The investigation of Scott Walker was not a fishing expedition. It was based on real evidence of a specific felony.

Refuting the main "rational" arguments against abortion rights.

There remains only the argument from religion, which attempts to prove that a fertilized ovum must already have a "soul". I've refuted that one.

Prison thugs in New York beat up prisoners , trying to extract whatever they knew about two prisoners who had escaped.

Ferguson's thugs had to surrender two Humvees, but not because of any plan to demilitarization US thugs.

Bizarrely, a concern about prices has motivated UK air travellers to refuse to let airport stores scan their boarding passes.

I almost never buy anything in an airport except take-out food, because the stores in an airport are expensive. The exceptions are when something is hard to find in the US: I've bought chocolate, cheese, nama yatsuhashi, and occasionally a book. For my privacy's sake, I have refused to let any store scan my boarding pass. When the clerk insisted on that, I said "no sale."

Then one day it occurred to me to ask, "What do you do when a boarding pass fails to scan properly?" The clerk answered that they can manually enter the flight number in that case. Since then, I've offered this a couple of times, and the clerk accepted it instead of scanning my pass.

As for the question of how this affects the prices, I expect an airport store to be expensive, but there is no use fussing about that. I simply don't buy anything there that I could get elsewhere.