A new mobile app that enables travelers to file reports of alleged racial profiling by the Transportation Security Administration from the airport lodged 28 complaints in its first 10 days, nearly three times the number filed with the agency during the first half of 2011." - Andrea Stone for the Huffington Post. See full article immediately below.
Individual Liberty
TSA & Travel Freedom:
Huffington Post - Airport Racial Profiling App Brings In Complaints Against TSA
WPBF - Baby, 18 months Old, Ordered Off Plane at Fort Lauderdale Airport
Politico - GOP Assails TSA on Equipment in Storage
Police State:
Atlanta Journal Constitution - DeKalb Cop Accused of Kicking Pregnant Woman in Stomach
Reuters - Study Finds NYPD Frisks Young Black Men Too Often
Internet Freedom:
Network World - Counterintelligence Surveillance Swelled Another 10% in 2011
Patriot Act/NDAA:
The New American - Senator Carl Levin tells the CFR: the NDAA Makes Us Safer
Real ID:
ABC WHTM - Gov. Corbett Signs Law to Oppose Federal Real ID
Nanny State:
Boston Herald – House Overturns School Bake Sale Ban
CBS New York - Fort Lee, N.J Cracking Down On 'Dangerous Walking' By Handing Out Summonses
Gun Control:
Fox News – Obama Threatens to Veto DOJ Budget Because it Blocks Fast and Furious Gun Control Law
Wall Street Journal – Illegal Immigrants Don’t Have a Right to Bear Arms
Foreign Policy
War Powers Act:
The Hill - Senate Bill Looks to Close 'Loophole' in White House's War Powers
Asia:
Financial Times - Chinese Drill for Oil in Troubled Waters
Economy
Federal Reserve:
Reuters – Fed OKs China-Controlled Banks as Holding Companies
Regulations:
Post Office:
Reason - Postal Service Scales Back Scaleback: Will Close Nothing, Nowhere
Unemployment:
Constitution
Obamacare:
Kansas City Star - Obamacare's Thoughtless Damage to a Key Industry