Once an airline triumphantly advertised itself Don Draper-style as “The Wings of Man.” Now getting to the airline gate subjects you to the shackles of security. The barbed wire airport and the shoeless security lines are assaults on dignity and privacy that Americans have sullenly accepted out of fear of far more deadly assaults. No [...]
Once an airline triumphantly advertised itself Don Draper-style as “The Wings of Man.” Now getting to the airline gate subjects you to the shackles of security. The barbed wire airport and the shoeless security lines are assaults on dignity and privacy that Americans have sullenly accepted out of fear of far more deadly assaults. No [...]
The full 18-member deficit reduction commission has yet to vote on it, but the two chairmen of the bipartisan group President Obama’s appointed — former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles and former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson — released their proposal last week. One part of the plan includes gradually raising the Social Security retirement [...]
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Monday battled with Indian security outside a bilateral meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi, threatening to pull the president from the meeting if a certain number of American reporters were not allowed into the room to cover it. According to press pool [...]
For the president of the United States, getting out of town when you’ve just had your proverbial bottom handed to you is not necessarily a new thing. In 1994, facing historic losses in the House and Senate, Bill Clinton headed to Jakarta to attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. In 2006, on the [...]
A reporter for the Alaska Dispatch, an online news site, was handcuffed and arrested by private security guards at a middle school in Anchorage Sunday after trying to question Republican Senate hopeful Joe Miller following a town hall meeting. The guards who arrested the reporter worked for Miller through Drop Zone Security, a private security [...]
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