Culture Wars

• Oct. 24, 2007, Midnight

The Department of Homeland Security under the Bush administration has clashed with the Democratic-led House Homeland Security Committee over all manner of crucial national security issues, including, most recently, the hot-button topic of cheese. The cultured-milk schism between the committee and the department was revealed in a dairy-laden letter from Deputy Secretary Michael P. Jackson to Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the panel’s chairman.