We have been sold the line that with the new and improved back scatter x-rays, TSA agents can see what people have underneath their clothes, making it impossible to hide anything. The problem is, you have to have people running [...]

My flights to CPAC, or to BlogCon, are bookended with my silent recitation of the Lord’s Prayer.  The most dangerous points in your air travel are the takeoff and the landing.  From what I’ve read, more-so the landing. But there’s [...]

Submit, citizen: Claire Hirschkind, 56, who says she is a rape victim and who has a pacemaker-type device implanted in her chest, says her constitutional rights were violated.  She says she never broke any laws. But the Transportation Security Administration disagrees. [...]

It isn’t hard to spot a pistol in a briefcase. But if you are just going through the motions, you can miss even the most obvious threats.  It seems that many of the blue shirts at America’s airports are there [...]

I imagine that this will only result in her being singled out for, um, further security measures. View more news videos at: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video. “I’m wearing my bikini,” Corinne said as she unbuttoned her overcoat outside the terminal to reveal a [...]

A few terms before the video, to get you thinking about what you are seeing in the airports: Kabuki (歌舞伎, kabuki?) is the highly stylized classical Japanese dance-drama. Kabuki theatre is known for the stylization of its drama and for [...]

If there is a need, and a dollar to be made, capitalism will find a way to meet that need. For example, with the TSA asking people to enter the backscatter x-rays and essentially expose themselves digitally to some unseen [...]

There are things that I can understand, and then there are things that are beyond justification. This story falls in the latter category. A young boy was going through TSA security in Salt Lake City. He processed through the metal [...]

I know better than most that getting a patdown is uncomfortable, to say the least. I also know, more than most, that giving a patdown is no day at the beach. There’s something about squatting down behind some random dude [...]

This is brilliant. Wish I had thought of it: Hat Tip: Scott Graves via Twitter

it’s a sad fact that this is what we have allowed America to become. In an attempt to prevent some protected classes from being offended, we are now giving patdowns to 3 year old girls. It is because of things [...]

While the nation debates the invasive search procedures implemented by the Transportation Security Administration, there is one person who thinks it’s a joke. And lucky me, she’s my United States Senator. Sen. Claire McCaskill said that she was happy to [...]

John Tyner told a TSA agent that if he touched his junk, he’d have him arrested.  He then told other TSA officials that he would not allow himself to be molested in order to fly on a plane.  They told [...]

Do you remember how airline security was done prior to September 11th? Private companies contracted by the airlines checked the passengers and their luggage.  Following the attacks, the federal government decided that airline security was too important to leave in [...]