Sigh. I feel so much safer.

A four-year-old whose name was the same as one on the TSA's "no-fly" list was blocked from boarding a plane to New York just before Christmas. The child's mother said it took several minutes of pleading and a phone call by the ticket agent to get on the plane to New York.

Workers at La Guardia Airport were even more hard-nosed before the family's Dec. 26 flight home, when the boy's mother was told by the ticket agent: "You're lucky that we're letting you through instead of putting you through the other process."

The Transportation Security Administration's "no-fly" list was established immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to prevent people who may have terrorist ties from boarding commercial flights.