Security expert Bruce Schneier says he experienced the TSA’s enhanced security measures first hand (so to speak): I experienced the enhanced patdown myself, at DCA, on Tuesday. It was invasive, but not as bad as these stories. Here’s the thing: I have a zero-tolerance policy for physical violation — hell, shaking hands can be an [...]
Further evidence that many Americans are emotional, intellectual infants. Transportation Security Administration officials said passengers aboard U.S. Airways Flight 192 from Orlando, Fla., on Saturday night reported that two men, described as Middle Eastern, were acting strangely and talking loudly to each other in a foreign language. A nearby passenger also observed one of men [...]
According to National Review writer (and self-styled philanthropist) John J. Miller, a little shame is good medicine for the one-in-eight Americans currently taking advantage of state welfare: The federal government may think it’s doing people a favor by providing them with access to food, but it’s doing them a disservice if it also robs them [...]
House Approves Move to Outlaw Flag Burning “Ask the men and women who stood on top of the Trade Center,” said Rep. Randy (Duke) Cunningham, R-Calif. “Ask them and they will tell you: pass this amendment.” …because the attacks on the Trade Center were just some big flag burning stunt? Please – you don’t need [...]
Writing for Knight Ridder, Steven Thomma provides evidence for the erosion of personal responsibility, marked by any number of acts of self interest without regard for consequences. Historians, philosophers, political scientists and sociologists cite many reasons for the decline of an ethic of responsibility in America over recent decades, including: A culture of narcissism or [...]
Pharmacists in an increasing number of instances have refused to fill prescriptions for such things as contraceptives. Their failure to perform their jobs stems–on the surface–from a dilemma they face regarding patients’ rights versus their cultist moral beliefs. Some druggists have even cited the “conscience clause,” an exception that most states have in place for [...]
When publisher Holt, Rinehart Winston proposed a textbook that used line drawings to show girls how to conduct a self-examination for breast cancer, conservatives on the Texas Board of Education were enraged. Even more damning, the book’s policy of abstinence-first was met with wide disapproval. Meanwhile, Glencoe McGraw-Hill’s own textbook, which contained no information about [...]
A bill now making its way through the Florida Senate would give students legal standing to sue professors and universities if they felt their beliefs were not being properly respected during class. The Academic Freedom Bill of Rights, similar to a bill being considered in Ohio, is said to be modeled after the “academic bill [...]
A dozen or so Imax theaters in the American South have decided against showing documentaries that present information threatening to the beliefs of christian fundamentalists. A survey taken from a sample audience revealed that some of them had adverse reactions to information. “Galápagos” (1999) takes viewers to depths of 3000 feet with scientists studying “the [...]
Creators Syndicate, the company that syndicates Bill O’Reilly’s columns, sent a cease and desist letter to Newshounds, a Fox watchdog concern, for posting a link to an O’Reilly column. While Newshounds did initially reprint the actual article (this article, in fact), we find Creators Syndicate’s action puzzling in light of the fact that such linking [...]