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We have met the enemy -- and it is watching us.

There's a growing backlash against Flock cameras, the automated license plate readers that have become ubiquitous across the country.

The cameras take images of license plates, which are then stored in a searchable database that police departments can query in the course of investigations.

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It's hard to believe that Kim Jong Un is really this charming.

President Trump touted his fond relationship with the North Korean dictator in a Truth Social post calling for scaling back a long-running annual military exercise with the South Koreans.

"Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un," Trump wrote, "I am not happy with the...Read more

It's hard to believe that Kim Jong Un is really this charming.

President Trump touted his fond relationship with the North Korean dictator in a Truth Social post calling for scaling back a long-running annual military exercise with the South Koreans.

"Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un," Trump wrote, "I am not happy with the...Read more

It's hard to believe that Kim Jong Un is really this charming.

President Trump touted his fond relationship with the North Korean dictator in a Truth Social post calling for scaling back a long-running annual military exercise with the South Koreans.

"Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un," Trump wrote, "I am not happy with the...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history.

An eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how people in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in the U.K.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, ...Read more

During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power.

Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances.

Back then, when the post-Vietnam military was at a low ebb, we didn't strike Iran, and a long-shot rescue operation ended in abject failure.

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During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power.

Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances.

Back then, when the post-Vietnam military was at a low ebb, we didn't strike Iran, and a long-shot rescue operation ended in abject failure.

...Read more

During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power.

Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances.

Back then, when the post-Vietnam military was at a low ebb, we didn't strike Iran, and a long-shot rescue operation ended in abject failure.

...Read more

During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power.

Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances.

Back then, when the post-Vietnam military was at a low ebb, we didn't strike Iran, and a long-shot rescue operation ended in abject failure.

...Read more

Sometimes a red scare isn't such a bad thing.

Over the last several weeks, President Trump has issued forth with five-alarm-fire warnings about the Democratic Socialists of America really being communists, and his opponents have blasted him for the worst sort of McCarthyism.

Trump's rhetoric has been blunderbuss-like and over the top, but the ...Read more

Sometimes a red scare isn't such a bad thing.

Over the last several weeks, President Trump has issued forth with five-alarm-fire warnings about the Democratic Socialists of America really being communists, and his opponents have blasted him for the worst sort of McCarthyism.

Trump's rhetoric has been blunderbuss-like and over the top, but the ...Read more

Sometimes a red scare isn't such a bad thing.

Over the last several weeks, President Trump has issued forth with five-alarm-fire warnings about the Democratic Socialists of America really being communists, and his opponents have blasted him for the worst sort of McCarthyism.

Trump's rhetoric has been blunderbuss-like and over the top, but the ...Read more

An Iran war that was supposed to be brief, and then was supposed to be over, is imposing an increasing price on Donald Trump's presidency.

We've seen a second term of a Republican administration go this way before. There are distinct echoes of George W. Bush's Iraq War -- the conflict that Trump has long excoriated -- in the president's ...Read more

An Iran war that was supposed to be brief, and then was supposed to be over, is imposing an increasing price on Donald Trump's presidency.

We've seen a second term of a Republican administration go this way before. There are distinct echoes of George W. Bush's Iraq War -- the conflict that Trump has long excoriated -- in the president's ...Read more