for frightening us into its porno-scanners and sexual assaults at airports. Belly-bombs play...
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D.C.’s Dim Bulbs
Like me, you’d probably find it creepy and extremely unsettling were a total stranger to obsess about you. Indeed, you might even degenerate...
Flights of Fancy: Apologists for the TSA
Believe it or not, sexual assault has its defenders — and they’re not just behind bars for rape or pedophilia.Nor do they exclusively...
Of Sausages, Opera, and the TSA
Somebody once said that making laws is a lot like making sausage, so we’re better off not watching the process.* But Texas’ bout with...
TSA “Protects” Us From 95-Year-Old Ladies Dying of Leukemia
It’s hard to know which is the more infuriating, the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) initial barbarity in picking on Mrs. Lena Reppert, a...
TSA’s Checkpoint Charade
We have seen the checkpoint of the future, and we are not impressed. But Our Rulers certainly are. ...
Hunting Mexicans at the TSA
“They earned the nickname ‘Mexican Hunters,’ a special unit of screeners at Newark's Liberty-International Airport, who singled out Mexicans, Dominicans and other Hispanic...
Grilling Weiner
“And another one gone, and another one gone Another one bites the dust…” ...
Memorializing Leviathan
Candy flies through the air. Flags flutter from lamp-posts, bunting festoons every porch. Veterans of America's various imperial wars wave from their cars....
Camping on the Promises of God
While the media excoriates Harold Camping and infidels exploit his heresies to ridicule Christianity yet again, I vote him a big measure of...
Selling Yellowstone
“The United States may have run up a huge debt, but it is not a poor country…,” the Washington Post announced on Monday...
SEAL of Dishonor
“They’re America’s quietest killers,” Newsweek gushes under the headline, “The Coolest Guys in the World.” ABC News calls them “the best of the...
When Liars Murder A Dead Man
Let us pretend for a moment that the United States’ government — which we’ve caught in lethal lie after lie, whose financial credit...
TSA: Back to the Abyss
Throughout history and around the world, suppliants have groveled to potentates for the most basic of rights and common decency. Whether it was...
Authoritarianism by Anecdote
In our post-Constitutional police-state, rulers often pass laws and regulations according to the following formula: someone suffers, whether from a genuine tragedy or...