In fact, it was approximately zero percent, based on a recent test conducted at Newark Airport by the TSA's "Red Team": The secret inspector, a member of the TSA's special operations team, had a mock improvised explosive device in his pants…
You can't get anything by these guys! On its blog (source of the picture), the TSA seemed to be giving itself a mild pat on the back for finding this: The contents of a checked bag at Indianapolis (IND) drew…
The New York Times is reporting that the Senate has voted 63-34 to approve the nomination of John Brennan to be CIA Director. Brennan's nomination had been held up by the 13-hour filibuster of Sen. Rand Paul, who thought it would…
Like many lawyers might, he used three paragraphs rather than just the one word, but that's what he said. For a while now the administration has been refusing to answer this question one way or the other, which anyone with…
According to this preliminary report (20-minute raw video) from WBFF News in Baltimore, the seven-year-old was threatening other children with a crude weapon he had fashioned out of a strawberry danish before authorities intervened. Early reports suggested that the suspect broke…
From the Facebook page of WBFF FOX 45 in Baltimore: First on Fox: 7-year-old Joshua was suspended this morning from Park Elementary School in Brooklyn Park. Joshua says he was eating a pastry during snack time and trying to shape it into…
There's just something very wrong with this: I guess I'm worried that at some point it'll no longer be optional. Via Eurogamer.net and @Glinner.
A mere 148 years after the end of the Civil War, Mississippi has become the last state to send in its paperwork on the 13th Amendment, which as you may recall was the one that abolished slavery. AMENDMENT XIII Passed…
1. Posse members received training from Steven Seagal. While it may make some Phoenix parents a little nervous to know that thousands of heavily armed volunteers are patrolling around schools in Maricopa County, it must have calmed their nerves to…
Turns out “imminent” doesn’t mean what you think it means.