"Homeland" Security
The name of this new department sticks in my craw. It's reminiscent of das Vaterland, which is German for "the Fatherland."I've been meaning to write about this, but the people at Reason Magazine beat me to it recently. Wikipedia has some discussion of fatherland, motherland, and homeland.I think it was a deliberate invocation of Nazi obedience by our current administration. Didn't we already
