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"...campaign tool. I am astonished that he has the security detail escort him to all of his campaign events...."
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April 27, 2012 News Feature by Amy Smith
Of Sonograms and Airport Scanners
How an intrusive probe is not like a body image (apparently)
"...After eight years of GOP-backed security theater, apparently the new wave of millimeter wave scanners..."
March 22, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Workers Defense Project
"...grassroots backlash to a plan by the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration to crack down..."
Sept. 14, 2007 News Feature by Michael May
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...of some – but not all – of its security cameras on campus, finally settling a 3-year-old open-records request..."
Sept. 29, 2006 News Feature
Naked City
Obese military budget crushes local governments, group alleges
"...U.S. House beginning this week) and to support nonmilitary security tools like state and local emergency preparedness and renewable..."
May 27, 2005 News Feature by Michael King
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...Also, TCRP and ADAPT have sued the federal Transportation Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security on behalf of..."
July 30, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Naked City
Austin Stories
"...Sutton with lying and falsifying their identities to obtain security clearances. (In at least some cases, the workers were..."
Jan. 31, 2003 News Feature
Naked City
Beyond City Limits
"...March, when FEMA becomes part of the Dept. of Homeland Security. Allbaugh, chief of staff to then-Gov. Bush and..."
Dec. 20, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
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"...change" in Iraq ought to be our nation's highest security priority. Unfortunately, Michael Ventura's column ["Letters at 3AM"] of..."
Oct. 4, 2002 Column
Naked City
Beyond City Limits
"...Accounting Office report says Texas teachers might cost Social Security up to $450 million via a loophole in federal..."
Aug. 23, 2002 News Feature
Point Austin: Of Frogs and Children
Do what you can to defend imprisoned refugees
"...get caught up in the machinations of the national security state. Southwest Key began as a small nonprofit primarily..."
July 13, 2018 News Column by Michael King
How DPS's Occupation of a Border Town May Have Crippled Its Economy
Rio Grande City sees a marked decline in sales and tourism
"...session this year, $1 billion was allocated for border security in 2018 and 2019, mostly to DPS. The funding..."
Oct. 6, 2017 News Feature by Debbie Nathan
New Name, Same Game
S-Comm's end hasn't lessened the fear of deportation for Travis County's immigrants
"...On Nov. 20, 2014, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced, "The Secure Communities program,..."
July 10, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú
News Roundup: Marriage (In)equality, Buehler, and the Mayor
Paxton vs. true love; Buehler civil suit dismissed; and more
"...also called attention to the Republicans’ attempt to hold Homeland Security funding hostage to the immigration issue, saying that..."
Feb. 23, 2015 News Post by the News Staff
Point Austin: The Cartoon Governor
Willful official negligence destroyed a small Texas town
"...... are required to notify the Department of Homeland Security. ... The West plant held 270 tons – yes,..."
May 3, 2013 News Column by Michael King
Is Perry All Hat, No Cattle?
Perry swaggers and stumbles in national spotlight
"...our law enforcement." In fact, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been running General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drones..."
Aug. 26, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Rudy, You Got some 'Splainin' to Do!
Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani will be in Texas tomorrow fundraising, but could America's Mayor be hamstrung by Iraq?
"...Kerik. Kerik was CEO of Giuliani-Kerik LLC (now Giuliani Security & Safety), the security consultancy arm of Rudy's international..."
Jan. 31, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Immigration Update
Congress not making immigration legislation progress; and local immigrant rights organizers gather to call attention to those separated from their families via detention or deportation
"...to concentrate on – you guessed it – national security. House Speaker Dennis Hastert dashed whatever naive hopes may..."
Sept. 15, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch
The Hightower Report
The Rise of the Imperial Presidency; and What Color is Your Steak?
"...For example, George has illegally been using the national security agency to spy secretly on American citizens who have..."
March 10, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower
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The right's most troubling victory may be its brilliant subversion of the language of political debate
"...faced, and nothing else, not health care, not social security, not jobs, not welfare, not the homeless, not light..."
Nov. 26, 2004 Column by Louis Black
The Reason Why
"...costly but largely useless new federal bureaucracy loosely called "Homeland Security." Meanwhile, such fundamental building blocks of national security..."
April 11, 2003 News Feature by George McGovern
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In blaming the anti-war movement for all possible future scenarios connected to terrorism or the war in Iraq, the hysterical right has poised itself to lead a devastating assault on the Constitution and its protections.
"...Iraq, 2) give ever-expanding power and budget to national homeland security, and 3) assign blame for everything perceived as..."
Feb. 21, 2003 Column by Louis Black
Toward an Accounting
In its unjustified rush to war, the Bush administration wants Americans to apply ample amounts of duct tape over their eyes, ears, and mouths.
"...have thus far blocked a war vote in the Security Council; and France, Germany, and Belgium stalled Rumsfeld's attempts..."
Feb. 21, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura
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Bush's proposed economic reforms highlight the divide between Republican theory and practice.
"...government should be done with serious consideration for national security, economic responsibility, and the population's general welfare. Rather than..."
Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Louis Black
Naked City
Austin Stories
"...given the current state of the air industry. New security procedures went into effect at Bergstrom this week --..."
Dec. 20, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Naked City
Breaking news from Austin, Texas, and elsewhere.
"...killed. We've liberated a country. We recognize our greatest security is found in the relentless pursuit of these cold-blooded..."
Nov. 29, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
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"...American citizens' constitutional civil rights; assured a "police force" (Homeland Security) with excessive powers; assured privatization of Social Security;..."
Nov. 22, 2002 Column
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"...oil legislation, but only because it is a national security issue. Oil, national security, patriotism. Another oil triangle. American..."
Oct. 25, 2002 Column
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"...Too Much Security Man..."
Sept. 27, 2002 Column
Letters at 3AM
The White House is intent on totalitarian measures and war; it employs incoherence because it cannot speak plainly of its machinations.
"...debate ..." On the same day, Bush proposed "domestic security" measures that for the first time would allow the..."
Sept. 20, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura
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