The Latest Terrorist Weapon of Choice?
November 28, 2019
As I was about to enter the Pornotron naked x-ray machine at BWI airport recently, just as I was about to push my carry-on bag into the x-ray/conveyor belt apparatus an obese female TSA bureaucrat whose uniform was about two sizes too small says: “Do you have any chips or candy in your bag?”
I assume that if I said “yes” she would have instructed me to open the bag and hand over to her the chips and candy, something that many other travelers before me had apparently done.
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.

