Department of Homeland Security
The consolidation of numerous unrelated government agencies within a single department has led to decades of waste, mismanagement, and terrible abuses of authority.
Los Angeles County is nevertheless aping the WHO by recommending universal masking "to be extra safe."
The agency's rule, which it recently extended until mid-September, makes no sense as a safety measure.
It's unscientific, wastes precious resources, and keeps Americans unjustifiably scared of the virus.
Existing laws are more than adequate to handle the Capitol rioters.
We have to stop governing by emergency.
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Could that end up costing more lives than it saves?
But these lawmakers think they should be.
The lawsuit argues that the DEA is violating the Fourth Amendment by seizing money from travelers without evidence of criminal activity.
From relaxed TSA rules to speedy FDA approvals, the coronavirus is forcing authorities to admit many of their regulations are unnecessary.
It took the TSA multiple weeks to complete its review and conclude that Coke bottles are not a tool of terrorism.
"It could create concern that it’s the real thing," officials say.
Department of Homeland Security
Libertarians have a lot of ideas about how to dismantle one of the most bloated, ineffective government departments ever.
If it takes a QAnon conspiracy theorist to get the president pissed off at the TSA, then so be it.
They're just helping the TSA push its scaremongering narrative.
The possibilities and perils of voluntary, privately operated biometric screening
The outpouring of emotional and material support for federal workers during the shutdown is understandable, but mistaken.
Farming out airport security and air traffic control would help to immunize air travel from the Congressional budget chaos.
Shutdown teaches us that much of government is NOT essential.
Blame normal TSA incompetence, not the government shutdown, for allowing a passenger to smuggle a firearm through security.
Santa Claus is coming to town with all his liquids in a single quart-sized baggie.
Air marshals might still treat you like a terrorist. But they'll stop documenting your every move.
Trump's chief of staff was there to add a veneer of respectability to some of the president's worst positions.
The TSA's policy is to report any weed they find to local law enforcement. But they'll have to notice it first.
An Illinois mom's breast milk went to waste after TSA agents apparently ignored their own policy.
"These of course are not dangerous," the TSA admits. So why did they seize them?
It makes no sense. Then again, neither does prohibition.
The House report will make you feel sorry for TSA employees against your will.
"Not on our watch" to replace "not on my watch." Great work, guys.
The trays are germier than the airport toilets.
No curtain calls for any security theater performances.
More details emerge on TSA's secret, suspicionless surveillance of certain American travelers.
The new scanners will prove just as effective as TSA airport security.
These conscientious objector puppies won't be part of the TSA's security theater or the war on drugs, so they can be your snuggle-buddy instead.
Air marshals have snooped on about 5,000 of us since March-and not because they suspected any of those people of specific crimes.
Fearmongering responses at the idea that the feds don't need to run everything
The court admits the victims of TSA abuse "will have very limited legal redress."
Giants lineman A.J. Francis was enraged after the TSA treated his mother's remains carelessly. An apology from the agency did little to help.
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