Regulatory Rats Claim Bogus “Free Market” Credentials
It’s always entertaining when politicians pontificate on the free market: they make even bigger fools of themselves than usual. ...
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Attempted Regicide — the Lesson from Tucson
Popular fiction has it that we live in a democracy, with one guy as good as the next. Even those elected or appointed to office are regular folks just like us,...
How to Save Million$ Reading TNA’s Website!
“Government officials” announced on Sunday that Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet “Big Sis” Napolitano, would visit Israel this week “to assess passenger vetting and other counter-terrorism measures at its Ben-Gurion Airport.”...
No License for ID
How many times during December’s frantic shopping did a merchant ask you for ID when you paid for your purchases? And how did you respond? Did you resent the implication that...
TSA: Airports Are Only the Beginning
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), notorious for groping and ogling naked passengers at checkpoints, has long claimed that its “mission” is “protect[ing] the Nation’s transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement...
A Game Pretty Near Up: Stopping the TSA
If you celebrate Christmas someplace cold this year, step outside after dark that night without a coat. No hat, scarf or gloves, either: just the shirt or sweater you were wearing...
Fire the Fire Department
The State that imprisons heroin junkies is as addicted to money as its victims are to their dope. And like them, it will do anything to keep supplies of its drug...
Why Are You Still Flying?
I’m trying to sympathize with the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) multitudes of victims. I truly am. But honestly, how dumb can they be? ...
The Only Way: Abolish the TSA
“I was almost in tears,” passenger Rhonda Gaynier told the Associated Press. “I’ve never been so humiliated in my life. It’s one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had to endure.”...
Rep. John Mica: Let’s “Privatize” Perversion!
Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) is at it again. He frequently hyperventilates over the scam he foisted on us, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). You know, the whores the Feds pay to...
Our Homeland Security and TSA Rulers Demand Gratitude for Groping Us
Catch this stunner from that collection of Nazis at the Department of Homeland Security: “The mood among security officials is ‘anger over the way the media is playing this story [about...
Trashing Tyner
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is ever the bully and sore loser. Witness its ham-fisted clobbering of John Tyner, the passenger who warned its thugs last weekend not to “touch” his “junk”...
Object to Sexual Assault? Boycott the Airlines!
If you’re among the ever-diminishing minority still entrusting yourself to America’s aviation gulag, don’t forget your cellphone. This invaluable weapon can protect you from the 50,000 terrorists menacing our skies. You...
Khadr’s Coerced Confession
Imagine you pull into your drive after work to find the beagle from next door dying on your lawn, victim of a hit-and-run. You climb out of your car only to...
Terror Stalks U.S!
"Terror Stalks U.S!" So screamed the printed edition of New York's Daily News last weekend — and it wasn't a forecast of Tuesday's election. Rather, it concerned the Yemeni "mail-bombs" and...