Homeland Security

My wife went on a business trip on Wednesday and came back Thursday with an amusing story about how she almost got strip searched at the airport. Strip searched. Ha, ha, ha. She and her boss were going through the line and the security folks sent her boss in one direction and my wife into some side room. They made my wife take off her shoes. They X-rayed my wife's purse … [Read more...] about A Funny Thing

Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson might be a good administrator for all I know. Certainly his earlier work on Wisconsin's welfare system showed that it was possible to reform welfare without putting poor people through hell. But I've never found him reassuring when it comes to bioterrorism. Which is a little ironic, when you consider that during the … [Read more...] about Tommy Thompson’s Tips for Terrorists

Orin Kerr speculates on possible pre-election attacks on America by Al Qaeda: I think it's somewhat less likely than it used to be that Al Qaeda would try attacks focused on killing lots of people or destroying symbolic targets. The U.S. response to 9/11 taught that the U.S. isn't going to back off its policies in response to that sort of attack. Violence perceived as a … [Read more...] about Avril Lavigne, Watch Your Back!

The CDC apparently decided to drum up some business for themselves back in the '80s. … [Read more...] about Making More Business for the CDC

Leonard Pitts has a great article about the modern state of airport security, as revealed by the bunch of New York Daily News reporters who managed to smuggle contraband past the security checkpoints. You know the part that scares me? Not just that someone managed to get weapons through security, but that journalists did. Not to dis my own, but we members of the Fourth Estate … [Read more...] about A Frightening Thought