As the government increases border security efforts along the U.S.-Mexico border, more immigrants are attempting to enter the U.S. by sea, the AP reported today. Sea routes can be perilous — the AP reported at least two known deaths by immigrants crossing into the U.S. this year — More…
You know it’s August when The Washington Post recycles news almost a decade old on its front page. This morning’s story on the Coast Guard leads with the well-worn worry that the Coast Guard’s homeland security responsibilities — inspecting cargo, patrolling near critical resources, ensuring port security — are More…
It seems like something out of a movie. The Washington Post reports this morning that the “BP squad” — a group of FBI agents and federal officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Coast Guard and others — is launching a criminal investigation into the activities of BP, More…
From The Michigan Messenger:
Rep. Bart Stupak [D-Mich.] has reconsidered earlier legislation that would have given several acres of Coast Guard property in Cheboygan [Mich.] to a Christian school free of charge after constitutional law scholars pointed out that the land transfer would violate the
The Michigan Messenger’s Ed Brayton reports a convoluted tale involving all of the above. Long story short, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) — whose name you may know because he lives at the GOP sex scandal-connected “C Street” house — has introduced a bill to More…
It was August 2003 when a fellow engineer at Lockheed Martin’s Moorestown, N.J., facility dropped by Mike DeKort’s office with a seemingly absurd complaint.
He said that Lockheed, the nation’s No. 1 defense contractor, had been buying non-waterproof radios from a subcontractor to install on some 15-year-old patrol boats that More…
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