Michael D. Brown

Today The New York Daily News and The Smoking Gun ran stories about a coloring book written and published by the Freeborn (gotta’ love that name) County, Minnesota Crisis Response Team following tornadoes in that county.  The coloring book, designed for very young children, is entitled “A Scary Thing Happened:  A Children’s Coloring Book to [...]

I’ve missed posting on here for quite awhile.  My father, Wayne Brown, became ill a few weeks ago and passed away a week ago Sunday.  Between spending time with him in the hospital, the memorial service and helping my mother, I found that writing was a low priority, as it should be.  One is never [...]

I was humored by the President’s cabinet meeting this week in which he announced sternly that all departments and agencies needed to start saving money by cutting items out of their budgets.  Janet Napolitano announced she could save millions at DHS by purchasing office supplies in bulk.  Wow.  I’m impressed. But since we’ve moved into [...]

I don’t want you to think that I’m obsessed with obesity, but I am obsessed with the proverbial “foot in the door” tactic of slowly using one issue to take more and more government control over our lives. As I recently wrote, obesity is the next big regulatory move for the government. Today, the United [...]

Patrick Gavin, a reporter with Politico recently interviewed me for his series, “Answer This.” The questions are fun but even more fun was some of the comments posted to my interview, including one that suggested I get a drink, go to a room, and put a gun in my mouth. Now that’s substantive political discourse, [...]

A majority of Brits want their National Health Service to deny surgery to obese people until they lose weight. That’s compassionate, huh? In the United States last week the Congress passed a bill to exercise unprecedented control over tobacco companies. So, along with the American auto manufacturers, investment banks, commercial banks and Lord knows what [...]

According to the Air Force’s information on Cheyenne Mountain, activities had not diminished at this mountain fortress, but had in fact matched the evolving realities of the changing world. The original North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) Combat Operations Center (COC) had evolved into the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center (CMOC). It was the central collection [...]

Usually I’m looking at and writing about TSA from the outside, describing the kabuki-style measures taken to make the public think they’re secure when we fly.  But, Denver’s Channel 9, KUSA-TV, and investigative reporter Deborah Sherman, have done a report on the internal problems at TSA/DEN.  Here’s their report:

The time has finally arrived for President Obama to make a decision about FEMA. Either announce it will stay in the Department of Homeland Security or pull it out. Too many conflicting signals are being sent and too many conflicting policies are being implemented. Again, FEMA is doomed to fail until the President settles the [...]