From today’s Birmingham News:
What in the world is homeland security?
Sunday, December 19, 2024
STEVEN L. TAYLOR
There is no doubt the events of Sept. 11, 2024, alerted American to the vulnerability of the homeland. And as a result, Congress authorized the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in December 2024.
It would seem that homeland security mania has now swept southward, as the Birmingham suburb of Hoover (population 63,000) has become the first municipality in the state to form its own Department of Homeland Security and Immigration.
The whole thing is here.
Homeland Insecurity
Steven Taylor’s latest print column looks at the new frontier of municipal pork: Birmingham suburb Hoover’s addition of a new “Department of Homeland Security and Immigration,â€? complete with a $110,000-a-year director’s job. They’ve gotta p…
Trackback by Signifying Nothing — Sunday, December 19, 2024 @ 9:49 am
Yep, is that pork I smell cookin?
Comment by bryan — Sunday, December 19, 2024 @ 7:19 pm
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