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Why Sarah Palin should be the 2016 GOP nominee -- seriously
The Republican Party has been doing a lot of hand-wringing and finger-pointing since the presidential election. Half the conservative columnists and bloggers say the GOP lost because it overemphasized social issues such as abortion and gay marriage. The...
Tags: Polls, Birth Control, Republican Party, Tea Party Movement, Neiman Marcus
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How Republicans win in 2016
Last week's column was all about why certain of us (49 percent nationally) continue to identify with the party of individualism and free markets. This week, a related topic: what it will take to increase that 49 percent to 51 percent in 2016. First,...
Tags: Todd Akin, Customs and Tradition, Birth Control, Minority Groups, Democratic Party
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Ryan Schlothauer a Terps tight end by day, MBA student by night
Players often liken the demands of major-college football to a full-time job, which might explain why Ryan Schlothauer needed to set his alarm for 5 o'clock on a still-dark morning so he could complete a paper for a business course and still manage to ice...
Tags: College Sports, Maryland Terrapins, Football, College Football, North Carolina Tar Heels
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Six keys to Obama's second term
Presidential second terms have a bad name. The traditional view is that presidents are stuck with first-term leftovers on their plates and a calendar that calls on them to get any legislation through Congress in the first 18 to 24 months. After that,...
Tags: Consumer Confidence, Media Industry, Migration, Satellite and Cable Service, News Agency
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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: Media Industry, Republican Party, Richard Nixon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt
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In Baltimore, an inauguration tradition all its own
Louise Johnson popped out of her seat at the Patapsco Arena in South Baltimore — taking a break from tying decorative gold and silver sashes to the backs of hundreds of chairs — and smiled warmly at a man delivering newly pressed gleaming...
Tags: Radio, U.S. House of Representatives, The Temptations (music group), Jimmy Carter, Small Businesses
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Hope, cynicism run high for second Obama term
— Four years after he rode into the White House on a message of change, President Barack Obama is set to begin his second term Monday amid lowered expectations and a sense that his re-election has done little to alter the nation's fractured...
Tags: Polls, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Republican Party, Public Finance, Tea Party Movement
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Inauguration on King Day an emotional tie for many
She'd never seen a presidential inauguration in her life, or wanted to, but on Jan. 20, 2009, Nathasa Werts braved bone-chilling weather and a crowd of more than a million people for a trip to Washington. The nation had just elected its first black...
Tags: College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Lotteries, Civil Rights, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Slavery
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Band ready for its mighty moment
They've played for the queen. They've played for four presidents. And Monday, the "Mighty Sound of Maryland" will add President Barack Obama to their list of famous fans. Led by the sounds of booming drum lines and trombones, the University of...
Tags: Woodrow Wilson, Elizabeth II, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, University of Maryland, College Park
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From halls of 'Downton Abbey,' to 'House of Cards,' a great midseason
Midseason used to be a time for networks to put on series that weren’t good enough to make the fall lineup. The thinking was: The money has been spent to make these episodes, so let’s try to get something out of them by plugging them for shows...
Tags: Tim Pigott-Smith, David Fincher, Netflix Inc., FBI, Documentary (genre)
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Letter: Repeal Second Amendment to solve gun problem
What does the Second Amendment actually say? "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." This has become a part of our history and culture, based...Tags: United Kingdom, Personal Weapon Control, England, Gun Control, Interior Policy
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Keep Social Security out of the 'fiscal cliff' debate
We are now hurtling toward the so-called fiscal cliff, a package of automatic tax increases and spending cuts for 2013 designed to stampede Congress and the president into a "grand bargain" on deficit reduction, to include new revenues (translation:...
Tags: Employment, Employees, Retirement, Personal Income, Public Finance
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