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GOP Hits Turbulence with FAA Claim

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Robert Farley - Apr. 25 (Fact Check) - A number of Republicans are using misleading numbers when they say the Federal Aviation Administration should cut consultants and travel before resorting to furloughs that are causing airport delays. For example, Rep. Bill Shuster, who chairs the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, says the FAA spends “nearly $500 million … More >>

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Sequester politics: Claims about the FAA furloughs

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Apr. 25 (Fact Check) - “The FAA is furloughing thousands of air traffic controllers and will purposely delay thousands of flights every day. The FAA’s unnecessary and reckless action will disrupt air travel for millions of Americans, cost jobs and threatens to ground the U.S. economy to a halt. It doesn’t have to be that way. The FAA can make other cost cuts, and deem air traffic controllers ‘essential employees.’” Read full article ...

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Flying the Government Skies

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Apr. 24 (Opinion) - The 4% FAA spending cut that somehow delays 40% of flights.

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Crews Work To Restore Power As Snow Blankets Northeast

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

All Things Considered - Feb. 10 (News Report) - A storm that forecasters warned could be a blizzard for the history books, with a potential for up to 3 feet of snow, clobbered the New York-to-Boston corridor overnight, grounding flights and knocking out power to more than half a million customers across the Northeast.

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Blizzard: 1 dead, hundreds of thousands left without power

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Chicago Tribune - By Reuters - Feb. 09 (News Report) - Blizzard: 1 dead, hundreds of thousands left without power

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Rand Paul to bring new fight against TSA

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

rt.com - Jan. 31 (News) - Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is continuing his fight against the government-controlled TSA and has introduced bills to privatize the agency and establish a passenger bill of rights. This is the senator’s second attempt at overhauling the Transportation Securi

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Boeing Battery Was a Concern Before Failure

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Christopher Drew, Hiroko Tabuchi, Jad Mouawad - Jan. 30 (News Report) - Even before battery failures led to the grounding of all Boeing 787 jets, there were problems that raised questions about their reliability.

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Storms ground air travel in Northeast

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Josh Levs - Dec. 27 (News Report) - A powerful winter storm will again snarl air traffic in the Northeast on Thursday, canceling hundreds of flights as travelers try to get home after the Christmas holiday.

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Storm brings white Christmas, tornado threat to central U.S

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - Dec. 25 (News Report) - A major winter storm brought a rare white Christmas to the southern U.S. plains on Tuesday, contributing to a 21-vehicle pile-up that shut down a major highway in Oklahoma.

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Blizzard warning issued for big chunk of Midwest

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Michael Pearson - Dec. 20 (News Report) - Tens of thousands of people lost power in Iowa as the huge storm blew in, bringing heavy snow and high winds.

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TSA Finally Investigating Cancer Risk of X-Ray Body Scanners

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By By Michael Grabell, ProPublica - Dec. 19 (Investigative Report) - Following months of congressional pressure, the Transportation Security Administration has agreed to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to study the health effects of the agency's X-ray body scanners. But it is unclear if the academy will conduct its own tests of the scanners or merely review previous studies.

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NDAA critic allowed home after being stranded on island

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

rt.com - Oct. 22 (News) - A Mississippi man has been allowed back to the United States mainland after being stranded in Hawaii last week when his name popped-up on a no-fly list mid-flight. Even still, Wade E. Hicks, Jr. says he wants some answers. Hicks, 34, says he’s yet to rec

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Ex-TSA agent: We steal from travelers all the time

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

rt.com - Sep. 30 (News) - A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security agent takes a traveler's luggage for a second security check at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.(Reuters / Andrew Burton) A TSA agent convicted of stealing more than $800,000 worth of goods from

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British tourists arrested in America on terror charges over Twitter jokes

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Mail - By Richard Hartley-Parkinson - Jan. 30 (News Report) - Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to 'destroy America' and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe'. Leigh Van Bryan wrote the message weeks before he was due to go to Los Angeles with friend Emily Banting and it was picked up by American special agents. 'They asked why we wanted to destroy America and we tried to explain it meant to get trashed and party. 'I almost burst out laughing when they asked me if I was going to be Leigh's lookout while he dug up Marilyn Monroe. 'I couldn't believe it because it was a quote from the comedy Family Guy which is an American show.

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Are America’s subways and roads overpriced?

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Brad Plumer - Dec. 07 (News Report) - Why do transportation projects cost so much in the United States?

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20,000 Surface-to-Air Missiles Missing from Libya

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - Sep. 27 (News) - Politisite brought you a story six months ago, that Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs) from Libya had fallen into the hands of al Qaeda. Those reports were ignored by the Obama Administration. The Report said that the U.S. Backed rebels were former al Qaeda members who had fought United States Soldiers in the Battlefield. So not only can the NYPD bring down an Aircraft, seems now, so can a terrorist in North Africa or the Middle East

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TSA Airport Scanners Wouldn’t Catch an Implant Bomber

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By Michael Grabell - Jul. 06 (Special Report) - A number of news outlets are reporting today on the bizarre-sounding story of terrorist groups considering how to implant explosive devices into humans to blow up a passenger jet. A U.S. security official confirmed the story for ProPublica, and the Transportation Security Administration released a statement that it had recently briefed domestic and foreign airlines. The agency said that passengers flying to the United States may notice additional security measures, such as more interaction from TSA officers, pat-downs and the use of “enhanced tools and technologies.”

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The space shuttle: Into the sunset

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Jul. 03 (Special Report) - If the weather holds and there are no unforeseen complications, then early in the morning on July 8th a woman and three men will ascend the launch tower at Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre, strap themselves into Atlantis, the last operational space shuttle, and, as the engines ignite, wait for the countdown to reach zero. Burning thousands of litres of rocket fuel every second and blasting superheated gas into the water-filled trench beneath the pad, the engines will kick up the vast gouts of steam and smoke that characterise a rocket launch.

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Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners

Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By by Michael Grabell - May. 16 (News Report) - "There's no real data on these machines, and in fact, the best guess of the dose is much, much higher than certainly what the public thinks," said John Sedat, a professor emeritus in biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF and the primary author of the letter.

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Obama's Silence on Boeing Is Unacceptable

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Apr. 29 (Opinion) - The actions by the NLRB are nothing less than a direct assault on the 22 right-to-work states across America. They are also an unprecedented attack on an iconic American company that is being told by the federal government—which seems to regard its authority as endless—where and how to build airplanes.

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FAA ends single-controller overnight shifts after alleged sleeping incident at Nevada airport

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:41:16 -0700

Washington Post - By Ashley Halsey III - Apr. 13 (News) - A Nevada air traffic controller allegedly fell asleep early Wednesday as a medical flight carrying a sick patient tried to land, leading federal authorities to order an immediate end to the practice of leaving one controller on duty during overnight shifts.

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Photos capture TSA repelling toddler terrorist threat with intrusive grope-downs of 6-year olds

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Doug Ross @ Journal - By Doug Ross - Apr. 12 (Opinion) - This administration -- and Janet Napolitano in particular -- is simply out of control, that's all there is to it.

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Southwest Airlines Incident Highlights Cracks In Federal Oversight

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

minyanville.com - Apr. 05 (News Report) - In a report that received limited attention when it was released in December, the Transportation Department's inspector general raised questions about the Federal Aviation Administration's safety checks of airliners. According to the report, the agency had failed to perform on-time inspections of the major airlines in more than 300 instances [PDF] between fiscal years 2005 and 2009.

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Southwest says small cracks found in 3 more planes

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Bob Christie - Apr. 04 (News) - Inspectors found small, subsurface cracks in three more Southwest Airlines planes that are similar to the cracks that caused a jetliner to lose pressure and make a harrowing emergency landing in Arizona, investigators said Sunday.

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Southwest Airlines grounds jets over mid-air hole scare

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 02 (News) -

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