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In 1981, Cuban president Fidel Castro released over a hundred thousand Cubans – many from jails and mental health facilities – who made their way to Florida in what became known as the Mariel Boatlift.

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Photo credit: State Archives of Florida

In 2013, United States president Barack Obama this week has directed Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano to release “thousands” of undocumented immigrants – many of which are being held for criminal offenses – from facilities in Florida.  And Texas.  And Arizona.  And Louisiana. And Georgia.  And California.  And probably other states.

This is allegedly because there is no money in the government coffers to pay the ICE agents and the automatic budget cuts (the “sequester”) goes into effect this Friday.

The response from the White House today is that we could expect an increase in terrorism and massive illegal immigration.  Yeah that’s right: reduce the ...

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Shear-ly they can’t be serious.

Just when you’d think that the Department of Homeland Security could not possibly prove it’s the most useless U.S. government agency in the history of anything… they release this:

So if a carbine-wielding madman bursts into your office or school and starts shooting up the place, fend him off with a pair of scissors! Unless he also has a rock because, you know, rock beats scissors.

Taking this video to its logical extreme, the safest elementary school in America is whichever one gets to have this guy as its School Resource Officer…

No mention in the video about protecting yourself against a gunman with, y’know, a gun.

The New York Post has a great write-up about this latest waste of taxpayer money....

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I haven’t heard Mitt Romney say a single nary thing about eliminating the Department of Homeland Security and completely scrapping the Transportation Security Administration. That he hasn’t and apparently approves of those governmental monstrosities is just one more reason why the Romney/Ryan ticket won’t get my vote next month. Neither will Obama/Biden, but that’s a post for next week.

But just in time for the election, The TSA is removing those cancer machines it euphemistically calls “body scanners” from major airports. The official line is that the cancer machines are being relocated to smaller airports in an effort to “speed things up” across the board.

But there are serious reasons to consider that rather than completely giving up on Nude-o-vision(tm), the TSA may in fact be gearing up to implement even WORSE technology: namely scanners with much finer resolution and stronger abilities at detecting small objects on a person ...

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Janet “Big Sister” Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security (okay let’s be fair, it was George W. Bush’s “brilliant” idea first) has decided that turkey fryers are a dire threat to national security. “Make sure the turkey is completely thawed before placing in a fryer”, the DHS is warning in a new video.

Hey, Janet Napolitano: I’m a hella lot safer with my turkey deep-fryer than anyone is with your X-ray body scanners! You know: the X-ran body scanners that YOU REFUSE TO PUT YOURSELF THROUGH.

Who do these people think they are?...

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