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The woman who allegedly groped a female TSA agent is being hailed a hero by frustrated airline customers who believe she did what she’s accused of doing. The incident happened last Thursday at Phoenix International Airport, according to police. They say a woman resisted going through airport screening and argued...

President Obama announced Wednesday that he will not release photos of the corpse of Osama bin Laden. While the decision will surely fuel a new round of conspiracy theorists who will argue that "they" must have something to hide, I think it was absolutely the right call to make. We...

The chief of the TSA appeared on CBS’s Early Show Wednesday morning, the same day people are calling for a protest designed to bring air travel for millions of innocent people to a standstill, to address some of the biggest pieces of misinformation about full body scans. John Pistole, TSA...

One of the events originally scheduled for this day, September 11th, thankfully isn’t happening.  That Florida pastor who announced he was going to be burning Qurans this morning announced that not only will he not do so today, but that he won’t do it ever. That’s quite a change of...

When President Obama addressed the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” issue, he missed a critical point in the debate over whether a mosque should be allowed to be build just blocks away from the former site of the World Trade Center. It’s a no-brainer that every religion has a right to...

Just three months after the terror attacks of September 1, 2001, Osama bin Laden was so sure he was cornered and about to be captured by American forces that he actually wrote his will. But decisions by the Bush Administration allowed him to escape, prolonging the search for him for...

By now you’ve heard about that Northwest Flight that put the FAA on full alert, fearing that some kind of hijacking was underway, when tower officials were unable to reach the flight crew for more than an hour.  The plane was flying from San Diego to Minneapolis on Wednesday night. ...

I wish I could take credit for the headline.  It’s actually from Newsday in Long Island; the headline on the New York Post was my second favorite. President Obama was said to be furious after learning that a fly-over of the plane that is retitled Air Force One when he...