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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2010 4 Comments
Alfred Kahn has passed away.  As you travel during the holidays, shopping around for cheap airfares, you have Kahn to thank.  Kahn, a Professor at Cornell, was responsible for deregulating the airline industry. I realize all you kids think airfare competition always has been a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2010 47 Comments
I traveled extensively throughout the Soviet Union during the early 1980s, both with groups and on my own approved itineraries.  I also lived in Moscow, and had a chance to slip out of the ring road with Soviet friends into the countryside, which was not permitted...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 27, 2010 3 Comments
Friday evening, a Somali-born teen was arrested in Oregon for attempting to blow up a car bomb at a Christmas tree lighting. Predictably, he screamed “Allahu Akhbar” before his plan was foiled. Fox News reports: According to a federal complaint, Mohamud was in regular email...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 26, 2010 16 Comments
I have written many times before about the risks of organizing a boycott, and I have detailed the many boycotts which have failed in the last two years. The “National Opt-Out Day” protest, in which air travelers were to opt out of the full body...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2010 4 Comments
I’m posting this from my phone while traveling so I’ll be quick. HarperCollins has settled with Gawker. While not all the terms are clear yet, it does appear that Sarah Palin will not get to give Gawker the full TSA screening and junk fondling. That’s...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 22, 2010 17 Comments
As a disclaimer, I promise this is my last post on the TSA. Senator Jay Rockefeller, a champion of the freedom of expression, has joined the ranks of bureaucratic geniuses who believe the TSA is the bee’s knees.* TSA chief John Pistole received assurance from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2010 18 Comments
The person who blogs for TSA to help explain supposed public misconceptions about various screening incidents, goes by the name “Blogger Bob.” Don’t worry, Blogger Bob tells, us, all is well.  Nothing to see here, move along.  Here is Blogger Bob’s explanation for the video...

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on November 17, 2010 8 Comments
This weekend, I found myself in San Francisco International Airport for a long weekend in the Bay Area. After a pleasant weekend, and then a wait in an egregiously long line, I found myself in one of the famed full body scanners, the subject of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 12, 2010 9 Comments
You know the mainstream media and left-wing blogosphere were hoping… … that it was a Bible thrown by a Glenn Beck worshiping Tea Party activist who belongs to a militia, and dresses up as a Confederate Soldier on weekends in fields near his double-wide trailer which is heated...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 11, 2010 5 Comments
As of now, Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad is scheduled to arrive in Lebanon on October 13, and to conduct a joint appearance with Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on October 14. The situation is very tense and provocative. Ahmadinejad will go to South Lebanon as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 04, 2010 4 Comments
Was traveling all day, and of course, stuff happened: Sneaky little Scott Ashjian, or whatever his name is, proved that he is a sneak by secretly taping a conversation with Sharron Angle, and then leaking it to the Man.  The real shocker is that Angle,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2010 27 Comments
I clicked through on a Dan Riehl tweet to his post about a column by Conor Friedersdorf at Forbes, about something or other. I don’t know who Conor Friedersdorf is, but Riehl doesn’t seem to like him, which is really surprising because Riehl likes just...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2010 7 Comments
Harry Reid has a failed record on Iraq for which he never has been held accountable. Reid voted for the war, then falsely claimed he was misled, then tried to defund the war, then declared the war lost, and then stubbornly refused to acknowledge the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2010 9 Comments
Travel plans once again took me away from the world most of the day, but I did catch a glimpse of Dave Weigel’s piece, Sarah Palin’s strange, unprofessional and paranoid grudge, in which he excoriates Sarah Palin for complaining that a reporter writing a book...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 21, 2010 18 Comments
I’m glad I spent most of yesterday traveling, so that I missed much of the blogospheric tsunami regarding Rand Paul’s libertarian views on the virtue of the federal government banning racial discrimination in private businesses. Where I come down on the issue is that the...
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