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...Created in a post-9/11 panic—quick, someone do something!—it took less than a year for the TSA to be branded a “monster” by the chairman of the House Aviation Subcommittee, John Mica (R-Fla.). But until voters and politicians treat the threat of terrorism rationally, accepting certain risks and recognizing that some preventative measures are too costly, the TSA will neither guard our security nor our liberty...
...Denis Breslin, a spokesman for the Allied Pilots Association, suggests that Buechner's cries about her husband's illness could have been a ploy to distract the air marshals. "They are trained to make a split-second decision. They don't have time to second-guess," says Representative John Mica of Florida, who chairs the House subcommittee on aviation. "I think they acted absolutely appropriately...
...rule may soon become a relic of the past. Last week a group of twelve pilots asked the Supreme Court to review their challenge of the Age 60 regulation in which they ask for waivers to the rule. On Capitol Hill, influential Congressman John Mica, a Florida Republican who heads the House aviation subcommittee, says he will hold hearings on the topic. Even the ALPA is considering reviewing its stance...
Like The West Wing, Housewives is well made but stacks the dramatic deck shamelessly. Its characters--as thin as mica flakes, especially the men--are very affluent, and it's set on Wisteria Lane, a picket-fence never-never land. We don't see women juggling home and career; there aren't any nannies or day care in sight. All this allows the show to be "brave" by indicting a clich of suburban life without really depicting how any of its viewers live...
...Like The West Wing, Housewives is well made but stacks the dramatic deck shamelessly. Its characters - as thin as mica flakes, especially the men - are very affluent, and it's set on Wisteria Lane, a picket-fence never-never land. We don't see women juggling home and career; there aren't any nannies or day care in sight. All this allows the show to be "brave" by indicting a cliche of suburban life without really depicting how any of its viewers live...