Gerald Ford

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: Government, The New York Times, Dwayne Johnson, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Dick Cheney

Joseph S. Eubanks

Joseph S. Eubanks, a noted bass-baritone and Morgan State University music professor who performed with the first American company of "Porgy and Bess," which toured the world in the 1950s, died May 16 of renal failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson....

Tags: Lotte Lehmann, NASA, U.S. Department of State, Entertainment Events, Columbia University

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: Margaret Thatcher, Parties and Movements, Richard Nixon, Conservative Party (UK), Tony Blair

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: First Aid, Boy Scouts of America, Youth Organizations, High Schools, Fellowship of Christian Athletes

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: U.S. Senate, Richard Nixon, Finance, Jimmy Carter, Justice System

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: Mitt Romney, John D. Rockefeller IV, Joe Biden, Government, Parties and Movements

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: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Government, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mountains

VP became bigger job after Kennedy

Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan

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: Government, Murder, Trials, Alcohol Addiction, Suicide

Tags: Trials, U.S. Army, Central Intelligence Agency, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), LSD

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: Feminism, Mitt Romney, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, John Anderson

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: Mitt Romney, Democratic Party, Government, Joe Biden, Parties and Movements