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Thatcher made history by standing firm
In 1975, when asked to explain why Margaret Thatcher was poised to take over the Tory Party, the irascible British satirist Malcolm Muggeridge replied that it was all due to television — and the fact that the telegenic Mrs. Thatcher had a "certain...
Tags: United Kingdom, Richard Nixon, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton
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The demise of moderate Republicanism
Among the casualties of the 2012 presidential election, along with Mitt Romney, was the vanishing breed of moderate Republicans of which he once was a star, until his embarrassing lurch into conservatism. Mr. Romney first failed to win the GOP...
Tags: Richard Nixon, Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, Executive Branch, Olympia J. Snowe
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Bel Air teen receives Eagle Scout Award
Brady Daniels Kautsch, 17 of Bel Air, earned the highest advancement award the Boy Scouts of America offers to Scouts, the Eagle Scout Award, on Dec. 13, 2012 and was formally recognized in a ceremonial Court of Honor on March 17, at the Church of St....
Tags: High Schools, Social Organizations, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Boy Scouts of America, First Aid
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Out of the White House and onto the dole
In this era of huge federal debt and fiscal dysfunction, it's less than heartening to learn from the Congressional Research Service that the nation's four living former chief executives got a total of $3.7 million in pensions and operating expenses last...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Richard Nixon, Justice System, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton
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U.S. must recognize Israel's control of the Golan
Straddling the divide between the chaos in Syria and the calm of the Galilee in northern Israel is a pastoral plateau known as the Golan Heights. Famous for its world-class vineyards, wandering cattle, and lush nature trails, the Golan has served as the...
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Government, Judaism, Jerusalem (Israel), Injuries and Wounds
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VP became bigger job after Kennedy
Jules Witcover's commentary ("Don't count Biden out in 2016," Jan. 29) contrasts the vice president's potency with former vice presidents who had little influence or significance in American history. Indeed, when Lyndon Johnson was broached by John...Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King Jr.
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The real reason Obama won
Baltimore's Fifth Regiment Armory is a good place to start for some perspective on the recent presidential election. Within its gray stone walls, the tumultuous 1912 Democratic National Convention played a major scene in the political drama that...
Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Media Industry, Richard Nixon, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Six decades later, sons seek answers on death of Detrick scientist
First, the Army told Frank Olson's sons that the Fort Detrick scientist's death in a fall from a 13th-floor window of a New York hotel had been an accident. Then a presidential commission revealed that the CIA had given an unwitting Olson LSD as part of...
Tags: Garrett County, Police Investigations, Psychiatry, U.S. Army, Research
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Mitt Romney has no future in the GOP
As if Mitt Romney's defeat weren't a cross enough to bear, the kind of campaign he ran could make him uniquely a man on the outside of his party looking in. His chameleon-like shades of Republicanism — he presented himself as "severely...
Tags: Walter Mondale, John Kerry, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Richard Nixon, Mitt Romney
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Quashing race-based college admissions will not serve justice
It may be time to say farewell to affirmative action in higher education admissions and to the aspirations that went with it. The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, a case challenging the sliver of...
Tags: Richard Nixon, Separation of Church and State, U.S. Supreme Court, Personal Income, University of Texas at Austin
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Yes, debates matter
The first debate between President Barack Obama and former governor Mitt Romney is over, and there was a clear winner: Mitt Romney. Even President Obama's own team realized the obvious by suggesting veteran moderator Jim Lehrer did a poor job. (News flash...
Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, U.S. Elections, Richard Nixon, U.S. Military, Mitt Romney
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