Honestly, the first thing that comes to mind when I think “Department of Education” is No Child Left Behind, followed by a lot of trouble coming up with what else the DOE actually does in the government. Never in my life would I have thought that it contains its own set of federal agents that apparently have the power to raid people’s homes.

Yet, that’s what happened on Tuesday morning, as a California man woke to find feds from the DOE breaking down his door. And it gets uglier:

As Wright came downstairs in his boxer shorts, he said the officers barged through his front door. Wright said an officer grabbed him by the neck and led him outside on his front lawn.

“He had his knee on my back and I had no idea why they were there,” Wright said.

It turns out the agents had the wrong man.| MORE ›

On Sunday, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer called for a ‘no-ride list’ for trains. Just what we need! Another version of the secretive list that prompts false positives and doesn’t actually have a proven record of working. Quite the opposite, in fact. It’s a pain in the rear for legitimate flyers who happen to get caught up, and as the two last links prove, doesn’t get updated enough to be useful.| MORE ›