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Security camera surge in Chicago sparks concerns of ‘massive surveillance system’

Between traffic-light cameras, blue-light cameras that scan neighborhoods for violent crime, cameras on board city trains and buses — not to mention private security cameras — there are few places you can go in Chicago without being monitored. In the…

Obama falls short in State of Union address, misses valuable opportunity

Tuesday night’s State of the Union address was the same old Obama, delivering the same old message. It was a rousing speech for those who agree with the president’s agenda, but offered little to those who did not vote for…

El Ford Mustang 2015 será el coche oficial de la feria de tecnología CES

Toronto (Canadá), 16 dic (EFEUSA).- El nuevo Ford Mustang, la sexta generación del icónico deportivo, será el vehículo oficial del mayor salón de tecnología del mundo, el CES de Las Vegas, donde la empresa anunciará una nueva tecnología que incorporará…

Republicans dealing Obama the winning hand in government shutdown fight

It seems that President Obama has more allies on the Hill than we thought. But they’re not who you’d expect. The Republicans and Ted Cruz have become President Obama’s greatest ally. Their latest gambit appears to have failed and there…

No minds changed by Syria speech but Obama’s message is loud and clear

Bottom line: I don’t think the president changed any minds Tuesday night. And I don’t think he intended to. President Obama didn’t make the case Tuesday night that a military strike would have any consequential impact on degrading the chemical…

Sticking with what works when it comes to Medicare — lessons for Republicans and Democrats

The Democratic and Republican Congressional budget plans proffered by House and Senate budget committee chairs must be viewed more as acts of political theater than serious fiscal roadmaps. ; Even though symbolic votes have taken place, neither plan has a…

America’s willful blindness — Obama is a divider not a unifier

The much discussed Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, which was released Thursday morning, shows a sharply divided America. Not much new there. Half of those surveyed think that the across-the-board spending cuts that went into effect on Friday with the…

Obama’s State of the Union speech a well-crafted, hollow recitation of nothing more than words

The president did what he had to do. He delivered a well-written, well-crafted speech that hit all the right notes and drew the appropriate applause lines. Obama advanced the agenda his has honed over the last four years in office,…

Texas city spurns dating site’s advances, won’t change name

No one is going to mess with Texas city’s name. (Sugar Land, Texas). Sugar Land is not for sale – well, at least not for the $500,000 a dating website offered the east Texas city to change its name. Sugardaddie.com,…

Obama practices the divisive politics he eschews in Inaugural speech

“That is our generation’s task – to make these words, these values – of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness – real for every American.” The president spoke these words with conviction, and in the tone of the President…