The Republican Party is the party of ungovernment.

People are becoming concerned about "smart" meters as a surveillance system.

I understood the idea of a "smart" meter to include allowing the utility to query total energy usage at any time. That would allow moment-to-moment monitoring.

If French "smart" meters report electric usage only once per day, they are not much of a privacy threat with that limitation. The utility could determine whether someone was home, perhaps estimate how many people were home, but nothing more.

Are "smart" meters in other countries designed with that limitation?

In Yemen and Eritrea, forces of the United Arab Emirates torture prisoners to get them ready for US agents to interrogate.

Then the US agents say, "We didn't see any torture."

The California single-payer medical system bill passed the California Senate, but was quashed in the lower house by the speaker.

Previously I thought it had been passed by both houses and that it was on the verge of becoming law. Sorry for the mistake.

North Korea is not the only place where prisoners wind up in a permanent coma. It happened this year in New Jersey.

North Korea says little about how Warmbier got into a coma. New Jersey likewise says little.

North Korea should come clean, and New Jersey too.