It’s May again, that time of year when the Department of Homeland Security hands out millions of dollars of your hard-earned money to whoever it wants for the strangest of reasons, or none at all, in the name of “infrastructure protection.” Today’s stupid spending: $184,415 for a casino shuttle.
Archives: May 2008
A Global Struggle for Security and Progress
Posted: May 28, 2008 8:15 am
The war on terror could be recast as “A Global Struggle for Security and Progress,” according to an internal Department of Homeland Security memo.
The Revolution: A Manifesto
Posted: May 26, 2008 5:05 pm
If “Truth is treason in the empire of lies,” as Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) writes in his new book, The Revolution: A Manifesto, then Paul has certainly committed treason by laying out the truth of the precarious state of the United States in 2008.
Does FEMA need more power?
Posted: May 18, 2008 12:07 pm
When the next hurricane threatens to strike, how will you get the news? For that matter, will you survive? Some want to give the Federal Emergency Management Agency even more authority over disaster response than it already has, even while it struggles to modernize the country’s emergency alert system.
The TSA Follies
Posted: May 15, 2008 8:59 pm
Ostensibly the Transportation Security Administration exists to keep Americans safe when they fly. In reality it’s a bureaucratic nightmare which never should have been created in the first place. Consider what the TSA has done to pilots and air marshals to put you at risk.
Fort Trumbull Circa 2008: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
Posted: May 7, 2008 12:42 am
Updated: May 14, 2008 5:27 pm
After the last few resistors departed in 2006, Corcoran Jennison, the preferred developer for the Fort Trumbull project, got cracking on a tony utopia. A thousand condos bloomed. Crowds of affluent young professionals now sip lattes and tap laptops in cafes overlooking the Long Island Sound. Revenues are rolling in. Property taxes have been slashed and children are learning to read and write as well as kids did a half century ago.
The real squeal:
