De-banning liquid

The TSA is going to allow liquids back on airplanes:

WASHINGTON - The government is partially lifting its ban against carrying liquids and gels onto airliners, as long as they are purchased from secure airport stores, and will also permit small, travel-size toiletries brought from home, officials said Monday. A total ban on such products, instituted after a plot to bomb jets flying into the United States was foiled, is no longer needed, said Transportation Security Administration chief Kip Hawley.

The reason the ban is no longer needed is that it never was needed. They certainly haven't come up with new screening technologies this quickly. This blog has said several times before that it is virtually impossible for anyone to mix up liquid explosives in flight. This whole ban was simply for show and to blow the incident out of all proportion to reality for political reasons.