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Songs for the Season: "A Ho-Ho-Horowitz Christmas!"

Rick Horowitz | Posted 01.11.2009 | Style

Read More: George Bush, White House, Investments, Joe the Plumber, Christmas Parodies, Homeland Security, Holiday Songs, Chicago, Satirical Songs, Economy, George W. Bush, Christmas, Obama Administration, Sarah Palin, 401(K), Auto Bailout, Patrick Fitzgerald, Satire, General Motors, Obama Cabinet, Financial Crisis, Hurricane Katrina, Xmas, Financial Meltdown, Illinois, Detroit, Karl Rove, Michelle Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ford, Congress, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Chrysler, Christmas Songs, Bush Administration, Wall Street, Rod Blagojevich, Janet Napolitano, Santa Claus, Car Czar, Hillary Clinton, Style News

You'd better watch out/ And heed what I say/You'd better protect your 401(k)/Nasty times are coming to town.

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Flag International: Global Perspectives On The American Flag

Lauri Lyons | Posted 01.10.2009 | World

Read More: Europe, Election Day, 9/11, Multicultural, Globalization, Iraq, America, England, Politics, Freedom of Speech, Muslims, First Amendment, American Flag, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Americana, Belgium, Homeland Security, European Union, Melting Pot, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, France, Patriot Act, u.s. Foreign Policy, Patriotism, Obama Election Day, Iraq War, Religion and Politics, Identity, International Relations, Holland, Spain, World News

What is America? Growing up, I have been able to view the country from several perspectives: Black, female, first-generation American, and a former military child.

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What Is This "Czar" Business?

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Leadership, Michelle Obama, Auto Czar, GM China, Rod Blagojevich, Homeland Security, Nancy Pelosi, Paul Volcker, Barack Obama, Henry Paulson, Politics News

Why should we trust a single person to oversee how taxpayer money will be spent by companies that have already demonstrated a narrow focus on short term profits and plumping the pillows of senior management?

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Top Homeland Security Official Accused Of Hiring Illegal Immigrants To Clean Her House

AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homeland Security, Lorraine Henderson, US Attorney, Illegal Immigrants, Politics News

BOSTON — A top Homeland Security official in Boston was accused Friday of repeatedly hiring illegal immigrants to clean her home, even warning o...

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NYC Subway Terror Plot May Threaten Holidays, Feds Warn

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and TOM HAYS | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaida, Paranoia, Homeland Security, New York City, Terrorism, Subway, Al Qaeda, Politics News

From the AP: Police bolstered security in subways and trains Wednesday after the government warned that al-Qaida suicide bombers were contemplating an...

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Don't Tell William Langewiesche to "Have a Safe Flight" (and Other Ways to Avoid Self-Destruction in the War on Terror)

David Quigg | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Langewiesche thinks we are probably too scared for a president to reason with us -- about terrorism, about our self-defeating wish for total safety. I'm not so sure.

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Friday Talking Points [56] -- Turkeys Everywhere!

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Turkey Slaughter, Leadership, Turkey, Leadership Battle, John Dingell, Media, Charlie Rangel, Waxman, Chairman, Bush, Lieberman, Television, Pelosi, Last-Minute, Video, Midnight Regulations, Clinton, Regulations, Networks, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Turkeys, Palin Turkey, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Leadership Fight, Reid, Detroit, Committee, Butcher, House, Framing, Charles Rangel, Homeland Security, Rules, 60 Days, Dingell, Democrat, Henry Waxman, Democrats, 2008 Election, Interview, Slaughterhouse, Rangel, Mddotw, Hillary, Chris Weigant, Palin, Sarah Palin, Leak, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman, News, Meat, Leaks, Secretary of State, Senate, Politics News

While today is not officially Turkey Day, I will warn you in advance that it's going to be a theme running through today's column, like gravy through ...

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The Change To Competency

James Boyce | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Change, Barack Obama, Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano Homeland Security, Obama Cabinet, Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Obama's Cabinet, Eric Holder, Politics News

Finally today we have the "news" that the Department of Homeland Security has wasted $60 billion in spending, is rudderless and I might add, clueless.

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Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary?

Huffington Post | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Napolitano Homeland Security, Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary, Obama Cabinet, Obama's Cabinet, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Politics News

***Update 12/1, 11 AM*** At a news conference today, Obama introduced his picks of retired Marine Gen. James Jones as White House national security ...

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Barack: Talk To Us Like Grownups About Terrorism and Save Us From Ourselves

David Quigg | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

When we let shock or panic or a lust for vengeance guide us, we are a greater danger to ourselves than terrorists ever could be. Any terrorists. With any weapon.

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Dean: Keeping Lieberman As Chairman Is Shrewd Move

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney and Sam Stein | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Party Lieberman, Joseph Lieberman, Howard Dean, Homeland Security, Democratic Party, Lieberman Committee Chair, Howard Dean Huffington Post, Dean Lieberman, Politics News

DNC Chair Howard Dean welcomed the decision to keep Senator Joseph Lieberman as head of the Homeland Security Committee and, consequently, in the Demo...

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Only One Day Left to Tell Your Senators "Lieberman Must Go!"

ZP Heller | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Caucus, Committee, John McCain, Homeland Security, Meet the Bloggers, Cenk Uygur, Iraq, Robert Greenwald, Democrats, Chairmanship, Barack Obama, Brave New Foundation, Satyam Khanna, Blackwater, Joe Lieberman, Hurricane Katrina, Republicans, Politics News

Stripping Lieberman of his committee chairmanships is not about exacting revenge. Lieberman has careened to the right on both foreign and domestic policy issues.

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Do You Want Lieberman to Have Subpoena Power to Investigate President Obama?

Robert Greenwald | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Steering Committee, Lieberman Must Go, Homeland Security, Barack Obama, Joe Lieberman, Fire, John McCain, Chairmanship, Politics News

Lieberman has proven he cannot be trusted to hold a high rank within the Democratic caucus. That is why we launched Lieberman Must Go last summer.

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If National Security Matters, Don't Vote GOP

Donna and Ed Bassett | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home

We haven't been hit domestically again by terrorists because of the work of dedicated men and women, domestic and foreign, who have kept us safe -- in spite of the Bush Administration, not because of it.

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From a West Bank Jail to the Governor's Mansion: How One Judge Weighed a Popular Imam's Suspicious Past

Elizabeth Dwoskin | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palestine, Muslim-Americans, Mohammad Qatanani, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Imam, Hamas, Israel, Torture, Politics News

For months, Muslims across the tri-state area waged a campaign to support their beloved imam. Many had never been politically active, until he was threatened with deportation.

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Hand Grenade Found In DC Park

Washington Post | Howard Schneider | Posted 11.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Washington DC, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Home News

A maintenance worker found a hand grenade near a sports field in Rock Creek Park this morning, prompting officials to close 16th St. and call the mili...

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Obama, McCain on National Security and Nuclear Proliferation

Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling | Posted 10.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Infrastructure, John McCain, Tom Ridge, War on Terror, Food Crisis, National Security, Homeland Security, Brownie, Election 2008, Obama National Security, Duct Tape, Water Crisis, Barack Obama, Defense Department, Terrorist Attack, Barack Obama Nuclear Weapons, 9/11, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Weapons, Us Security, Nuclear Deterrence, North Korea Nuclear Program, Barack Obama Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Proliferation, Home News

Where do Obama and McCain stand on these issues? To start, McCain, the nominee of what used to called the "small government party," wants to create two entirely new government organizations.

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9/11 and the GOP's False Sense of Security

David Quigg | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Lies, John McCain, Richard Clarke, War on Terror, Counterterrorism, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Sarah Palin, 9/11, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Al Qaeda, John Mccain Terrorism, Politics News

Our safety depends on us acting together. And our shared action depends on a basic shared understanding that it is far too soon to claim "never again."

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McCain, Obama on International Diplomacy and Immigration

Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Immigration Reform, Mccain Immigration Reform, John McCain, Homeland Security, Immigration, Election 2008, Border Fence, Border Security, Lou Dobbs Immigration, Tom Tancredo, Immigration Debate, United Nations Obama, Foreign Affairs Obama, Obama Immigration Reform, Barack Obama, United Nations Mccain, League of Democracies, Security Council Mccain, League of Nations, Bush Unilateralism, UN Human Rights, Obama Diplomacy, Fareed Zakaria Democracies, McCain Diplomacy, Un Secretariat, Zimbabwe Elections, Security Council Obama, Home News

Over the course of this week, OffTheBus will be running a primer on some of the most important foreign policy issues the next president will face. Today, the primer looks at where Obama and McCain stand on international diplomacy and immigration.

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7 Years Later: Could Civilians Be Key to Winning the War on Terror?

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

More and more people around the world are disavowing violence against civilians, and support for terrorism is drying up.

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After Gustav: Where's the Home in Homeland?

Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 10.05.2008 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, Common Dreams, Hurricane, Gustav, Jazz, Homeland, Homeland Security, Molly Ivins, Hurricane Gustav, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Nola, Esquizito, Green News

One would think that the relatively new federal department, Homeland Security, would be doing its best to defend our homes, to keep us where our heart and hearth reside.

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Bias At Homeland Security Led To Poor Site For $451 Mil. Lab

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security, Mississippi, Bioterrorism, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department swept aside evaluations of government experts and named Mississippi _ home to powerful U.S. lawmak...

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U.S. Headed For "Heightened Alert" Anti-Terror Stage

ABC News | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Terror Attack, Election Terror Attack, Homeland Security, Counterterrorism, Period of Heightened Alert, Politics News

Government officials have been quietly stepping up counterterror efforts out of a growing concern that al Qaeda or similar organizations might try to ...

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Roxanna Brown: How Can This Happen in America?

Mort Rosenblum | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Justice, Homeland Security, Freedoms, Civil Rights, Fraud, Thailand, Roxanna Brown, Identity Theft, Habeas Corpus, Politics News

However unintended, Roxanna Brown suffered capital punishment without trial because of what appears to be simple identity theft, now so common to our daily lives.

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Bush Homeland Security Adviser Blames Reporter For "Cash For Access" Scandal

Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Homeland Security, Bush Administration, Bush Library Donations, Bush Library Foundation, Bush Library, Stephen Payne, Bush Library Donors, Politics News

It was the reporter's fault. That's pretty much what Homeland Security adviser and Houston businessman Stephen Payne said. Payne claims he never mea...

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