The excuse we hear from the Transportation Security Administration when yet another report comes out finding that its screeners miss the majority of simulated bomb components that testers attempt to bring through airport checkpoints is that the tests are designed to be difficult and nobody would be able to get away with it if they were real bomb components.Yet investigators with no insider knowledge were able to smuggle real bomb components, sufficient to assemble powerful improvised explosive devices based on liquid explosives, past the TSA at 19 separate airports, according to a report released November 15.
For the last two weeks I've been telling everyone that Ron Paul needs money sooner, rather than later, since the campaign has to pay for advertising in advance and it takes several weeks from the time the money is spent to get ads on the air.Today the campaign sent out an email confirming and reiterating this point. This is it, in full:
One of the requirements for a totalitarian police state is a system of kangaroo courts, star chambers which operate in secret and in parallel to the existing judicial system to convict political prisoners of pretended crimes against the state, which could never survive in the regular courts. And former judge Michael Mukasey, nominee for U.S. Attorney General to replace Alberto Gonzales, has proposed that the United States adopt such a system of courts.
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) raised over $4 million in a single day of fundraising coordinated entirely by grassroots supporters on the Internet, and a new grassroots campaign aims to more than double that amount.
New York State will begin issuing new versions of so-called secure driver licenses as well as a version specifically for undocumented immigrants, Gov. Eliot Spitzer said last weekend.