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A 'Requiem' for JFK assassination
Fifty years later, the assassination of John F. Kennedy remains a galvanizing event, studied by serious scholars and conspiracy fringers with equal intensity. People who were old enough in 1963 still remember everything about the news flash that...
Tags: Assassinations, Music Industry, Music, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963)
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Federal innovation a matter of perspective
The federal government has an innovation problem — or does it? The answer depends on whom you ask. Federal employees surveyed over the past three years have had a declining view of government innovation. But that doesn't mean Uncle Sam doesn't...Tags: U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Invention and Innovation, Public Employees, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Rand Paul gets schooled at Howard
Rand Paul did just fine at Howard University, thank you very much. Or at least, that's how he remembers it. Mr. Paul, GOP senator from Kentucky, told the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday that his recent visit to Howard didn't go so bad at all....
Tags: Coca-Cola Co., Voting, Republican Party, NAACP, Teaching and Learning
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Judge Robert Bell: Timeline
July 6, 1943 Robert Mack Bell born in Rocky Mount, N.C.; family moves to Baltimore about 11/2 years later. June 17, 1960 Bell and 11 students try to get seated at Hooper's Restaurant at Charles and Fayette streets in Baltimore. A hostess says the...Tags: Marvin Mandel, Government, Morgan State University, Judges, Justice System
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How Republicans raided the welfare state and left it flat broke
I would like to add some points to former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich's column "How the welfare state has grown" (April 7). Mr. Ehrlich fails to mention the fact that every president since Lyndon Johnson, beginning in 1964, has raided the Social Security...
Tags: Interior Policy, Pension and Welfare, Ronald Reagan, U.S. Congress, Trade Dispute
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Bush's war, 10 years later
The 10th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq seems an appropriate time to look back at how it all happened and what it has wrought, not so much for Iraq as for the United States, which poured its own troops, treasure and world reputation into...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Colin Powell, United Nations, Wars and Interventions, Baghdad (Iraq)
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How the welfare state has grown — and sapped America's economy and culture
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." — Thomas Jefferson My recent column on the challenges associated with the Social...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Washington, DC, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Health and Safety at School
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5 questions … for outgoing Broadmead CEO Rich Compton
Broadmead, a continuing-care retirement community in Hunt Valley, has "been so much than just a place to work," said retiring CEO Rich Compton. He has served as the company's leader for almost three decades. During that time, his parents came to live...
Tags: Architecture, Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland, College Park, Hunt Valley, Bloomfield (Hartford, Connecticut)
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InsideMDSports: DE Jeremiah Clarke enjoys Terps spring practice
Special to The Baltimore SunEditor's note: Each week, InsideMdSports.com provides this blog with a Maryland recruiting feature that previously appeared as premium content on its site. Class of 2014 defensive end Jeremiah Clarke (T.C. Williams) took in a spring practice at Maryland...Tags: Randy Edsall, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland)
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'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...
Tags: Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, CBS Corp., Timothy McVeigh, World War I (1914-1918)
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Twelve steaks and an arugula salad: Obama takes the GOP to dinner
President Barack Obama had a dinner date last week with a dozen of his worst enemies, thus proving that the governmental stalemate in Washington, D.C., is driving him to unusual acts of political creativity -- or desperation. The president personally...
Tags: Washington, DC, Richard Burr, Ron Johnson, John McCain, CNN (tv network)
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Filibuster reform can't wait
Two months after American voters made it clear they want effective government — and two years before the U.S. Senate's next opportunity to reform its broken rules — that "do nothing" chamber appears poised to fix its filibuster. In its present...
Tags: Labor Legislation, DREAM Act, Voting, Republican Party, Elections
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