Shrink the State. End the Fed. Balance the budget. Make a profit. Leave an inheritance.
Gary North
The pat-downs, the “your wife has a nice butt” scanning machines, the metal detectors, the long lines — they all rested on one assumption: people’s driver’s licenses are valid. Now it turns out that a small company in China has been cranking out perfect replicas of driver’s licenses for years. The TSA’s machines could not [...]
Continue reading →Maybe you recall that the Department of Homeland security bought 450 million rounds of hollow-point ammunition earlier this year. But, when it comes to preparation, the DHS is not leaving anything to chance. It is ordering another 750 million rounds. The solicitation is here. It’s for training. Training whom? How many? On what scale? Where? [...]
Continue reading →The Transportation Safety Administration has a National Canine Program, which in turn has a Canine Explosive Section. I guess the dogs are kept in back rooms of airports. I have never seen one. Anyway, the TSA’s dogs division has issued a solicitation for 1400 lbs of explosives: 700 lbs of ammonium nitrate (“Oklahoma City bombing”) [...]
Continue reading →The Fourth Amendment does not protect terrorists. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld George W. Bush’s Terrorist Surveillance Program. “This case effectively brings to an end the plaintiffs’ ongoing attempts to hold the executive branch responsible for intercepting telephone conversations without judicial authorization.” Unless the U.S. Supreme Court reverses this, it is likely [...]
Continue reading →The U.S. killed an alleged Muslim terrorist with a drone attack in September 2011: Anwar al-Awlaki. What the media did not mention was this: he was educated at U.S. government expense as a college student. Then, after he became listed by the government as a terrorist, he returned to the USA. The FBI arrested him. [...]
Continue reading →In North Dakota, a judge has refused to toss out a case where a farmer says he was arrested as a result of information supplied by a drone. The drone was supplied to local authorities by the Department of Homeland Security. It seems that some cows had wandered onto the man’s property. He refused to [...]
Continue reading →London is known as the #1 spy camera city of the world. But New York City is working hard to catch up. The police department has thousands of cameras installed across the city. But now the city has entered into an agreement with Microsoft to install a far more comprehensive system of surveillance. The details [...]
Continue reading →Bureaucracies love to overstep their bounds. They always want more jurisdiction. The more jurisdiction they have, the more employees they can hire. The more employees on the payroll, the easier it is to get a promotion for managers. They have more to manage. This has been a well-known law of bureaucracy ever since the publication [...]
Continue reading →A 68-year-old Denver woman went to a car dealer to buy a new car. The car dealer’s salesman checked her credit score online. There he found that she was on a “suspected drug trafficker” list. The entry went back to 2005. She did not know anything about this. There was no problem with her credit. [...]
Continue reading →The DHS is at it again. It is stockpiling more ammunition. A lot of ammunition. This is from Infowars: On July 5, the Department of Homeland Security announced on the FedBizOpps.gov website that it plans to buy thirty-six Colt LE901 rifle systems. The latest DHS purchase follows a solicitation issued on July 13 for the [...]
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