If a Pilot Refuses or Fails a DoT Drug Test, is it in His Best Interest to Pretend to have a Drug Problem?
DOT drug testing is an unmitigated disaster. The failures and abuses of DOT drug testing are being imposed on airmen who, if they cannot provide a sufficient quantity of urine, must confess to having a drug problem, even if they do not, if they want to fly. Even though Congress has directed the Secretary of…
Read More Wind Farms and Public Use Airports – Why the FAA Fails to Ensure Air Safety
The explosion of wind turbine developments across the United States does not bode well for the continued viability of many public use airports. Overview of the Problem Increasingly, wind farms with wind turbine generators (WTGs) nearly 500 feet above ground level litter the landscape. However, the disturbing reality is that these wind farms are being…
Read More A Call to Repeal the President’s Healthcare Law
The economic realities of the President’s healthcare bill were not lost on the American people. A majority of Americans opposed passage of the President’s healthcare bill, but he along, with members of the Democratic Party elected to ignore the population will and impose upon us a healthcare law that does not fulfill its obligations and will actually raise the cost of healthcare in America a time when we can least afford it.
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