Homeland Über Alles

What’s in a name? A great deal, if you believe former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan. She believes Obama should change the name of the Department of Homeland Security, which she describes as “that hopeless bureaucracy,” to…well, she doesn’t say. But she knows she doesn’t like the present title. “Homeland is a Nazi-ish word, not an American concept at all,” she writes in The Wall Street Journal. “And at this point ‘Homeland Security’ is associated more with pointless harassment than safety. No one knows who came up with it.” Quite a mystery. One for the former Nixon speechwriter and lexicographer William Safire, perhaps.