Tag: Politics
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Schneier on the TSA: “This is a stupid game, and we should stop playing it.”
Security expert Bruce Schneier concisely describes our broken approach to airport security: It’s not even a fair game. It’s not that the terrorist picks an attack and we pick a defense, and we see who wins. It’s that we pick a defense, and then the terrorists look at our defense and pick an attack designed…
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Let’s take back our rights and our flights from the TSA.
The TSA has outdone itself this time with its invasive new searches: if selected, travelers must choose between having pictures of them naked taken via x-ray, having their genitals very aggressively handled, or not flying. Republican Congressman Ron Paul has introduced the American Traveler Dignity Act to the House of Representatives. (Read his announcement of…
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McCain breaks his word on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
Three years ago, John McCain had this to say regarding the United States’ discriminatory policy on homosexuals serving in the military: “The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, ‘Senator, we ought to change the policy,’ then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it because those leaders in…
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The New Three-Fifths Compromise
In short, the Supreme Court ruled today that proprietors of corporations are entitled to more freedoms than non-proprietors. Does anybody remember the three-fifths compromise? When considering this case, did the Supreme Court consider Section 2 of the fourteenth amendment? It states: Representatives shall be apportioned …counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding…
Zeke Weeks 