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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 30, 2012

  The financial meltdowns and catastrophes in Europe continue to mount. This past Friday, Spanair, Spain’s fourth-largest airline, collapsed without warning. An estimated 23,000 people were left stranded in various parts of the world after at least 200 Spanair flights were cancelled. The Spanish government is reportedly going to take legal action against the airline [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 23, 2012

  Any bets that some TSA officials are gnashing their teeth that it wasn’t some Nanny-State-loving, Big-Government-endorsing Democrat U.S. senator who had set off a Nashville airport body scanner “anomaly”? Had it been, the news of conservative Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s refusal to a full body pat-down/groin groping from TSA wouldn’t be sweeping Facebook and [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 27, 2011

  More TSA insanity and tyranny… they’ve jumped the shark in so many incidents, such as strip-searching little old ladies, forcing a 95-year-old cancer patient to remove her adult diaper, terrorizing small children, freaking out over a fake gun design on a teenager’s small clutch purse, and humiliating handicapped people in wheelchairs. The list of [...]

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