November 22, 2006 2:52PM 

# If Thanksgiving Travel Woes Get You Down … 

By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) 

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… you might want to mark your calendar for December 13th.

The Cato Institute is having a [book forum on ](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=3367)*[Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=3367)* (Free Press, 2006). In the book, Ohio State University national security expert John Mueller puts terrorism in the context of other national security threats our country has faced in the past, and challenges us to assess the threat of terrorism rationally.

Yesterday, security expert Bruce Schneier published a [TSA Security Round-Up](http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/11/tsa_security_ro_1.html) that might make you thankful just to get to and from your family home this holiday. Our country and government can do better.

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