“Anyone can have, free, my entry in the contest: dumping the hideous, un-American, Orwellian, Teutonic-in-the-bad-sense term ‘Homeland’ and renaming both the department and the entire concept “domestic” security.”
James Fallows commenting on a contest for the best idea to improve “Homeland Security.”
I can’t believe that Congress used the name “Homeland Security” rather than “Domestic Security” in the first place.
Frankly, I’m a little surprised they didn’t name it The Department of Heartland Security.