Outside the Beltway

What do this people want? Can’t you read the signs?

The TSA is deploying VIPR units to weigh stations and bus stations in TN.

Accusing someone of “politicizing” a discussion of 9/11 is like accusing someone of “athleticizing” a discussion of football.

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

There were eight people on the stage last night, but the GOP field has narrowed significantly.

Rick Perry may be much less than meets the eye.

A Federal Appeals Court says the full body image scanners showing up in airports are Constitutional.

Some things are worth repeating.

One U.S. Senator wants to bring elements of the TSA’s security theater to America’s rail system.

Another case of TSA groping has hit the media.

President Obama sees the golf course as the only place to escape the pressures of the job.

TSA screeners will now have the right to join a union. Or at least a union that can’t actually negotiate much of anything.

Volokh Conspirator Stewart Baker wonders whether Jesse Ventura’s complaints about TSA groping making him a “wussy.”

Didn’t we just talk about this?

There’s a lesson to be drawn from the tragedy in Arizona, but it isn’t the one the media is talking about.

The TSA’s crusade to fondle whomever they please continues.

Washington D.C.’s 34 year-old Metro system is about to become the latest stage for Security Theater.

Complaints from Rush Limbaugh tthat the ACLU is ignoring the intrusions into America’s civil liberties by the TSA are completely unfounded.

Statue of Liberty goes through airport scanner.

After days of hype, National Opt-Out Day fizzled. It’s a classic collective action problem.

Gate Rape: Sexual groping of one’s genitalia at airport security by agents after a traveler refuses full body x-ray search.

Looking to avoid airport body scanners? You might not be able to do it on any form of public transit if Janet Napolitano gets her way.

Top administration and congressional officials can skip the indignities of airport screening, even when they fly commercial.

The People In Charge telling us that something is Necessary For Our Own Good makes a large number of people accepting of the inconvenience, no matter how asinine or unsupported by evidence.

Despite the recent media outrage over TSA search procedures, public attitudes on the subject remain largely supportive.

It’s not hypocritical or racist to support an aggressive pursuit of terrorists while getting outraged over abuses of Americans’ liberties.