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Rand Paul seeking plaintiffs, funds for suit against NSA
Sen. Rand Paul is recruiting plaintiffs – and seeking donations – for a class-action lawsuit against the National Security Agency. “Dear Patriot,” the Kentucky Republican wrote Thursday in an e-mail to supporters. “I’...Tags: Email, Parties and Movements, Internal Revenue Service, Litigation, National Security Agency
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Craig launches GOP bid for governor
Harford County Executive David R. Craig has launched his campaign for the Republican nomination for governor in 2014, betting that he can overcome the suspicions of the far right of his party and the Democrats' 2-1 voter registration advantage in...
Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Parties and Movements, Towson, Republican Party, Havre de Grace
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GOP's Craig to enter race for governor; Brown picks Ulman for ticket
The 2014 governor's race came into clearer focus Wednesday as Harford County Executive David R. Craig set a date to announce his Republican candidacy and Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown's campaign confirmed that Howard County Executive Ken Ulman will be his...
Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Martin O'Malley, Political Fundraising, Frederick County (Maryland), Ken Ulman
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Hopkins' Dr. Benjamin Carson anointed new Fox darling of the right on Hannity
The Baltimore SunMuch of Friday's political-media online chatter was focused on Fox news hiring failed presidential candidate and pizza executive Herman Cain as a political analyst. But the big story that seemed to mostly sail under the radar was the embattled channel's...Tags: Culture, Neurosurgery, Fox Broadcasting Company, Richard Nixon, Hospitals and Clinics
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Goodbye, Joe Lieberman
After 24 years in the U.S. Senate, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the first and only Jewish politician nominated to a national major party ticket, in 2000, had some advice to his colleagues in a farewell speech Wednesday on the Senate floor. To break the...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Republican Party, John McCain, Joe Lieberman, U.S. Supreme Court
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In Carroll County, voters warm up to a cool election day
It was almost anti-climactic at the polls in Westminster on Tuesday afternoon. After a year of robo-calls, tons of campaign literature, debates and nonstop news coverage, election day came to Carroll County — and the turnout was heavy and steady....
Tags: Girl Scout Cookies, Daniel Bongino, John McCain, Martin O'Malley, Judges
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How to fix the Electoral College
Ohio, Virginia, Florida: If you don't live in one of these or a few other "battleground" states, you may feel disenfranchised in U.S. presidential elections. As a Marylander, no major party candidate competes for your vote — even if the nationwide...Tags: Parties and Movements, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Republican Party, Authors, Engineering
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The resilience of George McGovern
Inevitably, in all the tributes to former Sen. George McGovern upon his death at 90, his landslide defeat in the 1972 presidential election at the hands of Richard Nixon shared top billing with his fights against America's misguided wars in Vietnam and...
Tags: Vietnam, Richard Nixon, Democratic Party, World War II (1939-1945), Scranton
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Marylanders go out of state to back Obama, Romney
Henry Li was a hesitant Obama supporter when he opened his front door last weekend in Northern Virginia. By the time he closed it, he had committed to vote for the president. In the intervening three minutes, he spoke with Josh Friedman, a 33-year-old...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Havre de Grace, Nottingham, John McCain
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Needed: A new foreign policy
On Monday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered a foreign policy speech to cadets at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. He was correct in his indictment of the Obama administration for its numerous failures --...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Israel, Lexington (Lexington, Virginia), Mitt Romney, Barack Obama
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Just like his father, Mitt Romney doesn't know when to stop talking
Every political candidate commits a gaffe from time to time. It becomes a major cause for concern when a pattern sets in that creates a negative image with voters. That's what is happening with Mitt Romney right now in the wake of his hapless remarks at a...
Tags: Vietnam, George H.W. Bush, Republican Party, Richard Nixon, Frank Sinatra
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Obama offers hard path to 'a better place'
— Arguing that he needs more time to fix the nation's sluggish economy, President Barack Obama formally accepted his party's nomination for a second term Thursday while stressing that voters will face a stark choice in November that could affect...
Tags: Democratic Governors Association, Martin O'Malley, Mitt Romney, Democratic Party, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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