If you are under 12 or over 75--in like Flynn. No worries.

No more long TSA security lines involving taking off your shoes or taking out your laptop...etc...

But for the rest of us flyers, it's a secret new "E-ZPass" program...

Suspected killer Erika Menendez being arrested.

It doesn't have to happen.

Every year about 1,000 people in the U.S. are murdered by severely mentally ill people.

Over 38,000 people in the United States die by suicide...

President Obama had lunch today with Mitt Romney and one of the topics they discussed was Romney's plan for making "government more efficient."

Obama has praised Romney for his work in running the Olympics and for his skills that could lend themselves to making the government work better,...

Industry mergers among large, competing travel companies rarely lead to better service or lower prices.

This week Hertz sealed its purchase of Dollar Thrifty after bushwhacking through a long antitrust clearance process with the FTC. The acquisition left Hertz-Dollar executives gushing about...

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Mitt Romney wants to increase our military budget by $2 trillion per year even though our generals think we don't need it. While a student at Stanford in the '60s, Mitt Romney demonstrated on the streets supporting the Vietnam War. "Governor's...

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful... They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than...

Teachers, like other professionals, don't want to be evaluated.

Here's a technological solution: put a nanny cam in every classroom.

And not just to trap them doing something wrong.

Have union teachers judged by a panel of their peers. Use these accurate video evaluations, along with standardized tests, to...

The July/August issue of the Washington Monthly explores the idea that hard-up Americans can capitalize on their assets to provide a much-needed boost to both their...

As we approach the one year anniversary of the killing of Osama Bin Laden, imagine this scenario:

Five Navy Seals are left behind in Abbottabad, Pakistan. They are taken into custody, tried as spies in Pakistan courts and sentenced to "life in prison" and are still locked...

Bird-watching luxury cruise passengers with high power binoculars spotted a fishing boat in distress and tried desperately to alert the captain of the Star Princess, owned by Carnival, of Concordia fame.

But the Princess, with a full complement of 2,500 "newlywed, overfed and nearly dead" well heeled luxury passengers sailed...

When Pope Benedict XVI meets with Raul and Fidel Castro this week, he should urge Cuba to release American Alan Gross from the remainder of his harsh 15 year prison term. Gross was arrested two years ago for smuggling illegal cell phones and other technology to Cuba's small Jewish community.

These days, even the most infrequent fliers try to squeeze as many miles as they can out of each trip, in the hopes of one day achieving what has become the holy grail of air travel: the free flight.

But while consumers are dutifully stacking miles and points, the...

The holy grail of finding an inexpensive, truthful price for an airline tickets was woefully illustrated in a Wall Street Journal piece last week that found 8 different prices on 14 different websites for a simple trip from Phoenix to Philadelphia.

As most flyers already know,...

Michael O'Leary, the cavalier leader of European discount air carrier Ryanair, is garnering worldwide press, yet again, for his plans to offer in-flight porn via handheld devices on its flights.
The low-fare airline, the largest in Europe, carrying more than 7 million passengers per...

Despite our desperate need for jobs, 16 million unemployed, the U.S. is ignoring a surefire way to create 1.3 million good, no-cost jobs and add $390 billion to U.S. exports in the next decade.

The world travel market grew by 60 million annual visitors in the last decade --...

The Department of Transportation (DOT) is investigating a number of airlines because they are not reporting fees prominently on their Web pages as required by a new rule that took effect on August 23 this year.

Bill Mosley, a DOT spokesman confirmed the investigation, but said that he could...

No question about it that 9/11 was an atrocious horror and the first responders were heroes.

But what happened after 9/11 was perhaps a greater horror. 9/11 was hijacked by a right-wing cabal, worried about an Israel-Arab conflict.

I thought I was alone in...

"Romneycare" versus "Perrycare"

Rick Perry is going around the country promising to dismantle President Obama's health care reform... and fiercely attacking Mitt Romney for putting through a 2006 health care reform in Massachusetts, which was remarkably similar to Obama's new reforms. Even Romney, in the sights of the Tea...

It's about to get ugly for anyone visiting or living on the East Coast because the storm is huge and powerful. It'll bring the big winds, plenty of rain, coastal surges.

The problem now is power. The soft ground in the East has already been saturated by heavy rains this...

According the a new report in this week's New Yorker, there was never any intention of capturing Osama Bin Laden. The point was to kill him, pure and simple.

This contradicted the assertions of the White House at the time that killing Osama was a split-second...