Signs of spring and good news for the boys from Flushing: Matt Harvey tossed two perfect innings today, striking out three and hitting 99 mph on the gun. Makes it easier to swallow the terrible Knicks’ season.
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Picture prompt No. 1
Playing with words and photos. Took this and manipulated the image some.
RUN OFF
seeps down and
freezes,
a tentacle of glass,
tilted
like sleep,
or the fragmentary
consciousness,
as the night first falls.
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The wrong Homeland Security argument
Interesting piece at the Boston Review website that raises a basic question: Are we having the wrong argument about the Department of Homeland Security? As Tom Barry makes clear, the answer is yes.
The DHS is the “third largest federal department is hugely wasteful, unaccountable, unmanageable, and emblematic of governmental mission creep,” he writes. And yet,
President Obama has kept increasing the budget and expanding the reach of DHS—his most recent initiative is to increase the department’s role in cybersecurity through $6 billion in contracts with major military and intelligence contractors including Lockheed Martin and Booz Allen Hamilton.
The logic of this is questionable at best, he says, given that there is a “disjuncture between the department’s core mission and its actual operations,” demonstrated by the current debate, which “has largely ignored the DHS counterterrorism mission” and has “revolved around the traditional divides over immigration policy.”
“This is unfortunate,” says Barry, because it has shifted focus away from the proper question, which is whether a Department of Homeland Security, in its current form, even makes sense
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Fox on Fox: Nothing to see here
Howard Kurtz, who gets his paycheck from the same people who pay Bill O’Reilly and who have a vested interest in protecting Bill-O, will be talking with O’Reilly about accusations made by Mother Jones about his war-reporting record.
Post by Howard Kurtz.
This doesn’t seem strange to anyone?
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