December 11, 2010

Ending the TSA Madness: Listen Up, Folks, Here's How You Win the Profiling Debate

By Selwyn Duke
One thing that saddens me about the TSA security controversy is that we're missing a great opportunity.  Sure, the insanity of patting down three-year-old, blonde-haired lasses and octogenarian grandmothers with prostheses has caused a great backlash, as more and more people are realizing that our government's common sense-blind approach is born of a deadly allegiance to political correctness.  In fact, I've even heard a few usually very careful pundits float the idea that we should think about profiling Muslims.  Unfortunately, though, they invariably drop the ball in the debate.The problem is that they don't believe they occupy the moral high ground.  Instilled with the idea that advocating "racial profiling" (a propaganda term) amounts to bigotry, they generally back down as soon as someone looks askance at their suggestion.  This is especially frustrating to me because I've long been promulgating an airtight argument that not only refutes the...(Read Full Article)