Canadians might wish to make use of their superior social networking skills to examine whether the stimulus bill violates their rights under the North American Free Trade Agreement. Title VI, “Department of Homeland Security,” provides the most depressing read of any chapter so far. Partly this is because the entire subject of D.H.S.—its Orwellian-nativist conception, its bloated shape, and its many inefficiencies—is discouraging. The stimulus bill then takes one of the most over-funded, under-managed bureaucracies in the federal system and reinforces this creeping failure with more money. Actually, it could be worse—the numbers allocated to D.H.S. in the bill are not so large, in a Dirksenian relativist sense. (Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, 1896-1969, may or may not have actually said: “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon, you’re talking real money.”) And so we find a mere hundred million dollars for “procurement and deployment of non-intrusive inspection systems” (Non-intrusive—another relative notion); a hundred million dollars for “border security technology”; four hundred and twenty million dollars for customs and border protection facilities; and a billion dollars to speed up delayed plans to install equipment that can reliably check airline baggage for explosives. (No complaints here about that goal, but the program has been a mess.) There is also two hundred and ten million dollars allocated for competitive grants to fix up fire stations...