Michael D. Brown

Joe Heller, Green Bay Press Gazette.

This is backwards.  I know something about systems that work and don’t work.   In the case of Flight 253, the system did not work.  The individual should never have been permitted to board the flight.  Everything Secretary Napolitano refers to occurred post-incident.  And, in my opinion, the only thing that worked properly during the incident, [...]

As a follow up to my post yesterday, Bruce Schneier has an even better suggestion over on his blog: Separating Explosives from the Detonator Chechen terrorists did it in 2004. I said this in an interview with then TSA head Kip Hawley in 2007: I don’t want to even think about how much C4 I can strap to my [...]

Tomorrow morning my wife and I get on a plane to fly back to Denver after spending Christmas with our daughter and friends.  Needless to say I already dread the check-in, flight and landing.  Knees are jerking everywhere and once again, we’re fighting the last battle instead of the next battle. The Associated Press is [...]

So The Light Came Into the World When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar. Everywhere there was civil order, for the arm [...]

A good friend of mine, Ross Kaminsky, has done an excellent job of tracking the corruption in the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigrations & Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE).  The story of the persecution and destruction of an ICE agent trying to the right thing should outrage every law enforcement officer and citizen in this country. [...]

The following is outrageous and demonstrates the lengths these people will go to instilling fear among the populations of the world, and loathing toward scientists, politicians, and individuals who do not believe mankind is causing global warming.  This is a cult. Humankind does not have the power to change climate, or in the words of the [...]

Perhaps its a function of getting older, but my cynicism is in full blown exhibition this week.  Considering the hypocrisy, chaos, lies and folly on display in Copenhagen this week, one begins to wonder if anyone out there is paying attention to what’s going on?  Perhaps its a function of age, but having lived 5+ [...]

Everyone has seen the photos of the West Point cadets before and during President Obama’s speech on the Afghanistan war strategy.  One in particular has circulated around the Internet and news sites: But what has not been widely reported is the torture endured by these cadets on Tuesday night before the President’s speech. Having been [...]

According to the Richmond Times Dispatch (Virginia): Col. Van T. Barfoot, a local Medal of Honor winner, is under the gun from his Henrico County community’s homeowner association. In a five-paragraph letter to Barfoot that he received yesterday, Barfoot is being ordered to remove a flagpole from his yard. The decorated veteran of three wars, [...]