Day: June 23, 2009

The so-called terrorist "watch list" is supposed to protect us from those who want to destroy our way of life.

Yet the Government Accountability Office says the Department of Homeland Security, the agency that watches these folks, could not stop 90 percent of them from buying guns after they were placed on the "watch list."

Which begs the question: Who’s watching the watchers? Or is anyone watching anything?

The National Rifle Association, which can come up with an excuse to allow anyone — at any time and for any reason — to buy guns, says there’s nothing wrong with suspected terrorists buying guns because the NRA believes most of them are law-abiding citizens anyway.

Maybe the NRA is right. Or maybe they’re not. Who knows who to believe in these maddening times?

The ever-opressive Federal Government, not content to tightly regulate banks, auto companies, smoking and God-knows-what-else, now wants to extend the controlling hand of Big Brother to the blogging community.

Under new buidelines proposed for the Federal Trade Commission, bloggers will be watched by Uncle Sam for potential conflicts of interest and ethical lapses.  The agency will soon have the power to go after bloggers who make false claims or fail to disclose conflicts of interest.

The hits just keep on a-coming.

During the 23 years that my wife and I lived in the National Capital Region, we often used Metro, the subway system considered to be the nation’s most modern and safest.

Accidents, Metro officials assured us, could not happen because designers put too many redundant fail-safe safety features into the system.

That’s what they said. As I recall, owners of the White Star Line said the Titanic could not sink.