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...buzz word is “reorganization,” but the creation of the Department of Homeland Security is actually an expansion of the government that masquerades as protection against terrorism and provides a false sense of security for the American public...
Foregoing efficacy and principles, the Republican party’s support for the Department of Homeland Security is an attempt to court public opinion. Even Bush initially rejected the idea of a new cabinet department only to embrace it in June, just in time for the beginning of the campaign season. Bush could rally the nation to support his party, using the proposed department to demonstrate the GOP’s commitment to the fight against terrorism...
...Paulin is so very outspoken, no literate person could doubt what he stood for. The question at issue is therefore not free speech, but the faculty’s cultural taste and political priorities. Members of the English department decided to invite a speaker known for slandering the Jewish homeland: Had they not wanted a person so known, they would have invited someone else. If they then regretted their decision, they could have said so when they withdrew their invitation. Instead, they bowed first to one form of pressure and then to an evidently much greater one, trying to turn...
...that in its disarray risks solidifying its status as a minority. Since the election, the Democrats have veered left with the selection of a San Francisco liberal, Nancy Pelosi, as their House leader. And they have veered right with a prompt post-election capitulation to the President on a homeland-security bill. It is a family feud over whether to sharpen or blur their differences with Bush...
...might be described as compassionate conservative Democrat. She is great at delivering the pork (most mayors are grateful supporters), and she looks after the working class (she introduced a bill to reduce payroll taxes). She worked with Bush on the No Child Left Behind Act and voted for his homeland-security bill. The state's senior Senator, John Breaux, explains, "She didn't want to be Cleland-ed," a reference to Georgia Senator Max Cleland, the Vietnam War hero defeated after his opponent pictured him with Osama bin Laden for having voted against the same bill...