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Peter King Watch (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
We reported back in July that King was trying to get an IRA thug out of jail on bail . This guy escaped from a British prison 25 years ago and was caught and is to be deported by the Department of Homeland Security finds a friend in Peter King. The Belfast Telegraph reports "An American immigration appeals court has upheld Maze escapee Pol Brennan's bail denial, just weeks after three US Congressman...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
NOW might be a good time to buy some FedEx stock. International travelers are sure to be shipping a lot of laptops on overnight delivery to avoid losing them for hours or weeks - thanks to the Department of Homeland Security's new confiscation...
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Ednotes Online - The Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
1. Schools shall be obliged to teach the Intelligent Design Theory in all history and anthropology courses, and The Stork Theory of Human Reproduction in all biology classes. 2. The Spanish Inquisition shall be incorporated into the Department of Homeland Security. 3. Abortion, birth control, and jerking off shall be proscribed by awarding legal personhood to embryos, ova, and sperms. 4. The U.S. Government...
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
The Department of Homeland Security has a plan to stop fiery wrecks and chemical attacks from killing hundreds in the nation's subway tunnels.
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IOL (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
In what is heralded as the seeds of an Internet-age emergency broadcast system, MySpace has teamed with the US Department of Homeland Security.
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The Eagle Texas and Region (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
NEW ORLEANS -- Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Wednesday in Baton Rouge that the Federal Emergency Management Agency would pay hotel costs of ...
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The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
From Badasa v. Mukasey (8th Cir. Aug. 29) (paragraph break added, most citations omitted:...
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atmaspheric | endeavors (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Sometimes things happen online that are simply too close to who you are not to believe that your data is being collected, collated and used for marketing (or observation) purposes. For my recent trip to Dubai, I spent quite a bit of time researching things via google and even spent some time on the local [...] ShareThis
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Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Dead but blurbing. Perhaps there's money to be made for universities that want to license out caches of letters and assorted private documents to praise-hungry publishers. I see a future for the Department of Homeland Security in this.
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BlogHer (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Early last week, Lapriss Gilbert was forced to leave a federal building by a security guard who thought her t-shirt was offensive. The "offensive" t-shirt simply read lesbian.com across the front. The guard, who works for a private company contracted by the Department of Homeland Security, cited The Rules and Regulations Governing Conduct on Federal Property document as his reason for removing Gilbert...
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One Old Vet (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Judge Denies Request to Halt Border Wall Construction In a major setback to critics of the Department of Homeland Security’s border wall, a federal judge in Texas has denied a request to temporarily halt construction of the wall, which is fast underway in the El Paso area. Quietly issuing his ruling on Friday, August 29, just before [...]
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novalawcity (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security relied on Wikipedia as evidence in an immigration proceeding, convincing both the judge and the BIA to order deportation. The 8th U.S. Circuit reversed, discussing the unreliability of Wikipedia as a source. Wired...
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WebPro News (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
A court has ruled that Wikipedia entries are not legitimate sources for dictating a court ruling. Shockingly, it was a U.S. Appeals Court that decided this in response to a previous ruling, rather than being taken as a given in the first place. Ars Technica explains : read more
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Newswise (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
A new six-year, $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will allow researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to investigate how different civil infrastructures within a city or county - such as roadways, water and power utilities, hospitals, banks, or law enforcement - interact with each other and with the natural environment after a disaster.
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Facebook Blog (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
This week, Facebook was part of a conference call arranged by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff with major Internet companies. The unfortunate approach of Hurricane Gustav meant that nearly two million people living on the Gulf Coast had to evacuate their homes.
The 3 the latest comments published by users on Department of Homeland Security :
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zipdadoda | 04/19/2008
In this day and age when government can’t be trusted with a set of blueprints for the new world trade center, a Canadian government official, (letter below), is taking a stand against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff plan to collect and share private personal data with other countries around the world.
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jannollo | 01/26/2008
Caracas, January 24, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com) - Medea Benjamin, spokesperson for CODEPINK: Women for Peace, a well known anti-war group in the US, and Jesús Marrero from the Committee for the Extradition of Posada Carriles in Venezuela, held a joint press conference in Caracas today to demand the arrest and extradition to Venezuela of former CIA operative and international terrorist Luis Posada
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le_lapin | 01/26/2008
Within the next month, the Pentagon will submit its 2009 budget to Congress and it's a fair bet that it will be even larger than the staggering 2008 one. Like the Army and the Marines, the Pentagon itself is overstretched and under strain -- and like the two services, which are expected to add 92,000 new troops over the next five years (at an estimated cost of $1.2 billion per 10,000), the Pentagon's
