Can it happen here?

They are still at it. The government is still placing some set of persons on a "no-fly list" and refusing to say why or provide an...

The legal system is sl-o-o-w, as Congress' attempt to get testimony from Trumpites is demonstrating. Hundreds of government intrusions...

Back in the dim, distant days when I started this blog (2005!) I wrote a lot about the TSA and government watch lists. (After all, the E.P. ...

In a couple of days, it will be eleven years since Stanford PhD and distinguished Malaysian affordable housing architect Rahinah Ibrahim wa...

For awhile, because we'd been told we were on it , I wrote a lot about the U.S. government's No Fly list -- and the various other w...

The cold dead hand of bureaucracy shamed never lets go. The only remedy is to put a stake in our own terror of terror. Sorry about the ad...

Last February, after years of litigation, the U.S government was ordered by a federal judge to remove all references to Malaysian architec...

… an innocent Malaysian professor was placed on the U.S. no-fly list, had her visa revoked and, when she reapplied to enter the U.S., recei...

Writing last week about a book about the no fly list, I highlighted law professor Jeffrey Kahn's conclusion that the list is no longer ...

Lately I've been writing rather cavalierly about the abusive treatment our post 9/11 Heimat Security regime inflicts on people in th...

Here's an update I never expect to write. I first reported about the "no fly" list case of Stanford grad student Rahinah Ibrah...

The "no-fly list" ain't what it used to be. Back in 2002, when I had my own brush with this legal travesty, it was at least p...

Okay, most all of us hate those stupid TSA "security" lines and intrusive searches that have become part of flying since 9/11. M...

Can I just point out that U.S. gun laws are nuts? The AP reports: More than 200 people suspected of ties to terrorism bought guns in ...

Instructions I received before flying ... If all goes well, at the point at which anyone sees this post, I'll be flying over the Pacific...

I've pretty much stopped chronicling abuses by our stupid security regime at airports though I still collect them; they go on and on and...

Here we go again. The sponsors of the underpants bomber must be giggling in their caves. Under pressure from the 'fraidy-cat contingent ...

Given this blog's past interest in the TSA no fly list, I suppose I ought to have some commentary on the Nigerian underwear bomber. Act...

During my long-past brush with the "no fly list," I remember feeling just as Amanda Malik does. What does the government mean by s...

The smiling gentleman pictured above is Abousfian Abdelrazik, a naturalized Canadian who has been stranded in his native Sudan since 2003. O...