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Bob Lee Swagger and the truth about JFK
In his new thriller, "The Third Bullet," novelist Stephen Hunter sets his sights on an American tragedy that's also the most famous gun mystery of all time — the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The questions surrounding the shooting as...
Tags: FBI, Middletown, Shootings, Criminals, Entertainment Events
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Liberal obsession with race is growing old
When will liberals stop living in the past? Specifically, when will they accept that they aren't all that stands between a wonderful, tolerant America and Jim Crow? I was in the room when, during the Democratic National Convention, civil rights hero...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Jon Stewart, Government, Gun Control
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Citizen journalism and the webcast of a police standoff in Baltimore
The Baltimore SunAfter spending Saturday night listening to and writing about a Baltimore blogger who webcast and tweeted throughout a five-hour standoff with a police S.W.A.T. unit, I promised myself at least 24 hours to try and coherently think through the meaning of...Tags: News Media, Journalism, Social Media, CNN (tv network), Computer Networking and Internet
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Middletown pounds Douglass-Prince George's, 30-12, in Class 2A title game
A year ago, Devin Butler sat in a purple seat at M&T Bank Stadium and watched Frederick Douglass of Prince George's County fall to Middletown in the Class 2A football state championship. On Saturday, the freshman quarterback was on the field with the same...
Tags: Football, High School Sports
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Henry A. Wise wins Class 4A title, 12-7, over Quince Orchard
Isaiah Black threw a go-ahead 24-yard touchdown pass to Micah Till with 2 minutes, 14 seconds left, and Wise's defense held off a furious late drive by Quince Orchard to capture its first Class 4A football state championship with a 12-7 victory Friday...
Tags: Football, High School Sports
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Terps Trio: Basketball surprises, ACC competition and Dwayne Morgan
Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports. What is the biggest surprise of this young Maryland basketball season? Jeff Barker: Well, it’...
Tags: Big Ten Conference, Villanova Wildcats, Mark Turgeon, Teaching and Learning, Maryland Terrapins
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Laurel Speedway's wooden track hosted auto racing in the 1920s
Long before there was a Patuxent Greens Golf Course or Stewart Towers high rise building, a mammoth oval race track occupied that area of land off Route 197, near Route 198. Horse racing at Laurel Park racetrack had been ongoing since 1911, but in 1924 an...
Tags: Polo, Cycling, Highway Transportation, Track Cycling, Auto Racing
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Maryland's move to Big Ten lacks dignity, class
Although a charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference with 60 years of tradition, Maryland did not respond to a couple of phone calls from the ACC commissioner before approving the move to the Big Ten. This courtesy was owed to the commissioner and...Tags: Big Ten Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference, Maryland Terrapins, College Sports
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New Zealand dodges the Mayan Apocalypse as Miss Maryland gets a promotion
It's the end of the world as we know and New Zealand feels fine. Yup, it's official the Mayan Apocalypse has snubbed Oceanian and the rest of the world will likely make it through Dec. 21 in one piece. (Shocking I know). The Mayan Calendar has run out...
Tags: Breast Cancer, Google Inc., Social Media, Culture, Entertainment Events
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On Newtown, mourn first, then act
On Friday, in his moving and heartfelt statement in response to the horrific shooting in Newtown, Conn., President Barack Obama said, "As a country, we have been through this too many times. ... And we're going to have to come together and take meaningful...
Tags: Mental Health, Gun Control, Criminal Laws, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Barack Obama
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What would Lincoln do?
++++++++++++++++++++ || || || || ++++++++++++++++++++ In the rest of the country, it may be just another movie, but in Washington, Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" has become a political Rorschach test. It seems as if every pundit in the capital...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, Lincoln (movie, 2012)
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Joseph B. Kelly
Joseph B. Kelly, the dean of Maryland turf writers and nationally known thoroughbred historian who also had been the longtime racing editor of the old Washington Star, died Monday of cancer at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium.
The Charles Village...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Christianity, St. Patrick's Day, Loyola University Maryland, Harford Community College
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