The TSA has taken the “welcome step” of exempting kids 12 and under from shedding shoes, Jon Hilkevitch of the Chicago Tribune tells us. Alas, “Older children and adults will still be required to take off their shoes during screening because the possibility of terrorists concealing explosives in shoes remains a major threat, the TSA said.” Jon is a columnist whose “topics” include the TSA, “Transportation Accidents, Air and Space Accidents,” and others I wasn’t curious enough to explore. So we might expect him to know — and to inform his readers — that “terrorists concealing explosives in shoes” is … Continue reading Is He Ignorant, Lazy, or Simply a Shill for Our Rulers?