Category Archives: Homeland Security

Cruz Missiles

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Ted Cruz, like every other presidential hopeful, vows to destroy the Islamic State. Should we believe him? [Credit: ABC News]

Ted Cruz, like every oth­er pres­i­den­tial hope­ful, vows to destroy the Islam­ic State. Should we believe him? [Cred­it: ABC News]

Ted Cruz says we don’t have a dog in the Syr­i­an civ­il war.  He nev­er­the­less wants to car­pet bomb the civ­il war’s lead­ing bel­liger­ent, the Islam­ic State (IS).  Which just might kill some dogs. Con­tin­ue read­ing →

A Sensible Immigration Ruling Makes No Sense In Washington

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The President took immigration policy into his own hands, bypassing Congress. A federal judge has ruled that he acted improperly. [Credit: Tax Justice Blog]

A fed­er­al judge has ruled that the Pres­i­dent improp­er­ly took immi­gra­tion pol­i­cy into his own hands. [Cred­it: Tax Jus­tice Blog]

A fed­er­al judge in Brownsville, Texas, on Mon­day pro­vid­ed a way out of the Con­gres­sion­al impasse over a bill to fund the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty (DHS).  But the oppor­tu­ni­ty might be squan­dered by Con­gres­sion­al Repub­li­cans bent on self-immolation.

Com­pared with the President’s exec­u­tive excess­es and Repub­li­can cir­cu­lar fir­ing squads, Fed­er­al Dis­trict Court Judge Andrew S. Hanen’s pre­lim­i­nary injunc­tion against the Admin­is­tra­tion’s immi­gra­tion pol­i­cy is a mod­el of ratio­nal­i­ty and restraint. Con­tin­ue read­ing →

Tales From The House al Qaeda Built

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Turmoil at the Department of Homeland Security, an agency established in response to the 9/11 attacks, continued last night when Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigned under fire. [Credit: cbc.ca]

Tur­moil at the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty, an agency estab­lished in response to the 9/11 attacks, con­tin­ued last night when Secret Ser­vice Direc­tor Julia Pier­son resigned under fire. [Cred­it: cbc.ca]

The house al Qae­da built — a sprawl­ing new head­quar­ters for the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty, an agency cre­at­ed in response to the Sep­tem­ber 11 attacks — was sup­posed to open next year.

It’s just a bit behind sched­ule.  Its open­ing is now slat­ed for 2026, 21 years after plan­ning began. Con­tin­ue read­ing →