About: Becky Akers
Posts by Becky Akers
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...