Whether or not it was the work of a terrorist group* 2,752 people lost their lives in a series of pyrotechnic plane crashes and building implosions ten years ago. Those people made up 0.1% of the 2,416,425 deaths which occurred in the United States (pop ~300,000,000) in 2001. Crude analogy: If the United States were [...]
A US congressman wants to see WikiLeaks.org classified as a terrorist organization… it’s only a matter of time before the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act is applied toward “copyrighted documents” hosted at WikiLeaks.org and requests to the domain return something like this: Fight the War on Terror with a War on Torrents! … as [...]
Nelson, a 44-year-old white woman, keeps getting snared at the Canadian border because she apparently shares some key identifying information with a black man, possibly from Georgia, who is in trouble with the law. While such cases of mistaken identity at border points and airports are not unique, Nelson’s case is unusual in that only [...]
He asked who I was working for. I said I’m a freelance photojournalist working on assignment for ProPublica. He asked for verification of that so I showed him the letter from (ProPublica senior editor) Susan White. Officer Krietemeyer took down the information. Mr. Robison tried to dig at what the article was about, and I [...]
The Report to Congressional Committees 09-747 authored by the United States Government Accountability Office reveals some glaring scientific mistakes on the part of the Department of Homeland Security with the potential for far-reaching effects (should the attendant stupidity of DHS pseudoscience dupe legislators). The problem: Until 2008, live FMD virus could by law be used [...]
