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2 Dec 2010, 11:26 pm
This (via Brian Rogers, Chron.com) is what I’ll be watching when I’m not otherwise occupied in the next couple of weeks: the hearing in the 177th District Court on whether Texas’s death penalty procedure violates the Eight Amendment because it creates a significant risk that an innocent person will be executed. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 7:40 pm
Dear “Whatever it Takes” folks, I have often said that a word for people like you who expect the government to keep them safe is “victims. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 7:29 pm
Dear submissive “Whatever it Takes” subjects: TSA is grooming your children. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 7:34 pm
So I’ve written a bit about TSA, about scope-and-grope, about the minute risk of air travel, and about the popular “whatever it takes” response to complaints about the TSA’s invasion of our liberty and our privacy. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 6:53 pm
A common refrain among those who are happy trading a quick grope or some nude pictures for permission to travel about this once-free land is, “if you don’t like it, don’t fly. [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 3:45 pm
Assume that those who would plan terror attacks have at least as much information as we have. [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 2:36 pm
A hearty “thank you” to the Defending People reader who nominated this blog to the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 popularity contest. [read post]
27 Nov 2010, 8:18 pm
Leslie Malkoff was headed to Dallas with her husband Kurt. [read post]
27 Nov 2010, 7:33 pm
The statist media’s spin on National Opt-Out day is that it was a failure: As of 5 p.m. [read post]
27 Nov 2010, 2:36 pm
Marc A. [read post]
27 Nov 2010, 9:53 am
The memo, which actually takes the form of an administrative directive, appears to be the product of undated but recent high level meetings between Napolitano, John Pistole, head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA),and one or more of Obama’s national security advisors. [read post]
25 Nov 2010, 2:07 pm
“I just want to arrive safely, and they are welcome to take pictures of me, my wife, and my daughters. [read post]
25 Nov 2010, 12:13 pm
Suppose that it’s 1 January 2001, and you know that at some point in the next 12 months terrorists will take down four airplanes, killing more than 500 passengers. [read post]
24 Nov 2010, 4:29 pm
Tom DeLay has been convicted of Money Laundering and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 5:21 pm
What’s another word for unquestioning compliance? [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 2:05 pm
LA Times Editorial Board to the public: “Shut up and be scanned. [read post]
20 Nov 2010, 7:37 am
Quoth a TSA screener talking to Flying With Fish: “There is a big difference between how I pat passengers down and a molester molesting people. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 1:53 pm
With Gaterapegate, the TSA has ticked at least four of the five boxes in Moral Foundations Theory (I mentioned the theory, but I see that I never wrote the promised followup): Harm / care;Fairness / reciprocity;Ingroup / loyalty;Authority / respect; andPurity / sanctity. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 1:48 pm
I’m sitting in my home office with the window open. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 1:11 pm
This is one of those days when there are too many shiny things to write about. [read post]
