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In D.C. schools, Obama chooses unions over kids
Just when you thought the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program for poor, predominantly minority kids was fully protected from politics, here comes the Obama administration with another broadside. The popular program (which falls under...
Tags: Lotteries, Republican Party, Elections
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Maybe Bobby Zirkin should be a Republican
"Disgusted" is a strong word. I tend to hold it in reserve; I save it for things that fill me with actual loathing or nauseate me. Others are more cavalier about the word's usage — to the point where they demean its meaning. They claim to be...Tags: Parties and Movements, Occupy Wall Street, John C. Astle, Democratic Party, Republican Party
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Can O'Malley stop kicking the can't kick can?
The Baltimore SunThere's a new game in town. Or, actually, there's not. But judging from the enthusiasm with which Gov.Martin O'Malley has embraced his latest catchphrase, you could see why someone might think so. The governor doesn't want to play kick the can. Anyone...Tags: Facebook, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Media Industry, Regional Authority
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Federal bill would provide money for bike trails
Baltimore and other Maryland localities would receive millions of dollars in federal money for bicycle trails, scenic pull-offs and street beautification projects as part of a huge, bipartisan transportation bill expected to pass in the U.S. Senate as...Tags: Herring, Tom Coburn, Jones Falls, Commuting, Highway Transportation
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Maryland threatens the sanctity of divorce
American family values are under siege again, this time in Maryland. Two centuries of American jurisprudence and millennia of human experience are at the mercy of the state's Court of Appeals. The decision of the seven-judge panel may corrupt one of...
Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Jerry Falwell, Rudy Giuliani, Marriage, Family
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Md. House passes same-sex marriage bill
A bill that would legalize same-sex marriage squeaked through the House of Delegates on Friday night with just one vote above the minimum needed for passage, putting Maryland on the cusp of becoming the eighth state to allow such unions.
Cheers erupted...Tags: Referenda, Minority Groups, Regional Authority, Cecil County, Marriage
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The gridlock over transportation spending
When U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a Republican, recently called the House transportation bill the worst such measure he's seen in 35 years of public service, he was being kind. Surely, it's among the worst, most cynically partisan bills to...Tags: Natural Resources, Public Transportation, U.S. Senate, Highway Transportation, Energy Resources
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Obama's birth-control compromise wins some support
Washington Bureau– For days President Obama had been hammered by critics — including Cardinal-designate Edwin F. O'Brien of the Archdiocese of Baltimore — over a regulation in the healthcare law that required religiously affiliated hospitals, charities...Tags: Family Planning, Hospitals and Clinics, Symptoms, Planned Parenthood, Health Treatments
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The GOP's politics of pessimism
In a Chrysler advertisement aired during halftime of Sunday's Super Bowl, actor and director Clint Eastwood says, "I've seen a lot of tough eras, a lot of tough downturns in my life, times when we didn't understand each other. It seems we've lost our...Tags: Big 3 Auto Bailout (2008), Labor Markets, Mitt Romney, Philosophy, Super Bowl
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Good riddance to a disappointing year
Dear Year 2011: Goodbye and good riddance. Don't let the door hit you in the behind on your way out. Or, rather, let it hit you. You deserve it.
How bad have you been? Let me count the ways:
•The economy has been a nightmare. For all the new...Tags: Radio, Radio, Unemployment Benefits, Television Industry, Joe Biden
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The year that wasn't
A year ago, soon after the Tunisian uprising, I demonstrated my powers of prediction in a column about the democracy movement in the Arab world. The revolution in Tunisia, I wrote, "arose from local circumstances that don't foretell what will happen...Tags: Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney
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The GOP tax hike
Unless House Republicans come to their senses, it now seems likely that about 160 million Americans are about to get a tax increase that amounts to $1,000 for the average household and could knock down U.S. projected economic growth next year (already...Tags: Unemployment Benefits, U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, Parties and Movements, Government Health Care
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