Homeland Security raids lingerie shop over sports-themed panties

If you had any worries about just how safe the Department of Homeland Security keeps America, worry no longer: DHS just raided a lingerie shop in Kansas City, Missouri, over custom underwear the agents said were in violation of copyright law. The offending garment celebrated the Kansas City Royals' progress in the World Series, reading, "Take the Crown," with the K and C highlighted and linked to imitate the team's logo.

"We just thought it was something funny we could do. But it was so scary," store owner Peregrine Honig told the Kansas City Star. She said she figured her hand-drawn design wouldn't violate any laws.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.