JFK airport evacuated after TSA agent's metal detector found to be unplugged | Fox News

JFK airport evacuated after TSA agent's metal detector found to be unplugged | Fox News: ""How can you expect the public to feel confident of the mission of the TSA if they don't even know if the lights are turned on?""

Phoenix boy, 14, shoots armed intruder while watching three younger siblings | Fox News

Phoenix boy, 14, shoots armed intruder while watching three younger siblings | Fox News: "the teen heard a bang on the door, rushed his siblings upstairs and got a handgun from his parent's bedroom. When he got to the top of the stairs, he saw a man breaking through the front door and point a gun at him.

The boy shot the 37-year-old man, who is in critical condition but expected to survive and be booked into jail."

The Secession Solution - Chris Bassil - Mises Daily

The Secession Solution - Chris Bassil - Mises Daily: "One of the problems with a statewide referendum on the issue of gay marriage, or any domestic matter, is that it implicitly assumes that the state — as opposed to the county, city, neighborhood, place of business, or any other pool of people — is the appropriate unit for collective decision making. It suggests that state residency is a common denominator fundamental enough to bind 9.7 million people to one another's opinions, interests, and backgrounds — complex, diverse, and contradictory though they may be."

Leave Your Laptop in Your Bag « LewRockwell.com Blog

Leave Your Laptop in Your Bag « LewRockwell.com Blog: " the traveler in front of me left his laptop in his bag. I have no idea why laptops must be removed from their bags, nor do I really care because every TSA rule is arbitrary and pointless to discuss.


But why did it delay all of the travelers behind this gentleman 10 minutes? Because TSA welfare cretins must follow the rules, just like the Soviets in Gary North's story. The person examining the bags going through cannot inspect the bag that he flagged for review. He cannot use discretion and allow it to pass (after all, if prudent judgment was his strength, he wouldn't be working for TSA.) The officer has to yell "bag check!" and wait for a supervisor to come over. And wait. And wait. And wait."

Code crackers break 923-bit encryption record | Security & Privacy - CNET News

Code crackers break 923-bit encryption record | Security & Privacy - CNET News: "pairing-based cryptography of this length was fragile"

"breaking the 923-bit encryption, which is 278-digits, would have been impossible using previous "public key" cryptography; but using pairing-based cryptography, scientists were able to apply identity-based encryption, keyword searchable encryption, and functional encryption."

A Trap for Small Businesses | Walter Olson | Cato Institute: Commentary

A Trap for Small Businesses | Walter Olson | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Last month, the feds swooped down on a successful Maryland dairy business, South Mountain Creamery, seizing $70,000 in its bank accounts and formally charging its owners, Randy and Karen Sowers, with the offense of bank "structuring.""

"The feds charged last month that Randy Sowers had been arranging bank deposits so as not to put in more than $10,000 at once, a threshold that triggers the requirement to file paperwork with the feds. There was no allegation that Mr. Sowers was engaged in tax evasion or other underlying illegality, aside from seeking to avoid large deposits."

Property Means Preservation - Doug French - Mises Daily

Property Means Preservation - Doug French - Mises Daily: "Private game reserves do all they can to ward off poachers. After all, rhinos, as members of the Big Five, are rare and expensive to replace. But at government-owned Kruger National Park, four park employees were recently arrested for being accomplices in a rhino-poaching operation."

The Current Wisdom: No Climate-Related Acceleration in Sea Level Rise | Patrick J. Michaels | Cato Institute: Daily Commentary

The Current Wisdom: No Climate-Related Acceleration in Sea Level Rise | Patrick J. Michaels | Cato Institute: Daily Commentary: "the rate of increase in the ocean’s heat content—which raises sea level—has recently slowed."

Mechanical failure reportedly sends JetBlue flight careening through skies | Fox News

Mechanical failure reportedly sends JetBlue flight careening through skies | Fox News: "The plane was loaded with five hours' worth of fuel. Because the A320 is incapable of dumping excess fuel, the pilots circled the area south of the Vegas Strip until they’d burned enough to allow the crippled plane to land safely."

Spending Lies Run into Facts | Richard W. Rahn | Cato Institute: Commentary

Spending Lies Run into Facts | Richard W. Rahn | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Every president who has run for office since at least Richard Nixon, including even Mr. Obama, has promised to cut government spending when campaigning. And most members of Congress make the same pledge when running for office. Once they’re in office, their behavior almost always changes."

"President Reagan managed, with a partially Democratic Congress, to reduce spending during his last six years, after an increase in his first two years. And President Clinton, with the new Newt Gingrich Republican Congress, was even more successful in cutting spending during his last six years."

When the government is split between parties, spending is lowest.