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Facing More Agents on the Border, Migrants Enter by Sea

By | 08.26.10 | 8:22 am

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…

Coast Guard Needs More Money, Not Fewer Missions

By | 08.13.10 | 11:20 am

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…

‘BP Squad’ Conducting Criminal Oil Spill Investigation

By | 07.28.10 | 9:03 am

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…

Michigan Dem Backs Off Plan to Give Free Federal Land to Christian School

By | 10.22.09 | 10:39 am

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

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A Christian School, the Coast Guard, a Congressman and the Constitution

By | 08.10.09 | 10:08 am

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…

Reining in Military Contracts

By | 09.16.08 | 8:33 am

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…