homeland security

By Kathleen Someah |1.4.2010

Peril in Seat 19A

On Christmas day Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded Northwester Airlines flight 253, headed for Detroit, with more than clothes and toiletries. He carried Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, (PETN), among the most powerful explosives in the world. Were it not for a faulty syringe detonator, 300 innocent passengers and flight crew would have died. It has been eight years since ...

By Kathleen Someah |10.30.2009

Room for Improvement: Government Intervention in the H1N1 Pandemic

There is no shortage of swine flu skeptics. You may hear comments about how H1N1 is no more serious than the seasonal flu, how the whole declaration of swine flu as a “national emergency” is simply a Democrat-affiliated political tactic synchronized with their health “Scare” bill. But in a hearing on Tuesday, held by the ...

By Jena Baker McNeill |9.10.2009

Time for a Cyber Reset Button

It began when the White House asked private citizens to report the emails of those involved in ‘misinformation’ about the Obama healthcare plan.  Around that same time, the newly minted cyber czar Melissa Hathaway announced her resignation. And now there is a storm brewing around legislation to give control of the internet to the President ...