No he didn’t. A (sadly, unnamed) bartender called authorities early Monday morning after he spotted a flashing red light on the wall of a restaurant at Swan Lake Resort in Plymouth, and suspected it to be a bomb. Thirty-five people…
I forgot this one from three weeks ago. Debra Sanders of Clearwater, Florida, has accused the Transportation Security Administration of lax security and improper inspection procedures after she got home from a trip to New Jersey. She first suspected her…
Sirens wailed as agents from the Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and the FBI converged on an airport in Key West on Wednesday, ready to repel invaders. The French had returned. Specifically, two French people, Alexis Peltier and Yves Stindel, who…
The Washington Times reports this week on spending under a loophole in the "Faster and Smarter Funding for First Responders Act," passed last year in the House of Representatives by a vote of 409-10. The poorly-acronymed FASFFFRA was a real…
In a ceremony Wednesday morning, law-enforcement officers in Homeland Security Region 6 celebrated the fact that additional resources had been provided to secure Region 6 against terror attacks. So you al-Qaida members who were planning to attack northern Alabama, beware:…
In London this week, a taxi driver (always the first line of defense in the War on Terror), alerted police to what he believed was suspicious behavior by his passenger, who he was taking to the airport. The driver had…
Continuing its recent tradition of crack reporting on the issues of the day, CNN's Headline News is running a segment on allegations that the government has covered up the actual events of 9/11. Its inside source: Charlie Sheen. On Friday's…
Just kidding—it isn't. Four-and-a-half years (most of it spent in long security lines) and umpteen billions of dollars after September 11, the Transportation Security Agency has implemented effective security measures to prevent dangerous materials like explosives from getting onto our…
"Homeland security" air-travel regulations get more ridiculous all the time. First, nail clippers are banned. Now, you can get in trouble just for having a severed head in your luggage. What's next? Myrlene Severe, a 30-year-old Haitian-born resident alien, learned…
In April, Phillip Carter reported in Slate magazine that some US military theorists have called attention to the possibility that the nation’s enemies may engage in "lawfare," which the Council on Foreign Relations defines as the "strategy of using or…