The Hill – by Jeremy Herb Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who has led the effort in the Senate to pass new gun control legislation, said she does not plan to try again in the wake of the shooting at the Los Angeles International Airport Friday where a TSA agent was killed. Feinstein said that passing […] Continue reading → 
Michael Schaus It might seem like idiocy on steroids, but that’s kinda how our Federal Government operates. Ever thought about helping out a family member by buying them that hunting rifle they’ve been looking at, or that Glock 19 they’ve been talking about getting? Well, prepare for prison if you buy it for them. A […] Continue reading → 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The same company that scrutinized former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden for a U.S. government security clearance said on Thursday it also checked the background of the Navy Yard shooter, allowing him to obtain a “secret” clearance. USIS, working as a contractor for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), conducted a […] Continue reading → 
Before Edward Snowden began leaking national security secrets, he twice cleared the hurdle of the federal government’s background check system — first at the CIA, then as a systems analyst at the National Security Agency. Snowden’s path into secretive national security jobs has raised concerns about the system that outsources many of the government’s most […] Continue reading → 
Mr. Conservative – by Bookworm While Washington may be ignoring you (at least, when it’s not spying on you), your voice can still be heard, at least at the state level. Although Nevada’s Republican governor Brian Sandoval had already announced that he intended to veto the Nevada legislature’s “universal background check” bill, thousands of citizens […] Continue reading →
About four months after being defrocked by the Diocese of Camden in 2002, Thomas Harkins had a new job as a security officer, including patting down passengers, with the Transportation Security Administration at Philadelphia International Airport. The TSA hired the former priest before completing a background check, the agency recently confirmed. According to a church […] Continue reading → 