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Sun lavishes attention on bumbling 'Occupy,' ignores effective tea party
Let me get this straight: a spontaneous movement arises and takes up the name "Tea Party" based on historical actions and the acronym "taxed enough already," amasses a very large number of either followers or sympathizers, and literally reverses the party...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Occupy Wall Street, U.S. House of Representatives
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Fast and Furious: The Second Amendment conspiracy theory
The brouhaha over Attorney General Eric Holder and the contempt of Congress charge brought by U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa is providing new evidence that the lunatics are running the Republican asylum. Mr. Issa, the California Republican who is chairman of the...
Tags: Interior Policy, Pulitzer Prize Awards, National Rifle Association of America, Firearms, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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No matter who wins, Congressional leaders should step down
For the good of the country and the legislative process, regardless of who wins the presidential race, the following should resign their leadership posts (although there's a slim chance that it will happen, but Washington is simply dead with them in...Tags: Dick Durbin, Eric Cantor, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid
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Signs of a sick culture
The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously remarked that, "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from...
Tags: Symptoms, Health Care Reform (2009), Slavery
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Hoyer, Van Hollen: No more cuts to federal workforce
As the fiscal cliff looms, two of Maryland's most influential congressmen have a message for those looking to the federal workforce for more savings: Look somewhere else. "Federal workers have already been asked to sacrifice as part of the budget cuts...Tags: Government Debt, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., John Boehner, John Sarbanes, Fiscal Cliff
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Palin for president in 2016? You betcha!
I notice how positive articles about Sarah Palin seem to really get her critics stirring ("Palin for president? Very funny," Nov. 28). Not only does the comments section seem to be overwhelmed, but letters to the editor surface as well. As a Palin...Tags: Mitt Romney, John McCain, Bill Clinton, Values, Sarah Palin
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Obamacare: the 2,300-page monstrosity
The most important six hours of recent American history will start to unfold on Monday. That day, the Supreme Court begins three days of oral argument on the legal challenge to President Barack Obama's health care reform law ("Obamacare"). The Court's...
Tags: Health Insurance, Judges, Parties and Movements, Antonin Scalia, Laws
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Cherishing and celebrating our 175th year with you
I was just beginning my career at The Sun when the paper (and, yes, it was just a paper then) marked its 150th anniversary. Everything seemed startlingly new to me, and the festivities around May 17, 1987, were a heady part of that. Twenty-five years...
Tags: The New York Times, PBS (tv network), Barry Levinson, The Washington Post, Periodicals
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Native daughter: The early edition and all the others, too
Special to The SunThe Baltimore Sun has been part of my family since my earliest memories. We eagerly awaited the paper's arrival on our doorstep -- The Sun in the morning and The Evening Sun in the afternoon. Growing up in the mayor's house, we would get the early...Tags: Port of Baltimore, Frank Robinson, Johnny Unitas
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Dramatic win caps off well-attended Preakness
The largest crowd in Preakness Stakes history watched the thrilling victory of a horse that's now on a Triple Crown hunt, jammed to pop band Maroon 5 and basked under a Saturday sky whose only clouds were the wispy letters of an advertisement sprayed from...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Martin O'Malley, Wiz Khalifa, Pimlico Race Course, Maroon 5 (music group)
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Avoiding 'Taxmageddon' requires compromise
It's bad enough when economists contradict each other, but it's even more frustrating when they contradict themselves. Or, as George Bernard Shaw once observed, if all economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion. That...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Elections, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements
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The federalist solution
The bleating about broken government and partisanship continues. "Why can't those boobs in Washington agree on anything?" We're constantly told that the way to fix the country is to dethrone the left and right and empower the middle. Americans Elect, No...
Tags: Rick Perry, Christianity, Minority Groups, Mormonism, Political Systems
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