Only article titles can be searched and words with three or fewer letters are not searched at all.
My technique is to use Google as follows with the pipe symbol as the OR operator to match any of the search terms:
site:freerepublic.com TSA|DoD|DoJ|SoS|DHS
I'll go with startingpage and use your technique.
site:freerepublic.com TSA|DoD|DoJ|SoS|DHS