On June 20th, Kareem Elnahal gave his valedictory speech at Mainland Regional High School in Limwood, N.J., quite different from the speech school administrators were expecting. He does not look fondly upon his education, challenging what education has come to mean. "Ladies and gentlemen, the spirit of intellectual thought is lost," Elnahal said.
The Homeland Security Information Network, created to share information between the Department of Homeland Security and state and local law enforcement and emergency responders, was deployed too quickly and without sufficient training to be effective at its goals, according to a report from the DHS inspector general.
A Department of Homeland Security test program to have U.S. employers verify all new hires against a central database to verify employment eligibility and immigration status will help cut down on illegal immigration, said Robert Divine, acting deputy director of Citizenship and Immigration Services.
SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: The Surgeon General Lied And Misled About Secondhand Smoke.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson announced Thursday that the government had recovered a stolen laptop which contained personal information for over 26 million veterans and active duty military personnel.
Nurse-practitioners apparently shouldn't be allowed to practice autonomously. The American Medical Association thinks they need to be supervised (read: employed) by a doctor at all times. This amuses me given that there is a vast and growing shortage of doctors.
With a growing number of security breaches involving the U.S. government mishandling personal data, it seems one would become increasingly wary of entrusting government entities with any information of a sensitive nature. Unless you are in Virginia and are trying to track sex offenders.
The No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law by President Bush January 8, 2002 includes as one of its measures the standard to staff our public schools with "highly qualified teachers" by June 2007. The main difficulty with this is that school districts are suffering chronic teacher shortages across the nation.
The Department of Homeland Security can barely protect its own computer systems from outside attack. Yet a group of business leaders wants to turn over their responsibility for coordinating with each other after a catastrophic disaster affecting the Internet to the department.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation dropped a demand it made to a Connecticut library system for records relating to a library computer without a warrant, but said that the library system's non-cooperation "could have increased the danger of terrorists succeeding."
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