[Tolik]

Logic and common sense!

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[Boundless]

One way to defuse and shift the "racial profiling" debate
is to use the phrase "statistical profiling".

It's just a coincidence that effective statisical profiling
of terrorist bombers has a large ethnic component. But we
can't entirely rely on ethnicity. It wouldn't have caught
Reid (shoebomber), nor McVeigh, nor IRA thugs in the UK,
but it will catch a large number of real threats.

Random searches are seriously suboptimal.

[Tax-chick]

Sometimes I think David Gelernter is as brilliant as Thomas Sowell.