Three Colors for Terrorism Warnings: A Return to Constant Hysteria

Insanity is the Department of Homeland Security’s color-coded terrorism “alert” system, which tells you nothing except that people are capable of coloring within boxes at airports. DHS empaneled a commission to examine it. Everyone with a fourth-grade education hoped that would lead to some kind of face-saving way of scrapping More…

Jason Sigger For The Win

I wish I wrote this:

I hate to ruin a perfectly nice Friday, but I was just watching Frances Townsend – former Bush administration Homeland Security senior advisor – defending the Bush administration’s torture memos on CNN. “By disclosing these memos, we are handcuffing future administrations,” she says.

No,

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