Article taken from Examiner.com
By Howard Portnoy
TSA Takes Toy Away From Mentally Challenged Man
We can all sleep easier tonight knowing that Drew Mandy’s plastic toy hammer is in the trash rather than terrorizing passengers and crew on the plane he and his parents boarded for Walt Disney World.
This has been in my “drafts” file for a while, and I decided to go ahead and post it now that some of the initial fury has died down and since I read this post by Steve Horwitz on how, apparently, some organizations that have received funding from AT&T are explicitly endorsing AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile.
The NYT has unearthed a document that seems to date back to 2008 of which a new edition is in the works, and this new edition permits the FBI to do damn thing it wants to do, such as rummage through your trash, monitor communications, break into databases, and be the all-round agency of total domestic surveillance.
A very strange story in the NYT: U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications networks.
WSJ interview with Michele Bachmann of Minnesota:
“I love von Mises… When I go on vacation and I lay on the beach, I bring von Mises.”
