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Boston isn't the only outrage
Most likely we all agree that the Boston bombing was cowardly, senseless, dastardly. It cries out for justice. And just about every cop in the universe was on this case, big time. But what about all the drone bombings in Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan,...
Tags: Employees, Barack Obama, Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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Maybe Majid Khan rates a stateside prison cell
As a teenager in the mid-1990s, he moved with his parents to the United States from Pakistan. The family sought and received political asylum. They settled in Baltimore County and operated a gas station. The boy attended Owings Mills High School. His...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Trials, Prisons, Litigation
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Despite the Boston bombings, we're safer than we think
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the most frequently heard forecast was: "This changes everything." Americans would live in constant fear of the next attack, many pundits predicted. The desire for safety would spawn a security state that...
Tags: Times Square, Al-Qaeda, Timothy McVeigh, Doyle McManus, Terrorism
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Who were the children killed in Afghanistan?
I watched 60 Minutes on Sunday and saw the anguish still being experienced by the Sandy Hook parents. Their grief has caused them to turn to action, and they are in Washington to lobby Congress to pass legislation that might prevent other gun tragedies....Tags: NATO, Armed Conflicts, U.S. Congress, Lobbying, Afghanistan
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Time to re-think U.S. use of drones
Drones over Syria? Hold on! ("CIA eyes drone strikes in Syria," March 16). The whole business of drone strikes on nations with whom we are not at war gets murkier and more distasteful daily — and cries out for transparency from the Obama...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Military Equipment, Police Investigations
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Chuck Hagel survives
After all the thunder and lightning signifying nothing but more Republican obstructionism, former Sen. Chuck Hagel has taken over at the Pentagon, vowing a realistic approach to America's military role in the world. Not surprisingly, he indicated he...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Richard Lugar, Conservation, Joe Biden, Lobbying
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Carroll County native killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash
Sara Knutson Cullen was as comfortable in a dress and stiletto heels as she was smoking cigars and flying Black Hawk helicopters in Afghanistan — a driven and level-headed 27-year-old whose dreams stretched far beyond her roots in Carroll County,...
Tags: West Point, Armed Forces, Accidental Death, Carroll County (Maryland), U.S. Army
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Obama returns to arms control -- just in time
President Barack Obama's call during the State of the Union address to reduce the threat of nuclear war could not have been more timely. The day before the president spoke, North Korea tested a primitive nuclear device, and the following day reports...
Tags: Weaponry, Entertainment Events, Vladimir Putin, Russia, Ronald Reagan
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The law of drones
President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, John O. Brennan, was about as cagey as they come last week at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Asked right off the bat by the committee chairwoman,...
Tags: Yemen, Al-Qaeda, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, CBS Corp., John O. Brennan
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Where's the concern for the innocents killed by U.S. drones?
President Barack Obama, the Rev. M. Cristina Paglinauan and columnist Dan Rodricks all have expressed sorrow and outrage over the slaughter of innocent children in Newtown, Conn. ("Stand vigil for gun victims and new laws," Dec. 23). Yet their vocal...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, New Year's Day
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Christopher Van Hollen Sr., ambassador
Christopher Van Hollen Sr., a retired Foreign Service officer and ambassador to Sri Lanka, died of Alzheimer's disease complications Jan. 30 at the Washington Home and Hospice. The former Baltimore resident was 90. Born in Baltimore and raised in...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Foods and Beverages, U.S. Department of State, Henry Kissinger, Central Intelligence Agency
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Local pizzeria expects Super Bowl boost
Growing up in the industrial city of Gujrat in Pakistan, Khawar Ghafoor played cricket but knew little about American football.
But in recent weeks Ghafoor, the owner of a Towson pizzeria, has been captivated by the Baltimore Ravens' run to the Super...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Baltimore Ravens, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Football
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