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Obama plays his high cards
As President Barack Obama nears the end of his first term, has he finally found an inner LBJ to channel? His recent words and actions suggest he has turned a corner from his earlier wishful thinking about playing nice with obstruction-minded Republicans...
Tags: CNBC (tv network), Joe Biden, Jules Witcover, U.S. Senate, The New York Times
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Ending filibuster abuse
The announcement last week that South Carolina's Jim DeMint is leaving his Senate seat to run the Heritage Foundation caused some in Washington to wishfully think that perhaps the move might usher in a more congenial, if not cooperative, outlook in the U....
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Democratic Party, U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Mitch McConnell
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To restore the bay, restore the bay partnership
When the Chesapeake Bay restoration program began in earnest in 1983, with the signing of the first Chesapeake Bay Agreement, it was hailed as the beginning of a new era of interjurisdictional partnering to save a national treasure. And so it was. With...
Tags: Tom Corbett, Regional Authority, Richard Nixon, Renovation, Environmental Pollution
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InsideMDSports: Kingsley Opara committed to Terps, but evaluating other options
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. Give Kingsley Opara credit. While some recruits feign 100-percent commitment to their schools...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Jay Ratliff, National Football League, Maryland Terrapins, Football
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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: George W. Bush, U.S. Military, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Republican Party
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It's all Obama's fault -- and he can't do anything about it
Presidents get the praise or blame for everything that happens on their watch, but, as Barack Obama has learned, the things the commander-in-chief can actually command are limited in number, thanks to James Madison and Newt Gingrich. Madison and his...
Tags: Interior Policy, Entertainment Events, Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Tea Party Movement
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The Goldwater legacy
As the 2012 Republican National Convention gathers in Tampa, I find my thoughts going back nearly half a century, to San Francisco in 1964. It was the first political convention I covered as a reporter, and it was the one at which Sen. Barry Goldwater...Tags: Joe Biden, Tea Party Movement, Ronald Reagan, Tampa, Republican Party
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Return to shore
Nothing could be more middle-class than a cruise ship vacation. The telltale signs are all present: the women for whom decollete ceased to be advisable some years previously, the teenage girls teetering on high heels while chewing gum, the men wearing...Tags: David Lodge, Lobbying
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'Lethal Injection' dramatically courts your opinion
When a play bears the title "Lethal Injection," it gets your attention. Michael Reimann's courtroom drama holds your interest, too, even though this Baltimore Playwrights Festival entry at Vagabond Players does not exactly have a light touch with its...Tags: Litigation, Fells Point, Lawyers, Justice System, Prosecution
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The Sun Remembers: July 29-August 4
Aug. 4, 1996: Earl Weaver, the irascible Orioles manager who led the club to 1,480 victories, four American League pennants and the 1970 world championship, is enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. "I'm proud of my record," Weaver tells the crowd in...
Tags: Baseball, Washington Redskins, David Robinson, William Donald Schaefer, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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Thief of historic documents sentenced to prison
Disgraced collector Barry H. Landau was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in federal prison for stealing thousands of historic documents worth as much as $2.5 million from archives along the East Coast, including one in Baltimore, where the scheme...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Justice System, Prosecution, Theft, Edgar Allan Poe
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Ga. LB Jalen Brooks 'excited to be a Terp,' ready to be part of rebuilding process
The Baltimore SunSome recruits might look at the growing pains of Maryland’s football program as a negative. But Jalen Brooks, a 6-foot-3, 220-pound linebacker from North Gwinnett High in Suwanee, Ga., has always seen the Terps’ struggles as an opportunity....Tags: Ball State University, University of Connecticut, Harvard Crimson, North Carolina State University, Renovation
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