No More Color-coded Terror Alerts
This is a good change. The color-coded system probably had value at the start, when there were many reports of “chatter” about this or that attack and it was hard ...
The Political Sheriff
Let’s conduct a thought experiment. Suppose Sheriff Dupnik had gone to the podium Saturday and said, “You know, hundreds of thousands of people violate the law in this county every ...
Groping Toward Security
It was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and I was racing toward Baltimore’s BWI airport, full of foreboding. I’d seen a week of stories on Fox News and the Drudge Report ...
Re: The Arizona Injunction
The decision in U.S. v. Arizona finds several provisions of Arizona law preempted, mainly on the ground that they interfere with federal policy. It’s hard to be too critical of ...
Until Next Time
The Christmas Day attempt to bomb Northwest Airlines Flight 253 brought with it an especially unsettling aspect of déjà vu. Eight years earlier, there had been another transatlantic flight, another ...
EPIC Discovers an Orwellian Technology It Likes — The Memory Hole
Today, in a good NYT article, John Schwartz explores the problem of whole body imaging and privacy after the Detroit bombing. What I find interesting is the effort of privacy ...