By Drew Grant 9/07/12 12:26pm

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Last year's Occupy Wall Street zombie protests

The One Question Not Answered at the DNC or RNC: How Real Is the Zombie Apocalypse Threat?

Forget about not looking back, Mr. President. We want to know if we should start taking notes while watching  AMC’s The Walking Dead.

While it’s not news that the Center for Disease Control has been warning us on proper zombie protocol for almost a year now–while simultaneously claiming there is no such thing as a zombie attack … not even when you’re high on bath salts–yesterday a new government office took up a “tongue-in-cheek” zombie cause. It’s those pranksters Homeland Security,  known for issuing fake threats just to rile up people near the holidays.

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By Joe Conason 3/30/10 6:41pm

Domestic Violence

When the Department of Homeland Security released a cautiously worded report on the potential dangers of right-wing extremism last April, the talk-radio wingnuts and certain Republican lawmakers went into spasms of indignation. Clearly, that report—an innocuous nine-page document commissioned by the previous Republican administration—had been conjured up by White House Democrats to smear conservatives.

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