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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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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 12, 2011

  TSA has plenty of ‘splainin’ to do. Not only did TSA allegedly strip search three elderly women at JFK International Airport — one was a frail, 84-year-old grandmother who was also forced to remove her back brace. Once they discovered it wasn’t a money belt as they had suspected, security agents didn’t promptly return [...]

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