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Rx for electronic records
A critical opportunity to improve U.S. health care finally lies within reach. In 2004, then-President George Bush announced the goal to have a national electronic health records (EHR) system in place in 10 years. Tragically, EHR development had become...
Tags: Electronics, Health Insurance Cost, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Marilyn Tavenner, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Surveillance leaks show Obama's hypocrisy
The revelation that the federal government has spied on millions of supposedly private phone and Internet communications makes President Barack Obama's headache over the IRS targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exemptions seem like a passing...
Tags: Freedom of the Press, Dianne Feinstein, Barack Obama, Jarmes R. Clapper, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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Security vs. privacy
The latest open debate over security and privacy is a welcome pivot from the irksome father-knows-best attitude that has prevailed too long regarding the government's contention of superior judgment in the realm of national security. As with most...
Tags: John Adams, Barack Obama, Terrorism, National Government, Law Enforcement
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Snooping, past and present
For us aging Vietnam War protesters, the secret domestic surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden, a young former CIA contractor, is like a bad flashback. In 1968, Lyndon Johnson demanded that something be done to curb the demonstrations that were...
Tags: Edward Snowden, Vietnam War (1955-1975), National Government, Richard Nixon, Dwayne Johnson
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Hyatt Regency Chesapeake dips into reserves to pay debt
The state-owned Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay resort in Cambridge continues to deplete a reserve fund to cover its semiannual debt payments because it is not making enough money. The state withdrew $2 million from the reserve June 1, cutting the fund's...
Tags: Dorchester County, Barack Obama, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Debt Market, Bonds
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Selective memory on judicial nominations
The Sun has developed a bad case of selective memory when it comes to judicial nominations ("Judicial profiling," June 5). When President George W. Bush nominated candidates for judgeships during the years that Republicans controlled the Senate, the...Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Elections, Harry Reid
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Ravens to visit Obama at the White House
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will meet with the Baltimore Ravens on Wednesday, giving the Super Bowl champs another opportunity to celebrate their win -- this time, at the White House. A White House visit has long been a perk of winning the...
Tags: John Harbaugh, San Francisco 49ers, Barack Obama, White House, Washington, DC
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Keeping college affordable
On Friday, President Barack Obama met with college students at the White House to reprise a familiar appeal on behalf of the nation's young people: urging lawmakers to prevent the cost of student college loans from doubling on July 1. Interest rates on...Tags: Barack Obama, Republican Party, White House, Parties and Movements, U.S. Senate
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Bob Dole pitches the wrong path for the GOP
Who doesn't admire former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole? Wounded World War II veteran, part-time comedian (Mr. Dole once described a meeting of former presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon as "see no evil, hear no evil -- and evil"), former...
Tags: New Year's Day, Republican Party, Elections, Memorial Day, Values
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When president checks out, abuses mount
May has been a rough month for President Barack Obama: more Benghazi developments, plus the breaking IRS and journo-bugging scandals. Taken separately, none of these episodes is fatal. They do not reach Watergate levels. Given that previously classified...
Tags: Freedom of the Press, Barack Obama, Benghazi, U.S. Department of State, Government
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Church of the Redeemer rector to retire in 2014
The Rev. Paul Tunkle is retiring next year as rector of the Church of the Redeemer in Homeland, one of the largest churches in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. "I am sensing a call from Christ to do something new," Tunkle, 63, of Bolton Hill, said...
Tags: Anglicanism, Bolton Hill, Suicide, Christianity
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How the death penalty will end: first Maryland, then the nation
The death penalty debate in Maryland is finally over. This spring's decision by the General Assembly to replace the death penalty with life without parole was cemented last week, when right-wing activists failed to muster enough signatures to force the...
Tags: NAACP, FBI, Murder, John Hickenlooper, Death Penalty
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