After months of exploration, Sacramento International Airport has decided to replace federally-employed Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport screeners with private contractors. This is an opt-out I support.

As a compromise to House Republicans over a decade ago, language in the act creating the TSA allowed for airports to choose to hire private contractors to conduct airport screening rather than the TSA directly. These private contractors were held to the same ...

This is an old story, but one I have been meaning to highlight for the last two weeks. Should a pilot have spoken up when he heard a Transportation Security Officer (TSO) using filthy language while in costume or just minded his own business? That's not an easy question to answer.

...[A] Transportation Security Administration screener was arrested at New York JFK for allegedly "hurling a cup of hot coffee at an American Airlines pilot who told her and some colleagues to tone down a ...

I had a 5:25a United flight to the Houston on Saturday morning and since the first train from 30th St Station in Philadelphia does not leave until 4:34a (22 minute journey to airport) and more importantly, because I can never sleep before such an early flight, I decided to head to the airport late Friday night. My goal was to clear security, set up by a power outlet, and get some work so that I could sleep though the flights. What do you suppose happened?

I took the last train of the ...

TSA’s Iraqi Information Minister, Blogger Bob, addressed the new video “making its way around the interwebs” about why full body scanners actually make us less safe. His words were telling. Let’s go through them, one sentence at a time.

I watched the video and it is a crude attempt to allegedly show how to circumvent TSA screening procedures.

Even if the video was crude (as in not professionally produced), it did not “allegedly” show how ...

For years I have been preaching about the lack of critical thinking and common sense that characterized the Transportation Security Administration's choice to roll out full-body scanners at airports nationwide. I have pointed out that the machines were never tested prior to their acquisition and that a women smuggled a gun in her bra through a full body scanner not once, but five times and the TSA never so much as acknowledged it. But maybe that was not enough to ...

Note the question mark--when I first head about the story, I rolled my eyes and commented, "The TSA did it again," but there is a question as to who was at fault.

A Littleton woman said she missed her flight because the Transportation Security Administration didn’t have any female screeners at the airport.

At the tiny Rock Springs, Wyo. Airport, the motto is "It’s easy to fly," which is why Jennifer Winning is a regular."In the last five months, I've flown out of ...