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Is Akin really out of the Republican mainstream?
Missouri is a long way from Maryland, so residents can be forgiven for never having heard of Rep. Todd Akin prior to this week. But when the socially conservative Republican Senate candidate suggested that the victims of "legitimate rape" rarely get...
Tags: Elections, Democratic Party, Tampa, Barack Obama, Abortion
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Self-interest trumps democracy
With so many tens of millions of dollars flowing into political campaigns anonymously this year, it's hard to believe anyone would oppose some minimum level of disclosure. After all, it was Justice Anthony Kennedy who wrote in the infamous Citizens United...
Tags: Elections, Corporate Crime, Mitch McConnell, Olympia J. Snowe, John McCain
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MSNBC stellar in early Paul Ryan coverage - really
The Baltimore SunPaul Ryan being selected as Mitt Romney's GOP running mate was big news late Friday night, and no one on television did a better job of covering it on the fly than MSNBC. I can't believe I typed those words either. MSNBC had become such a joke in its...Tags: Television Industry, CNN (tv network), Fox and Friends (tv program), Chris Hayes, NBC (tv network)
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Best and worst of this year's presidential ads
Today's topic: the billions (yes, with a "b") that will be spent on advertising in this year's presidential and congressional campaigns, and what kind of messages that money is sending. Like jazz, blues and musical comedy, the political ad is a...Tags: Democratic Party, The Wall Street Journal, Advertising, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate
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Obama's inevitable embrace of gay marriage
President Barack Obama's announcement Wednesday that he was done "evolving" and now supports same-sex marriage was, in retrospect, inevitable. Vice President Joe Biden made it so Sunday, when he remarked almost casually that he had grown "comfortable"...
Tags: Polls, Democratic Party, Elections, Barack Obama, George Clooney
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Olbermann v. Gore: Either way, Keith's a loser
The Baltimote SunWe had a spirited discussion Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources" about Keith Olbermann's suit against Al Gore's Current TV. The video is at the end of this post, and I urge you to take a look especially at what Sharon Waxman, founder of TheWrap, has to...Tags: MSNBC (tv network), CBS Corp., CNN (tv network), David Letterman, Theft
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The winner of South Carolina's primary: Super PACs
It has been two years since the Supreme Court issued its decision in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, and we are only now just beginning to see how its overturning of a century of campaign finance law is distorting the electoral...Tags: Democratic Party, Elections, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, Bain Capital, LLC
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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: Rick Santorum, Elections, Chrysler Group LLC, Advertising, Clint Eastwood
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O'Malley DGA fundraising: The appearance of conflict
Perhaps it is a pure coincidence that Energy Answers International cut a $100,000 check to the Martin O'Malley-led Democratic Governors Association on the very same day that Governor O'Malley indicated he would sign state legislation that could be worth...Tags: Democratic Party, Executive Branch, Government, Barack Obama, Regional Authority
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200 Occupy, union protesters rally on Howard St. bridge
Chanting "We are the 99 percent," more than 200 protesters affiliated with Occupy Baltimore, unions and an activist group called Good Jobs Better Bmore marched across the Howard Street bridge during rush hour Thursday evening.
The protesters, who threw a...Tags: Station North, Johns Hopkins University, Unions, Protest, M.J. Brodie
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The tea party's true colors
Doug Mainwaring's article about the tea party, "Why the name calling?" (Aug. 10), was highly amusing. If name-calling is the problem, I'd suggest hey start with themselves. Whether it is Sarah Palin talking about "death panels" or Tea Party Nation CEO...Tags: Elections, Sarah Palin, Slavery, Paul Revere, Dick Armey
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Events for fall at Baltimore colleges
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Bo Burnham at Loyola: The off-color and politically incorrect YouTube sensation will serenade the Loyola community with some of his comedic ballads, such as “I’m Bo Yo” and “New Math.” 9 p.m. Friday,...Tags: Sam Adams (music artist), Loyola University Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, Barack Obama, Aziz Ansari
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