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Tag: homeland security

May 10
2011

Obama Is Out To Get You Through Your Cell Phone!

Media

The right wing media is in a frenzy today over the plan to send homeland security and disaster alerts to your cellphone. Listen to Limbaugh going off on the “regimes” plan today: I really hope that Limbaugh is talking about the Bush regime. This plan was authored by Tea Party poster boy, Jim DeMint in […]

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Jul 5
2010

Photographer Detained For The Horrid Crime Of Photographing A BP Refinery

News

I guess the first amendment is null and void: A photographer taking pictures of a BP refinery in Texas was detained by a BP security official, local police and a man who said he was from the Department of Homeland Security, according to ProPublica, a non-profit news organization in the U.S. The photographer, Lance Rosenfield, […]

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May 6
2010

Lindsey Graham Thinks The 2nd Amendment Trumps The 5th

National Security

Here’s what Lindsey Graham said about attempted car bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad being read his rights: Miranda warnings are counterproductive in my view,” Graham said at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday. “The homeland is part of the battlefield. So this idea that you get to America, the rules dramatically change, […]

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May 6
2010

Fact Check Fail

Media

Here is an article appearing on CBS right now: Faisal Shahzad on Homeland Security List Since 1999 That is one amazing feat, since DHS wasn’t formed until November of 2002. So how was Shahzad on a list of a department three years prior to that department being formed? (h/t GottaLaff)

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Feb 18
2010

4 Years For Rudy Crony Kerik

News

Bernie Kerik, former NY police commissioner and BFF of Rudy 9ul1an1 has been sentenced to four years for lying and tax fraud. Let’s not forget that Kerik was also appointed by Bush to head up Homeland Security. Yup – another Republican hero.

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Feb 4
2010

How The GOP Really Governs

Politics

This is the kind of news that should be plastered on every network tonight: The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to confirm Martha N. Johnson as head of the General Services Administration, nearly 10 months after she was first nominated to head the federal agency. Upon assuming office, Johnson “will become the first permanent […]

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Feb 3
2010

OMG – The Government Is Employing People

Society

Drudge is pushing this headline today: Largest-ever federal payroll to hit 2.15 million employees… It goes to a Washington Times story talking about the increasing workforce of the U.S. government – not a bad thing with unemployment where it’s at. But let’s take a look at where these numbers are coming from: Mr. Obama says […]

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Jan 13
2010

Obama Administration Suspends Deportation Of Haitians

Society

This is some good news, but I’m sure the wingnuts will explode over it: Responding to the devastation from the Haiti earthquake, Obama administration officials on Wednesday temporarily suspended deportations of illegal immigrants from that country. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Haitian deportations would be halted “for the time being,” without specifying a time […]

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Dec 28
2009

We Don’t Need Another “Heckuva Job Brownie”

National Security

I’m going with Andrew Sullivan on this one: Her latest interview on the Today show again reveals a total obtuseness. Yes, as was obvious from the original clip, it was clear she was referring to what happened after the incident occurred and the system does seem to have worked from then on. But before that? […]

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Dec 4
2009

Did We Forget About Executive Privilege?

Politics

I keep thinking back to the Bush years and every time someone in Congress wanted someone from the Bush administration to testify the Republicans would give cover to Bush by arguing about “executive privilege”. At that time so many of us on the left kept thinking “I wonder if they will do the same when […]

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