A 56-year-old man from the Midwestern US state of Wisconsin has been arrested after shooting his lawn mower in his garden because it would not start.
The BBC headline was “US man charged for shooting mower.” The article is presented as a silly story with a happy ending. Some drunkard is wielding an illegal […]
I misplaced my ID before flying this week (see the earlier post about ID requirements). The experience was not as involved as the other story I had read.
When asked for ID by each TSA agent, I truthfully said “I misplaced it.” The first agent I spoke to (Steve) referred me to the neighboring TSA agent […]
I missed this story last week. Papers, Please! reports you can no longer fly without ID. The TSA Press Relase confirms it.
This new procedure will not affect passengers that may have misplaced, lost or otherwise do not have ID but are cooperative with officers. Cooperative passengers without ID may be subjected to additional […]
I just saw a story at the Washington Post announcing Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s plans for the demise of financial institutions. He thinks that because government is the expected answer to problems, we ought to give people more intervention. Because it’s a lack of intervention that causes problems or something.
Let’s see what he […]
This is a story from Monday actually, but I didn’t read the article until today. The Oklahoma House of Representatives sent a message to Washington. The Senate has yet to pass the bill, but it sure would be nice if states asserted their sovereignty like this:
“The State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under […]
Again, more checkpoints. And getting people used to having our cities feel like Baghdad. Hopefully some court somewhere will make a ruling against these checkpoints.
Story.
Two pieces of excellent news today that are very encouraging.
One: the Supreme Court ruled (pdf) that the executive and legislative branches might actually be bound by the US Constitution. And that the Constitution means what it says when it says “the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended” and that the Constitution might say […]
Even more checkpoints are showing up. Earlier this week we heard about Operation Rolling Thunder beginning in Georgia.
Is it just coincidence that there are roadblocks and checkpoints popping up all over the place? Terry at Checkpoint USA was telling us more than six months ago to expect checkpoints and roadblocks across the country.
The […]
American hero Terry over at Checkpoint USA added some recent videos of internal suspicionless checkpoints. Here’s my favorite one.
If you think the video is pointless or if you are trying to figure out why he doesn’t just answer the question, please do me a favor. I know it’s cliche but do it anyway. […]
“The CFTC has been under pressure from U.S. lawmakers to crack down on speculators they blame for pushing energy prices to record levels.”
Thank you lawmakers.
If the energy prices have been pushed unreasonably high by speculation, thank God! That means they will drop back to appropriate levels given some time. If the prices are […]