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Republicans and Democrats both laud the new department, which will control 22 different government agencies, including the Border Patrol and the Coast Guard. The cabinet-level department is intended to bridge the gap between protection and intelligence. This restructuring is the most significant change to the executive branch of the federal government since Harry S. Truman created the Department of Defense...
More dangerous than a padded executive branch, however, is the false sense of security the department fosters among the American public. In exchange for even higher approval ratings and a GOP sweep of the mid-term elections, Republicans have sacrificed reality to placate American nightmares. True conservatives should balk at this new layer of bureaucracy, which is merely a band-aid for the country’s fear and compromises a crucial element of the party’s founding principles...
...fifth time he said, 'If you don't put Kelly Rowland and Michelle Branch on, we're canceling the show.'" Gest is doing a voice to imitate Weiss...
Even hotels at the top end of the spectrum are adopting the high-concept approach. In New York City, the Library Hotel, where rooms run as high as $395 a night, borrows its theme from the neighboring main branch of the New York Public Library. Each of the hotel's 10 residence floors is dedicated to a different area of knowledge, and every room is subtly decorated with art and books reflecting its particular subject. The eighth floor is the literature floor, and the prints hanging on the wall in room 800.005, the Fairy Tales room, are scenes from...
...hands of people who may have been supporting terror. That link has not been proven. But sources close to the Saudis made it clear that the ambassador's wife did not keep a close eye on her accounts. On Friday, Princess Haifa's accountant was dispatched to a branch of the Riggs National Bank in Washington to make an exhaustive search of her records. The Princess has two bank accounts in the U.S. - one a checking account, the other a savings account - both at the Riggs Bank in Washington. As soon as she was confronted with allegations that...