Category Archives: Politics

Got three minutes? If you do, you can learn the history of Europe. via @johnroderick

Victoria Kim for the LA Times: Four current and former Transportation Security Administration screeners have been arrested and face charges of taking bribes and looking the other way while suitcases filled with cocaine, methamphetamine or marijuana passed through X-ray machines at Los Angeles International Airport, federal authorities announced Wednesday. So, handicapped kids can’t get through [...]

Chris Morran at the Consumerist: The tiny (potential) terrorists of the world continue to wreak havoc at airport security checkpoints. We already brought you the story of the 4-year-old who dared to hug her grandmother in view of TSA screeners, and now comes the tale of a 7-year-old girl with cerebral palsy whose crutches and [...]

The White House: H.R. 3523 fails to provide authorities to ensure that the Nation’s core critical infrastructure is protected while repealing important provisions of electronic surveillance law without institutingcorresponding privacy, confidentiality, and civil liberties safeguards. For example, the billwould allow broad sharing of information with governmental entities without establishingrequirements for both industry and the Government [...]

I love it.

Scott Wilson at The Washington Post: President Obama issued an executive order Monday that will allow U.S. officials for the first time to impose sanctions against foreign nationals found to have used new technologies, from cellphone tracking to Internet monitoring, to help carry out grave human rights abuses. Social media and cellphone technology have been [...]

Good riddance. On a related note, I meant to link to this a while back, but didn’t. As a liberal Christian, I won’t be sad this joker go.

Julie Rovner at NPR: After this week’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court, lawmakers and health policy experts are starting to ponder what had — until recently — been unthinkable to many: What if the court strikes down the entire Affordable Care Act? Heading into the week, most supporters of the law had assumed that [...]